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Games come to a close Patiala’s
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PGA
celebrates golf double Indians arrive sans Ganguly
‘Good
opportunity for youngsters’ Helping players give their
best BCCI’s
actions, decisions defy logic New
Zealand batsmen toy with Aussie attack New Zealand's Shane Bond is bowled for a duck by Australia's Brett Lee during the third Test at the WACA Ground in Perth on Saturday. New Zealand declared their first innings at nine wickets for 534 runs. Australia were 75 for 2 at stumps.
— Reuters photo Windies
bowlers fail to dislodge Lanka Vineet
bags five Delhi wickets Haryana
struggle against HP Jeev
tied 88th Sohrab
Punjab Badminton
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National Games come to a
close
Ludhiana, December 1 The Union Ministers — Mr Yashwant Sinha, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Mr P. Radhakrishan — besides the Punjab Governor, Lt-Gen JFR Jacob (retd), and members of the Indian Olympic Association, including its President, Mr Suresh Kalmadi, and the Secretary-General, Mr Randhir Singh, sat through the ceremony which was marred by some confusion and poor sound system and ended with a display of fireworks. Vishal Pandey of Uttar Pradesh and Rameshwari Devi of Manipur were chosen the best athletes in the men’s and women’s sections, respectively, while the organisers probably forgot to present the best turnout trophy to Services. Though Harbhajan Mann, one of top Punjabi folk and pop singer, was a special invitee, his performance was abruptly cut to two numbers to the great disappointment of the sizeable crowd, which again braved thorough strict security rigmaroles to be inside the stadium. Presentations, minus the sound system, were well-coordinated and appealing. The band display was excellent. But in the absence of proper acoustics and sound effect, many in the stands may not have enjoyed this great performance by pipers from both police and defence units. Equally impressive was the mass PT display by recruits of the Police Training Centre at Jahan Khelan. Four hundred and fifty recruits performed slow and difficult exercises to the beat of the drum. A team of 17 mounts and riders from Punjab Police gave a scintillating display of musical rides showing exemplary coordination between the mount and the ride in rhythm with the music. The ceremony started more than 15 minutes behind schedule as the “youth of Punjab”, a contingent of 62 youth dressed in white and pink carrying colourful flags, marched into the stadium. They were followed by placard bearers and flag bearers of the participating states and units. The Andhra Pradesh contingent carried a welcome flag for the 2002 National Games. The Governor, General Jacob, released a copy of the souvenir brought out by the OCNG. Then there were dancing horses from Nawanshahr and Bathinda, who held the crowd amused for a while. Mr Gurbhajan Gill, who had penned down the Games theme song, had a couplet ready befitting the closing ceremony : “Khedan walio zindabad, pher milange Hyderabad” (Well done players, we will meet again at Hyderabad.) The performance by Harbhajan Mann, which started on a promising note, turned sour as the athletes virtually mobbed him at his first number. And after the second number, Mirza, his performance was brought to an abrupt end as he had promised his most popular number “Oye Oye” to be sung at the end. But it was not to be. In between, the sound system broke down. All appeals by the organisers to the athletes and others who had invaded the field to return to their places, yielded no results. Then it was the turn of speeches and rituals, including presentation of trophies, awards and mementos.  |
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Patiala’s warm farewell to
Games Patiala, December 1 A festive atmosphere had enveloped the city since the last few days, after the frentic activity of the beginning two to three days. Players, technical delegates and coaches besides being treated to good old North Indian culinary delights mixed with cuisine from all the other states were also given a dinner reception by local Organising Committee Chairman Jasbir Singh Bir and a civic reception by Municipal Commissioner K.S. Kang in which Bhagwant Mann had them in splits of laughter while Gursewak Mann crooned late into the evening. At the dinner reception technical delegates and coaches from other states were also treated to the ‘’Patiala Peg’’ which they were later told was a famous whisky brand. It was only much later that many of them realised they had imbibed too much of the heady stuff as the ‘Patiala Peg’ means a good old hard drink equivalent to the width of ones four fingers. The Games had both their ups and downs. Vikas Pandey, who is being honoured with the best athlete award of the Games, put up a sizzling display of artistic gymnastics skills to bag seven gold medals. Another feather in Vikas’ as well as the country’s cap was the fact that Vikas tried an exercise capable of fetching him a perfect 10 score in the pommel horse, heralding India’s entry into the international arena in the event for the first time ever. Other notable achievers were Vishal Kumar of Punjab, an eighteen-year-old boy of Patiala, who battled poverty and lack of specialised training to bag a gold in the archery event. Another sterling achievement was that of Bhim Singh, a boxer of Punjab, who defeated an Olympian in the preliminary rounds, to go ahead and win the gold medal in his class. Punjab girls also displayed tremendous grit in kho-kho to win the gold medal in the sport for the first time in the history of the National Games. Among the downs, was the inability of Limba Ram, an erstwhile world champion, who is struggling to get back to form, failing to make the grade in the Olympic round of the archery event. Limba could not achieve his earlier form and was only able to qualify in the first round of 32 before going down tamely later on. Malleshwari’s sister K. Krishnakumari could not emulate her sisters feat bagging a silver in weightlifting. Even more bad news was the serious injury inflicted on Jaspreet Kaur of Chandigarh who received a spinal injury leaving her paralysed from waist down following a rough tackle while playing against the Haryana team. The circle kabaddi competition also saw other players being injured due to rough tackling on which they did not appear to be any stringent control raising a demand amend in the rules. Mediamen covering the National games had access to world class facilities with the local Committee providing computers, internet connectivity, scanners and telecommunication facilities to ensure speedy and efficient news. Scribes were apparently overwhelmed by the excellent facilities provided to them and reciprocated the organisers by presenting mementos to Local Games Chairman Jasbir Singh Bir and Media Committee Chairman Shiv Dular Singh Dhillon. |
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GAMES DIARY Debutants Chhattisgarh had the distinction of lodging maximum number of protests. Though Jharkhand and Uttaranchal also lodged some protests claiming that many of their top athletes have defected to more prosperous states, yet none of these protests reached the Protests Committee set up by the OCNG. “We have received a large number of protests, mainly about domicile issue and eligibility of an athlete to represent one state or the other. But none of these protests could be taken up by the Committee as the protesters did not deposit the prescribed fee with their complaints. As such we did not take any cognizance of them,” remarked Dr D.K. Tandon, Chief Technical Director of the Games. In fact, newly-formed states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttaranchal were to be given only “token entry” in the Games as their state Olympic units are still to be granted full status of a regular member. Chhattisgarh had protested against Punjab for fielding thrower Harwant Kaur. Punjab, on the other hand maintained that she belonged to a village near Patti in Amritsar and was admitted to a Amritsar college as a student also. The IOA guidelines, Dr Tandon, were clear on the issue that any athlete could represent the state to which he or she belonged or the state where he or she was either employed or studying. “There were no protests over the technical conduct of the events,” he added. Yesterday, the Punjab Handball Association had lodged a formal complaint with the police against several men of Services who had invaded the handball court during the final match between Punjab and Services. The Games, otherwise, went off peacefully. The level of competitions was very high. As the IOA President, Mr Suresh Kalmadi remarked, that as many as 54 meet or national records were rewritten during the fortnight-long Games. Though Punjab walked away with the overall trophy, Services gave them a good run for their money. Playing without any woman participant, Services were not very far behind Punjab in the gold medal haul. Against 61 golds by Punjab, Services also crossed the half century mark. There were murmurs of protest over the calculation of points for the overall trophy as many officials of the participating contingents were confusing individual events with team events. If Rameshwari Devi got the best woman athlete award, it was because of her combined performance , both in individual and team events. She won five gold medals, including three in individual events. Punjab’s Rajani also won three gold medals in individual events in gymnastics. |
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PGA celebrates
golf double Chandigarh, November 1 The Punjab Golf Association joined by the proud parents of the winners and other guests celebrated the victory at Hotel G. K. International. Mr
D.P. Azaad, Mr C.S.R. Reddy and Mr J.S. Cheema of the Chandigarh Golf Association were there to congratulate the team and the management. It was a two-year wait of hard work for the Punjab Golf Association, under the stewardship of Mr
S.K. Sharma, president, and other members of the association who had from day one pledged that they would go all out in preparing the team and providing them with all the incentives to ensure that Punjab, the
flag bearer state of sports, is handed over the maiden golf gold medal in the XXXI National Games-2001 in the team as well as individual category. The efforts of Mr Jaskirat
(Jessy) Grewal, the state coach, and Col B.S. Kahlon (retd), General Secretary of the association, are laudable. The winning team was rewarded with a cheque of Rs 51,000 by Mr
S.K. Sharma, President, Punjab Golf Association. Harjinder Kang received Rs 21,000 for his individual achievement and becoming the national golf champion. Mr B.S.
Makkar, Senior Vice-President, said he would bear the expenditure of the gold medal winner for participation at the Nation-International level. |
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Indians arrive sans Ganguly Chandigarh, December 1 Virender Sehwag, in the eye of a storm after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) clashed over the one-match suspension handed down to him by English match referee Mike Denness, accompanied the team after BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya had asked the batsmen to be with the team. The board has now decided that the Indian team will now have 15 members and not 14 as originally announced. Sehwag will sit out for this match in compliance with the ICC directive (he also missed the last Test against South Africa although the match was declared an unofficial Test after the two teams decided to cold-shoulder the match referee) but has been reportedly assured by Dalmiya of a place in the side for the next Test at Ahmedabad. The Indian team, which lost the Test series as well as the one-day tri-series during the tour of South Africa, will be trying hard to erase memories of the tour. But then at home the Indians are nearly invincible as Steve Waugh and his Australian squad learnt earlier this year. The Indian coach John Wright, for whom this series might well turn out to be a do-or-die situation specially with a new dispensation now in control of the BCCI, told mediamen that the young players learnt a lot during the tour of South Africa and he was hopeful that the side would bounce back . He said the tussle between the BCCI and the ICC had no impact on the players. And now that the issue had been solved to the satisfaction of all the best thing is to forget all that has happened and get on with the game. |
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‘Good
opportunity for youngsters’ SAS Nagar, December 1 When asked whether they would succeed in the prevalent conditions he said:"They are good bowlers. If they get it right, they would be effective." Fast medium bowler Matthew Hoggard had done well in the recent couple of tours. Besides, Richard Johnson was also a good prospect, he emphasised. Duncan, however, said that spinner Ashley Giles had yet to recover from wrist injury sustained recently and was an unlikely starter for the Test. He maintained silence when asked if they had chalked out a specific plan to tackle batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, saying that there were other good players like Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble in the squad, implying thereby that the visitors were concentrating more on Indians as a team. He again preferred to keep mum when asked about the strategy for the opening Test. Duncan revealed that they had been watching the performance of the Indian players on videos. About the track for the Test he said the wicket which looked hard and bouncy had a fair
amount of grass on it and it should provide a good contest between the two teams for five days. Indian cricket coach John Wright said that his boys have a lot to learn in fielding and shot selection according to nature of the pitch to
improve their performance. “The players also have to learn more in the area of fielding and running between the wickets,” he said. He said that wicket here looked good though not as green as the strips in South Africa. He declined to comment on the playing eleven. Skipper Sourav Ganguly, who did not arrive with the team, will come tomorrow. Meanwhile, the England team which arrived here yesterday afternoon had a strenuous practice session under the watchful eyes of coach Duncan Fletcher and assistant coach Graham Dilley. Seamers Hoggard and Johnson were going full steam while getting occasional word of advice from Dilley, the fast bowler who made the best of batsmen hurry with his speed when he was at his prime. |
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Helping players give their
best Chandigarh, December 1 Nigel who had earlier travelled with UK cricket team to Kenya, Pakistan, Sri Lanka last winter, said they prefer hot food and before coming here they had already informed the Indian authorities of their liking. Till now, whatever they were getting was good, they hoped to get the same in rest of the days. Stockill said he also remained associated with soccer, rugby and hockey and also with various athletes. Stockill said unless players adhere to strict time management they cannot succeed so it was his job to oversee that players do right thing at right time to yield optimum results. The other person who was the most sought after man was 47-year-old David Clarke who has come with team as media Relations Manager. Clarke was happy to be here in SAS Nagar and said this satellite town of Chandigarh- the city beautiful gives soothing experience for all of them. |
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BCCI’s actions, decisions defy
logic Chandigarh, December 1 Early today the Secretary of the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA), M.P. Pandove, received a telephone call from Mr Niranjan Shah, Secretary of the BCCI, asking whether Punjab player Dinesh Mongia could join the Indian team for the first Test against the touring England team, scheduled to commence at the PCA Stadium at SAS Nagar on Monday, December 3. Mr Shah told Pandove that the national selectors, who had held a telephonic discussion last evening, had decided that Dinesh Mongia would be asked to join the Indian team as the 15th member of the squad. This decision came about after the BCCI President, Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya, had agreed to bury the hatchet with the International Cricket Council over the Virendar Sehwag issue after a lot of hard bargaining. Mr Dalmiya had agreed that Sehwag would not be included in the Indian team for the first Test. However, Sehwag would continue to be a member of the Indian squad. This will enable the Delhi player to get his match allowances and will not suffer any financial loss. But the problem is that Dinesh Mongia is currently playing for Punjab in a North Zone Ranji Trophy tie against Delhi at Amritsar. The match which began on Friday will continue till Monday (the day the Test commences) and therefore if Mongia is to turn out for the national squad he will have to miss the fourth day’s play at Amritsar. And with chances of Punjab having to bat last in the four-day tie the hosts will definitely miss the services of the gritty batsman given the fact that Delhi is one of the tougher teams in North Zone. It is obvious that the BCCI Secretary has no idea of the National Cricket Championship matches being played in different parts of the country nor, it seems, has he tried to find out which player is playing or not playing at the moment. Just in case Mongia is included in the Indian team we might see Punjab losing some vital points in the Ranji Trophy. Punjab might agree to play with 10 players in the ‘‘nation’s cause’’ but will it be sending the right type of message to the various teams.? In any case this is not the first time that the BCCI officials have allowed a player to play more than one match on one day. Very recently Delhi spinner Sharandeep Singh, who was playing for Board President’s XI against the visiting England team at Hyderabad, missed the last day’s play to turn out for his home team Delhi against Jammu and Kashmir in a Ranji Trophy tie. Jammu and Kashmir have lodged an official protest and now it remains to be seen how the BCCI tackles the Dinesh Mongia issue. And here it must be mentioned that the BCCI in the past has come down strongly against players who just failed to travel back home with the other members of the squad after a tour of the West Indies. And now the board itself is throwing all cricketing norms to the winds. For the national selectors the logical choice would have to pick up an experienced new ball bowler in place of Sehwag specially after Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly has gone on record to say that he was not happy with the way the national selectors have picked up three rookie bowlers for the match. The PCA Stadium strip is known to help seamers in the first two days and this time around things will not be very different. Meanwhile, according to an agency Baroda report from Mumbai middle-order batsman Jacob Martin has been drafted into the Indian cricket team for the first Test against England beginning at SAS Nagar on December 3, replacing banned cricketer Virendra Sehwag, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
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New Zealand batsmen toy with Aussie attack Perth, December 1 Nathan Astle (156 not out) and Adam Parore (110) made it a day of abject misery for Australia, unofficial world Test champions, as they propelled the Black Caps to a potentially match-winning first innings total of 534 for nine wickets declared. Australia slipped into even further strife when ace opening batsman Matthew Hayden fell for a duck to speedster Shane Bond and Ricky Ponting (31) was trapped by Chris Martin late in the day. The home country went to stumps with 75 for two wickets, needing another 260 runs to ensure they do not have to follow-on. At the crease were little left-hander Justin Langer (34), who has scored centuries in his past three Tests, and Mark Waugh (five). The third day tomorrow of this engrossing encounter promises to test the mettle of Australia just a couple of weeks before they take on South Africa in a three-Test series in Australia for the unofficial world championship. Astle and Parore fashioned their centuries the day after skipper Stephen Fleming hit 105 and debutant Lou Vincent 104. It was the first time four New Zealand batsmen have topped three figures in the same innings of a Test. And it was only the second time any team had handed out such an indignity to Australia. The first were England in 1938 when Charlie Barnett (126), Eddie Paynter (216 not out), Denis Compton (102) and Len Hutton (100) humiliated the Australian attack in the first Test at Trent Bridge. Astle and Parore applied themselves with gritty determination early in the day after the Kiwis resumed with an insecure 293 for seven wickets. It was only after lunch that they began to punish a tiring attack which, despite its world-beating reputation, wilted under the sustained pressure. The batsmen rarely put a foot wrong as they carved out an eighth-wicket liaison of 253 — the best by New Zealand against any country for that wicket and the second highest eighth-wicket stand in Test history. New Zealand’s previous best for the eighth-wicket was the 137 by Dion Nash and Daniel Vettori against India in Wellington in 1998-99. Astle’s century, occupying almost seven hours, was his seventh and highest in Test company. The fighting right-hander hammered 22 fours and one six. Parore’s hundred was his second at Test level and embraced 14 fours and one mighty six — a huge pull over mid-wicket off champion leg-spinner Shane Warne. Parore held firm for just over five hours. Australia contributed to their difficulties by making unaccustomed blunders in the field. Parore was dropped at 70 and 92, while Astle had a life on 156 — just before Fleming closed the innings. But that was the only blemish by Astle on a day when he was almost completely in charge. SCOREBOARD New Zealand (1st innings): Richardson b Gillespie 9 Vincent c M Waugh b Warne 104 Sinclair lbw b McGrath 2 Fleming lbw b Lee 105 Astle not out 156 McMillan lbw b Gillespi 4 Vettori c Martyn b Gillespie 2 Cairns c Gilchrist b Lee 8 Parore c McGrath b Lee 110 Bond b Lee 0 Extras (lb-15, b-4, w-2, nb-13) 34 Total (9 wkts decl., 162.5 overs) 534 Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-19, 3-218, 4-264, 5-269, 6-272, 7-281, 8-534, 9-534. Bowling: McGrath 27-11-72-1, Gillespie 40-7-112-3, b Lee 32.5-5-125-4, Warne 43-9-135-1, Martyn 10-0-44-0, M. Waugh 6-1-26-0, R. Ponting 4-3-1-0. Australia (1st innings): Langer batting 34 Hayden c Vincent b Bond 0 Ponting c Parore b Martin 31 M. Waugh batting 5 Extras (b-1, nb-4) 5 Total (for 2 wkts, 15 overs) 75 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-61. Bowling: C. Cairns 6-1-26-0, S. Bond 3-0-21-1, C. Martin 4-0-21-1, D. Vettori 2-0-6-0.
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Windies bowlers
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Colombo, December 1 Sri Lanka, leading the series 2-0, had piled up 477 for five wickets at the close in reply to the West Indies first innings total of 390. Tillakaratne, in his 100 Test innings, limped his way to an unbeaten career best of 143 and was well supported by Russel Arnold (65) and Tilan Samaraweera (68 not out). The left-hander, handicapped by a hamstring injury, produced a chanceless display of batting on a benign pitch as he overtook his previous Test best of 136, made against India at the same venue three months ago. It was his fourth hundred in seven Tests since his comeback to international cricket four months ago and in four innings in the current series he has been dismissed only once in accumulating 362 runs. He has so far occupied the crease for 358 minutes and faced 231 balls. Tillakaratne completed his second century of the series in style by straight driving Marlon Black for his 14th four shortly before the tea break. Tillakaratne anchored the batting, sharing in stands of 141 with Arnold and an unbroken 132 with Samaraweera. Arnold, without a fifty in his last 11 Test innings, finally reached it in 174 minutes off 106 balls with four fours. But having moved on to 65 he provided Carl Hooper with his 100th Test wicket, getting a thick edge on a cut to be caught behind by wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs. Samaraweera continued his run of success, completing his third test fifty in 156 minutes off 161 balls with three fours. The West Indies had limited success during the day. They captured a wicket in each of the first two sessions, but were denied any in the final when Tillakaratne and Samaraweera stamped their authority on the bowling. Scoreboard West Indies (Ist innings): 390 Sri Lanka (Ist innings): (overnight 193-3) Atapattu c Gayle b Collins 4 Jayasuriya c Ramnarine b Black 85 Sangakkara c Gayle b Dillon 55 Jayawardene lbw b Dillon 39 Arnold c Jacobs b Hooper 65 Tillakaratne not out 143 Samaraweera not out 68 Extras (b-5 lb-8 nb-3 w-2) 18 Total (for five wickets) 477 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-104, 3-179, 4-204, 5-345. Bowling: Dillon 38-7-104-2, Collins 34-3-97-1, Black 24-2-106-1, Ramnarine 17-3-51-0, Hooper 30-5-76-1, Gayle 9-1-23-0, Sarwan 2-0-7-0.
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Vineet bags
five Delhi wickets Amritsar, December 1 Delhi, starting their overnight score of 283 for 4, consolidated their innings with Mithun Minhas and Pardeep Chawla attacking the bowlers mercilessly. Pardeep Chawla, who had retired hurt yesterday, resumed at 63 to make a fine 142. Mithun added 81 more to his overnight score of 112. Punjab’s medium pacer Vineet Sharma took his tally of wickets to 23 in the current season, picking up five wickets for 127 today. Delhi declared at 499 for nine at tea. Punjab opened with Manish Sharma and Ravneet Ricky, the former was unlucky to get caught by wicketkeeper Dhaiya at 1. Yuvraj Singh joined Ravneet and both batted sensibly to notch up 32 and 34, respectively. Play was called off 10 minutes earlier due to bad light. Scoreboard Delhi: 499 for 9 Akash Chopra lbw Vineet 33, Gautam Gambhir c Sandeep b Gagandeep 2, Radhey Sham c Pankaj b Vineet 22, Mithun c Sahdeep b Amit Uniyal 193, Vijay Dhaiya c Pankaj b Vineet 30, Pardeep Chawla lbw Vineet 142, T. Anand lbw Vineet 5, Amit Bhandari lbw Vineet 11, Arun Verma not out 11, Vivek Khurana 1. Extras: 35 Total: 499/9 Fall of wickets: 1-10,2-65,3-70,4-133,5-352,6-380,7-438,8-471,9-480. Bowling: Gagandeep 36-6 87-2, Vineet 41-10-127-5, Sandeep 12-1-63-0, Arun Kakkar 13-1-50-0, Yuvraj 2-0-70-0, Dinesh Mongia 9-3-18-1. Punjab (Ist innings): Manish Sharma c Vijay Dhaiya b Amit Bandhari 1, Ravneet Rickey not out 32, Yuvraj Singh not out 34. Extras (no balls) 5 Total: 72 for 1 Fall of wickets: 1-5 Bowling: Amit Bandhari 6-2-12-1, Arun 12-2-40-0, T. Anand 4-2-6-0, S. Rauf 1-0-2-0, Vivek Khurana 3-01-4-0. |
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Haryana struggle
against HP Rohtak, December 1 Resuming their innings at the overnight score of 232 for two Himachal Pradesh carried their total to 340. Rajiv Nayyar batted patiently to remain unbeaten on 99 after facing 331 balls, and hitting 11 boundaries. The other overnight not out batsmen Sangram Singh was dismissed for 71. Himachal Pradesh’s tailenders failed to contribute much and their first innings folded at 340 after 136.5 overs. Haryana’s right arm leg spinner Amit Mishra bagged five wickets for 64 runs. Sumit Narwal captured three for 64. In reply, Haryana batsmen failed to apply themselves. Only opener Jitender Singh displayed patience at draw of stumps, he was batting on 44 (175 minutes, 128 balls).
Scoreboard HP (Ist innings): N. Gaur c Ratra b Narwal 45, S. Sharma c Gaurav b Mishra 61, Rajiv Nayyar not out 99, Sangram Singh c Mishra b Narwal 71, V. Sharma b Narwal 10, Amit Sharma c Vidyut b Virmani 5, Chetan lbw Mishra 20, Ravi Kant c Ratra b Mishra 3, Shakti b Mishra 0, Vishal Bhatia c Parinder b Mishra 10, Rajinder Thakur c Ratra b Vashishta 0. Extras (b-10, lb-6, w-0, nb-0) 16. Total (all out in 136.5 overs) 340. Fall of wickets: 1-100, 2-119, 3-233, 4-247, 5-258, 6-305, 7-317, 8-321, 9-339, 10-340. Bowling: S. Narwal 28-9-64-3, S. Virmani 23-5-53-1, S. Vidyut 21-5-67-0, A. Mishra 26-9-64-5, Gaurav 32.5-13-74-1, P. Sharma 1-0-2-0. Haryana (Ist innings):
Jitender not out 44, C. Sharma run out 14, Ishan c Chetan b Shakti 0, Parinder c Sangram b Rajinder 4, Shafiq c Vishal b Shakti 24. Extras (b-4, lb-8, nb-2) 14. Total for 4 wickets 105. Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-44, 3-54, 4-105. Bowling: Shakti Singh 16.1-7-23-2, Sharma 12-5-28-0, Thakur 7-4-14-1, Bhatia 4-0-18-0, Sharma 1-0-10-0. |
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Jeev tied 88th New Delhi, December 1 The fate of many will be decided on the conclusion of the six rounds of nerve-racking golf, the top 35 plus ties will earn a PGA Tour Card while the others will have to settle for a Buy.Com tour. The Q-School is being played at the par-72 Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Daniel Chopra, the Swede of Indian origin returned a one-over 73 card, Chopra’s tally of two-under 214 saw him occupy the tied-101st place. Pat Perez, who played in Arizona State’s national championship team in 1996, broke the course record with a nine-under-par 63 to emerge as the overnight leader and enjoy a two-stroke lead over Tommy Armour III.
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Sohrab Punjab
Badminton Sangrur, December 1 The championships will be inaugurated by Mr J.S. Aulakh, SSP, Sangrur while Mr Sarvjit Singh will give away the prizes on the final day. Free board and lodging will be provided to all participants. Yoneeks, Chinese-made shuttlecocks, will be used in the championships. The prizes have been donated by Fanta Sports, Jalandhar. The championships are partially sponsored by the Sohrab group of companies, Malerkotla. |
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