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Warne levels record,
Lanka salvage draw
My effort better than Murali’s, claims Shane
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McGrath fined for using foul language Indian team arrives in Lanka
Indians eye winning start
Shortened run-ups for Shoaib & Co Marion Jones fails to impress in long jump Kasimdzhanov wins chess title
Syed Modi badminton to get international status Jaskirat, Sandy lead in
junior golf Punjab win in women’s cricket
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Warne levels record,
Lanka salvage draw
Cairns (Australia), July 13 Warne equalled Muttiah Muralitharan’s world record of 527 Test wickets when he had Upul Chandana stumped as Sri Lanka stumbled to 174 for eight, with almost 10 overs remaining. Chaminda Vaas survived to reach stumps on 11 and Nuwan Zoysa, who was dropped at first slip by Ricky Ponting off Jason Gillespie’s bowling, was unbeaten on three when the match ended. Warne bowled 37 overs today and returned 4 for 70. Vaas blocked him out in the penultimate over of the match. Set 355 to win off 85 overs after Ponting declared Australia’s second innings closed at 292 for nine, the Sri Lankan batsmen played defensively in the last session as Warne homed in on Muralitharan’s record. The Australian legspinner needed three of the last five wickets to equal the record after Sri Lanka went to tea at 107 for five. Muralitharan didn’t participate in the series but is expected to be back for Sri Lanka’s next series against South Africa. Warne had Romesh Kaluwitharana (14) caught close to the wicket by Darren Lehmann at the start of the final session to spark a roll. Kumar Sangakkara was on 55 when he got a thick outside edge to Warne and Matt Hayden put down a regulation chance at first slip. Earlier, Australian opener Matt Hayden posted his 20th Test century and second of this match before he was bowled by Chandana for 132. Scoreboard Australia (1st innings): 517 Sri Lanka (1st innings): 455 Australia (2nd innings): Langer c Kaluwitharana
Hayden b Chandana 132 Ponting c Jayasuriya b Zoysa 45 Martyn st Kaluwitharana
Lehmann c Jayawardene
Katich st Kaluwitharana
Gilchrist b Dilshan 0 Warne c Samaraweera
Gillespie st Kaluwitharana
Kasprowicz not out 3 Extras
(lb-20, w-1, nb-4) 25 Total (9 wkts decl, 66.4 overs)
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-105, 3-195, 4-261, 5-284, 6-284, 7-288, 8-288, 9-292 Bowling:
Vaas 13-3-52-0, Zoysa 14-6-34-2, Malinga 5-0-23-0, Samaraweera 11-0-50-0, Chandana 18.4-1-101-5, Jayasuriya 3-0-8-0, Dilshan 2-0-4-2 Sri Lanka (2nd innings) Atapattu c Warne
Jayasuriya c Gilchrist
Sangakkara b Warne 66 Jayawardene c Gilchrist
Samaraweera run out 0 Dilshan c Warne b Gillespie 21 Kaluwitharana c Lehmann b Warne 14 Chandana st Gilchrist
Vaas not out 11 Zoysa not out 3 Extras
(b-5, lb-3, nb-9) 17 Total (for 8 wkts, 85 overs) 183 Fall of wickets:
1-15, 2-49, 3-58, 4-64, 5-107, 6-136, 7-159, 8-174 Bowling: McGrath 16-7-31-1, Gillespie 18-6-39-2, Warne 37-14-70-4, Kasprowicz 11-4-34-0, Lehmann 3-2-1-0.
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My effort better than Murali’s, claims Shane
Cairns (Australia), July 13 Australia leg-spinner Warne took seven wickets in the second Test against Sri Lanka which finished in a draw to equal the 32-year-old Muralitharan’s world mark. Warne has played 112 Tests, while Muralitharan has 90 caps and missed the two-Test series in Australia for personal reasons. “Look, I’m proud of myself to equal the record. The wickets I have always played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia,” Warne told a news conference. “Murali, obviously they prepare wickets that suit him. They spin square from ball one, so he’s obviously got a lot more of a chance than I have. “It would have been nice to get one or two ahead of him and to win the test match would have been the perfect script I suppose,” Warne added after Australia fell two wickets short of victory, with Sri Lanka 183 for eight chasing 355 to win. Warne conceded Muralitharan would now go ahead with the record. Sri Lanka host South Africa for two Tests in August, but Warne will have to wait for Australia’s four-Test tour of India starting in October. — Reuters
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McGrath fined for using foul language McGrath was reported for a Level 1 offence under clause 1.4 which states: Using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting. The report was made by all four officiating umpires.
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Colombo, July 13 India will take on the UAE in a day and night encounter at Dambulla to kick off their campaign on the opening day of the tournament. Chennai: Coach John Wright on Tuesday cautioned his wards not to take any of the rival teams lightly, saying that even Bangladesh were capable of springing a surprise. Wright also said it was important to start the new season on a winning note and concentrate on one game at a time. “The real challenge will be to start well, commencing from the Asia Cup. It is not going to be that easy. The first match is against UAE. Some people might think that the teams are not on even competition, but it is important for us since we will be playing Sri Lanka in the next match,” Wright told a press conference before the team’s departure for Sri Lanka for the six-nation tournament. “We will concentrate on one game at a time and our game plans should go well with the performance and hopefully, the wins will happen. We have played against good opposition in the recent past. The one-day series against Pakistan ended 3-2 in our favour,” he said. “The attitude and confidence are pretty high in the minds of my players to win the Cup. There is a lot of difference between the expectations of the six sides for the tournament. We have been to the World Cup, the ICC Champions Trophy and other tournaments, and the coming Asia Cup is no different,” Wright said. Vice-captain Rahul Dravid said the return of bowlers like Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan augured well for the team but added that it was important to stay focused and raise the standards. Team manager Dorai Rajan said the team had been assured utmost security in the aftermath of the bomb explosion near a five-star hotel where the players would put up. — UNI, PTI
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Indians eye winning start
Colombo, July 13 Later, at Hotel Taj Samudra, they were accorded traditional welcome by the hotel staff. Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh lit the ceremonial lamp. Three players — Sourav, vice-captain Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman — were accompanied by their wives. India will be playing a warm-up match against a local side tomorrow. Team members are scheduled to interact with the media tomorrow evening. Indians will be proceeding to Dambulla on July 15 for their day and night match against the UAE. Four-time champions India, who had camps at Bangalore and Chennai for the Asia Cup, will utilise the warm-up match to get into the competition mood. India, who are in Group B with hosts Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates, will start their bid to regain the title they last won in April, 1995, at Sharjah with a match against the UAE. In Group A are holders Pakistan, Bangladesh and debutants Hong Kong. After the first phase, top two teams from each group will qualify for the semifinal league, which will commence on July 21. Then, the top two teams will clash for the title on August 1 with the following day being the reserve day. Earlier, Sourav had joined the team just before their departure as he reached Chennai this morning. However, most of the other players had reached the southern metropolis by yesterday. On the eve of departure, talking to newspersons at Chennai, Rahul Dravid said it was a hard task and the team would have to keep playing to its potential. Coach John Wright cautioned the team that Sri Lanka would be a tough side to beat on home ground. — UNI
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Pak not seeking
revenge: Inzamam
Colombo, July 13 “We don’t use words like revenge and we are not seeking one here,” the hard-hitting batsman told reporters after arriving in Colombo to take part in the six-nation Asia Cup, which includes Islamabad’s arch rival, India. Six teams — Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong — will contest the Asia Cup between July 16 and Aug 1. “We are here to play good cricket and we are going to play our best and win,” Inzamam said. India, in its first full tour of Pakistan in 14 years, won the limited-overs series 3-2 and the Test series 2-1 in April against its archrival. The series defeats cost coach Javed Miandad his job. The former Test captain was fired and replaced by Bob Woolmer as Pakistan’s national coach. The Asia Cup will be Woolmer’s first tournament in charge of Pakistan. The main attraction in the Pakistani team was fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, whose coming to Sri Lanka was not certain. Akhtar joined the Pakistani training camp on July 5 and went through a strenuous fitness test. Under orders from team management, Akhtar did not speak to reporters after arriving at his hotel. Opening batsman Imran Nazir also returned to the national squad after a nine-month break. Vice-captain Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq and wicketkeeper-batsman Moin Khan form a strong middle-order batting lineup, while paceman Shabbir Ahmed and Mohammad Sami will supplement Akhtar in the pace department. Abdul Razzaq and Shoaib Malik are the two all-rounders. Pakistan plays Bangladesh in their first match on Saturday. Squad:
Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain), Yousuf Youhana, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Imran Nazir, Younis Khan, Moin Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Malik, Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Akhtar, Shabbir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria.
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Shortened run-ups for Shoaib & Co
Islamabad, July 13 Woolmer, who spent a week with Pakistan’s Asia Cup cricket probables in a camp in Lahore, concentrated on shortening the run-ups of Shoaib, Mohammad Sami, Shabbir Ahmed and Umar Gul for the one-day version of the sport. “Shoaib in particular has become very comfortable with his shortened run-up which he will use in the Asia Cup,” team manager Haroon Rashid was quoted as saying in loca daily ‘The News’. “Woolmer’s concept is that in a version of the game that is tailor made for the batsmen, this is the best way for the bowlers to conserve their energy, focus and at same time also ensure a healthy over-rate,” he said. The Pakistan team has been saddled with problems due to the fast bowlers’ frequent overstepping at the crease along with its slow over-rate in one-dayers, resulting in fines and penalties being imposed by the match-referees. “Woolmer believes that nowadays one-day cricket is scripted for batsmen and for big totals, so it is better for bowlers to concentrate on line and length and conserve energy by using shorter run-ups without losing too much of their sting,” Rashid said. He said Woolmer had given this facet of the game a lot of attention because he felt that Pakistani bowlers lost their focus and came under pressure when pitted in a race against time to complete overs in one-dayers. Rashid said the players had a good workout in the training camp. — PTI
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Marion Jones fails to impress in long jump
Sacramento (California), July 13 The effort left Jones struggling for a second time in an Olympic trials she had dominated here in 2000. She finished a shocking fifth in the women’s 100 metres final on Saturday and failed to make the U S Olympic team for next month’s Athens Games in an event she won in Sydney. Still, Olympic long jump bronze medallist Jones should qualify for the U S team on Thursday because only two Americans have made the Olympic qualifying standard of 6.70 metres. Up to three athletes per country may compete in the event in Athens — if they have met the Olympic standard. She also will compete in the 200 metres at the trials at week’s end. Jones, who is under scrutiny by the U S Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) despite never failing a doping test, slipped away from reporters on Monday without commenting on her performance. Her best jump was her first. She then leaped 6.34 and 6.31. Ola Sesay had the best jump of the competition, 6.63 metres, with Jones’s chief rival Grace Upshaw qualifying second in 6.54. The elimination from the trials of athletes facing doping charges continued with Olympic silver medallist Alvin Harrison bowing out in the men’s 400 metres semi-finals. Harrison, who faces a lifetime ban from USADA in connection with the BALCO doping scandal, finished a non-qualifying seventh in his semi-final. — Reuters
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Kasimdzhanov wins chess title
Tripoli (Libya), July 13 Adams, with white pieces, lost his first rapid game of the tiebreak and drew the second after giving a tough fight to Kasimdzhanov. Kasimdzhanov has been trying his luck for a major title since his first appeareance at Wick Aan Zee in 1998. He came near to capturing the world chess title at Hyderabad but lost to World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand. Earlier, Adams survived some anxious moments in a game of fluctuating fortunes before finally settling for a draw with GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan in the sixth game. The draw ensured that the highly entertaining contest between these two was levelled at 3-3 after the completion of the scheduled six games. Even as many expected a draw to be a just result in the last game under normal time control, Adams knew he had survived by the skin of his teeth as the drama ended with the Englishman threatening to give perpetual checks to keep himself alive and kicking in the match.
— PTI
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Trujillo (Peru), July 13 Bolivia still had an outside chance of qualifying as one of the two best third-placed teams, only if Chile and Costa Rica draw 1-1 in a Group C match tomorrow at Tacna. The exciting Bolivia-Venezuela draw ensured Peru’s safe progress before it played Colombia, but they still had to decide the winner of Group A. Colombia, who had qualified on Friday, topped the group with seven points from three games, followed by Peru with five points, Bolivia two and Venezuela one. Colombia will remain in Trujillo to play the second-best third-place team in Saturday’s quarterfinals, while Peru will travel further north to Chiclayo to face the second place team from Group B, either Mexico, Uruguay or Argentina. The Argentines will progress if Ecuador lose to Mexico, or Argentina at least draw Uruguay at Piura. Nolberto Solano and Flavio Maestri scored the second-half goals for Peru, after Edwin Congo gave Colombia a 1-0 lead by half time, and Abel Aguilar made it 2-0 eight minutes into the second spell. Colombia had won eight straight matches without conceding a goal since 2001, and its goal-line was finally crossed by Solano in the 58th minute. Two minutes later Maestri scored for the host nation’s second draw in three matches. Congo opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, beating the defence on a sliding header to finish off a perfect center pass from Elkin Murillo. Aguilar blasted in from just inside the penalty area 20 minutes later. Solano scored in the 58th minute on a free kick that curved through a five-player Colombian wall which split just after he struck the ball. Two minutes later, Maestri equalised, diving forward to head a redirected header from Andres Mendoza. In the early match, Venezuela’s Ruberth Moran pounced on a rebound to score in the 27th minute, and six minutes later Gonzalo Galindo leveled for Bolivia when he powered a shot between the legs of defender Andree Gonzales and past goalkeeper Gilberto Angelucci. — AP
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Syed Modi badminton to get international status Lucknow, July 13 Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association (UPBA) secretary Vijay Sinha today said the Rs 8 lakh prize money of the championship would also be enhanced by Rs 2 lakh from this session. Sinha said invitation letters to the badminton federations of Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Singapore would be sent after deciding the number of the players in the UPBA’s forthcoming meeting and with the participation of these countries, the six-day event would get international status. He said the Badminton Federation of India (BFI) had also decided to accord international status to two other championships by inviting foreign players for the J.R.D. Tata Memorial Badminton Championship, to be held at Jamshedpur from December 14 to 18 and the All-India Senior Ranking Championship, to be played at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, from December 20 to 24.
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Jaskirat, Sandy lead in junior golf New Delhi, July 13 Jaskirat and Sandy scored four birdies and two bogeys each. Trailing them by one stroke was India amateur No 2 Vikrant Chopra and Anitya Chand, who finished jointly at 1-under 71. Anitya Chand finished the day with three birdies and two bogies. Saurabh Bhaguna, Jasjeet Singh and Pankaj Sethi scored an even par 72. Saurabh scored four birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey while Jasjeet and Pankaj scored five birdies and five bogeys, and three birdies and three bogeys, respectively.
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Punjab win in women’s cricket New Delhi, July 13 Scores: Maharashtra:
73 all out in 16.4 overs (Trupti Khot 34, Ravneet Dhingra 4 for 14, Shikha Bansal 2 for 6, Naincy Singh 2 for 25).
Punjab: 74 for 8 in 19.1 overs (Monika Mehra 25, Pradnya Sangekar 4 for 6, Uma Sindhe 2 for 10). Haryana: 83 all out in 18.5 overs (Mukesh Singh 18, Priyanka Roy 5 for 7, Saheli Ghosh 3 for 9).
West Bengal: 85 for 2 in 21.3 overs (Priyanka Roy 44 no, Mamta Ghosh 29 no). |
India to meet Myanmar in football opener Margao, July 13 India, who are in Group A, will take on Vietnam in their second league match, All-India Football Federation Secretary Alberto Colaco said here today.
— PTI
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