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Ramesh, Laxman in 64-run stand HOBART, Dec 20 — The Indians’ four-day cricket match against Tasmania ended in the tamest of draws at Bellerive Oval here today, their only consolation being their openers coming up with a decent stand. East Bengal struggle for win LUDHIANA, Dec 20, — Last year’s runners-up East Bengal faced gritty resistance from debutants Border Security Force, Jalandhar, before star striker Raman Vijayan struck the match winner midway through the second half to fetch full points for Calcutta’s glamour outfit in the National Football League at Guru Nanak Stadium here today. |
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 HARARE : Zimbabwe's captain Andy Flower (right) celebrates with partner Murray Goodwin after they beat Sri Lanka in the final one day international at the Harare Sports Club on Sunday. — AP/PTI |
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North take vital 1st innings lead Churchill
score 3rd straight win
Overall title for Bhiwani UP
shuttlers win team title Sodhi,
Yuvraj among Cup probables Dhindsa
CFI chief PSB
overwhelm PSEB 9-0 Jeeta
lifts gold
AP, Punjab Red champions |
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Ramesh, Laxman in 64-run stand HOBART, Dec 20 (PTI) — The Indians’ four-day cricket match against Tasmania ended in the tamest of draws at Bellerive Oval here today, their only consolation being their openers coming up with a decent stand. Sadagopan Ramesh and V.V.S. Laxman put on 64 for the first wicket to give them some hope ahead of the second Test in Melbourne as the Indians reached 130 for three in their second knock by close. But the performance came on a wicket that offered nothing to the bowlers and produced one of the dullest games in recent times. The match was dead long before the Indians started their second innings, 20 minutes before the lunch interval. Tasmania stretched their overnight score of 472 for four to 548 for five in reply to the Indians’ 316 for nine in the first knock before a batsman in the middle decided to declare the innings of his own. Left-hander Shaun Young, unbeaten on 62 at that stage, walked off the field of his own after 80 minutes of batting even as his partner Scott Kremerskothen stood rooted at his spot. Even the umpires had no idea as to what was happening. Finally, they trudged back to the pavilion, asking the Indians to follow them. The Indians made slow progress on the benign wicket and lost their first wicket when, after reaching a chanceless 27, Ramesh edged Kremerskothen behind the stumps. He had faced 71 balls and hit one four. Just before the break, Laxman reached his half century, off 96 balls with seven fours. After stylishly pulling Young to the square leg fence, Laxman was out when he tried to flick an overpitched delivery and missed. As he stepped out of his crease, wicketkeeper David Atkinson neatly picked up the ball and dislodged his bails. In the last hour of the game, the home team made as many as 19 bowling changes over 24 overs. Every one of the Tasmanian players, including ‘keeper Atkinson had a bowl. By this time, the players and even the umpires seemed to have lost interest in what was happening in the middle. After the last drinks interval, Rahul Dravid took strike instead of Vijay Bharadwaj, and no one seemed to notice. Bharadwaj again disappointed. He made 15 from 115 minutes off 106 balls before being trapped leg before wicket by leg-spinner Michael Di Venuto. Another major disappointment for the Indians was the poor form of off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who earlier bowled 47 overs without success while conceding 141 runs. The only wicket Tasmania lost in the morning was that of Dan Marsh, who made 157 from 297 minutes and 213 balls, hitting 12 fours and a six. The fifth-wicket pair of Marsh and Young put on 165 runs from 289 balls and 191 minutes. Bharadwaj claimed three wickets for 105 runs from 32 overs. Stand-in skipper Sourav Ganguly expressed his disappointment at the way the Tasmanians stretched their first innings and then made a mockery of the proceedings by making about 19 bowling changes in the last 24 overs. “We could have also continued our innings with our tailenders,” said Ganguly. “There was no sense in their continuing their innings like they did.” Ganguly, however, said the game was important for the youngsters in his side. “There are so many youngsters who are trying to break into the side. For them this game was important. I remember in the 1996 tour to England it was the side games which brought me and Rahul Dravid into notice and finally clinched a berth for us in the Lord’s Test.” Ganguly said he was happy with Dravid hitting form in the first innings in which the Karnataka batsman scored a hundred. “He needed runs and he got them here finally.” The Bengal left-hander, one of India’s formidable middle-order troika including Dravid and Tendulkar, was not worried about his own form. “I had a couple of decent innings in Adelaide and even though I failed here, I hope I have saved my best for the remaining games,” he said. SCOREBOARD India (Ist innings): 316/9 decl. Tasmania (Ist innings): J Cox c Prasad b Ganguly 139, D. Hills run out 84, M. Divenuto c Mongia b Bharadwaj 12, J. Dykes lbw Bharadwaj 61, D. Marsh c Dravid b Bharadwaj 157, S. Toung not out 62, Kremerskothen not out 1, Extras (B-1, LB-11, W-6, NB-14) 32, Total (for 5 wkts decl) 548. Fall of wickets: 1-205, 2-227, 3-277, 4-381, 5-546. Bowling: Venkatesh Prasad 21-5-52-0, Debashish Mohanty 26-7-81-0, Thiru Kumaran 26-6-105-0, Sourav Ganguly 18-0-42-1, Harbhajan Singh 47-5-141-0, Vijay Bharadwaj 32-2-105-3, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 5-0-10-0. India (2nd innings): S. Ramesh c Atkinson b Kremerskothen 27, V.V.S. Laxman st Atkinson b Young 58, V. Bharadwaj lbw Di Venuto 15, R. Dravid not out 18, H. Kanitkar not out 0, Extras (B-3, LB-3, W-3, NB-3) 12, Total (for 3 wkts, 61 overs) 130. Fall of wickets: 1-64, 2-98, 3-124. Bowling: Miller
16-7-29-0, Downton 8-1-30-0, Wright 8-3-10-0,
Kremerskothen 9-3-22-1, Marsh 8-2-17-0, Young 2-0-6-0,
Dykes 2-1-3-0, Atkinson 4-3-1-0, Di Venuto 2-0-6-1, Cox
1-1-0-0, Hills 1-1-0-0. |
East Bengal struggle for win LUDHIANA, Dec 20, — Last year’s runners-up East Bengal faced gritty resistance from debutants Border Security Force, Jalandhar, before star striker Raman Vijayan struck the match winner midway through the second half to fetch full points for Calcutta’s glamour outfit in the National Football League at Guru Nanak Stadium here today. In what turns out to be the best match of the league here, BSF cast aside their sluggishness to hold their rivals at bay for a considerable spell while at the same time carving out dangerous moves which, with a little more precision, could have at least fetched them one point. With today’s victory, East Bengal have boosted their tally to six points from two wins while BSF’s tally remains unchanged at three points from the victory against Dempo. East Bengal, despite being handicapped by the absence of key players like Chanchal Bhattacharya, Dipankar Roy and Tushar Rakshit, enjoyed an edge through superior ball control. The passes were accurate and the moves well orchestrated. While Jackson, Falguni Dutta, Anit Ghosh and Rattan Singh kept the BSF attacks in check, strikers Bijen Singh and Raman Vijayan displayed fine coordination upfront. In the opening minutes BSF showed promise through a series of raids with medio Sane Lama testing East Bengal custodian Gopal Das through a powerful long-ranger followed by striker Gurjit Atwal’s piledriver which, however, were off the mark. East Bengal took time to settle down and the first serious move came in the 25th minute when Raman Vijayan, after cutting through two defenders, made an attempt but he lost control. Again Bijen Singh’s chip saw BSF custodian Bibhas Saha making a neat collection. A minute before the breather, Raman Vijayan’s angular left-footer on the run narrowly missed the far corner of the goal-post. This move was preceded by a series of unsuccessful attempts by Bijen Singh, who on the occasion, had only Mobi Singh to beat but the latter managed to kick the ball away to safety. BSF’s Tapan Bhattacharya, in a counter attack, also aimed a powerful long-ranger but the ball sailed over the bar. In the second half, East Bengal made a couple of substitutions and coach Subhas Bhowmick brought in Emanuel Opoku in place of Sanatan Singh to bolster the midfield. Opoku’s inclusion had an immediate impact as he was instrumental in setting up the move in the 69th minute which fetched the match-winner. Having gained control of the ball on the left, Opoku sent a through pass for Rennedy Singh. Raman Vijayan, standing close by, did the final placing with relative ease much to the relief of the East Bengal camp. Thereafter, BSF hit back and on a few occasions missed sitters. First J. Oseph, despite having a clear view of the goal, wasted precious seconds in taking a shot after having cut through defenders Falcuni Dutta and Anit Ghosh. Later striker Gurjit Atwal’s bid was thwarted when East-Bengal defender Rattan Singh made a timely deflection at the cost of a corner. With time running out,
BSF coach Shyam Kumar brought in stalwarts like Gauranga
Paul and Abhay Mahato but the duo failed to achieve
anything worthwhile. In the last minute, East Bengal had
an easy chance when Opoku raced down the middle and had
only the goalkeeper to beat, but he only managed to shoot
straight into his hands. |
Shoaib yet to join camp KARACHI, Dec 20 (ANI) — Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam is still waiting for fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar to report at the national training camp currently in progress at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. Shoaib, who had gone to England for some personal reasons with the permission of the former Chairman, Dr Zafar Altaf, was supposed to report at the camp on Saturday but he failed to turn up. Intikhab said from Lahore that hopefully Shoaib would report soon, as he was very keen to have a close look at him and discuss some things with him. Intikhab has never worked with Shoaib before and admitted that since the youngster was a key member of the team going to Australia for the triangular series, he wanted to watch him closely. “Shoaib had a miserable time in the Test series in Australia and personally I think this is because he lacks cricketing sense. He does not know how to make best use of his speed and work on batsmen”, remarked the coach who took over his assignment two days ago. He stated that Shoaib had failed in the Test series as he was either bowling too short or too full, which made it easier for the batsmen to play him at will and score runs off him on the Australian pitches, where batsmen thrive on the cut, pull or hook shot. “I want to sit down with him (Shoaib) and make best use of his energy and talent. He has to get over this 100 mph thing that the Australian media and former players played up and got him to lose line and length in the Test series”, stated Intikhab. According to him, what he wanted from the youngster was consistent line and length and an occasional speed ball to surprise the batsman. “It does not matter even if you bowl at 50 mph, but on a consistent line and length, it works for you, particularly in one-day matches”. Asked if he thought the doubts being created about Shoaib’s bowling action when he bowled a bouncer or generated extra pace were true, the former captain believed there was nothing wrong with the former’s action. “I’ve not seen him bowling in person but from what I’ve seen on television he is fine. As it is there is nothing in the laws which says a bowler cannot use his wrist — they do it while bowling bouncers”. Intikhab reminded that although there had been media reports about Shoaib’s action being reported to the International Cricket Council (ICC), so far nothing official had come to the notice of the Pakistan Cricket Board. Giving his opinion on the Pakistan side after becoming coach once again after 1996, Intikhab had no doubt it was a talented outfit and capable of winning the triangular one-day series in Australia. “Even though we have to face India for a series of matches for the first time in Australia, I think they don’t have the bowling to worry us. But their batting is strong and we have to sit down and work on how best to counter that”. He pointed out that the Australian had managed to show it could be done in the first Test at Adelaide by having a clear strategy for every Indian batsman. He believed that the one area in which there had been no improvement in the Pakistan team was physical fitness which also affected their fielding. “I don’t want to criticise anyone, but the previous coach (Richard Pybus) didn’t work on this aspect at all and the boys have told me he concentrated on just the basics. At this level of cricket, these players really don’t need basic coaching. My job is to work with them on how to counter the opposition and also on our strengths and weaknesses”. Intikhab made it clear
he was not a great believer in having nets and instead
preferred to have the boys go through the grind of
practice match where conditions had to be made
competitive. He described the new PCB Chairman, General
Tauqeer Zia, as a man with a vision and felt if he stayed
long enough he would be good for Pakistan cricket. |
North take vital 1st innings lead CALCUTTA, Dec 20 (PTI) — North Zone have assured themselves of victory in the Duleep Trophy cricket final by taking the vital first innings lead as West Zone were bundled out for 367 before the tea break on the penultimate day of the five-day match here today. Resuming at their overnight score of 237 for three in reply to North Zone’s first innings total of 468, only opener Wasim Jaffer stood bravely amidst the ruins as he carried his bat through with a heroic unbeaten 173 as wickets kept tumbling at the other end. Jaffer displayed very good technique and temperament during his monumental knock and remained at the crease for a marathon 613 minutes before the West Zone innings folded up for 367 about 40 minutes before the tea break. With just a day’s play left and with no possibility of an outright result on a good batting track, North Zone were almost certain to claim the title for the 13th time on the morrow. SCOREBOARD North Zone (1st innings): 468 West Zone (1st innings): Jaffer not out 173 Williams c Dahiya b Singh (Jr) 21 Kale c Sehwag b Singh (Jr) 30 Muzumdar lbw b Sodhi 52 Kambli c Dahiya b Singh (Jr) 14 Patel c Dahiya b Singh (Jr) 0 Mhambrey lbw b Singh (Jr) 4 Siddique c Dahiya b Bhandari 20 Khan c Rathore b N Singh 1 Kulkarni c Dahiya b R Singh (Jr) 24 Mehta c Dani b N Singh 5 Extras (lb-6, nb-16, w-1) 23 Total (all out in 148 overs) 367 Fall of wickets: 1/47, 2/113, 3/218, 4/242, 5/247, 6/254, 7/291, 8/297, 9/348. Bowling: Bhandari 34-5-111-1, Robin Singh Jr 34-13-63-6, Navdip Singh 38-12-89-2, Chopra 22-6-42-0, Sodhi 17-6-47-1, Sehwag 3-0-9-0. North Zone (IInd innings): Dani lbw b Mhambrey 4, Rathore c and b Kulkarni 41, Sodhi (batting) 40, Dharmani (batting) 8, extras (LB-4, NB-2), total (for 2 wickets in 25 overs) 99. Fall of wickets: 1/13, 2/73. Bowling: Paras Mhambrey
8-2-21-1, Zaheer Khan 5-0-29-0, Iqbal Siddique 6-1-27-0,
Nilesh Kulkarni 5-1-6-1, Vinod Kambli 1-0-12-0. |
Churchill score 3rd straight win MARGAO, Dec 20 (PTI) —Scoring once in each half, Churchill Brothers got the better of F.C. Kochin to notch up their third straight win in the fourth edition of the National Football League here today. With play mostly confined to the midfield, the hosts held a clear territorial advantage. They took the lead in the 14th minute through Ukraine recruit Andriy Malchevky. Mario Soares, who played in tandem along with Rocky Baretto in the midfield, kept up the pressure with repeated attacks and played a pass to overlapping Denzil Ferrao on the right. Denzil controlled the ball and beat a defender and sent a goalmouth cross to Andriy who tapped the ball into the empty goal. Substitute Kaustav Ghosh, who came in place of Francis Silveira who was tightly marked, made the issue safe when he unleashed a rasping 30-yard shot that hit the inner edge of the cross bar before crossing the goal line beating keeper Dinesh Nair all ends. ITL hold Salgaocar BANGALORE: Fancied Salgaocar SC, Goa, were held to a goalless draw by Indian Telephone Industries, Bangalore, in a National Football League tie here today. Salgaocar, the defending champions, put up a pathetic performance and did not play as a unit. There was not even one notable move from the Goan side and the midfield did not click. For ITI, who had the
home advantage, Nowshad Pari had all the time to boot the
ball into the net from the left flank in the fourth
minute but he struck wide. |
9-wicket win for Kiwis HAMILTON, Dec 20 (AFP) — New Zealand pulled off one of their biggest cricket comebacks after a horror first day to beat the West Indies by nine wickets in the first Test here today. It took 15 overs for New Zealand to reach their target of 70, with Nathan Astle hitting the winning run off Courtney Walsh just seven overs into the middle session. The win was completed with plenty of time to spare thanks to Chris Cairns, who recorded the third-best bowling figures in New Zealand Test history with seven for 27 off 22.5 overs. It gave him 10 for 100 in the match and with his 72 runs in the first innings had little competition for the man of the match award. It was only New Zealand’s fifth win over the West Indies in 29 matches, the last coming 13 years ago in Christchurch when they had an even easier chase of 33 - but lost five wickets getting the runs. Today’s win was achieved comfortably after Craig Spearman whacked 30 off 36 balls. Gary Stead was the only wicket to fall but there was bad news for Matthew Horne who had his right index finger broken by Franklyn Rose. He had to retire hurt for five and will miss the second Test starting on Boxing Day Sunday in Wellington. Although New Zealand had the better of four of the last five days, they had gone into day two with the West Indies 282 for one on a good batting pitch. New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming agreed it was one of the team’s better victories. Scoreboard West Indies: (1st innings) 365 New Zealand: (1st innings) 393 West Indies: (2nd innings) Campbell b Cairns 0 Griffith c Parore b Cairns 18 Chanderpaul c Parore b Cairns 0 Lara c Parore b Nash 1 Powell c Spearman b Vettori 30 Adams c sub (O’Connor) b Cairns 25 Jacobs run out 2 Rose lbw Cairns 3 Ramnarine c and b Cairns 0 King lbw Cairns 0 Walsh not out 5 Extras: (7B, 3LB, 3NB) 13 Total: (all out in 53.5 overs) 97 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-0, 3-1, 4-36, 5-78, 6-85, 7-90, 8-90, 9-90. Bowling: Daniel Vettori 22-12-20-1; Chris Cairns 22.5-10-27-7; Dion Nash 7-1-37-1; Paul Wiseman 2-0-3-0. New Zealand (2nd innings): Stead b Walsh 16 Horne retired hurt 5 Spearman not out 30 Astle not out 7 Extras: (4b, 1lb, 7nb) 12 Total: (for 1 wkt, 15 overs) 70 Fall of wicket: 1-59. Bowling: Courtney Walsh
8-1-33-1, Franklyn Rose 6-0-28-0, Dinanth Ramnarine
1-0-4-0. |
Overall title for Bhiwani BHIWANI, Dec 20 (PTI) — Bhiwani lifted the overall championship trophy of the Haryana State Sports Festival which concluded here at Bhim Stadium. The Hisar contingent finished runners-up. Sunita Dahiya of Sonepat became the best athlete in the women’s section collecting 25 points, while Satish also of Sonepat, was adjudged the best athlete in the men’s section with 13 points. Sonepat won the Athletic Championship in the women’s section with 66 points. Hisar and Jhajjar got second and third places with 32 and 19 points, respectively. Bhiwani won the men’s championship in athletics with 99 points, while Hisar and Sonepat finished second and third with 40 and 25 points, respectively. Dushyant Kumar of Gurgaon was adjudged the best archer with 548 points. He won five, gold medals in all the events of archery. Gurpreet Kaur of Sirsa became the best archer in the women’s category. The archery team championship was won by Gurgaon in men’s section while Narnaul got second place. In women’s archery Narnaul became the champion while Faridabad got the second place. Bhiwani lifted the boxing title with 56 points, while Panchkula got second place securing 16 points. Dilbag Singh of Bhiwani was adjudged the best boxer, while Amarjeet Singh of Hisar was announced the best loser. Hisar got first place in women volleyball defeating Gurgaon by 25-21, 25-16, 26-21 . In the men’s section Kurukshetra won the first place outplaying Bhiwani by 25-23,25-19, 26-28, 25-16. Ambala won the team championship in women’s category with 144.55 points in gymnastics, while Gurgaon bagged the first place with 199.50 points in the men’s category. Chetna of Ambala in the women’s section and Pardeep of Gurgaon in the men’s section were adjudged the best gymnasts. Sonepat got first place in wrestling in men’s section, while Hisar bagged the title in the women’s category. Pratibha Dhaiya of Bhiwani won the women single title in Badminton while Satvinder of Bhiwani bagged the men’s single title. In men’s double Bhiwani team got the first place. Hisar judokas won both men and women titles. Karnal got the first place in the men’s section of fencing while in women’s category Sirsa won the first place. Hisar won the squash and lawn tennis titles. In circle kabbadi Jind
clinched the title defeating Bhiwani by 46-39 points. |
UP shuttlers win team title Chandigarh, Dec 20 — Chandigarh face West Bengal in the team championship final of the table tennis event, in badminton, Punjab went down fighting to Uttar Pradesh while in tennis, Haryana went down to defending champions MP in the national women’s festival here. Results: Badminton: team placings: UP 1, Punjab 2, Maharashtra 3, Karnataka 4. Indl doubles: Mala & Isha (Chd) b D. Valentina and Uma (TN) 15-0, 15-11; Leena and Sonali (Goa) b Pooja and Lakshmi (Del) 15-10, 15-7; Shalaka and Vaishali (Mah) b Roma and Nidhi (Har) 15-8, 15-6; Radhika and Shivakamini (AP) b Jagrut and Hamalini (Guj) 15-0,15-0; Meeta and Nazma (Pb) b Mala and Isha (Chd) 15-1,15-7; Poonam and Juhi (UP) b Upma and Reena Singh (MP) 15-2, 15-17, 15-1. Final (team): UP b Punjab 2-0 Poonam b Nazma 11-17,11-1; Poonam and Juhib b Meeta and Nazma 15-3,15-9. Singles semifinal: Leena (Goa) b Gayatri (Del) 11-6, 7-11, 11-1; Poonam (UP) b B.R. kokila (Ktk) 3-11, 11-5, 11-7. Tennis (Finals): MP b Haryana 2-1 (Aparna Singh lost to Isha Chopra 4-6, 4-6; Aditi b Bhawna 6-0, 6-2. Doubles: Aditi and Aparna b Isha and Bhawna 6-3,4-6, 6-1. Third place: Chandigarh b AP 2-1 (Neha Singh b A. Madhavai 6-0, 6-1; Simer Singh lost to Sapandan 3-6, 3-6. Doubles: Neha and Satvika b Neha Karajkar and Partner 6-2, 6-3. Team placings: MP 1, Haryana 2, Chandigarh 3, AP 4. Table tennis
(semifinals): West Bengal b Punjab 3-0 (Mousami b Anu
21-19, 21-18; Runa Roy b Kuldeep Kaur 21-14, 18-21,
21-11; Rajasree Sha b Notika 21-13,23-21. Chandigarh b UP
3-1 (Shikha Sharma b Parvathi 21-19, 21-14; Barkha K.C. b
Sarojini Negi 14-21, 21-14, 21-16; Ruchi Pandoh lost to
Divya 17-21, 22-24; Shikha Sharma b Sarojini Negi 3-21,
21-15, 21-15. |
Sodhi, Yuvraj among Cup probables MUMBAI, Dec 20 (PTI) — Talented youngsters Mohammed Kaif of UP and Reetinder Singh Sodhi of Punjab, who were part of the India A squad recently in the West Indies, are among the 25 probables chosen by the national junior selectors for next month’s under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka. The selected players have to report to the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) at Chennai on December 26, a release from the cricket board said here today. The under-19 World cup is to be held from January 11 to 28. The probables are: Mohd
Kaif (UP), Reetinder Singh Sodhi (Punjab), Yuvraj Singh
(Punjab), Sailab Shrivastava (UP), Ajay Ratra (Haryana),
Venugopal Rao (Andhra), Niraj Patel (Gujarat), Amit Suman
(Delhi), M. Tripathi (UP), Pallav Vora (Gujarat). Vidyut
Sivaramakrishnan (TN), Rakesh Dhruv (Saurashtra), R.R.
Das (Orissa), Amir Hsami (Bihar), Pradeep Chawla (Delhi),
Manish Sharma (Punjab), Amit Deshpande (Vidharbha), Anup
Dave (Rajasthan), Manish Mishra (MP), C.M. Shyam
(Kerala), Gautam Gambhi (Delhi), Sushant Manjrekar
(Mumbai), Subhamoy Das (Bengal), G. Chitra (Karnataka)
and Mihir Diwakar (Bihar). |
Dhindsa CFI chief PATIALA, Dec 20 — Union Cabinet Minister S.S. Dhindsa was re-elected president of the Cycling Federation of India (CFI) for a four-year term at the annual general body meeting (AGM) of the federation held at the Punjabi University guest house late last evening. The meeting, which was attended by the Indian Olympic Committee observer Mr Arun K. Rishi, also saw Mr J.S. Grewal being re-elected as the Secretary-General of the CFI. For Mr S.S. Dhindsa, this will be his second successive term as the chief of the CFI. The other office-bearers of the CFI are: Senior vice president — Mr Gajan Ganjla, vice presidents — Mr P.R. Babu Partap Singh, Mr M.N. Kapiliswaran, Mr S.K. Sharma, Mr P.Suresh, Mr J.D. Patel and Mrs Bani Ghosh. Secretary general — Mr J.S. Grewal. Treasurer — Mr R.P. Srivastva. The Mountain and Biking
Board which falls under the ambit of the CFI has Mr
Balwinder Singh and Mr Rakesh Mohinder as its secretary
and convener, respectively. |
PSB overwhelm PSEB 9-0 JALANDHAR, Dec 20 — Last year’s runners-up Punjab and Sind Bank, Delhi, dubbed, Punjab State Electricity Board Patiala, 9-0 in the third Romesh Chander Memorial All-India Hockey tournament for the “Farmatrac Cup” at the Burlton Park astroturf hockey stadium here today. With this victory the bankmen have secured a berth in semifinal from pool-A. Holders Haryana -XI today raised the game to great heights and trounced Sukhjit Starch Mill Phagwara 4-1 in the first encounter in women’s section. In the first match of the fourth day, PSB outplayed PSEB in all departments. In fact it was a one-sided match from the very start. Bank’s Mandeep Singh Ghuman earned the lead for his side in the 4th minute. Bankmen continued to attack the opponent goal-post to consolidate their lead. The second goal from the bank side was scored by Ram Saran in the 5th minute of the game. In the 14th minute bank team earned the 2nd penalty corner and Ajit Pal Singh Nijjar converted the same (3-0). The fourth goal of the game from bank side was again scored by Ajit Pal Singh in the 18th minute. Till the half time the score was 4-0 in favour of bankmen. After resumption, Ranjit Singh Chahal and Rajbir Sarkaria combined well in the 37th minute and scored the fifth goal from the top of the “D” Bank’s Ajit Pal again showed their stick work in the 53rd minute in rival’s territory and scored a brilliant goal (6-0). Tejbir Singh increased bank’s lead in the 58th minute by scoring an angular goal from the left flank of the goal post. Ram Saran successfully scored two fieled goals in the 61st and 67th minute, making it 9-0 for bank team. The second match of the day was in women’s section between holder Haryana-XI and Sukhjit Starch Mill Phagwara was played on a fast pace. The Haryana girls played like a wellknit unit. Their defenders were brilliant in tracking, trapping and in distribution and their forwards were speedy. On the other hand, mill team played a defensive game throughout. The first goal of the match was scored by Surinder Kaur in the 19th minute. Thereafter, Haryana could not achieve much despite constant pressure and had to wait till the 30th minute to consolidate the lead when Rekha Rani scored an excellent field goal. On changing ends, Haryana girls got three penalty corners in a row which could not be converted. This efforts bore fruit in the 40th minute when Simarjeet Kaur sounded the board with a powerful hit at 10th penalty corner and score moved to 3-0 in favour of Haryana, Suman Bala, in the 42nd minute, lead it 4-0. From the mill side the only goal of the match was scored by Lakhbir Kaur who found the target through a field goal in the 52nd minute to reduce the margin. The third match in poll B (men) was played between Indian Railways and Bengal_XI. Which the former won 3-2. In the last match of the
day in pool-B men’s section Bharat Petroleum
defeated Uttar Pradesh-XI by 3-2. |
Jeeta lifts gold PATIALA, Dec 20 — Jeeta Ram of the Railways clinched gold in the 4000m individual pursuit on the penultimate day of the National Cycling Championships (track) being held at the Punjabi University velodrome here today. Jeeta Ram proved to be more skillful and adept as he easily won the gruelling race in which Sarabjit Singh of the hosts and Pardeep Singh Sandhu of Punjab Police claimed the silver and the bronze, respectively. The stiff breeze which the cyclists had to encounter head on only led to increase in timings of the cyclists. Another significant factor for the poor timings clocked by cyclists is that the velodrome here has a circumference of 500 metres, while other velodromes have a circumference of 333.33 metres, which meant that cyclists pedalling here had to be contend with an increased distance. Today’s results: (all finals): 4000m individual pursuit (for men): Jeeta Ram (Railways) 1, Sarabjit Singh (Punjab) 2, Pardeep Sandhu (Punjab Police) 3. 3000m individual pursuit (for women): Rameshwari Devi (Manipur) 1, O. Binakumari Devi (Manipur) 2, S. Sindhu (Kerala) 3. 1000m metres mass start (sub junior boys): U. clarke (AP) 1, K. Geenady Singh (Manipur) 2, W. Nilkamal Singh (Manipur) 3.
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AP, Punjab Red champions CHANDIGARH, Dec 20 — Andhra Pradesh and Punjab Red won the men and women championships in the fourth All-India Nachhattar Singh Gill Memorial Basketball Tournament which concluded at Kotkapura last night. In the men’s final, Andhra Pradesh defeated Punjab Whites 64-52 to prove that their win in the round robin league matches earlier in the tournament was no fluke. At half time, Andhra men led 37-31. Though at one stage, Punjab White boys managed to equalise the score at 39-all but a three-pointer by Ramesh Babu put the Andhra cagers ahead. After that they never looked back and maintained lead throughout the remaining part of the game. Pankaj (11), Vinay (19), Ramesh Babu (nine) and naveen (14) were the main scorers for Andhra Pradesh while Jaspreet (14), Paramdeep (21) did the bulk of scoring for Punjab Whites. The winners got Rs 30,000 as prize money while Punjab Whites got Rs 20,000. In the women’s
final, Punjab Red defeated Punjab Whites 47-29 after
leading 25-16 at the breather. Punjab Red women got Rs
25,000 as cash award while the losers got Rs 10,000.
Sukhbir (nine), Vandhana (10) and Sushma (12)
masterminded the Red’s win while for Whites, Mukti
(10) was the top scorer. |
Bangladesh to host Asia Cup in May DHAKA, Dec 20 (Reuters) — Bangladesh will stage the Asia Cup cricket tournament next May, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Saber Hossain Chowdhury said today. He said Sri Lanka, the Asia Cup holders and former world champions, would take on the hosts in the opening match on May 27. Traditional rivals India and Pakistan would meet in the last round-robin league match on June 2. The competition, which also involves India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan had been scheduled to start in April. The final will be played
on June 4. Pakistan will hold the next Asia Cup in 2001. |
Telecom wrestling meet results AMRITSAR, Dec 20 — On the 3rd day of 15th All-India Telecom Wrestling Championship here today, wrestlers of Punjab Circle dominated. Jogesh Tomar, Rohtas and Ashok won the gold medals in free style wrestling in 97 kg, 75 kg and 63 kg categories, respectively. Results: 54 kg: 1 — Gopal Wadke (Mah), 2 — Vital Rao Gaikwad (MP), 3 — Babu Lal Jat (Raj). 58 kg: 1 — Ashok Kumar (MTNL Delhi), 2 — T.J. Wable (Mah), 3 — Krishan Murali (UP). 63 kg: 1 — Ashok Kumar (Punjab), 2 — Mannuram (UP), 3 — Bijinder Kumar (MTNL Delhi). 69 kg: 1— V.B. Dalvi (Ktka), 2 —Madan Lal (MTNL New Delhi), 3 — Kamta Prashad (UP). 76 kg: 1 — Rohtas (Punjab), 2 — Randhir Singh (Bihar), 3 — Jagbir Singh (Raj). 85 kg: 1 — G. Rajappa (Ktka), 2 — Sabbir Mohamad (Raj), 3 — Keshav Rokde (Mah). 97 kg: 1 — Yogesh Tomar (Punjab), 2 — Kamlesh (MTNL, Delhi), 3 — H.R. Dhananjaya (Ktk). Plus 97 kg: 1 —
Sunil Kumar (MTNL Delhi), 2 — Kant Prashad (Bihar),
3 — Bansi Lal (J and K). |
Manisha, Rushmi triumph LUCKNOW, Dec 20 (PTI) — Upcoming Indian star Manisha Malhotra opened her campaign in the ITF Women’s Futures Tennis Championship with an easy straight sets victory over Tara Kanbargimath here today. Malhotra, seeded second in the absence of top players like Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Delhi Challenger winner Katalin Marosi and Tathiana Garbin, who all decided to skip the event, outplayed her opponent 6-4 6-2 at the Oudh Gymkhana grasscourts. After putting up initial resistance in the first set, Tara failed to sustain the momentum and surrendered the second set meekly. Results: Singles: M Malhotra (Ind) b Kanbargimath (Ind) 6-4 6-2; Autonia M (Cro) b Masav (Slo) 6-4 5-3 (conceded); R Chakravorty (Ind) b S Thakur (Ind) 6-3 6-2; Geeta Marwhar (Ind) b B Harisimran (Ind) 6-3 6-1; Tong Ka Po (HK) b S Mossaikova (Rus) 6-1 6-1; U Vesenjak (Slo) b S Stutti (Ind) 6-2 6-0; Archana Venkatraman (Ind) b R Tulpuli (Ind); 6-3 6-2; A Nefredoa (Rus) b T Grover (Ind) 6-0 6-0. Doubles:
Jaylakshmi/Chakra-vorty (Ind) b Radhika/Manohar (Ind) 6-1
6-0. |
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Chandigarh XI win SHIMLA, Dec 20 (TNS) — The Chandigarh XI won the 13th All-India Joginder Sen Memorial Invitation Football Trophy defeating Sports Hostel, Rohru, 1-0 in a thrilling final here today. Kulvinder scored the only goal of the match in 15th minute of the first half. Earlier, the Chandigarh boys trounced Bihar XI in the semifinal. Korfball trials CHANDIGARH, Dec 20 (TNS)
— Trials to select Chandigarh team for participation
in the 14th Senior National Korfball Championship slated
to commence from December 25 here will be held at
Government College for Girls, Sector 11, at 2 p.m. on
Tuesday, according to a press note issued by the
Chandigarh Korfball Association. |
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