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Dewan shows some steel
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Team India begin practice
Delhi fritter away advantage
Rajasthan 269-2 against Mumbai
Take concrete steps to create sporting culture: Dravid
Indo-Pak Test series would be great: Abbas
Services rule the roost against HP
Malhotra, 80, to head archery body for yet another term
Randhir gets support from 6 sports bodies
Chelsea not in the red for first time since 2003
Lahiri, SSP improve in stormy Singapore
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Dewan shows some steel
Ahmedabad, November 9 Haryana reached 172 for four at stumps after bowling out England for 521 in 118.2 overs. Haryana spinners took five of the six wickets that fell in the day although England scored at a brisk pace, adding 113 runs in 28.2 overs after resuming at 408 for three. Dewan (77) and Sandeep Singh (2) were at the crease for Haryana when stumps were drawn for the day. England lost the last five wickets for just 14 runs as they went after the bowlers. Jayant Yadav (4/110) took three wickets today while Amit Mishra (4/67) added two scalps to his tally as the two spinners shared 8 wickets between them. Sachin Rana provided the first breakthrough when he dismissed Ian Bell (62). Samit Patel and Matt Prior (41) added quick 69 runs for the fifth wicket but once the latter was stumped off Jayant Yadav Yadav, England's innings fell apart. Dewan and Sunny Singh (55) then put on 97-runs for the second wicket in a strong reply to England's mammoth total but Haryana are still trailing by a huge 349-run margin. Haryana lost opener Nitin Saini with the scorecard reading 28. He cut paceman Tim Bresnan straight into the hands of point fielder Nick Compton. Sunny Singh joined Dewan and the duo took Haryana to 103 for one at tea. Dewan has faced 181 balls so far and helped himself with 10 shots to the fence. After the interval, Sunny Singh rolled his wrists nicely to pull a short ball off Graham Onions to the square-leg boundary to reach his half-century He, though, could not stay long and was out in the next over caught by Trott in the slips off the bowling of local lad Samit Patel. The run-rate dropped with the fall of Singh as from 125 for 2 in the 37th over, Haryana sauntered to 172 for 4 in 61 overs – scoring a mere 47 runs in 24 overs. Haryana lost three wickets in the final session of the day when Matt Prior was replaced by Jonny Bairstow for the wicket-keeping duty. Prior is said to have an upset stomach. Abhimanyu Khod (3) was caught nicely in the slips by Trott off Bresnan while left-arm spinner Monty Panesar trapped Sachin Rana (6). In the morning session, Bell was the first batsman to be dismissed, adding just five runs to his overnight score of 57, caught by Nitin Saini off Rana. Samit Patel, who began the day at his overnight score of 11, helped himself to a composed half-century (67) even as Matt Prior (41) attacked from the other end. Yadav sent back Prior to break the partnership and then also dismissed Bresnan (3) and Patel. Mishra took the last two wicket by accounting Meaker and Onions. Bresnan, said, "The key to taking wickets on Indian pitches is to bowl straight. Or, (in a lighter vein) be a spinner." The track, Bresnan quipped, offered no bounce, seam or spin. — PTI
SCOREBOARD England XI (521 all out) Haryana Saini c Compton b Bresnan 13 Dewan batting 77 Sunny c Trott b Patel 55 Khod c Trott b Bresnan 3 Rana lbw b Panesar 6 Sandeep batting 2 Extras: 16 Total: (4 wkts in 61 overs) 172 Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-125, 3-136, 4-163 England bowling: G Onions 10-2-32-0, T Bresnan 13-2-47-2, S Meaker 11-1-31-0, M Panesar 18-6-32-1, S Patel 8-2-15-1, K Pietersen 1-0-1-0.
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Brisbane, November 9 Amla, who was 90 not out when the stumps were drawn early because of bad light, put on 136 in an unbeaten third wicket stand with Jacques Kallis (84 not out) after openers Graeme Smith (10) and Alviro Petersen (64) were dismissed either side of the lunch break. Australian seamer Peter Siddle was left rueing missed chances after his no ball gave Kallis a life on 43 and he dropped a catch off his own bowling that would have sent Amla back to the dressing room with 74 runs. The home side had hoped the bowling attack which destroyed India's vaunted batsmen last year would do the same with the South Africans but the fireworks from James Pattinson, Ben Hilfenhaus and Siddle failed to materialise. "We wanted to really put our peg in the ground and I think we did that really well," said Petersen. "Two wickets down, we're in a comfortable position but tomorrow's going to be really important, to back that up and make sure today's work doesn't go to waste." Amla, the world's top-ranked batsman, signalled his intent early in the day with a soaring six off spinner Nathan Lyon and coolly paced his innings, easing up when the quicks got into their stride and opening up against anything loose. The 29-year-old put on 90 for the second wicket with Petersen before the opener threw away his wicket by wafting a shot for Mike Hussey to catch at mid-on off Lyon's bowling halfway through the second session. Picking up his 5,000th test run along the way, Amla reached his 24th test half century before tea and, Siddle's dropped catch apart, it looked like only the gathering clouds would stop him reaching his 17th test century. The evergreen Kallis had designs on the milestone himself after racing to his 56th test half century in just 63 balls, reaching the mark with a sublime cover drive. The all rounder rode his luck, though, when he ballooned a catch to Lyon only for the umpire to call him back to the crease after TV replays showed Siddle had failed to keep his front foot behind the line. Australia had earlier benefited from the TV appeal system to dismiss Smith lbw when a Pattinson delivery caught the South African skipper's trailing leg but umpire Billy Bowden declined to raise his characteristic crooked finger. South Africa won the toss and chose to bat, which looked like a good decision after the wicket and overcast conditions failed to produce the sort of swing and movement off the pitch the seamers had hoped for. “Definitely a long day," said Pattinson. Score: South Africa 255/2 in 82 overs (Smith 10, A Petersen 64, Amla 90; Bowling: Kallis 84, J Pattinson 20-4-53-1, Lyon 12-0-61-1, Hilfenhaus 20-5-53-0, PM Siddle 20-4-58-0, Hussey 4-0-21-0, Quiney 6-3-7-0; Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-119.) — Reuters
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Mumbai, November 9 The light training session started with a stint of football, as has been the custom in recent years, followed by proper net sessions of batting and bowling. All the batsmen, who are expected to make up the first Test line-up at Ahmedabad from November 15, had a decent stint against the likes of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, R Ashwin and local net bowlers. The focus was on Zaheer, who had had cramps during the Ranji Trophy opener while playing for Mumbai against Railways. The left-arm pacer had a half an hour bowling stint at the likes of skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni without going flat out. Conspicuously absent was Harbhajan. He failed to make it because of a delayed flight, it was learnt. The off-spinner has the chance to make up for the lost time on the next two full days' training. — PTI
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New Delhi, November 9 Having gained the upperhand, Delhi's top-order however couldn't perform as per expectations as they were reduced 62 for three in 31 overs when stumps were drawn. Odisha seamer Basant Mohanty grabbed two for 21 as he dismissed openers Shikhar Dhawan and Unmukt Chand for 22 and 3 respectively. Seamer Deepak Behra ended debutant Mohit Sharma's 70-minute ordeal as he scratched around for 16. Even coach Vijay Dahiya admitted that Mohit's failure to rotate the strike increased pressure on Shikhar who he felt was middling the ball well. The manner in which Shikhar offered a dolly to Rakesh Mohanty at gully off Basant, doubts cropped up about the Delhi captain's form in the past few seasons of Ranji Trophy. If one debutant Mohit never looked a part during his hour and 10 minute stay, another debutant Manan Sharma did his cause no harm as he snapped up four wickets for 30 runs to help dismiss Odisha quickly. Rajasthan 269-2 against Mumbai
JAIPUR: Vineet Saxena (114) and skipper Hrishikesh Kanitkar (119) came up with twin centuries to guide Rajasthan to 269 for two against Mumbai. Saxena and Kanitkar forged a massive 220-run partnership for the second wicket to put Rajasthan in a commanding position after Mumbai won the toss and asked the hosts to take first strike at KL Saini Ground. Saxena cracked as many as 15 fours and one six. Brief Score: Rajasthan 269-2 in 90 overs (V Saxena 114, H Kanitkar 119; A Chavan 1/35). —
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Take concrete steps to create sporting culture: Dravid
“The best way to produce results in sport is to take the focus away from results. In sport results are almost never solely in one’s own hands while process of preparation and performance certainly are,” the third highest run-getter in Test cricket added at a function last night. India, with about 30 per cent of world’s population, can only boast of a few anecdotal achievements across sporting disciplines in over six decades since independence while small countries with barely a stadium in sight are producing champion sprinters, marathoners and swimmers, said the 39-year-old. Stating that sport involves high risk and often very little reward, Dravid said many consider education as the safe choice and the smart long-term investment that is never going to change. “Today, it still takes a very brave parents to permit, let alone encourage, a talented child to carry on playing sport once high school is done.” Citing the example of American college sports system, Dravid said worldclass training and educational facilities are provided side by side while in South African cricket schools Test players are churned out with top-class degrees. “If we truly do care about sport, like we claim we do, as a nation ready to take its place in the league of developed nations, we must make it possible for our best young talents to pursue their sports as well as world class education at the same time,” he said. “We must buffer the risks of careers in sport and collect and concentrate all the indigenous and international knowledge necessary to create world-class sportsmen and sportswomen,” he added. According to him, educational institutions are among the best locales to incubate talent, whether the mental sort or the physical. — PTI
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Indo-Pak Test series would be great: Abbas
New Delhi, November 9 Speaking ahead of Pakistan's upcoming tour to India, Zaheer said, "I would love to see both countries play a full Test series but I am sure even through this tour there will be a lot of a goodwill created between the two countries." Pakistan are scheduled to play two Twenty20 Internationals and three One-Day Internationals in India, the first bilateral series between the sides since November-December 2007. He felt the media in both countries had a big role to play in ensuring that such series were held on regular basis. Zaheer also confirmed that he had formally applied for the position of the national team batting coach. — PTI
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Services rule the roost against HP
Nadaun, November 9 Services clicked as a batting unit with only Soumya Swain (4) failing to contribute much after they were put into bat at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium. Pratik Desai (61) and skipper Soomik Chatarjee (54) gave their team a flying start adding 102 runs for the opening-wicket partnership as the hosts' bowlers failed to provide any breakthrough in the morning session. Chaterjee should consider himself unlucky as he fell victim to a run-out by Gurvinder Singh after taking his team past 100-run mark. Leg-spinner Prashant Chopra brought his team back into contention with two quick strikes, accounting for Swain and Gupta, but Rajat Paliwal (52) struck a fluent half-century to deny any further success to the hosts. Paliwal was dismissed in the penultimate over of the day by Dhawan. For Himachal, Dhawan (2/70) and Chopra (2/26) picked up two wickets apiece. At stumps, M Khalid (4) and Sarabjit (15) were at the crease. Brief scores: (Services): 290/6 in 90 overs (S Chaterjee 54, P Desai 61, AGupta 54, R Paliwal 52) v HP. — PTI
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Saha, Shukla arrest Bengal slide
Mohali, November 9 Bengal made a recovery with the two seasoned batsman after plumbing to 118/5 in 42nd over. More than Punjab’s bowling, it was the visotors who had themselves to blame for the situation. Sent in to bat, Bengal’s top order was hellbent on making a mess of the match on the very first morning. Aghast, coach WV Raman was furious, barking at opener Jayojit Basu as he returned back to the dressing room after throwing his wickets to a mindless shot. Little did he know that the next four would soon follow suit. The man under spolight, Manoj Tiwary (20), kept trying to guess MS Gony’s line and length as the Punjab pacer hustled him with his bounce and induced an edge at the first slip with a fullish delivery. Just when it looked like Anustup Majumdar ( 22) had seized control, Sandeep Sharma sent his off-stump flying as the Bengal batsman casually went in for a half-hearted straight drive. However, sense prevalied and Saha (75 not out) and Shukla (62) brought them back. Saha’s third consecutive half-century, having scored 59 and 65 not out against Rajasthan in the opening game, could not have come at a more appropriate time. For the hosts, Gony managed to make the ball jump while Sandeep whipped up good pace. Punjab brought in leg spinner Rahul Sharma and left arm Bipul Sharma but both tweakers failed to make a considerable impact to the attack. Rahul, though bagged the wicket of well-set Shukla to finally break the partnership in the 78th over. SCOREBOARD Bengal JJ Basu c Uday b Gony 7 Das b Amitoze 28 Porel c Uday b Siddharth 32 Tiwary c Mandeep b Gony 20 Majumdar b Sandeep 22 Saha not out 75 Shukla c Mandeep b Rahul 62 Nandi c U Kaul b Sandeep 22 VP Singh not out 0 Extras: 12 Total: (7 wkts in 90 ovrs) 280 Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-125, 3-136, 4-163 Bowling: MS Gony 16-5-35-2, Sandeep Sharma 21-6-50-2, S Kaul 21-4-66-1, Amitoze Singh 17-4-45-1, Rahul Sharma 11-1-50-1, Bipul Sharma 3-0-17-0, K Goel 1-0-6-0
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London, November 9 The world No. 5 Indian duo got the better of the second-ranked team 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 10-5 in a pulsating Group B match at O2 Arena here. Bhupathi-Bopanna, fresh from their win in Paris Masters, played their heart out against the Belarusian-Canadian duo, winning the tie in a little less than two hours. It was a must win match for the Indians, who had lost their opening match to Wimbledon champions Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen before bouncing back in the second against Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau. Bhupathi-Bopanna qualify as the runners-up team from Group B and face the winners of Group A in the last four. The Indians saved five breakpoints to win the first set in a tie-break but Mirnyi and Nestor pushed the match to a Match tie-breaker by winning the second set, which was fought fiercely for 56 minutes. Bhupathi and Bopanna zoomed to a 9-4 lead and converted their second match. India’s Leander Paes and Czech partner Radek Stepanek face the Bryan brothers in their final match in Group A on Saturday. The World No.3 unit became the first side to qualify from their pool with a win over Spanish combine of Marc Lopez and Marcel Granollers Thursday. In the singles event, Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro found himself in a strangely familiar position after keeping his hopes on track with victory over Janko Tipsarevic. Del Potro was in impressive form as he overpowered the Serbian world number nine 6-0 6-4 in his second Group B match at the season-ending tournament and now goes into his last round-robin match needing to beat Roger Federer to give himself a chance of reaching the semifinals. It is a similar scenario in 2009 when he also faced the Swiss in his third match needing to win. Then he pulled off a three-set victory that saw him squeeze through at the expense of Britain's Andy Murray by virtue of a games countback. That night three years ago was also memorable for the fact that Del Potro knocked around on court with soccer player Carlos Tevez while the ATP did the calculations to work out whether he or Murray had qualified for the semi-finals. It could be equally complicated on Saturday when he faces the defending champion who is already assured a place in the last four having won both his matches comfortably. Del Potro will be hoping Tipsarevic can do him a favour by upsetting David Ferrer although the man dubbed he knows he will have to repeat the form he showed when beating Federer in Basel last month. — Agencies
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Malhotra, 80, to head archery body for yet another term
New Delhi, November 9 Malhotra defeated Rao by a margin of 72-20 in the elections which took place here after three postponements, demonstrating the acting IOA president’s stranglehold in the archery association since he first took up the post in 1973. This is, however, for the first time that Malhotra had to contest an election, having being elected unopposed in earlier terms. The electoral college, which has been declared by Returning Officer Justice (Retd) JD Kapoor under Delhi High Court orders, had 102 members with each state unit getting three votes and each organisation or sports boards one vote. Tarlochan Singh was elected as senior vice-president while Virendra Sachdeva became the treasurer. Earlier, Anil Kaminenio (secretary general) and seven joint secretaries belonging to Malhotra’s panel were elected unopposed. — PTI
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Randhir gets support from 6 sports bodies
New Delhi, November 9 They wrote letters to Randhir, promising him support and urging the other federations to back him for the November 25 polls. The se federations are the National Rifle Association of India, Lawn Bowling Federation of India, Judo Federation, Kabaddi Federation and Netball Federation of India. —
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Chelsea not in the red for first time since 2003
London, November 9 Chelsea said the figures put them in a strong position to comply with UEFA Financial Fair Play rules for the coming seasons which require clubs to curb their losses. Russian oligarch Abramovich has poured hundreds of millions into Chelsea and was rewarded when they defeated Bayern Munich to win the Champions League this year. — Reuters |
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Lahiri, SSP improve in stormy Singapore
Singapore, November 9 Weather played spoilsport once again as more than half the field was yet to begin their second round. In fact, none of the players who played in the first session yesterday got any action today. India's best placed players on the first day, Himmat Rai and Jyoti Randhawa, both two-under in first round, were left cooling their heels in the clubhouse, as were Shiv Kapur and Gaganjeet Bhullar. Chowrasia and Lahiri, who got to play a substantial bit of the second round, were two-under for the tournament with five and nine holes to play, respectively. Simon Dyson, a former Asian Tour Order of Merit winner, and Thai Chapchai Nirat, who has practised to be a monk in the past, shared the clubhouse lead at six-under. Dyson had five more to play in the second round, while Chapchai had nine holes more to go. Of the other Indian players, Chiragh, who was one-over for the first round, which he completed this morning, played the first nine of his second round in two-under to come to even par for the tournament. Shamim, two-over in first round, was two-over through 15 holes in the second round to go four-over, while Digvijay was two-over through 10 to become five-over. Rashid Khan (76) retired after the first round. Chowrasia, who played 13 holes from his first round and then eight in the second, completed his opening round in 70. He then began his second round with a birdie to be one-under through eight holes in his incomplete second round and was two-under for the tournament. Lahiri started with a double bogey on tenth but fought back very strongly with four birdies and no bogeys after that. Since its revival in 2005, the tournament has twice been reduced to 54 holes, in 2006 and 2011. It went the full 72 holes and finished on Sunday in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and Monday in 2010. — PTI
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Opener Rahul Dewan hit a fighting unbeaten half-century after bowlers shot out England in the morning session as Haryana put up an improved show against the visitors on the second day of the warm-up game.
Mumbai, November 9
Bhubaneswar, November 9
