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FOOTBALL
Dempo beat JCT AIFF picks 26 probables Longest drive by H.S. Kang Durand Cup: Indian
Navy advance PP, CRPF in semis Kabaddi meet Inter-varsity volleyball
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Sachin uncertain for second ODI Napier, December 27 “He has seen a specialist doctor and is better but physio Andrew Leipus wants to be absolutely sure on his ankle,” said manager N.R. Choudhary after the team arrived in this quiet northern city of New Zealand today. Tendulkar is very eager to take part in the second game and play his part in team’s resurgence but Leipus wants to take a conservative approach on his right ankle injury and does not want to rush in declaring him fit. “We don’t want a chronically twisted ankle and take a risk especially in view of the coming World Cup,” said Leipus. “It’s better to take a conservative approach at present.” India, after a 2-0 debacle in the Test series, are now 1-0 down in the seven-match one-day international series as well having lost to New Zealand by three wickets at Auckland yesterday. According to reports emanating from the Indian camp, the swelling on Tendulkar’s right ankle has subsided and intensive treatment has begun but it is not healing as fast as was expected. While the news on Tendulkar’s fitness is keeping the Indian fans on tenterhooks, the report on the other three injured cricketers is encouraging. Harbhajan Singh, who has a capsular sprain in his right middle finger which has prevented him from gripping the ball, has been given an injection and should be fit for Sunday’s game, according to Leipus. Harbhajan, who made his mark in whatever overs he could manage on the green Test pitches besides batting spiritedly, had to miss yesterday’s game because of the injury. Bangar, who was fighting to get rid of injuries in his right index finger and left knee, has progressed well and according to Choudhary, will be up for selection after undergoing a bowling test. Mohammad Kaif, who suffered a bruised foot by a yorker at nets before the first game, is also fit now, according to Choudhary. Shiv Sunder Das, the diminutive opener from Orissa who did duty in the Test squad and whose departure to India was delayed to enable him to bolster the Indian batting in the first game, has now headed for home. Rakesh Patel, the right-arm medium-pacer from Baroda, joined the ranks yesterday and will be looking to impress the team management for a berth in the eleven in subsequent matches. Meanwhile, McLean Park promised a more friendly wicket to the two teams and is expected to make life a bit easy for the batsmen. “There is bounce but it’s looking good,” said match manager Blair Furlong this morning. “It’s 80 per cent brown and 20 per cent green on top now but it will brown off a lot by the time the match begins.” The pitches on India’s current tour to New Zealand have come in for criticism from all quarters with teams struggling to raise a total of 200 runs.
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Dravid poised to regain top spot New Delhi, December 27 Dravid won two fielding points for his smart catching in the second Test and first one-dayer (as the wicketkeeper) against New Zealand. This, added to the one batting point that he got for his fine 39 in the first innings of the Wellington Test, gave him a total of three points from the week gone by.
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Brett Lee rocks England
Melbourne, December 27 Bolstered by a double century from Justin Langer in a first innings declaration of 551 for six, Australia set out to crush the tourists in the more than three days’ play remaining in the fourth Boxing Day Test. Waugh called a halt to the home side’s run spree 15 minutes before tea on the second day after Langer reached his highest Test score of 250. England were under the cosh yet again with both openers, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick, sent on their way to put the tremors through the crisis-prone tourists who were 97 for three at close today. Wound up by the ‘Barmy Army’ English supporters chanting ‘no-ball’ to each of his deliveries, fearsome Lee ended Trescothick’s resistance for 37 with a thunderbolt that seared off his gloves to Adam Gilchrist. Questions were raised about the legality of Lee’s bowling action in last Sunday’s one-dayer against Sri Lanka, prompting the Barmy Army, numbering several thousand, to goad cricket’s most intimidating bowler. Vaughan capped a miserable day when he tentatively played on to Glenn McGrath for 11. Vaughan, who fumbled catches off Martin Love and Langer earlier in the day, played late and got a bottom edge to one which cannoned on to his stumps, leaving England at 13 for one. Captain Nasser Hussain on 14 had an agonising wait for the third umpire’s verdict on a touch-and-go diving ‘catch’ by Jason Gillespie off Stuart MacGill, which went in his favour three overs from the end of play. Mark Butcher fell lbw to Gillespie for 25 in the day’s penultimate over, while nightwatchman Richard Dawson survived a big lbw shout in the same over. England, staring down the barrel of another lost cause, were looking up to Hussain who was not out 17 and Dawson, yet to score. The dismissal of Adam Gilchrist for one in the 146th over was the trigger for Waugh to call a halt to the Australian run avalanche, possibly influenced by deteriorating weather conditions forecast for late on the weekend. Test newcomer Love, getting his chance while Darren Lehmann is in hospital recovering from a severely infected leg, remained 62 not out in 160 minutes. SCOREBOARD Australia (1st innings): Langer c Caddick
b Dawson 250 Hayden c Crawley
Ponting b White 21 Martyn c Trescothick
Waugh c Foster b White 77 Love not out 62 Gilchrist b Dawson 1 Extras (lb-11, w-5, nb-5) 21 Total (6 wkts
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Fall of wickets: 1-195, 2-235, 3-265, 4-394, 5-545, 6-551 Bowling: Caddick 36-6-126-1, Harmison 36-7-108-0, White 33-5-133-3, Dawson 28-1-121-2, Butcher 13-2-52-0. England (1st innings): Trescothick c Gilchrist
Vaughan b McGrath 11 Butcher lbw b Gillespie 25 Hussain batting 17 Dawson batting 0 Extras (b-2, lb-2, nb-3) 7 Total (for 3 wkts in
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-73, 3-94. Bowling: McGrath 7-2-18-1, Gillespie 8-4-8-1, MacGill 11-3-36-0, Lee 8-1-31-1.
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ICC’s threat
London, December 27 Even as the BCCI virtually rejected its ‘final’ offer at its special general meeting on Christmas Day, the ICC stuck to its guns and said any action by the Indian cricket board to avoid its legal obligation would create the potential for a “significant claim for compensation”. “The reality is that any person or organisation that fails to live up to its commitments risk claims for compensation being made against it and the BCCI is no different,” ICC’s chief executive Malcolm Speed said in a statement here. Mr Speed said the process by which the ICC and BCCI entered into their contracts was “clear and transparent” and each party has willingly accepted the obligations that were detailed in these agreements”. |
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Pak in trouble Durban, December 27 The left-handed Umar made 39 before he was caught at third slip off Mornant Ha when he tried to withdraw his bat from a delivery which lifted sharply before looping off his bat to Graeme Smith. Both batsmen batted cautiously, leaving a high proportion of the balls sent down by the South African bowlers, although Elahi was dropped when he was on 27. He slashed at a ball from Jacques Kallis and Nicky Boje, leaping high at first slip, could only knock the ball up with his fingertips before failing in a second attempt to make the catch as he turned and dived. SCOREBOARD South Africa (first innings): overnight 250-5 Smith c Akmal b Sami 16 Gibbs c Iqbal
b Waqar Younis 11 Kirsten c Younis Khan b 56 Saqlain Kallis b Sami 105 Dippenaar c Akmal b Saqlain 1 McKenzie b Waqar Younis 24 Boucher c Faisal b Saqlain 55 Mushtaq Pollock c Akmal
Younis Boje not out 37 Ntini c Taufeeq b Saqlain 0 Hayward b Sami 10 Extras
(b-4 lb-5 nb-23) 32 Total (all out, 107 overs) 368 Fall of wickets:
1-27, 2-33, 3-155, 4-159, 5-214, 6-252, 7-286 ,8-344, 9-344. Bowling: Waqar Younis 25-3-91-3, Mohammad Sami 26-5-92-3 (nb-10), Abdul Razzaq 19-3-57-0 (nb-4), Saqlain Mushtaq 37-4-119-4 (nb-9). Pakistan (1st innings): Umar c Smith b Hayward 39 Elahi c McKenzie b Ntini 39 Younis Khan lbw Pollock 1 Inzamam c & b Ntini 18 Youhana c Smith b Ntini 12 Iqbal run out 6 Razzaq c McKenzie
Akmal batting 0 Saqlain b Hayward 0 Waqar Younis batting 0 Extras: 4 Total: ( for 8 wickets) 120 Fall of wickets 1-77, 2-83, 3-83, 4-107, 5-119, 6-120, 7-120, 8-120. Bowling: Pollock 14-5-23-1, Ntini 15.2-3-45-3, Hayward 8-1-29-3, Kallis 6-0-22-0.
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FOOTBALL The year 2002 witnessed a mixed fare in football with the FIFA World Cup co-hosted by South Korea and Japan turning out to be a bundle of shocks and surprises. Although Brazil justified their top billing by lifting the golden trophy, the shocking exit of defending champions France, who were upstaged by green horns Senegal 0-1 through Pape Diop's goal in their very first outing, was as surprising as Germany's progress to the final. Brazilian striker Ronaldo, whose pathetic condition in the previous final against France in 1998 raised global concern, came back roaring and justifiably won the ' player of the year award' for his brilliant performance. Germany, who had come with lowered expectations under coach Rudi Voeller, provided another surprise package with striker Miroslav Klose emerging as a new star although it was goalkeeper Oliver Kahn who won top honours with his spectacular performance in the World Cup. Asian football also had a lot to cheer about as co-hosts South Korea, who had not won any match previously in World Cup history, forged ahead at the cost of higher ranked teams. Also making their debut were China under Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic although the Chinese were not as impressive as their Asian counterparts. Indian football showed some signs of improvement with the national team winning the LG Cup in Vietnam under foreign coach Stephen Constantine. Incidentally it was India's first major victory in 32 years. Baichung Bhutia's return from England on expiry of his contract with Bury FC lifted the team's spirits and at the Busan Asian Games India, though beaten, were not disgraced. The 3-0 win over Bangladesh and the 3-1 win over Turkmenistan proved to be the right tonic for the team under the charge of Constantine and Sukhwinder Singh. The subsequent 0-2 loss at the hands of China was a shade better than the 1-7 drubbing in the 1974 Games. On the home front, Manipur benefitted the most from AIFF's new rules pertaining to the Santosh Trophy as players of the state were allowed to represent the team irrespective of their club affiliations in other states and justifiably emerged winners. However, as in the previous years, it was the seventh National Football League with a prize money of over Rs 1 crore that stole a march over all home engagements. As in previous editions, the foreign flavour of the NFL remains intact with a host of foreigners, including some from Ghana, Uzbekistan, and Sri Lanka donning uniforms of various participating clubs. However, with the National Games coming in between, key players of participating clubs opted to skip the Games at Hyderabad and preferred to assist their respective outfits in the high-profile league robbing the football competition of charm. Nevertheless, second string teams gave a good account of themselves in the National Games at Hyderabad and the most noteworthy achievement was made by Punjab who, despite the absence of star players from JCT, Punjab Police and BSF, successfully defended the title under the second successive term of coach Jagir Singh edging out Bengal 2-1 in the final. Punjab also affixed their stamp of superiority in football in the 32nd All-India Rural Games at Anandpur Sahib by claiming the gold which was preceded by the title win in the under-19 tournament. The Punjab Super League, conducted for the first time on home-and-away basis, also proved to be a big success with JCT walking away with top honours at Phagwara. The new experiment provided an opportunity to people across the state to watch local stars in action in four different places, including Jalandhar, Phagwara, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala instead of action being confined to one place as was the practice earlier. |
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Dempo beat JCT Margao, December 27 Dempo, who enjoyed an edge over their rivals, particularly in the first-half, scored the all-important goal in the 55th minute. A pass by Sergy Andrev to Sameer Naik on the right, led to the latter uncorking a long ranger at the goal that surprised keeper Mansuru Mohammed who anticipated a cross. The ball curled and dipped in the far end of the net even as Mohammed made a valiant effort to tip the 30 yard shot. With the National Football League getting a month’s break at the end of the eight round, the win is a New Year gift to coach Armando Colaco as his team heads the table with 19 points from eight matches displacing East Bengal by one point. JCT, who suffered their fourth defeat remained on seventh place with eight points from as many matches. Dempo midfield comprising Jose Colaco and Mario Soares once again gave a good account combining in unison with their forwards. With good support from the rear, they raided the rival defence frequently and created scoring chances. Dempo could have surged ahead early in the 3rd minute when a flick by Stanley Colaco off Jose Colaco’s shot was brilliantly tipped over by Mansuru who was playing his second match. PTI |
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AIFF picks 26 probables Margao, December 27 AIFF secretary Alberto Colaco gave their names as Nandy Sandip, Deepak Kumar Mondal, M Suresh, S Venkatesh, Subash Chakraborty, Alvito D’Cunha from East Bengal, Rajat Dastidar Ghosh, Renedy P Singh from Mohun Bagan, Naseem Akhtar, Debjit Ghose, Peter Siddique, Abhishek Yadav, R C Praksh all from Mahindra United, Robert Fernandes, Tomba Singh, Lawrence Climax, all from Salgaocar, Selwyn Fernandes, Abhay Kumar, Jules Alberto, all from Vasco Sports club, Jo Paul Anchery, I M Vijayan, Harvinder Singh from JCT, Biswas Ashim from Tollygunge, Virender Singh from Punjab Police, Mahesh Gawali from Churchill brothers and Sameer Naik from
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Longest drive by H.S. Kang Chandigarh, December 27 In the 50-65 age group Brig PPS Dhillon drove the ball upto 228.10 metres and Brig BS Gill drove the ball upto 201.20 metres. In the ladies section Parneeta Garewal, the leading national golfer, drove the ball upto 176.20 metres and was declared the longest hitter. The competition was open to all Golf Club members who had an official handicap on the board. The competition was organised by Seagram. There were 41 participants in upto 50 years category, 49 participants in the 50 to 65 years category and 40 in the 65 and above for gents. In the ladies category there were seven participants. Thus, a total of 137 took part in the competition. As per the format of the competition, each competitor was given two balls for driving from Tee No. 1. Thereafter the distance of the best of the two drives was measured. In addition prizes were given to those who came within the top 10 drives of the Challenge in each category. Up to 50 years: Ajay Johl (264.80 metres), Randeep Singh (262.90), Harinder Gupta (260.35), Ranjit Singh (256.10), KPS Aulakh (251.90), Girish Virk (251.60), Sandy Lehal (250.65), Vikramjit Singh (245.20) and Ajay Gujral (239.00). 50 to 65 years: Col JS Panag (221.30 metres), Col JS Deo (218.10), Sukh Dhillon (207.10), Capt MS Dhillon (206.50), Col Iqbal Singh (201.25), Tarun Ghai (197.60), Col KJ Singh (194.50), Wg Cdr GS Ahluwalia (186.00) and Col BS Shergill (184.70). 65 and above: Capt JS Dhaliwal (187.00 metres), Brig Santokh Singh (185.10), SS Dhaliwal (183.80), Gp Capt MS Sihota (183.15), Col GS Sandhu (179.40), Brig Satjit Singh (176.05), Brig Jagjit Singh (169.70), Maj-Gen HC Sachdev (169.50) and HS Guron (169.40). Ladies: Mrs Pauline JM Singh (163.05 metres), Ms Manrit Kochhar (157.40), Mrs Rima Dhillon (141.00), Mrs Dalbir Sahi (122.40), Mrs Saroj Joti (120.20) and Ms Jaishree Thakur (119.00). International golfer Jeev Milkha Singh gave away the prizes at a function held at the club’s pool side this evening. |
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Durand Cup: Indian
Navy advance New Delhi, December 27 Assam Regimental Centre defeated Allwyn Hindustan FC, Delhi 2-0, while Indian Navy got the better of N D Heroes 1-0, to move in the next round. The two teams will meet each other on Sunday to decide the qualifier for the main draw. Assam Regimental Centre, who dominated the game for the entire 90 minutes, shot into the lead with a fine volley by Tohangluang Muana off a corner kick in the 32nd minute. Midfielder Gordon struck at the stroke of half time to give his team a comfortable 2-0 lead at the break, which was enough to seal the fate of the match. In the other match, V K Mishra of Indian Navy scored the only goal of the game, when his right footer caught the goalkeeper on the wrong foot and went into the net after deflecting from the far post. In tomorrow’s fixture, City FC, Delhi, will take on MEG Bangalore to decide the second qualifier of the main draw.
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PP, CRPF in semis Nabha, December 27 Punjab Police will meet CRPF while SAIL will face BSF for a spot in the final. The hard-working BRC lads opened the scoring in the 26th minute of the first half when Sanjay Tirkey dived full length to put the ball in the goal. However, minutes later, CRPF netted the equaliser when T.Ekka fired a power packed shot off a penalty corner. In the second half, even as the Danapur team was struggling to find rhythm, CRPF when T.Ekka slotted home a cross from the right. Down 1-2, and with time fast running out, the BRC boys went into an overdrive and started playing with more aggression. So intense was the pressure they applied that they earned as may as 10 short corners in the last 15 minutes of the match. However, they failed to find the all important equaliser. For the Punjab cops Sarabjit and Kulbir Singh led the attack. In the 56th minute the SRC team could have got the lead when center half John Minz neatly trapped a pass in front of an open goal but in his excitement to score he fumbled and shot the ball straight into the custodian’s pads. In the tie-breaker, while the cops converted all their five strokes, for the losers Palwinder had his push blocked while John Minz’ scoop ricocheted off the woodwork. A second half goal by Mahabir Singh, off a penalty stroke was enough for SAIL to nudge out TN XI 1-0 while two successive goals in as many minutes by BSF’s forward Ranjit Singh took the wind out of the sails of the IAF who bowed out 0-2. |
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Kabaddi meet Ludhiana, December 27 According to association chairman, Inderjit Singh Mullanpur, as many as 12 teams are participating. The teams in pool A are Malwa, Germany, Doaba, India Red, India Green and Punjab while in pool B the contest will be between USA, Australia, Canada, India Blue, England and Pepsu. Besides kabaddi, events like athletics, wrestling, both men and women, and gymnastics will also be organised. Sports Minister Jagmohan Singh Kang will preside over the inaugural function while the chief guest on the occasion will be Director Sports Kartar Singh. The opening match will be between Malwa and Doaba at 10 a.m. |
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Inter-varsity volleyball Solan, December 27 Results: Garhwal Varsity b Meerut 25-13, 25-13, 25-13. Gorakhpur Varsity b Allahabad 25-14, 25-17, 25-20. Ruhelkhand b Avadh 25-15, 25-16, 25-17. Delhi b Lucknow 25-9, 25-12, 25-11. Maharishi Dayanand varsity b Bundelkhand 25-6, 25-5, 25-8. Kanpur varsity b Rewa 25-4, 25-7, 25-15. Earlier, the championships were declared open by Mr Suresh Bhardwaj MP. He announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh for improving the sports infrastructure of Parmar University. |
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Rural soccer Chandigarh, December 27 |
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