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Thursday,
December 6, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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‘Nothing
happened between Ganguly, Flintoff’ Time for
BCCI to talk to Ganguly Fans
hopeful of England comeback ECB hopes
India will play full series Olympian
Dharam Singh dead |
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Anand
storms into quarterfinals Ali
lights Olympic torch Boxer Evander Holyfield carries the Olympic flame after its arrival from Greece at the beginning of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic torch relay, in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday.
— Reuters photo England
can win, says Pele
Sandeep Gill of Pepsu being stopped by Punjab captain Harmanpreet in the Regional Women’s Hockey Tournament at Surjit Hockey Stadium in Jalandhar on Wednesday.
— Photo Pandit Sunil,
Amanjot in quaterfinals Haryana
253 for 5
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‘Nothing happened between
Ganguly, Flintoff’
SAS Nagar, December 5 In the session between lunch and tea break Flintoff, in between his spell, bowled a couple of short-pitched deliveries, one of which took the edge of Ganguly’s blade as the batsman tried to hook it and raced to the third man fence, while the other was dispatched authentically by the Indian skipper to the mid-wicket fence. In between Flintoff, perhaps in an effort to unruffle Ganguly, said something which the skipper did not take kindly. The two exchanged angry glances before umpire Steve Bucknor intervened and took Flintoff aside. The game went on smoothly after that. “I asked the umpires what was wrong, but I was told nothing went wrong,” he replied when asked is he had checked up the matter with the umpires. “It must be something between the players.” “Umpires are in charge of the game. And they run the show standing in the middle,” he added. “It happened in the middle and was handled well.” Such things do happen in cricket. Altercations sometimes do crop up. The game has been going on for years like that. As long there is nothing personal, there is nothing to worry, he stated. When asked there were incidents when players advanced towards the umpires, Lindsay said the umpires handled the situation in an expert manner. “They (Steve Bucknor and S Venkatraghavan) are the two great umpires and know how to handle things like that,” he stated. About the use of floodlights in the case of deteriorating light, the match referee said that as long as it was not to the disadvantage of any side, it was fine. Lindsay emphasised that both the sides must adhere to the rules and regulations so that the gentleman’s game should go on. As the incident happened soon after the controversial punishments given to six Indian players by English match-referee Mike Denness during the second Test in South Africa, which triggered off in a major controversy, there were speculations that the incident might also incur the wrath of the match referee.  |
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Time for
BCCI to talk to Ganguly Chandigarh, December 5 He said Ganguly had been warned/reprimanded for misbehaviour on six occasions in the past. No other international captain has been in the headlines for this reason. “It is he who has to set the standards for the other players to follow,” Raj Singh said. Raj Singh was also not very happy the way the BCCI protested at the happenings in the second Test between India and South Africa at Port Elizabeth. “If, at all, India had to react, the reaction should have come immediately after the incident took place,” the former BCCI chief said. Today at the PCA stadium, Ganguly was involved in yet another minor fracas with England bowler Andrew Flintoff, but luckily the issue was solved on the ground itself with umpire Steve Bucknor cooling down tempers to the satisfaction of all. Meanwhile, there are reports that the Indian captain has gagged all his players, as well as the cricket coach and the team physio from speaking to the print media. Why he was done so was not immediately known and a request to the Indian captain from the mediapersons covering the first Test between India and England at the PCA Stadium at SAS Nagar for a clarification was turned down. Sources have it that Sachin is peeved by a report published in the media while the Indian team was in South Africa . He is reported to have said that he was “misquoted” in the report. However, the ban does not apply to the electronic media. When the “gagging” report was brought to the notice of the BCCI secretary, Mr Niranjan Shah, he said he would look into the matter. |
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Fans hopeful
of England comeback SAS Nagar, December 5 Barrie a cricket coach from Kent, who has also played county cricket was the most hopeful inspite of the fact that England have been handicapped by the absence of Robert Croft, who chose not to come to India and also the injury caused to Ashley Giles. He said the team led by Nasser Hussain would give a tough fight to the hosts. Barrie chose to watch the match today from the VIP block, to check the visitors as well as sunbath. Bob and Jinette Handy of Essex where captain Nasser Hussain and James Foster play said they had come to watch all the matches in India and will then proceed to New Zealand for the series there. The visitors said it felt strange to see Indian fans holding Sachin Tendulkar in such esteem that the moment he was out, the crowd became unruly and never showed any interest in other batsmen. Despite the good hospitality shown by the hosts, Barrie lamented the lack of adequate number of good hotels in the city. Ms Handy said that more than 5000 fans had earlier planned to visit India but could not due to the non-availability of accommodation in Chandigarh. It was very good tourist season due to Christmas holiday and many Britishers would have loved to come to India as Shimla was also near Chandigarh. Barrie, who had also visited Sri Lanka last year when the England team toured the island nation, said more than 6,000 British fans had enjoyed their holidays there. Inspite of Sri Lanka being much smaller compared to India, they had everything to offer to the visitor. In a lighter vein, Bole said that when he asked for Strawberry in a local hotel, he was told that it was available at Shimla. Barrie said due to the ongoing Afghanistan crisis many English fans abandoned their plans to join the team in India. |
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ECB hopes
India will play full series SAS Nagar, December 5 According to reports, India had decided not to play the fourth Test in the away series to England as the ECB had reportedly turned down the Indian board’s request to play seven one-day matches in stead of the five originally planned in the current series. After the Test series against England, Sri Lanka is slated to reach England to participate in a triangular one-day series in which each team is scheduled to play a minimum of six matches. As Sri Lanka will already be there they reportedly have expressed their eagerness to fill in the gap if India refuse to play the fourth Test. |
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Olympian Dharam
Singh dead Chandigarh, December 5 Dharam Singh suffered brain haemorrhage after a fall in his bathroom four days back and was admitted to the PGI where his condition remained critical. He showed no signs of recovery till the end. Born on January 19,1919, at Gandiwind in Amritsar district, Dharam Singh had a passion for hockey since childhood. Running barefoot with a stick and ball on the dusty village
streets, Dharam Singh displayed strong motivation to don national colours. As a school student at
Sarhali, the young Dharam Singh played a key role in his school team’s triumph in the prestigious Divali Trophy for three years. When Dharam Singh shifted to Gujranwala school from where he passed his matric the trophy followed him. Recalls Mr Yash
Vohra, secretary of Rock Rovers Club who was also a team-mate of Dharam Singh: “Dharam Singh possessed unique skill and from the first day, we could foresee the young boy bringing glory to the nation in the years to come.” In 1941, Dharam Singh joined Khalsa College, Amritsar, and later represented Panjab University. In 1945, the Nawab of Manavadar invited Dharam Singh to join his newly established team where again he played a key role the outfit’s memorable triumphs. In 1948, Dharam Singh was supposed to attend the national camp but his brother’s murder came as a big shock and he had to abandon his plans. Finally, he made his debut in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and playing alongside players like Randhir Singh Gentle, Dharam Singh’s role in the historic gold-medal victory came in for special mention in hockey circles. In 1964, Dharam Singh donned the coach’s mantle and steered India to another memorable title win in the Tokyo
Olympics. He remained active as a coach, handling national assignments
for various Asian meets. Dharam Singh had joined the Punjab Sports Department in 1961 from where he retired as senior coach in 1978. Till the end, Dharam Singh remained actively involved in hockey affairs. He was associated with Rock Rovers Hockey Club, Chandigarh, since 1959, and it was under his able stewardship that Chandigarh produced a large number of internationals, including Rajinder Singh and NS
Sodhi, who incidentally coached the team would won the junior World Cup at Hobart recently. Dharam Singh is survived by one son, Major Gurbir Singh Gill, posted in the Akhnoor sector, who has been here for some days after learning about his father’s injury. His daughter, who had settled in the USA, is also here for the past few years as her son is in coma after being injured in a road accident in Chandigarh. The cremation will take place at Sector 25 here tomorrow at 12.30 pm. |
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Anand storms into quarterfinals Moscow, December 5 Playing white in the reverse game of his clash against Dreev, Anand opened with his pet king pawn and faced the Caro-Kann defence. The opening apparently did not come as a surprise to Anand as Dreev is famous for his handling of the French defence. Attesting to this, grandmaster Elibzar Ubilava who is Anand’s second, said, “Yes of course we expected him to play the Caro-Kann. Anand plays almost everything against it.” Anand’s understanding of the game soon came to the fore as he steadily deployed his forces in one of the main classical lines of the set up. Anand got a slight advantage in the middlegame as Dreev chose less trodden paths. Dreev’s 14th move was a relatively new idea and Anand had to think for a while to find the most convincing path. The game took a decisive turn after the Indian’s 22nd move when he collected Dreev’s bishop for his knight and soon posted his bishop in the centre to exert pressure on the king side with his queen and rook. In trying to work out a counter-active plan, Dreev miscalculated a simple combination on the 27th move and Anand won a couple of pawns by force to enter a pure rook and pawns endgame. |
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Ali lights
Olympic torch Atlanta, December 5 Ali, who lit the flame at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, passed the torch with hands shaking from Parkinson’s disease to Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming yesterday, who began the first leg.
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England can
win, says Pele London, December 5 “I believe England are capable of winning the World Cup. At the very least they can reach the final,’’ Pele, 60, was quoted as saying in the Daily Atar newspaper. “Their team has really improved ever since Sven Goran Eriksson took charge as their coach at the start of the year”. “For a long time England used to be afraid of playing proper football. They would charge forward, rather than playing a controlled game,’’ said Pele, a member of three World Cup-winning sides with Brazil.
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Punjab,
Chandigarh finish on top Jalandhar, December 5 Chandigarh girls defeated Himachal Pradesh 3-0. Chandigarh got their first goal in the ninth minute when Anu Sonkar converted a penalty corner. In the 29th minute a penalty corner converted by Samita made it 2-0. In the 53rd minute, Prakash sounded the board to give her team a 3-0 victory. The second match between Pepsu and Punjab was evenly contested match and no goals were scored. Punjab displayed good team work as they earned their first penalty corner in the eighth minute which went waste. Till half time both teams tried hard to take the lead but were unable to do so. After the breather, Punjab mounted pressure on Pepsu. Manjit Kaur of Pepsu was the main hurdle for the Punjab girls. In the 57th minute, Punjab lost a good chance of taking the lead as they could not get past custodian Baljit Kaur (Senior). |
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Sunil,
Amanjot in quaterfinals New Delhi, December 5 While seedings held true in the boys’ section, three seeds bowed out in the girls event. Isha Lakhani of India created a major upset when she ousted seventh-seeded Wang Ting Wen of Chinese Taipei 6-0,5-7, 6-3 while Samrita Sekar ousted third-seeded Chung Chia-Jung of Chinese Taipei 6-3, 7-5 and Sanaa Bhambri beat Eun-Hee sung of Korea 6-1, 6-1. Sunil Kumar, playing at the DLTA courts after a long break, did not exert much while blasting Sharan Divij of India 6-3, 6-2 off the courts, while second-seeded Amanjot Singh, also from Chandigarh, ousted fellow-Indian Rishi Behl 6-3, 7-5. Eighth-seeded Nishank Mishra was the only other Indian to make it into the boys quarter-final when he got the better of Saurabh Kohli 7-5, 6-2. Tushar Liberhan, who had scored an exciting victory yesterday, fell to Shieh Yu Da of Chinese Taipei 2-6, 4-6 while Devvarman Somdev was ousted by fifth-seeded Liu Tai Wei of Taipei 4-6, 0-6. In other boys matches, fourth seeded Wang-Cheng Hsieh of Taipei beat Woo-Ram Kim of Korea 7-5, 6-2; sixth-seeded Anuwal Dalodom of Thailand beat Lee Seung-jae of Korea 6-4, 6-3 and Saenguwann Sartha of Thailand beat Jaya Adam of Malaysia 6-3, 6-1. Four Indian girls figure in the quarterfinals, including fourth-seeded Megha Vakharia, who outgunned Kuo Ttze-Ling of Taipei 6-3, 6-2. In other matches, sixth-seeded Julianto Diana of Indonesia beat Sung-A hong of Korea 6-4, 6-1; fourth-seeded Laosirichon Pichaya of Thailand beat Kim Ji-young of Korea 6-4, 6-0 and second-seeded Da-Jung Hong of Korea beat Lata Assudani of India 6-4, 6-1. |
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Haryana
253 for 5 Rohtak, December 5 Earlier, Haryana elected to bat first. Lokesh Sharma (43) and Nitin Mehtani (41) made useful contributions. Lokendra took two wickets where as Rakesh, Vikram Thakur and Barun Sharma captured one wicket each. |
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