Saturday, October 23, 1999
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Vishal emerges sole
leader
Chandigarh girls beaten in final Inter-engg colleges meet results Seven countries opt out Moya, Kafelnikov for Gold Flake
Open Rohan, Meeta sail into semifinals |
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Cairns leads New Zealand’s fightback KANPUR, Oct 22 (PTI) — Indian bowlers led by pace spearhead Javagal Srinath rattled the Kiwis to negate their advantage of winning the toss, but a stubborn middle order led by all-rounder Chris Cairns enabled the visitors to fight back and post a modest 217 for seven at stumps on the opening day of the second Test match here today.The 30-year-old Srinath rocked the Kiwi top order in the morning to leave them tottering at 54 for 4 at lunch, but the Indian inability to fully drive home the advantage was evident as New Zealand recovered considerably in the next two sessions at the Green Park. The burly Cairns was unbeaten on 42 at stumps along with Dion Nash (batting 19) as the eighth wicket pair raised 45 runs off the spin trio of Anil Kumble, Sunil Joshi and Harbhajan Singh. The spinner looked frustrated despite bowling a tight line on a helpful track. Srinath, who clean bowled rival skipper Stephen Fleming to hoist his 150th Test scalp and finish with 3/44 on an unresponsive track, bowled with fire while Kumble, who sent down as many as 30 overs, finished the day with 2/66 with the Indians hoping to wrap up the Kiwi innings early tomorrow. Cairns, who walked in with New Zealand in dire straits at 130 for six, mixed caution with aggression in a near two and a half hour stay (108 balls, 5x4, 2x6) and with Nash defied the Indian attack for well over an hour. The bone dry pitch, which is already showing firm signs of helping the spinners to the utmost, was exploited to some extent by the slow bowlers, but a crucial 62-run sixth wicket stand between Nathan Astle (39) and Craig McMillan (34) in the afternoon followed by Adam Parore’s knock (35) prevented India from wiping out the lower order. The Kiwis added 87 runs in the post-lunch session and 76 from 32 overs in the final two hours for the loss of three wickets. Fleming won the crucial toss in the morning and promptly chose to bat first on a wicket of low bounce that rapidly showed signs of helping the spinners with both teams including an extra spinner at the expense of a medium-pacer. But it was the Indian pacemen who struck telling blows to leave the Kiwis gasping at 50 for four in the morning session before a fighting 62-run fifth wicket partnership between Nathan Astle (39 — 117 m, 85 b, 5x4) and Craig McMillan (34 — 78 m, 66 b, 4x4) enabled the visitors to stage a mini fightback in the afternoon. Srinath, having to plough a lone furrow as his regular new ball partner Venkatesh Prasad was omitted to include off-spinner Harbhajan Singh in a defensive move by the Indian team management, bowled splendidly to extract enough from the unresponsive pitch to harry the Kiwi batsmen. Saurav Ganguly, sharing the new ball, provided the initial breakthrough when he had opener Matt Horne caught behind by M.S.K. Prasad for five in the very fourth over of the day. Matt Bell, who had done little of note on this tour, along with Craig Spearman added 26 runs in a 42-minute stand but Anil Kumble, introduced in the 10th over of the morning, removed the latter to a tame bat-pad catch at forward shortleg. But it was Srinath, gaining a little bounce from the pitch, who struck telling blows immediately after coming on for his second spell of the morning to wreck the top order. The tall paceman, who had a fine match haul of eight for 108 in the first Test at Mohali, beat and bowled Fleming with an absolute beauty that swung into the left-hander as he went for an ambitious drive, to remove the batsman for the fifth time in eight Tests. The wicket also hoisted Srinath, playing his 40th match, into the 150 club of Indian bowlers, becoming the ninth to achieve the distinction. He celebrated it up by having Bell leg before as the batsman failed to offer a shot to a late inswinger. The dream second spell read 3-1-9-2. But both Astle and MacMillan showed their defiance by steadily accumulating runs into the afternoon session, which saw the Kiwis gather a healthy 87 from 32 overs after the snail’s pace at which they batted in the morning. The spin trio of Kumble,
Joshi and Harbhajan could not really shackle the pair as
they added 62 runs for the fifth wicket to give the score
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SHARJAH, Oct 23 (UNI) — Saeed Anwar and Inzamam-ul-Haq scored half centuries to rescue Pakistan amid a batting collapse, and put up 211 for nine in their allotted 50 overs against Sri Lanka in the final of the three-nation Coca Cola Trophy Cricket Tournament here today.In the slog overs, skipper Wasim Akram struck a quickfire 30 off 26 balls. The Sri Lankans kept Pakistan in check until the 40th over before Akram went on the rampage. Leg-spinner Upul Chandana did a commendable job for the Lankans, claiming big wickets of Anwar, Yousuf Youhanna and Hasan Raza. He also brilliantly ran out Moin Khan when the Pakistani wicket-keeper looked settling for a decent innings. Anwar made 53 while Inzamum scored 54 and the two were involved in a 71-run partnership for the 3rd wicket. For the fifth successive
match in the tournament, Pakistani skipper Wasim Akram
won the toss today and elected to bat first. |
Punjab-HP
one-dayer today SAS Nagar, Oct 22 — Last year's zonal champions Punjab clash with Himachal Pradesh in the North Zone Ranji Trophy one-day match at the Punjab Cricket Association's stadium here tomorrow. The hosts with skipper Vikram Rathore and veteran Navjot Sidhu both having represented the country and promising youngsters like Reetinder Sodhi and Yuvraj Singh will only be too keen to maintain their superb record against the rivals deemed not too strong in the championship. In the six one-dayers that the two teams have played so far, Punjab have emerged winners on all but one occasion. The lone victory the Himachal Pradesh team earned was in Mandi when they registered a two-wicket victory last year. Punjab team will take the field without two of their bowlers --medium fast bowler Harvinder Singh and young off-spinner Harvinder Singh.The former, who shared the new ball with Orissa's Debashish Mohanty for India in the Toronto tournament against arch rivals Pakistan not long back, has shifted to the Railways, while the latter is doing duty for India in the second Test match against the New Zealand currently in progress at Kanpur. Himachal will expect that their new-comers like Satya Prakash, Anil Pal Dass and Anurag Sharma as well as regulars like skipper Rajeev Nayyar, Nischal Gaur, Jaswant Rai, Shakti Singh and diminutive left-arm medium pacer Parveen Sharma to come good against their formidable rivals. After the tomorrow's battle the two teams will renew their rivalry in the four-day game without any break. Teams (from): Punjab:Vikram Rathore(captain), Navjot Sidhu,Sandeep Sharma, Pankaj Dharmani, Dinesh Mongia,Reetinder Sodhi, Amit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Sanjay Mahajan, Navdeep Singh,Sarandeep Singh, Sandeep Sawal, Rakesh Saini,Harminder Jugnu and Rupinderpal Singh. Himachal Pradesh:Rajeev
Nayyar(captain), Jaswant Rai, Rahul Panta, Parveen
Sharma,Nischal Gaur,Shakti Singh, Ajay Roy, Satya
Prakash, Ravinder, Anurag Sharma, Arun Verma, Ajay
Bhardwaj, Sangram Singh, Anil Pal Dass and Yashvinder
Singh. |
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MUMBAI, Oct 22 (UNI) — Mr A.C Muttiah, new President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), will be visiting the BCCI headquarters here tomorrow, the board’s executive secretary Sharad Diwadkar said. This is the first official visit of Dr Muttiah to the BCCI headquarters after taking over the reins last month. Dr Muttiah was chosen as
President at the BCCI annual general body meeting held at
Jaipur on September 21 and 22. He replaced Mr Raj Singh
Dungarpur. |
Vishal
emerges sole leader FARIDABAD, Oct 22 — Vishal Singh set the course ablaze with a fine six-under 66, to take lead at nine-under 135 after the second-round of the Rs 6 lakh Shell Aravalli Open, being played at the par-72, 6,945-yard Aravalli Golf Club course here today. At joint second, three strokes behind with six-under 138 were brothers Feroz and Rafiq Ali Jaipur-based pro Vishal Singh played a superb round of golf carding as many as seven birdies. After paring the first two holes, Vishal who carded three-under 69 yesterday, posted a hat-trick of birdies these coming on the 3rd, 4th, where his 10 feet putt was set up by a fine 7-Iron shot and the 5th. A bogey on the 7th, did little to dampen his confidence as the golfer did his sponsors Samodh Palace proud by scoring back-to-back birdies on the 8th and 9th and then again on the 16th and 17th. “My putting helped me score better today” said Vishal who tallied 24 putts today. “Now, I feel I can win” he added. Rafiq Ali carried on from where he had left off yesterday, taking off with a fine birdie on the 1st a hat-trick of birdies on the 5th, 6th and 7th, placed the Calcutta-based pro at four-under before making the turn. A solitary bogey on his return journey, where he two-putted from three feet, saw him end the day at three-under 69, a score identical to his first round score. “ I delayed a bit while eating breakfast and was forced to rush through my back nine” said Rafiq, who’s second-half included missed 2ft, 4ft and 6ft birdie putts on the 13, 14th and 16th holes respectively. “Had I played at my normal pace, I am certain I would have carded at least six-under,” he added. Overnight joint leader Feroz Ali was inconsolable at the end of his round. Playing his front-nine to one-under, with a birdie on the 7th, the ’98 Indian Open winner was all set to further consolidate his position, when his ball got wedged in a 3 feet footmark on a bunker on the 12th. Losing confidence and form therefrom the current leader on the Mahindra Order of Merit, dropped shots on the 13th and 16th, before finishing one-over 73 with a birdie on the 18th. Rookie Amit Dube in a repeat performance of his opening round carded two-under 70. Dube sank in an eagle on the 3th preceded his second bogey of the day on the 11th to place him at four-under 140 after two days. Mukesh Kumar was placed joint fifth with Harmeet Kahlon at three-under 141. While Mukesh carded two-under 70, yesterday’s second placed Kahlon carded one-over 73. Overnight joint leader Mohd Maqbool carded a triple bogey on the 7th, bogeys on the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 17th, a double bogey on the 18th with a lone birdie on the 16th, to finish eight-over 80 and one-over 145 after two days. Ali Sher carded three-under 69, to tally one-under 143 after two-day. G.S. Parmar at 159 led the amateur field. Parmar carded 80 for the day. At the second spot with 162, was Gaurav Kathuria. Scores: 135 - Vishal Singh (69,66); 138 Feroz Ali (65,73), Rafiq Ali
(69,69); 140 Amit Dube (70,70); 141 Harmeet Kahlon
(68,73), Mukesh Kumar (71,70); 142 Samim Khan (71,71) 143
Shiv Shankar Prasad chowrasia (71,72), Basad Ali (69,74),
Shiv Prakash (72,71), Ali Sher (74,69); 145 Mohd Maqbool
(65,80) Amateurs: 159 G S Parmar (79,80); 162 Gaurav
Kathuria (83,79); 163 Vijay Kumar (79,84); 164 J.J.
Desaram (86,78). |
AIFF releases list of probables CALCUTTA, Oct 22 (PTI) — The All-India Football Federation (AIFF) yesterday released a list of 26 probables for the ensuing Asian Cup Football Championship to be held in Abu Dhabi. Star striker Bruno Coutinho, Raman Vijayan and medio Noel Wilson, who were in the Indian squad for the eighth SAF games in Kathmandu, have been dropped from the list of probables. However, most of the other players who did duty in the SAF games have been retained in the list. The list comprised four goalkeepers, eight defenders, eight midfielders and six forwards, according to an AIFF release issued here. The final team will be announced later. The players will attend a training camp at Patiala starting October 26 under the supervision of chief coach Sukhwinder Singh. Former India captain Carlton Chapman, who was omitted from the SAF games team due to poor form, could not find a place in the list of probables. Bengal striker Dipendu Biswas who was not picked for the Kathmandu meet, has been included. Star striker Bhaichung Bhutia, who is currently playing for the second division English Club Bury FC, will again not be available for the country as his name does not figure in the list. Following is the list of probables : Goalkeepers : Virender Singh (WIFA), Kalyan Choubey (WIFA), Prashanta Dora (IFA) and Sangram Mukherjee (IFA). Defenders : Dhanesh k v (Kerala), Mahesh Gawli (Kerala), Deepak Mondal (Punjab), Daljit Singh (Punjab), Roberto Fernandes (Goa), Riaz-ul-Mustafa (IFA), Ratan Singh (IFA), Falguni Dutta (IFA). Midfielders : Jules Alberto (Goa), Ranjan Dey (IFA), Basudev Mondal (IFA), Renedy Singh (IFA), Hardip Sangha (Punjab), Rocky Barreto (Goa), Jo Paul Ancheri (Kerala), Venkatesh (Goa). Forwards : I m Vijayan
(Kerala), Mohammed Najib (WIFA), Sabir Pasha (Tamil
Nadu), Dipendu Biswas (IFA), Alvito d’cunha (Goa),
Bijen Singh (IFA). |
HP vintage
car, motor cycle rally CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — The CII and Chandigarh Motor Sports Association (CMSA) will hold the H.P. Vintage Classic Car and Motor Cycle Rally on October 30. The event will be flagged off from CII Building, Sector 31, and will pass through various sectors to reach North Park for lunch and will once again re-enter Chandigarh to culminate at the Lake Club with one speed section on the lake road. This will be approximately 42 km. The event has attracted entries from Jaipur, Indore, Lucknow, Delhi, Dehradun, Karnal and Patiala besides more than a dozen cars and motorcycles from Chandigarh. Competitions will be held in different sections. Car Section: Oldest vehicle to complete in the rally, best performance, best maintenance, best performance by lady driver, longest distance travelled to join and complete the rally, most elegant car, best couple in costume. Motor Cycle section: Oldest motor cycle to complete the rally, best performance, best maintenance, best restored, most elegant motor cycle. Entries may be sent to
Mr S.P.S. Garcha, 116/10-A, Chandigarh, or CII Building,
Sector 31.
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Chandigarh girls beaten in final NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (PTI) — Government Girls High School, Ranchi, thrashed favourites Ishwar Singh Dev Samaj Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, 4-0 to lift the Sixth Nehru Girls (under-17) Hockey Cup here today. The powerful Ranchi outfit who dominated throughout the final opened the account when its centre forward Sushma Kiran Minj fielded in the 22nd minute. Unlike their previous games, Chandigarh today began with a defensive approach which cost them dearly as it lost ground due to complacency at the start. Combining speed, skill and energy, the Bihar team consolidated the lead when Prem Sheila Kujur converted a penalty corner in the 37th minute. Minj, who was adjudged ‘Geeta Bajaj best player of the tournament’, again found nets from the edge of ‘D’ in the 42nd minute. Skipper Anita Ekka provided able support in the frontline, striking a pass from Guddi Kumari into the nets in the 58th minute. The Bihar outfit was in its element as it not only displayed a brilliant combination of aggression and skill but also scored which their Chandigarh counterparts could not. Chandigarh’s star
campaigner, Prakash Chaudhary, was not able to capitalise
on good moves as she found almost no support from
teammates inside the rival penalty area. |
Inter-engg
colleges meet results JALANDHAR, Oct 22 — In the Punjab Technical University Inter Engineering College Badminton Championship at the local Raizada Hans Raj Stadium, the fight for the prestigious S. Maghar Singh Kalsi Memorial Punjab Technical University running trophy had an exciting finish. In the men’s section reigning champions Regional Engg College, Jalandhar, seemed almost invincible against Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology, Moga. The REC duo of Harmandeep Singh and Nitin Rana, both national-level players, continued their unbeaten run in the championship with defeating the respective rivals to clinch the trophy 2-0. In the women’s section Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana had to face stiff challenge from Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar, Harmeet Kaur of Guru Nanak Dev Engg College, Ludhiana, had a tough time against a determined Sampda from REC Jalandhar. The deciding doubles match witnessed a keen fight until Sampda sprained her ankle and unfortunately REC had to concede the match to GNE Ludhiana, who won the match by 2-1. Results (all finals) men: REC, Jalandhar b LLRIET, Moga, by 2-0. For third place SBSCET Ferozepore b GTBKIET, Malout, by 2-1. Women: GNDEC, Ludhiana b
REC, Jalandhar by 2-1. For third place GZSCET, Bathinda b
SLIET Longowal, by 2-0 |
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NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (UNI) — Seven out of the 10 participating countries including defending champions South Korea, Malaysia and India have expressed their inability to play in the Asia Cup in Lahore next month, according to Indian Hockey Federation Secretary K. Jothikumaran. “We received a circular from the AHF yesterday in which seven out of the 10 countries have said they were not prepared to go to Lahore in view of the political situation there. They were, however, ready to play, outside Pakistan,” Jothikumaran told Sports Time, TWI’s daily sports news programme on DD’s news channel. “They cannot organise it, the decision will be made official in couple of days,” the IHF Secretary said. The Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) has also sent a one-line questionnaire to its members other than the participating countries about its views on holding the Asia Cup in Lahore which is aimed at the members of the tournament committee. Mr Jothikumaran said that India would consider holding the tournament if the AHF requested the federation. “If we are offered and if all the participants are willing, there’s no problem. At this point, we cannot decide, it is up to the AHF. We had offered right at the beginning, but the tournament was awarded to Lahore,” he said. The IHF Secretary also expressed concern about the safety of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) President Akhtar Rasool who has been detained by the army regime which deposed the Muslim League government last week. Meanwhile, PHF Secretary Col Mudassar Asghar, has slammed the AHF for its move to seek availability of the teams for the Asia Cup through a questionnaire. “It’s uncalled for, they have done a wrong thing. When we have pledged every kind of security, then they should not have done this. We have already expressed our grievances to the AHF,” Col Mudassar told Sports Time on phone from Lahore. Colonel Mudassar asserted that there was no problem in Pakistan and that “things are as peaceful as before.” “In fact, we are having an international squash tournament in Lahore in which some top players from Australia are playing. We will provide every kind of security to the players, we are ready to hold the Asia Cup,” Colonel Mudassar said. The PHF Secretary said that his president was safe. “No body from the past government has any problem yet, only a handful of them who were involved in the incidents leading up to the military rule. There are so many Muslim League leaders in Pakistan, they have no problem. “The same holds good for Mr Rasool,” Colonel Mudassar said. The PHF Secretary
expressed the hope that the annual Indo-Pak hockey series
will not be affected in view of the recent developments
and the skirmishes at the border. |
Moya, Kafelnikov for Gold Flake Open CHENNAI, Oct 22 (PTI) — Former world No. 1 Spaniard Carlos Moya, whose maiden bid to clinch the Chennai ATP Gold Flake Open tennis title last April failed due to an injury, will be making yet another attempt in next year’s edition. Moya, the star attraction this year, has confirmed his participation in the next edition scheduled from January 3 to 9 here. Currently ranked 15 on the ATP computer, the 1998 French Open champion had pulled out mid-way during his quarter-final match in April against German Rainer Schuttler following an injury to a finger. World No. 2 and
Australian Open champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia has
already confirmed his entry in the tournament, which has
in the past attracted big names like Boris Becker of
Germany, Slovakian Karol Kucera, Pat Rafter (Australia)
and Richard Krajicek (The Netherlands).
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Rohan,
Meeta sail into semifinals MANDI GOBINDGARH, Oct 22 — Top seeds Rohan Kapoor and Meeta Bhandari continued their impressive run of form in the men’s and women’s sections, respectively in the Lakshmi Oversees Punjab State Major Ranking Badminton Championships here today. In the first quarterfinal in the men’s section, Punjab champion Rohan Kapoor easily disposed of Ludhiana’s Iqbal Singh in two straight games 15-3, 15-10, Rohan dominated the proceedings from the world go and was never seriously challenged by the upcoming Iqbal Singh. Ludhiana’s Amandeep Sekhri caused a flutter, when he upset second seed Jai Deep Kohli of Jalandhar in just 20 minutes. Today Amandeep looked a class apart from his opponent. Kohli found Amandeep’s play difficult to cope with. Even the usually strong defence of Jaideep wilted under the barrage of smashes of his arrival. Mohd. Salim of Sangrur and Neeraj Bansal of Jalandhar also moved to the semifinals, defeating Gagandeep Ratti of Jalandhar and Harinder Singh of Patiala, respectively. There were no surprises
in ladies singles quarterfinals as the no. I and No. 2
seeds both advanced through to semifinals courtesy of
easy wins over their compatriots. Meeta Bhandari of
Patiala top seeded, easily disposed of Navneet Kaur of
Hoshiarpur 11-2, 11-0, While second seed Yogita Sharma,
also from Patiala, had no difficulty in thrashing
Kamaljeet Kaur of Hoshiarpur 11-2, 11-3.
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Wrestling
meet CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — GGD SD College, Sector 32, emerged winners in the Panjab University Inter-College Wrestling Championship by grabbing 29 points, DAV College, Sector 10 securing second position, JC DAV College, Dasuya got third position, while Malwa College Bondli-Samrala finished fourth. |
Archery trials CHANDIGARH, Oct 22 — Haryana Archery Association will hold trials to select the state team on October 29 at Kurukshetra Sports Complex, Kurukshetra, according to Mr RS Nehra, secretary of the association. The team thus selected will take part in the Senior National Archery Championship to be held at Shillong (Meghalaya) from November 15 to 19. Surender
to lead HISAR, Oct 22 — Surender Singh, a student of College of Agriculture will lead the 12-member Haryana Agricultural University team in the all-India Inter-varsity Kabbadi Tournament (North Zone) to be held at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, from October 24. This was announced by Dean, College of Sports, Haryana Agricultural University here yesterday. Other members are: Vikas
Hooda, Ishwar Jakhal, Jaivir Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Ajay
Kumar, Surender Kharb, Deva Singh, Vijay Singh, Rajesh
Lathar, Mandeep Chahel and Jai Kumar. |
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