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India crash to 48-run defeat GUWAHATI, Nov 14 — After batting New Zealand out of the game in two successive matches, India’s top three batsmen fell in a heap chasing an attainable target as the hosts lost the fourth one-day international cricket tie by 48 runs today to let their rivals square the series 2-all with a match left. |
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 GUWAHATI: Rahul Dravid walking back to pavilion after edging a catch behind during India vs New Zealand cricket match in Guwahati on Sunday. Bowler Chris Cairns exults in joy — PTI photo |
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Denmark, England set to qualify Dharmani
cracks century HP
concede lead of 70 runs
Punjab boys make winning start Punjab
Police annex title Biggest
Test win for S. Africa Stage
set for school games Nazma,
Dilpreet victorious
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India crash to 48-run defeat GUWAHATI, Nov 14 (PTI) — After batting New Zealand out of the game in two successive matches, India’s top three batsmen fell in a heap chasing an attainable target as the hosts lost the fourth one-day international cricket tie by 48 runs today to let their rivals square the series 2-all with a match left. After restricting New Zealand to 236 for nine on putting them in on a track which showed early life and then grew slower, India never recovered from early jolts to be bowled out for 188 in 45.3 overs to dash hopes of wrapping up the series within the distance at the Nehru stadium. Skipper Sachin Tendulkar (2) failed to reach double figures for the second match in a row and both Rahul Dravid (5) and the free-stroking Saurav Ganguly — all three struck big centuries to propel India to victory in the previous two ties for a 2-1 lead — followed suit as India lost their way. Left-hander Sunil Joshi cracked a strokeful, unbeaten 61 for his maiden one-day half-century studded with two fours and three sixes after coming in at number eight but it was in vain and he ran out of partners with 4.3 overs left. Chris Drum (2/31) struck early blows and with fellow paceman Scott Styris (2/39) and left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori (2/37) claimed bowling honours while Chris Harris effected two run outs with direct hits as only Ajay Jadeja (27) and Vijay Bharadwaj (27) showed some top-order resilience. ‘Man of the match’ Chris Cairns (80) struck his 14th fifty and raised 96 runs for the fourth wicket with Roger Twose (46) to pull the Kiwis to respectability after India had left them gasping at 32 for three at an early stage. Required to score at a reasonable rate of 4.74 an over, the Indians found the going tough once Tendulkar, Dravid and Ganguly fell in quick succession. The focus will now shift to the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi where the fifth and deciding encounter will be played on November 17. The hosts suffered an early jolt when Tendulkar was dismissed cheaply with Drum providing the breakthrough. The master batsman could not properly time an attempted drive and Craig Spearman brought off the catch in the cover region after the ball rebounded off silly mid-off fielder Stephen Fleming’s hand. Stunned by the reverse, the packed crowd were in for more disappointment as in-form Dravid edged a short delivery from Chris Cairns that left his bat to provide wicketkeeper Adam Parore an easy catch. Ganguly, who began by hitting four glorious boundaries in his 17, fell in the very next over when Drum trapped him leg before with a straight delivery which left India tottering at 27 for three after seven overs. Both Drum and Cairns bowled tidy opening spells to put the Indians on the defensive and it was left to Jadeja and Bharadwaj to try and rebuild the innings. The two played cautiously to add 56 runs for the fourth wicket before Harris, who was introduced into the attack from the pavilion end in the 20th over, brought an end to the partnership. Instead of trying to boost the team position, Bharadwaj went for a mighty heave but missed the line completely to see his stumps dislodged, undoing all the good work he had done alongwith Jadeja. Bharadwaj’s departure opened the floodgates again as Jadeja followed suit in the very next over. He fell to Vettori in his very second over, trying to guide a sharply turning delivery towards the third man region but only succeeding in edging the ball to Parore. New Zealand: India: |
Dharmani cracks century LUDHIANA, Nov 14 — Pankaj Dharmani scored his third successive century (104) as Punjab declared their first innings at 530 for seven against Delhi on the second day of the four-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Punjab Agriculture University ground here today. In the previous league matches, Pankaj remained unbeaten on 202 against Services at SAS Nagar and was also unconquered on 305 here at Ludhiana against Jammu and Kashmir. At draw of stumps, Delhi were 58 for no loss. Resuming at their overnight score of 276 for two (Reetinder Sodhi 104 n.o. and Pankaj Dharmani 77 n.o.) Punjab lost their third wicket at the same score. Robin Singh (Jr) struck on the second ball when he consumed Reetinder, caught by the wicket-keeper Vijay Dahiya. Left-arm batsman Dinesh Mongia joined Pankaj and the pair contributed 45 runs for the fourth wicket stand before Pankaj was caught at first slip by Ashu Dani off the bowling of Robin Singh. Pankaj’s innings lasted 268 minutes and contained 14 fours and one six. Then Dinesh Mongia (92) and Sanjay Kumar (66) figured in a 123-run fifth wicket stand. Punjab declared their first innings at 530 for about 30 minutes after the tea break. In the remaining 68 minutes of play, Delhi made 58 without losing any wicket. Ashu Dani and Devinder Sharma with 29 and 25 runs respectively were at the crease. Punjab (Ist innings): V. Rathore c Mithun Minhas b Harinder Chaudhary 75, R. Sodhi c Vijay Dahiya b Robin Singh (jr) 104, Yuvraj Singh b Aashish Nehra 0, Pankaj Dharmani c Ashu Dani b Robin Singh (jr) 101, Dinesh Mongia c Vijay Dahiya c Harinder Chaudhary 92, Sanjay Kumar lbw b Harinder Chaudhary 66, Harminder Jugnu not out 37, Sandeep Sharma c Ashu Dani b Sandeep Angurala 20, Harbhajan Singh not out 5. Extras 30. Total 530 for 7 dec. Fall of wickets: 1-128, 2-129, 3-276, 4-321, 5-444, 6-477, 7-517. Bowling: Aashish Nehra 33-7-95-1, Robin Singh (jr) 24-6-65-2, Sandeep Angurala 50-4-173-1, Harinder Chaudhary 50-6-151-3, Virender Sehwag 4-0-18-0, Ajay Sharma 1-0-8-0. Delhi (Ist innings): Devinder Sharma batting 25, Ashu Dani batting 29. Extras 4. Total 58 for no loss. Bowling: Sandeep Sharma
5-0-24-0, Reetinder Sodhi 2-0-12-0, Harbhajan Singh
5-1-9-0, Nandeep Singh 3-1-8-0, Yuvraj Singh 1-0-5-0. |
Lewis is heavy weight champion LAS VEGAS, Nov 14 (AFP) — Britain’s Lennox Lewis won a 12-round unanimous decision over American Evander Holyfield here to become the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion. But the outcome yesterday was far from undisputed, with Holyfield the more active fighter and taking the fight to his larger foe from the start, possibly setting the stage for a third meeting of the two next year. In the rematch of a controversial draw from last March, judge Chuck Giampa scored it 116-112 while Bill Graham had it 117-111 and Jerry Roth 115-113 for Lewis. All three judges were from Nevada. Lewis rose to 35-1 and became the first undisputed heavyweight world champion from Britain since Bob Fitzsimmons a century ago. Holyfield fell to 36-4. Lewis left the USA without at least a share of the heavyweight crown for the first time since Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson took the title 40 years ago. The championship was unified for the first time in seven years with Lewis capturing Holyfield’s World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation titles and keeping his World Boxing Council crown. Lewis won his 11th fight in a row since suffering his only defeat to Oliver McCall in a 1994 WBC title fight. Lewis and Holyfield each received $ 15 million for the fight. Lewis, achieved the defining victory of his career to validate his reign after former champions Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe discarded belts rather than face him. Much of the crowd booed the outcome and indeed Holyfield had been by far the more aggressive combatant in a bout much different from the one eight months ago, where Lewis used jabs from his larger reach to keep Holyfield at bay but received only a draw. Action was hottest in the seventh round even though Lewis spent much of it looking weary. Holyfield used a roundhouse right and solid combinations to stun Lewis before the fight was joined with impressive flurries by both champions. A slow eighth gave way to an active ninth. Holyfield got the best of the exchanges despite a stunning uppercut that Lewis could not adequately follow up. While Lewis was holding much of the way and picking his moments to strike, Holyfield was pressing the attack, punching and counterpunching, hitting hard and taking the best Lewis had to offer. The 10th and 11th rounds featured Lewis leaning on Holyfield and more hugs than hitting and although Lewis became active late in the 11th, it was more often Holyfield pushing a rival 25 pounds heavier than him around the ring. Holyfield opened a cut under Lewis’ right eye with head contact early in round five, prompting a warning from referee Mitch Halpern. Seconds later, Lewis was atop Holyfield chest to chest as both dangled over the top rope halfway out of the ring. They carefully rose, glared at each other, and Lewis briefly became aggressive before slipping back into his ineffective tentative tactics. Unlike the first fight, when Holyfield was content to rarely test the extended arms and took numerous jabs of Lewis, the American threw the majority of punches and dictated the tempo, often as Lewis clung to him. Holyfield showed from the start this would be a different fight, getting inside and scoring with jabs, keeping his larger rival backstepping. Instead of sticking his arms forward to keep Holyfield at bay, Lewis looked for attack points and an aggressive start by Holyfield set the tempo. For most of rounds two and three, both adopted cautious tactics. Lewis left himself open, hands at sides, inviting a Holyfield attack that rarely came, refusing to initiate the action and reluctant to do more than jab. Late in round three, Holyfield landed a hard right to Lewis’ head, then worked inside and scored to the head and body again as the round ended, a flurry better than most of what Lewis had produced. A sellout crowd of 18,000 at Thomas and Mack Arena had about 6,000 English fans yelling for Lewis. Both fighters were loudly cheered while promoter Don King was loudly booed and the subject of an obscene chant. About 700,000
pay-per-view purchases, half a million fewer than in
March, barely allowed financiers to break even. |
Fans bid adieu to Marshall BRIDGETOWN (Barbados), Nov 14 (AP) — Thousands of fans, dozens of star cricketers and a former Prime Minister paid tributes today to fast bowling legend Malcolm Marshall, who died from colon cancer last week aged 41. Former Barbadian Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford, who was among the 2,000 in attendance at the service at a Bridgetown Stadium, called for a permanent memorial to pay tribute to Marshall. Known as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, Marshall took 376 wickets in 81 Tests for the West Indies between 1979 and 1991, which stood as a record until last year. Marshall was buried with a new, red cricket ball in his coffin as a symbol of his status as one of the greats of the game. “Until we meet again, my brother, farewell, farewell,” Viv Richards, one of Marshall’s captains during his years with the West Indies team, said during his speech today. Also present was Marshall’s other West Indies captain, Clive Lloyd. Richards and Lloyd were pallbearers, as were present West Indies captain Brian Lara, close friend Desmond Haynes and current West Indies star bowler Courtney Walsh, who overtook Marshall’s record last year. Despite the accolades from players around the globe, the words that most moved the crowd were from Marshall’s 9-year-old son Mali, who wrote a letter read at the service by family friend Rudi Webster. “God, please take
care of my father, for I love him very much,” it
said. |
HP concede lead of 70 runs ROHTAK, Nov 14 — Himachal conceded a 70-run lead as their innings suddenly collapsed on the second day against Haryana in the North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at Vishwakarma Stadium here today. Resuming their innings at the overnight score of 32 for 2 in reply to Haryana’s first innings total of 222, Himachal batsmen Nischal Gaur and skipper Rajeev Nayyar put on 76 runs for the third wicket. When the score reached 108, Nischal was dismissed for 50 by medium pacer Feroze Ghyas. Before being caught behind by Ajay Ratra, Nischal stayed at the wicket for 205 minutes. He faced 159 balls. His innings included, eight boundaries. His departure signalled a sudden collapse in the session between lunch and tea. Seven Himachal wickets fell for the addition on only 44 runs and the entire team was bundled out for 152. Vineet Jain returned with an impressive bowling analysis of 13.4-6-30-4. Feroze Ghyas and Pankaj Thakur took 3 wickets each. Haryana started their second innings immediately after tea. They tested a new pair of openers. Pradeep Jain who is a specialist bowler, opened the innings with Jitender Singh. The experiment did not work and Pradeep was bowled by Shakti Singh when the batsman had made 9 runs. Jitender and Parinder played 10 overs together before Jitender was dismissed by Rahul Panta at an individual score of 15 runs. When the scoreboard read 62, Amarjeet Kaypee returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs. He plumbed lbw to Shakti Singh. Before draw of stumps today, Parinder Sharma and Rajesh Puri had added 60 runs in an unfinished partnership for the fourth wicket. Both of them added runs at a fairly brisk rate. They put on 50 runs in just 30 minutes off 42 balls. SCOREBOARD Haryana (Ist innings): 222. Himachal Pradesh (Ist innings): Nischal Gaur c Ajay Ratra b Feroze Ghyas 50, Sandeep Moudgil b Vineet Jain 3, Satya Prakash c Parinder Sharma b Pankaj Thakur 14, Rajeev Nayyar c Rajesh Puri b Feroze Ghyas 31, Yashwinder b Feroze Ghyas 18, Sangram Singh c Ajay Ratra b Vineet Jain 15, Jaswant Rai lbw Pankaj Thakur 3, Arun Verma b Pankaj Thakur 0, Rahul Panta c Pankaj Thakur b Vineet Jain 5, Shakti Singh b Vineet Jain 0, Praveen Sharma not out 1. Extras (B-6, LB-4, NB-2) 12. Total (all out in 68.4 overs) 152. Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-32, 3-108, 4-113, 5-126, 6-143, 7-143, 8-145, 9-145. Bowling: Vineet Jain 13.4-6-30-4, Feroze Ghyas 16-3-49-3, Pankaj Thakur 19-9-35-3, Parinder Sharma 4-3-5-0, Pradeep Jain 11-5-13-0, Sanjay Balwan 5-1-10-1. Haryana: (2nd innings): Jitender Singh b Rahul Panta 15, Pradeep Jain b Shakti Singh 9, Parinder Sharma batting 26, Amarjeet Kaypee lbw Shakti Singh 11, Rajesh Puri batting 41. Extras (B-19, LB-0, NB-1) 20 Total (for 3 in 31 overs) 122. Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-43, 3-62. Bowling: Shakti Singh
14-1-41-2, Praveen Sharma 6-2-18-0 (1 NB), Jaswant Rai
3-1-6-0, Rahul Panta 8-1-38-1. |
Punjab boys make winning start CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 —Punjab, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu boys and Andhra Pradesh girls made a winning start in the 26th national Sub Junior Basketball Championship which got underway at Indoor Stadium, Sri Anandpur Sahib, this afternoon. Forty teams are participating in both boys and girls section. The championship is being conducted on league-cum-knock out basis. Earlier, Mr G.S. Grewal, Deputy Commissioner, Ropar, formally inaugurated the championship after a brief but impressive colourful opening ceremony. In the opening game, Punjab boys defeated Chandigarh 48-12 after leading 36-7 at the breather. For the hosts Tejpreet (13), Prabhjot (eight) and Yadwinder (six) were the main scorers. For the losers, Hardeep (six) was the top scorer. Defending champions Pondicherry also made a flying start defeating Assam 57-47 in an absorbing game. Pondicherry led 15-13 at the lemon break. For winners, Amit (23) was the top scorer. He was ably assisted by Gnanval (14 points). For Assam, Tapan Das (8) and Anand (10) were the main scorers. In the third match of boys section, Tamil Nadu overcame spirited Tripura 62-41 after leading 26-19 at the breather. Shankar and Kumar (11 points each) masterminded Tamil Nadu's win with some good scoring while for Tripura, Raju scored 18 points. In the girls section,
Andhra Pradesh defeated Rajasthan 26-12 in the first
match of the championship. |
Punjab Police annex title JALANDHAR, Nov 14 — Punjab Police defeated Indian Bank, Tamil Nadu, by a margin of 21 points in the final of the 16th Federation Cup Basketball Championship, which concluded here at P.A.P. Complex, Jalandhar cantonment, today. Indian Railways proved their supremacy in women’s version. Punjab team leading by just four points at half-time, put up a grand fight with full court man-to-man marking and returned triumphant in an exciting 80-59 victory. International Parminder Singh played the pivotal role for the winning side, displaying shooting ability from all angles of the court besides blocking “Sunny” — dangerman of Indian Bank. Parminder alone scored 25 points for the winners. Ganesh contributed a valuable 19 points followed by Gursharan Jeet Singh (16) and Mandeep Singh (15 points). The score was 35-31 in favour of Punjab till half-time. In the second half also Punjab police maintained the pressure. Their performance in the second half was much better than the first half. On the other hand Indian Bank failed to improve. Parminder remained the top scorer again for the winning side. For the Tamil Nadu team Jaikishan earned 17 points, while Sunny scored 20 points and Sarwan contributed 15 points. The Army team settled at number three as they defeated Railways by 77-66. The winners were trailing by 33-43 till the halftime. In the women’s section Indian Railways proved their supremacy by winning all matches in the league phase and later lifting the title. In their last match of league phase Railways beat Kerala 53-20 in a one-sided match. The winners were leading by 31-16 till the half-time. MP beat Punjab 56-55 to finish third. The score was 33-31 in favour of Punjab till the breather. For Madhya Pradesh Poonam earned 22 points and Savita contributed 20 points. For the losing side Kiran (17 points) and Vandana (8 points) were the main scorers Mr Sarabjit Singh, DGP,
Punjab gave away the prizes. |
Biggest Test win for S. Africa HARARE, Nov 14 (Reuters) — South Africa stormed to their biggest Test win when they beat Zimbabwe by an innings and 219 runs with more than a day to spare today. Their previous biggest winning margin was by an innings and 208 runs against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 1993-94. By contrast, it was Zimbabwe’s worst Test defeat, their first innings defeat on home soil and followed South Africa’s innings victory in the first Test in Bloemfontein. Zimbabwe, in search of 360 to make South Africa bat again, were bundled out for 141 midway through the afternoon session on the fourth day. They had scored only 102 in their first innings. South African captain Hansie Cronje declared at the overnight score of 462 for nine and Zimbabwe’s slide to defeat began with the second ball of the day, a sharply swinging delivery from Allan Donald which pitched on off stump and uprooted Grant Flower’s leg stump. Zimbabwe (1st innings ) 102 South Africa (1st innings) (overnight 462-9). A Bacher c A Flower b Strang 8 B Dippenaar c Johnson b Olonga 33 J Kallis lbw b Strang 115 D Cullinan c A Flower b Strang 0 H Cronje c Rennie b Olonga 58 M Boucher c Goodwin b Gripper 125 J Rhodes c G Flower b Mbangwa 4 L Klusener c Olonga b Mbangwa 25 S Pollock c Campbell b Olonga 61 A Donald not out 17 P Adams not out 3 Extras (lb-3 nb-10) 13 Total (for 9 wkts dec) 462 Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-96, 3-105, 4-205, 5-230, 6-237, 7-281, 8-429, 9-451. Bowling: Olonga 33-7-107-3 (nb-4), Strang 38-10-92-3 (nb-5), Mbangwa 28-6-91-2, Whittall 27-8-78-0 (nb-1), G. Flower 18-3-52-0, Goodwin 2-0-11-0, Gripper 8-1-28-1. Zimbabwe (2nd innings) Flower b Donald 0 Gripper c Kallis b Cronje 18 Goodwin lbw b Pollock 7 Johnson c Boucher b Klusener 9 A Flower b Donald 14 Campbell c Rhodes b Adams 25 Rennie c Donald b Adams 34 Whittall c Dippenaar b Pollock 17 Strang lbw b Pollock 0 Olonga not out 4 Mbangwa lbw b Adams 3 Extras (lb-4 nb-4 w-2) 10 Total (all out 50.5 overs) 141 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-17, 3-33, 4-37, 5-73, 6-83, 7-128, 8-128, 9-132. Bowling: Donald 9-2-25-2
(w-1), Pollock 16-9-23-3, Klusener 9-1-29-1 (w-1 nb-3),
Cronje 6-1-20-1, Adams 10.5-0-40-3 (nb-1). |
Denmark, England set to qualify PARIS, Nov 14 (AFP) — Former champions Denmark are virtually through, England are also likely to earn their ticket and little Slovenia are dreaming of qualification following the first leg of the Euro 2000 play-offs. England’s 2-0 victory at Hampden Park yesterday against arch rivals Scotland was thanks to goals from one man, Manchester United’s Paul Scholes. Denmark had a handful following their 5-0 goal spree in Ramat Gan leaving Wednesday’s Copenhagen return surely a mere formality. Slovenia’s Milenko Acimovic hit a 50-metre lob to earn a 2-1 win for Slovenia over top European side Ukraine to give the former Yugoslavian state a chance in a finely-balanced second leg in Kyiv. Turkey, whose side travelled to the Republic of Ireland despite recent earthquakes, earned a 1-1 draw to take back for their home leg. Tayfur Havutcu converted from the spot late on after Lee Carsley was penalised for a handball to cancel out Robbie Keane’s opener for the Republic. Scholes shattered Scotland with two first-half strikes. The red-headed forward sidefooted the first after 21 minutes and headed the second three minutes before the interval to decide a hotly-anticipated match which had brought the two nations to a virtual standstill. Scotland had plenty of possession and squandered chances to score after both Scholes’ goals but in the end their best effort was a Billy Dodds shot which bounced off the underside of the bar at the end of the first half. Kevin Keegan’s side now have a decisive advantage for the return leg at Wembley on Wednesday, with the aggregate winners earning a place in next year’s finals in the Netherlands and Belgium. Meanwhile, the 43,000 spectators at the Ramat Gan stadium saw a comprehensive display of attacking football by Denmark culminating in goals for Jon Dahl Tomasson (2), Stig Tofting, Martin Jorgensen and finally Brian Steen Nielsen. Israel’s Haim Revivo was sent off in the 58th minute for a reckless challenge when the home side were two goals adrift. Denmark will not have forgotten the last time they qualified after being group runners-up. In 1992, they replaced Yugoslavia because of the war in the Balkans and became surprising yet popular winners. Tomasson put the
visitors into a comfortable lead at the break, scoring in
the second and 35th minutes. |
Stage set for school games CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — Moga is ready to host the National School Games for boys and girls in different age groups in volleyball, kabaddi, handball, cricket and skating from November 16 to 21. The sixth discipline — swimming —will be conducted at NIS, Patiala on the above dates. According to Mr P.S. Chhabra, who is Punjab Sports Organiser (Schools) with DPI (Schools) Punjab, more than 2500 participants drawn from entire Indian schools would converge to this historic city of Moga and more than 1000 swimmers to Patiala. The matches in — volleyball, kabaddi and handball — will be played at Guru Nanak College grounds. Skating which will have its maiden entry into school sports would include all three events, speed, artistic and roller hockey to be hosted at Town Hall Club (also known as Balbir Singh Stadium). Cricket will be played at DM college grounds. The Punjab Chief
Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal will inaugurate the
six-day meet on November 16 at 1 pm at Moga. |
Nazma, Dilpreet victorious LUDHIANA, Nov 14 — Top seed Nazma Parveen and fourth seeded Dilpreet Singh, both of Ludhiana, emerged victorious among women and men, respectively, in the second Majesty Foods Punjab State Senior Ranking Badminton Tournament which concluded at the Shastri Hall of Guru Nanak Stadium here yesterday. In the final, Dilpreet Singh of Speed Fund Academy here run by Punjab Sports Department, quelled a strong challenge from giant killer Gurmukh Singh, also of Ludhiana, 15-12, 15-10. Gurmukh tried to put up a fight but Dilpreet came away the winner in rallies and played a good game at the net to clinch the issue 15-12, 15-10. In the women’s section, Nazma Parveen a BA II student of local Khalsa College for Women proved too strong for her rival Saloni of Amritsar whom she thrashed 11-5, 11-2 to emerge as winner. Dr S.S. Sandhu,
Commissioner, Corporation, Ludhiana, gave away prizes. |
First innings lead for Services NEW DELHI, Nov 14 (PTI) — Belligerent half-century knocks by skipper Sanjay Verma (74) and C D Thomson (74), and their 142-run sixth wicket partnership helped Services notch up 262 for eight and take a vital 41-run first innings lead against Jammu and Kashmir on the second day of the four-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league match here today. Resuming at overnight score of 20 for three, Services lost Sachin Kulkarni without adding any runs to the score when seamer Surinder Singh rattled Kulkarni’s stumps to give Jammu and Kashmir an early breakthrough. Services, replying to the visitor’s first innings total of 221, got another jolt when S Javed (27) was trapped leg before wicket by off-spinner Ashwani Gupta, leaving them tottering at 54 for 5. Thomson then joined Verma in the middle and both batted sensibly. They kept the scoreboard ticking with small nudges and pushes to pile up 142 runs for the sixth wicket to give some respectability to the total. SCOREBOARD Jammu and Kashmir (1st innings) 221 Services (1st innings): Narinder Singh b Vijay Sharma 16, S Javed lbw Ashwani Gupta 27, Sarabjit Singh run out 0, Pankaj Maitrey lbw Vijay Sharma 2, Sachin Kulkarni b Surinder Singh 0, Sanjay Verma c D Mahajan b Kavaljeet 74, C D Thomson lbw Surinder Singh 74, Amit Nadkarni c S Sharma b Surinder Singh 12, G S Thapa not out 12, M V Rao not out 19. Extras 26 Total (for 8 wickets in 98 overs) 262 Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-17, 3-20, 4-22, 5-54, 6-196, 7-211, 8-242. Bowling: Surinder Singh
22-3-67-3, Vijay Sharma 12-1-45-2, Sanjay Sharma
14-4-36-0, Ashwani Gupta 25.4-6-54-1, Pradeep Bali
12-1-24-0, Dhruv Mahajan 3-0-8-0, Kavaljeet Singh
9.2-2-10-1. |
MDU wrestlers bag top
honours CHANDIGARH, Nov 14— Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, bagged the overall first position in the All India Inter University Wrestling Championship which concluded at Panjab University Gymnasium Hall here yesterday. They secured 15 point followed by Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, who got second place with 11 points. PU Chandigarh, Punjabi University, Patiala, and Meerut University, Meerut, collected six points each. In the final matches,
the gold medal winners include Satish of KU, Kurukshetra,
in 58 kg, Ramesh also of KU in 69 kg, Sajjan Pal of MDU,
Rohtak, in 85 kg and Palvinder Singh of Punjabi, Patiala,
in above 97 kg section. |
Jeev finishes on 17th position TAIPEI, Nov 14 (UNI) — Jeev Milkha Singh ended the $ 1.3 million Johnnie Walker Classic in Taiwan in good form firing a two under par 70 to finish in 17th position and pocket around Rs 8 lakh for his efforts. The other Indian in the fray Amandeep Johl scored a 73 to finish 55th in the strong field of European, Australian and Asian tour players. Meanwhile New Zealander
Michael Campbell fired a 70 to record a solid one stroke
victory over Australian Geoff Ogilvy, and two over Emie
Els, three over Vijay Singh and five over Tiger Woods. |
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PU b’minton team Chandigarh, Nov 14 (BOSR) — Amandeep Sekhri of Govt College, Ludhiana, will lead a ten-member Panjab University badminton team which will take part in the All India Inter-University Badminton Tournament to be held at Indore from November 17 to 19. This time North Zone inter varsity badminton had been allotted to GND Varsity Amritsar. But they were unable to host the same. On the basis of being last year’s runner-up at the all-India inter varsity tournament, PU got the invitation to participate directly by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) . The team is: men: Amandeep Sekhri (Govt College, Ldh), Tauseef Ahmed( GC, Ldh), Vivek Sharma( DAVC-10, Chd), Deepak Sidhu (DAVC-10), Gurdev Singh (DAVC-10) and Ashish Sharma (SDC-32, Chd) . Women: Bhavna Sharma (PUC, Chd) 1, Preetika and Smritika (both MCM DAV-36, Chd) and Nirmal Kaur (GCG-11, Chd). Modi College champs PATIALA, Nov 14 (FOSR) — M.M. Modi College bagged the first position in the men’s section of the Punjabi University Inter-College Cycling Championships which concluded at the university velodrome here today. Government Mahindra College clinched the second spot while SRRM College, Bhagoo Majra, stood third in the overall placings. In the women’s section Government Girls College stole the honours clinching the first spot while Bikram College and Government Medical College bagged the second and third positions respectively. Gymnastics meet CHANDIGARH, Nov 14
(BOSR) — The Punjab Gymnastics Association will hold
the Punjab State Junior and Senior Gymnastics
Championship at Amritsar from December 3 to 5, according
to a press note of the association. |
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