œND‰‰†KœND‰‰†œND‰‰†MœND‰‰†C The Sunday Times of India, New Delhi, May 18, 2003 Henry stays put Eddie backs Alonso Limping Lindsay Arsenal’s French striker Thierry Henry F1 stalwart Eddie Irvine’s stuck his neck out Lindsay Davenport’s preparations for the has signed a new contract keeping again. He’s pipped Renault driver Fernando French Open suffered a setback when a him with the club till 2007. The Alonso (in pic) to oust speedy Schumi from hamstring injury forced her to pull out of 25-year-old asserted: “I will stay at the world champion slot. “Alonso is mega, next week’s Spanish Open. She’ll now Arsenal as long as they want to keep and he is the new Schumacher,” Irvine’s stay at home and miss crucial clay court me.” Talk about loyalty gone on record to say match practice Tiger Woods falters in the Deutsche Bank SAP Open golf BRIEFLY AFP Challenging task ahead of WI Pires fires Arsenal AP Kingston: West Indies captain Bri- an Lara won the toss and chose to Waugh defends to FA Cup title field in the opening One-day cricket International against Australia at Cardiff: Robert Pires scored But Arsenal should have Sabina Park here on Saturday. players’ behaviour the only goal of the 122nd FA been three goals ahead by The West Indians, looking to car- Sydney: Steve Waugh has defended Cup final as defending cham- then, Henry going close at ry on the momentum from their his- his players’ behaviour during their pion Arsenal beat Southamp- least three times and Saints toric three-wicket victory over the Test series in West Indies and strong- ton 1-0 on Saturday to be- defenders twice clearing off Australians in the fourth Antigua ly hinted he wants to continue as come the first team for 21 the line. The final was the first Test, named three ODI debutants, Australia’s captain in the longer ver- years to win the trophy two in the competition’s long his- seasons in a row.The French- tory to be played “indoors,” of- THE TEMPERAMENTAL STAR: German At the end of 30 overs Australia sion of the game. international Stefan Effenberg (R) were comfortably placed at 144 Waugh told reporters on his ar- man struck seven minutes ficials deciding to close the stands next to Ahmad al-Sulaity, a for 3 with Darrel Lehmann and rival home on Saturday that while his before half time as injury-hit Millennium Stadium roof be- member of the Qatari Soccer Federa- Andrew Symonds unbeaten on 37 players had stepped out of line on a Arsenal, who lost their Pre- cause of heavy rain. tion, as he shows off his new shirt of and 6 respectively. Ricky Ponting couple of occasions, their conduct mier League title to Man- Arsenal should have gone the al-Arab club in Doha on Friday. was the last man out for 59. had generally been good and there chester United, gained the ahead after 24 seconds when was no animosity between the teams. consolation of winning soc- Fredrik Ljungberg put Hen- Devon Smith, Omari Banks and Australia won the four-match Test se- cer’s oldest cup competition ry clear down the right. India clubbed with Dymnamo Kiev: Carlton Baugh. ries 3-1 and the Ricky Ponting-led for the ninth time in its The Gunners, who ham- India have been placed with Dynamo Kiev Ricky Ponting’s World Cup cham- One-day side play the first of seven record 16th final. mered Southampton 6-1 10 (Russia), Preston Club and Country Antrim pions, who are putting on the line in the U-18 Milk Cup to be held in North- internationals later on Saturday. Veteran England goalkeep- days ago, went ahead seven their 17-match unbeaten run, have ern Ireland from July 18-25. The teams “The heat of the moment got to a er David Seaman, captain of minutes before half time. rested fast bowler Jason Gillespie have been divided into 6 groups of 4 few players (but) from a playing point the team in the absence of in- Ray Parlour played the ball from the opening match of the seven- teams each. The U-18 camp for the Indian of view it was probably the friend- jured Patrick Vieira, ensured inside to Henry who slipped match series. Brett Lee will be shar- juniors begin in Margoa from May 20 in liest series I’ve been involved with,” Arsenal’s victory when he it neatly out to Bergkamp. ing the new ball with Mcgrath. AFP\ which over seventy boys will be training Waugh said. “On and off the field the fisted a shot from Brett The Dutchman fed the ball to under Stephen Constantine. TNN guys had a lot of interaction, talked Ormerod over the top seven Ljungberg whose shot was Dalmiya to meet selectors: Cricket The shotmakers with each other a great deal and minutes from the end and blocked but rebounded to the board president Jagmohan Dalmiya will West Indies: Chris Gayle, Devon Smith, helped each other with cricket.” Ashley Cole cleared a header unmarked Pires. He needed have a session with the national selectors, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara (cap- Waugh was told by Australian crick- from James Beattie off the just one touch before firing when they meet here on May 24 to finalise tain), Marlon Samuels, Ricardo Powell, et boss James Sutherland to haul his line in the fifth minute of in- home for his 16th goal of the the India ‘A’ squad for the forthcoming Omari Banks, Carlton Baugh, Vasbert players into line after a heated on- jury time. season. AP tour of England. The BCCI has already in- Drakes, Corey Collymore, Mervyn Dillon. field row between fast bowler Glenn timated the quintet of selectors about the David Bernard (12th man). McGrath and West Indies batsman session with Dalmiya, which will precede Ramnaresh Sarwan in the fourth and Australia: Matthew Hayden, Adam the choice of the squad for the 75-day final Test. McGrath later apologised Injury-hit England turn Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting (captain), Darren tour in June. PTI for his actions and Waugh said he Lehmann, Andrew Symonds, Michael Envoys of Spain, Argentina win: Bevan, Ian Harvey, Brad Hogg, Andrew hoped people would not judge the Spanish envoy Don Rafael Conde and Ar- tour on that one incident “I’m not to their own McGrath Bichel, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Jim THE LEADER: West Indies captain Brian Lara (R) practices with gentine envoy Briotos jointly lifted the first Maher (12th man). Umpires: Billy Doc- making excuses for it but it does hap- Ambassadors Golf Cup Kashmir 2003 the team prior to the first One-day International against pen, that’s the reality of the situa- London: Three uncapped tion can easily go between trove (WIS) David Shepherd (ENG). now and Thursday. It was played at the picturesque Royal Springs Australia at Sabina Park in Kingston on Friday. tion,” Waugh said. Agencies players figure in the 13-man Golf course in Srinagar on Saturday. In the England squad announced prudent we keep him in the non-diplomat section, the team compris- on Saturday for the first Test squad and hopefully he will ing Najamus Saqib and Lennort Johanas- against Zimbabwe starting be able to take his place on son won the first prize. The individual Skippers urge their batsmen to deliver on Thursday at Lord’s. Thursday.” Missing from the prize was grabbed by Vinod Wazir. PTI The newcomers are Lan- list was pace-bowler Andy AFP Caddick who has damaged Dambulla (Sri Lanka): Rival secutive matches to clinch the ti- cashire’s James Anderson, Seeds have it easy: Top seeds kept ligaments in his right foot. their reputation intact, moving into the captains Marvan Atapattu of Sri Sussex pace bowler James tle. Anderson made his case second round without any hiccups in the Lanka and Pakistan’s Rashid Kirtley and the Yorkshire all- “The match against Sri Lanka for inclusion at the World Adyar Times Millennium FIDE rated Open Latif have challenged their bats- rounder Anthony McGrath. is a crucial one,” Latif said. Cup where he totalled 14 Chess on the opening day on Saturday. men to produce runs when the Andrew Flintoff has been “Managing to repeat our first- wickets in 23 One-day inter- Top seed International Master R B second round of the limited- named in the squad but there round win will instil confidence nationals. Graveney said Mc- Ramesh scored a neat win over young overs tri-series starts on Sunday. after our loss to New Zealand. are concerns about his fit- Arvind Subramaniam. In another en- ness as the all-rounder is car- Grath would share the role of “My batsmen must start valu- “A win on Sunday could spur counter, IM Sundar Rajan Kidambi outwit- rying a shoulder problem. fifth bowler with Mark ing their wickets, they need to us to the second One-day title in ted Asha Meera in 25 moves. PTI England’s chairman of selec- Butcher. quickly fight a way out of the bat- two months.” Latif said the con- England squad: Nasser Hussain (Essex, tors, David Graveney, told ting slump,” Atapattu said as his ditions in Dambulla had dictated capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Mark BETTING METER BBC Radio Five Live: “It is a team prepared to defend its five- the low scores, but batsmen must Butcher (Surrey), Andrew Flintoff (Lan- TENNIS bit of an odd injury Andrew cashire), Ashley Giles (Warwickshire), year winning record of limited- not shed their positive outlook. French Open overs series at home.