Saturday,
October 20, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Indian
colts stun Germany, enter final India crash to 46-run
defeat Neutral
venues for cancelled series Laxman to
join one-day squad Gurpreet,
Pramila set records Srinath,
Bopanna in title clash Uncertainty
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Hewitt,
Sampras advance![]() Stuttgart, October 19 US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt kept alive his bid to become No. 1 in the world and stretched his winning streak to 16 by beating Guillermo Canas at the Stuttgart Masters Series. Pete Sampras from the USA returns the ball to Marcello Rios from Chile during their match at the Tennis Masters Series Tournament in the Hanns Martin Schleyer indoor arena in Stuttgart on Wednesday. Sampras won the match 4-6, 7-6, 6-4. — Reuters photo
Soccer
star Pem Dorji dead PPS, BCS
in semifinals PU, KU move into last
eight RDSO
upset DLW, enter semis Emphatic
win for Ludhiana Tushar ousted
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Indian colts stun Germany, enter
final
Hobart, October 19 With this remarkable win, India entered the final of the Junior World Cup for the second consecutive time. India reached the final in the last edition in 1997 at Milton Keynes (England) where they lost 2-3 to Australia. For Germany, this was the second consecutive semifinal defeat in the Junior World Cup at the hands of India. In the last edition, they had lost 3-4. India today looked like running away with the match when they led 3-0 at half-time. The Indian goals came through Kanwalpreet Singh (2nd minute), Inderjeet Singh (23rd) and Arjun Halappa (34th minute). Credit should be given to the Germans who fought back brilliantly in the second half to score through Florian Keller (52nd) and Matthias Witthaus (66th). But the Indian defence held on and did not allow the Germans to score the equaliser. A beaming Indian coach Rajinder Singh was all praise for the boys. “I had said beforehand that if the fowards score, then you can’t stop India from winning. We had opportunities in the first half and the boys did well to utilise them”. “In the second half, Germany were expected to throw everything to us and we decided to pull one midfielder away and strengthen the defence. It paid off as we kept them away especially in the penalty corners where Devesh Chauhan and Jugraj Singh did a great job.” The Germans earned two penalty corners in the 4th and the 20th minutes but failed to convert any of the two. At this stage, the game was even and both sides were making high quality moves. India’s star striker Deepak Thakur created the second goal with a fine solo run from the Indian half into the German circle followed by a defence spitting pass which Inderjeet Singh gleefully put past the goalkeeper. The Indian forwards ended the first half in great style with a fine solo run by Tejbir who sent in a great pass into the German circle which Arjun Halappa converted in the 34th minute for the Indians to go to half time with a 3-0 lead. The Germans came back strongly in the second half and as expected dominated the proceedings. While the Indian forwards played excellently in the first half; it was now up to the Indian defence to help India hold out. The Germans created their first chance in the 41st minute when Florian Keller sent a reverse flick over goal. Two more German hits were well saved by Devesh Chauhan in the Indian goal. Then began a deluge of penalty corners and while the Germans wasted their first one in the 47th minute, Florian Keller sent in a rocket of a flick past Devesh Chauhan in the 52nd minute to reduce the lead. It continued to rain penalty corners in the Indian circle and Devesh Chauhan was shown a green card for breaking. In the 55th minute, Chauhan made a brilliant save and Jugraj Singh ran down the next corner in the 56th minute. Errors were creeping into the Indian defence and tempers were frayed — the umpire asked them to calm down. The Indians had a brief counter attack in the 60th minute which was well saved and resultant penalty corner was wasted by India as they were fouled for ‘time wasting’. While the Indian goalkeeper saved the 61st minute penalty corner, Matthias Witthaus converted a field goal to narrow down the lead 2-3. The Germans last ditch effort was held out by the strong Indian defence and the Indians were expectedly ecstatic as they qualified for the Junior World Cup final with a 3 -2 victory. Argentina through Argentina dominated right from the start and their forwards displayed tremendous skill to trouble English defence. Matias Parades received an excellent cross from the right flank to score Argentina’s first goal in the 13th minute. The English penalty corner specialist came up with one of his great drag flicks to equalise in the 18th minute. Argentine forwards brought back the pressure but the English defenders held out till half time. The Argentines continued to mount the pressure and a great solo run down the right by Matias found Marcelo Del Negro making the most of the centre to put Argentina ahead in the 52nd minute. The English goalkeeper then thwarted many tries by the Argentine forwards before Pasquati Alejandro put the issue beyond doubt with a 64th minute goal off a deflection. In other matches, France defeated South Africa 2-0, Ireland beat Chile 3-2, New Zealand beat Malaysia 3-2 and Scotland beat Canada 3-0. In the second semifinal, Argentina outplayed last edition’s third place holders England 3-1.
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Neutral venues for cancelled series Kuala Lumpur, October 19 At its executive board meeting here, ICC decided that if a series was not possible to be played in the host country due to security concerns, it could be shifted to either a neutral venue or the opposing country. In either case, it would still be considered a ‘home’ series for the original host nation, ICC said in a statement here. The decision, which comes in the wake of cancellations of a few series in the sub-continent, can have a bearing on England’s scheduled tour of India next month. Though officials of both countries have maintained that the tour was on, some English players have raised doubts over the feasibility of the series in view of heightened security threat in the region. A final decision on the tour was expected in a day or two. ICC also decided to slap a penalty of up to $ 2 million on countries reneging on their tour commitments. The money would be paid to the rival country to compensate for its losses in television rights and ticket sales. In Test series, the rival team would also be awarded two ICC Test championship points as if it had won the series, with the offending country penalised further by deduction of two points. India have consistently refused to play Pakistan after the Kargil conflict in 1999 which has resulted in the cancellation of two Sahara Cup one-day series in Toronto in 1999 and 2000 and a scheduled tour to Pakistan last year. India also pulled out of four-nation Asian Test Championship and triangular one-day series in Sharjah where Pakistan was also participating. However, countries would be exempt from penalties if a tournament was cancelled due to any natural disaster, war, security concerns of players or any other reason beyond their control. The new system will be enforced by binding contract, to be signed by all member countries. A Disputes Resolution Committee has been set up to decide contested cases. “This decision reflects the priority that world cricket has to give to protecting its calendar of fixtures. We have to be tough in protecting the integrity of the Futures Tours Programme from wilful disruption,” ICC President Malcolm Gray said. Gray said creative solutions were needed to overcome difficult problems like the one being faced by countries in the subcontinent with many teams reluctant to play matches in the region in view of the US air strikes in Afghanistan. “Cricket in some countries, most notably Pakistan, is in the front line of the world events. We need to adopt creative solutions to support those affected and to overcome these problems,” he said. New Zealand had called off its scheduled tour to Pakistan earlier this month. Sri Lanka, which was invited by Pakistan for a short tour to compensate for New Zealand’s withdrawal, also refused to oblige. A final decision on the venue of next year’s ICC knock-out tournament would be taken in February. To curb indiscipline among players, the ICC executive board was unanimous in strengthening the powers of match-referees and agreed to the principle of three or four stage disciplinary system with set penalties for each stage. Provided the details are worked out by the next meeting in March, the new disciplinary rules will come into effect from April next report was submitted to the board on each of the 24 recommendations contained in Anti-Corruption Commissioner Lord Paul Condon’s report on match-fixing. ICC decided to employ five regional Security Managers who will oversee cricket series within their respective areas.
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Laxman to join one-day squad Mumbai, October 19 Cricket board secretary Niranjan Shah told PTI here today that the Indian team management in South Africa had asked for Laxman to reinforce the batting especially after their shock defeat to Kenya on Wednesday. “As Laxman is sure to make it to the Test squad we decided to send him on October 22 so that he can play the last two or three one-day matches also,” he said. “The selectors would also meet on October 23 here to pick the Test team which would play three Tests against South Africa next month,” Shah added. “Sports medicine expert Dr Anant Joshi will hold fitness tests for the four players who are vying for Test slots,” Shah said. Left-arm seamers Zaheer Khan and Nehra missed the one-day series due to tissue inflammation and groin injury respectively while Badani was injured while playing in Moin-ud Dowla tournament at Hyderabad after being named as replacement for Laxman. Board vice-president C.K. Khanna said in Delhi that Nehra’s fitness test was conducted by Dr Yash Gulati of Apollo Hospital and the fitness certificate faxed to Niranjan Shah. East London (South Africa): Rattled by the failure of its middle-order, the Indian team management asked the cricket board to fly star batsman Laxman straightaway to join the team in South Africa for the remaining matches of the tri-series currently on. “We have requested the cricket board to send Laxman as quickly as possible,” said team manager M K Bhargava here today.
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Gurpreet, Pramila set records Chennai, October 19 Gurpreet, who erased a 37-year-old record of G.S. Randhawa with a time of 14.07 s in the 110 m hurdles in the inter-state championship in Lucknow, was tipped to win hands down. But, he had to stave off the challenge posed by P.T. Yesudas (Ker) and S. Sridharan of Tamil Nadu before winning at 14.18s. In the process, he erased the earlier meet mark of Yesudas (14.25s) set in Bhopal in 1999. Yesudas (14.54s) came second while Ashok Chandaya (Rlwys-14.76s) third. In the women’s long jump, Pramila’s took the gold with a 6.43m jump in her second attempt. She thus bettered her own mark of 6.38m set in Kolkata last year. Incidentally, the Railways star’s best effort emanated out of an absorbing battle between her, Anisha K. Vijayan (Ker) and Jetty C. Joseph (LIC), gold medal winner in the Lucknow inter-state meet last year. Anisha took the silver while Jetty the bronze with 6.13m and 6.06 m jumps, respectively. In the women’s 100m hurdles, Orissa’s Anuradha Biswal, quick off the blocks, was a runaway winner. However, her 13.95s effort was below her national mark of 13.40s. She was followed by Mukthi Saha (Rlys,14.38s) and G.G. Pramila (Rlys, 14.46s). K.M. Beenamol, who made it to the semifinal of the women’s 400m in the Sydney Olympics, disappointed the sparse crowd with a below-par performance. However, the Kerala athlete running in Railways’ colours, won the event with a time of 53.04sec, finishing four metres ahead of the second placed Rejinder Kaur of Punjab. In the long jump for men, defending champion Sanjay Kumar Rai of Bengal covered a distance of 8.02m for the gold. Rai actually surpassed his own meet mark of 7.97m set in Kolkata in 1998 but it was not taken into account since his effort was wind assisted (wind reading 2.11m per second). Paramjit Singh’s absence in the 400m gave ample chance for K.T. Manojlal of Railways to win the event in 46.46s. He was followed by P. Ramachandran (TN, 46.85s) and Anil Kumar Rohil (Ker, 47.28s). Of the 13 finals decided, Railways reaped a rich haul of 11 golds while Police and Bihar have one each.
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Srinath, Bopanna in title clash Mumbai, October 19 In the semi-finals today, Srinath rallied magnificently, after dropping the first set 4-6 to shock top seed Eyal Erlich of Israel 4-6 6-3 6-3 in 2 hours 5 minutes while his Karnataka statemate Bopanna needed two tie breaks to pip wild card Ajay Ramaswamy of India 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (8-6) in 1 hr 35 mins. It was indeed a fine fight back by Srinath. After the games went with serves the lanky Indian dropped his serve in the ninth game to lose the first set 4-6. He came back strongly breaking his rival in the second game of the second set and then held his own serve to lead 3-0. With the Israeli failing to break Srinath’s serve which improved by leaps and bounds as the match progressed, the Indian won the set 6-3. The deciding set saw fortunes fluctuating. The Indian dropped his serve in the fourth game to trail 1-3 but bounced back immediately when he broke his rival in the fifth, to narrow the margin to 2-3 and then held his own for a three-all score. With both players fighting every inch, Srinath managed to break his opponent in the seventh game with some blistering fore hand returns to take a 4-3 lead. The Indian, who was totally dominating at this stage of the match held his serve pretty easily for a 5-3 lead and then broke his rival in the ninth game to win at 6-3. |
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Uncertainty
grips weightlifters’ participation Patiala, October 19 The world championships is scheduled to be held at Antalya (Turkey) from November 4 to 11 for the past two months. The lifters have been training hard at the camp being held at the NIS here. The IWF has selected ten lifters for the championship, five each in the men’s and women’s category. The lifters are unsure of their participation in the championship as the cash-starved IWF has yet to pay the $ 1200 fine to the International Weightlifting Federation. As per the rules, unless the fine is paid, lifters take can not part in any championship. The IWF was slapped fine after ace lifter Kunjarani Devi had tested positive for a prohibited substance during the Senior Asian Women Weightlifting Championships held in Jeon Ju (South Korea) in July this year. A member of the two-member ad-hoc committee, running the affairs of the sport, disclosed that since the coffers of the IWF were virtually empty, the federation had requested the Union Sports Ministry to bail it out. However, till today morning, no word has been heard from the ministry in this regard. To make matters worse, the IWF will have to pay an additional $ 1400 to the International body for sending all the 10 lifters to Turkey as according to rules, an amount of $ 140 per lifter has to be paid as entry fee for participation. This means that the IWF will have to pay a total amount of $ 2600 to the International body to ensure the participation of the Indian team. This, sources reveal, keeping in view the financial position of the IWF, is highly improbable and unless the Sports Ministry immediately steps in to find a way out of the impasse, it will be curtains for the Indians as far as their participation in the world championships is concerned. Meanwhile, the IWF has announced a 10 member team for- the championships which will be accompanied by four coaches, two each in the men’s and women’s sections. The team is: (Men): T.Muthu (56 Kg), Jasvir Singh (62 Kg), Satish Rai (77 Kg), Sukhjinder Singh (94 Kg) and Manjit Singh (105 Kg). (Women): Tinka Gopal (48 kg), Nandini Devi (53 Kg), Pratima Devi (63 Kg), Sunanya (58 Kg) and Sumati Devi (75 Kg). Mr A.K. Sirohi and Mr Jaswant Singh will accompany the men’s team as coaches and Mr Pal Singh Sandhu and Mr GD Fortgalland will be the coaches for the women’s squad. |
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Hewitt, Sampras advance Stuttgart, October 19 Hewitt rallied for a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory to reach the quarterfinals yesterday. He needs to win the event to become No. 1 for the first time. In a battle of big servers, Mirnyi fired an ace to pull off a thrilling 4-5 7-6 (6) 7-6 (8) upset that put him in the quarterfinals. Ninth-seeded Pete Sampras rallied to edge Marcelo Rios 4-6 7-6 (3) 6-4 in a showdown between two former no.1 players in the world and next faces Mirnyi. Sampras, winner of a record 13 Grand Slams, has gone through 18 tournaments without winning a title since last year’s Wimbledon.
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Soccer star Pem Dorji dead Kolkata, October 19 Pem Dorji, a noted footballer of the 80s, was suffering from cancer for some time. Dorji had played both for the city giants Mohammedan Sporting and Mohun Bagan. Dorji was among the best wingbacks the country had ever produced. In 1983, the late Yugoslav coach Ciric Milovan had recommended his name for the national squad. He represented India as a defender in the pre-Olympics, pre-World Cup and Asia Cup. Dorji was the first player to come down from Sikkim and become a superstar in Kolkata and as well as the national football soccer scenario.
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PPS, BCS in
semifinals Subathu, October 19 On the second day of the league matches, Bishop Cotton School assured themselves of a berth in the knockout round by beating Army Public School, Dagshai, 4-2. Abhilekh Virdi, right out, opened the account for the winners in the 13th minute. Cottonian centre-forward, Sourabh Singha , scored twice in the 29th and 40th minutes of the game. Abhay Saroo, right out, and Sushank Sharma, left out scored one goal each for APS in the 42nd and 43rd minutes. In a pool B match Punjab Public School convincingly beat St Stephen’s School, Chandigarh, 8-0.Center half Navdeep Singh scored five goals for PPS in the 9th, 20th, 23rd, 24th and 47th minutes while Gurjinder Singh, center forward, Amrao Singh, left out and Sumeet Singh, right-out, scored one goal each in the 13th, 18th and 45th minutes. Lawrence School finished at the top of Pool A after beating St Soldier Divine Public School, Panchkula, 2-1. Ankit Arora, left-in, got the lead for the Sanawarians in the 7th minute while Karan Horra, right-in, doubled the score in the 27th minute. The lone goal for St Soldier School was scored by their right-in Sandeep in the 28th minute. Pinegrove School also managed a berth in the semifinals from pool B after an easy 5-0 win over St Stephen’s School. Mohit Dhama, left-out, managed the breakthrough in the 24th minute of the match. Randeep Bajwa playing as centre-forward sounded the board twice in the 29th and 40th minutes. Right-in Karanvir Boparai slammed the ball in the net in the 31st minute and skipper of the home team Kashish Bhan completed the tally with a goal in 39th minute. In another pool A match Army Public School defeated St Soldiers Divine Public School 3-0. Vijay Joon, center-forward, scored for APS in the 29th and 32nd minutes while right-out Abhay Saroo scored the third goal in the 42nd minute. In the last league match of the tournament Punjab Public School defeated Yadvindra Public School 6-0. Center-forward Gurjinder Singh and Navdeep Singh, center-half, scored two goals each while Harsimran, right out and Sumeet Singh scored one apiece. |
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PU, KU move into last
eight Amritsar, October 19 The second match between Pune University and Barkatullah University, Bhopal, was also decided through tie-breaker. Pune University outmatched Barkatullah University by 6.5 goals. Vijay Nagpal of Pune scored the opening goal while Bhagyashri in 43 minute consolidated their lead but this lead proved shortlived when Barukkallah’s Usha Nimelkar scored two goals consecutively in 45 and 51 minute to end the match in 2-2 draw. In this match, tie-break rule was applied to decide the match in which Samita, Vijay Moghul, Supriya Ghavan and Palvi converted the penalty strokes to clinch the tie in their favour. In another match, Kurukshetra University knocked out MDU, Rohtak by 5-2 goals. Ranjana and Kuljit shared two goals each while Monika scored once for the winners. Anita and Manju of MDU, Rohtak tried their best to reduce the margin by scoring one goal each. |
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RDSO upset DLW, enter
semis Jalandhar, October 19 Late last evening RCF lost to South Central Railway, Secunderabad in a high-scoring match, by 102-75. Shooters of RCF, Rajinder Bhatia and Balbir Singh started on a hot pace and shot clearly to earn the lead (18-14), SCR’s pivot Md. Isllaudddin penetrated the defence of RCF in the second quarter to help his team take over the lead. By half time SCR had a comfortable lead (51-37) and remained consistent in their shooting till the last minute. They won 102-75. In the matches played today, RDSO, Lucknow created an upset by beating Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi (DLW) by (72-57). DLW’s strategy, not to feed their three main players, Sandeep Yadav, Sudhir Kumar Hooda and Sathesh in the first half failed as RDSO took full advantage by taking the lead (18-22). They sustained their lead and did clean shooting. For RDSO, Upender Kumar (22) and Ajay Kumar Rawat (18) led their team to victory. In the other quarterfinal, ICF beat Central Railway, Mumbai (CR) in a closely contested quarter-final match by 65-56. ICF shooter Senthil Selven earned lead of (17-16) in the first quarter. The second quarter showed a good team work and co-ordination by Central Railway. By half time they reduced the margin and the score read (40-31) in favour of ICF. The supremacy of ICF continued and they won by 65-56. The top scorers for the ICF were Senthil Selven (20) and Tony Leslie (19) while Shaikh Fazil (20) was the main scorer for Central Railway. The line up was complete when WR outplayed Southern Railway, Chennai (SR) by a comfortable margin of 90-51. WR shooters Mahender Singh and Ram Kumar dominated the game from the start. By the second quarter, WR maintained a reasonable lead of 59-23. SR shooter S. Variandeyan reduced the gap by making regular attempts. Mahender Singh (24) and Ram Kumar (16) led WR to win. |
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Emphatic
win for Ludhiana Ludhiana, October 19 Ludhiana won the toss and elected to field first. Ferozepore lads made 161 runs. Vicky made 41 and Ajay chipped in with 39 runs. Satmeet Singh Ubhi hit 68 runs off 61 balls as Ludhiana overhauled the target after losing five wickets. Brief Scores:- Ferozepore 161 all out in 24.2 overs ( Vicky 41, Ajay 39, Sarwan 15 n.o., Tarun 2 for 14, Gautam 2 for 24 and Lalit 1 for 12) Ludhiana 165 for 5 in 24 overs ( Satmeet Singh Ubhi 68, Deepak Dhir 17, Rahul 16, Sambhav 15, Sandeep Dhand 19 n.o., Vicky 3 for 19 and Deepak 1 for 29) |
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Tushar ousted
New Delhi, October 19 Chaturvedi will clash with second seed Somdev Devvaraman of Tamil Nadu who rallied to overcome fourth seed Divij Sharan of Delhi 6-7 (7/9) 6-2 6-2. In the girls’ (U-18), top seed Ankita Bhambri of Delhi moved into the final with a straight sets, 6-4 6-1, win over fourth seed Sandri Gangotri of Andhra Pradesh. In the other semis, Sanaa Bhambri of Delhi prevailed over Kartiki Bhat of Maharashtra 6-2 6-1. In the boys’ (U-14) final, top seed Rupesh Roy of West Bengal will meet third seed Vivek Shokeen of Delhi. The Bengal lad defeated 13th seed Sumit P. Gupta of Uttar Pradesh 6-1 6-3 while Shokeen disposed of sixth seed Sanam K. Singh of Chandigarh 6-2 6-4.
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Overall title for Sangrur Sangrur, October 19 |
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