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22 Thursday,December 11, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi New faces in Atwal ready for Jadeja slams unbeaten double century probables list TIMES NEWS NETWORK ready tottering at 25 for one vraj’s mind defeated him as innings): 300 for seven (S Bahutule 29, B Thakkar 34, A Muzumdar 85, V Kambli bat- Bangalore: Experimentation Vadodara: It was truly Ajay after Delhi’s massive first Yuvraj brilliant he was out caught and ting 81; P Chandran 5/53). Jadeja’s day. No second innings of 510 for seven de- bowled to off-spinner seems to be Indian Hockey another crest Orissa: 246 & 121 for two (S Das 48, S Be- Federation’s mantra these thoughts about it. And what clared. New Delhi: When Yuvraj Shreyas Khanolkar playing hera 44, R Parida batting 21) vs HP (1st in- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata pro is in line to give a chanceless innings he Delhi (1st innings, overnight 233/3): M Singh would have hit the an in-between push drive. nings): 116 (M Bisla 23, A Sharma 34; De- days. Announcing the list of Manhas b Patel 57, A Jadeja 206, P New Delhi: The Indian golf- us another big reason to re- played against Baroda at the sack on Wednesday he’d So, at the end of Day 2, Pun- bashis Mohanty 2/23, D Mangaraj 7/42). 25 probables for the next joice. Barring last minute Chavla lbw Pathan 2, V Kumar c & b Buch ing fraternity’s joyous, even ongoing Ranji Trophy Elite 38, Sarandeep c Solanki b Buch 28, A have been crossed with him- jab’s score of 157 for three Rajasthan (Ist innings): 259 (Vinit Saxena month’s Azlan Shah hockey hiccups, he is all set to win 80, Rahul Kanwat 65; Lalit Patel 4/55, Sid- tournament here on Wednes- euphoric, reaction to Arjun Group match here on Bhandari not out 14; Extras: (b-14, lb-12, self. Yeah, he scored a sump- looks good but not great. dartha Trivedi 2/50, Shymal Bhatt 3/45) vs Atwal becoming the first In- the Asian Order of Merit Wednesday. The small nb-16, w-6) 48. tuous 80. Yeah, there were 15 Railways (1st innings): 390 (TP Singh Gujrat (1st innings): 188 for 9 (Akash day, IHF president K.P.S. Gill crown on Sunday and emu- Total: (For 7 wkts, declared) 510; Fall of 168, Sanjay Bangar 79, J P Yadav 42; Christian 56, Niraj Patel 44; S Mathur 5/49). said that the move is to give dian to qualify for the USP- crowd which had come to : 4-245, 5-254, 6-354, 7-433. classy fours and an immacu- late Jyoti Randhawa who be- Gagandeep 5/61, Uniyal 2/121, Navdeep UP (1st innings): 267 (Suresh Raina 106, exposure to some of the tal- GA Tour only highlights the witness their former hero at Bowling: Rakesh Patel: 42-6-162-1, Irfan late six in that knock. Yeah, 2/53) vs Punjab (1st innings): 157 for came the first Indian to win Pathan (Sr) 30-7-82-2, Shekhar Joshi 23- G Pandey 97; S Shahbuddin 5/75, RVC ented juniors. worth of his achievement. the IPCL Stadium they came off a mere 81 three (Yuvraj Singh 80, D Mongia 33, P Prasad 3/30) vs Andhra (1st innings): 112 the honours last season. 9-45-2, Valmik Buch 51-12-115-2, Tushar Dharmani batting 27). for five (G Rao batting 58; AW Zaidi 3/33). As a build-up to the What he has done is to give were absolutely stunned by Arothe 23-1-80-0. balls. But all of this failed to CORES OF THE OTHER ANJI MATCHES Olympic qualifers to be held hope and ambition to the The Order of Merit will his splendid performance. Baroda (1st innings): C Williams lbw deliver what it promised. Be- S R : Goa (1st innings): 326 vs Maharashtra pros back home who are mean that Atwal can also tee At the end of the day Bar- Sarandeep 9, S Parab batting 15; Extras: sides, missing an obvious Hyderabad (1st innings): 252 (D Manohar (1st innings): 121 for one (Dhiraj Jadhav next year, Indians would be off at the prestigious British (nb-1) 1. 29,A T Rayudu 30,A Yadav 45, I Khaleel 66; batting 38, Kaushik Aphale batting 30). playing three matches on Feb- honing their skills on the oda were already on their consecutive hundred Punjab Chatterjee 8/54) vs Bengal (1st innings): Open next year. Looking Total: (For 1 wkt, in 8.4 overs) 25; Fall of TN : 310 & 99 for 2 (S Suresh batting 50, S ruary 5, 6 and 8 against Hol- greens of the Indian PGA backfoot with their opener : 1-25. batsman also missed an ex- 153 for three (A Das batting 72, R Gavaskar 36; S Yadav 3/44). Sriram 22, S Badrinath batting 26) vs As- land at Hyderabad with a Tour. No doubt, Indian Tour back on a bountiful year in Connor Williams back to the Bowling: Amit Bhandari 2-0-13-0, S Gill 4- cuse to impose himself on sam (1st innings): 134 (V Saravanan 30, G regulars are calling it ‘‘an in- which he also annexed ma- pavilion and the hosts al- 0-11-0, Sarandeep Singh 4-1-1-1. this match. In the end, Yu- Kerala (1st innings): 165 vs Mumbai (1st Dutta 30; Kumaran 2/32, Ramkumar 4/24). view to get acclimatised to the spiration for all of us.’’ jor events like the Malaysian conditions which are similar And our man of the mo- Open and the Hero Honda to Madrid. Amateur Gagan Probables list: Goalkeepers: Kamal Deep ment, now in Bangkok for Masters, Atwal said: ‘‘It’s Singh, Adrian D’Souza, Kutappa. Fullbacks: the Asian PGA season-ender been a perfect year for me Motivation, the Railways way William Xalxo, Harpal Singh, Len Ayyappa, $5,00,000 Volvo Open, said on and qualifying for the USP- leads pro event . Midfielders: , V GA caps it all.’’ By Dinesh Chopra turned the corner this sea- Harvinder Singh has to en- S Vinay, Vivek Gupta, Arjun Halappa, Sandeep Wednesday: ‘‘The enormity Motivation mantras Kumar, Ignatius Tirkey, Bipin Fernandez, Bal- of the achievement hasn’t With Jyoti Randhawa, Ar- By Shashank Shekhar TIMES NEWS NETWORK son. They went on to chase sure that there aren’t any jeet Saini, Prabhdeep Singh. Forwards: Hari jun Singh, Amandeep Johl TIMES NEWS NETWORK 240 against Delhi even after hanging heads or drooping Prasad, Tushar Khandekar, Adams Sinclair, sunk in. It’s been a mad dash New Delhi: Two outright •Rs. 100 for per drop and Harmeet Kahlon also in being 96 for four. shoulders. Their gameplan Baljeet Dhillon, , Birendra Lakhra, to reach Bangkok I’ve not New Delhi: Golf is one sport catch/misfielding Sandeep Michael, and Girish wins in four games, a first revolves around a hundred had time to savour some- the fray at the Bangkok which can make cricket look And then they came back Concentrate hard after Pimpale. Officials: Harendra Singh (chief innings lead in the third and • and a fifty off the top four thing that I’ve always event which opens on Thurs- like a hackneyed,predictable hard to beat UP after being the breaks coach), Clarence Lobo (coach), Ramandeep ten points in four games so batters. Singh (coach), A B Subbaiah (goalkeeper dreamt of.’’ day, the Indian challenge is Bollywood potboiler, so capa- shot out for 137 in the first While batting talk to far isn’t spectacular but • While bowling, Sharma coach). Well, the 31-year-old indeed strong. ble it’s of throwing surpris- innings. Sharma’s players your struggling partner surely steady. Coach Vinod stresses, his bowlers to get feel a lot of it is to do with Bowlers make the ba es. Like, an amateur, coming Sharma claims his team is • the tailenders out lbw or those basics of the game tsmen play Easy for Karan; Madura bows out back from injury-forced ex- headed for more. clean bowled. Sharma goes Model boys win crying out from the walls of Tailenders play like New Delhi: Top seed Karan Rastogi found the going easy ile, leading a true pro event. He says: “It could have • on: “There are a couple of Sacrilege, the pros will de- the Railways’ dressing batsmen while fourth seed Arun Prakash Rajagopalan survived a been a lot better had our important points written cree. But then, that’s golf. room. •Bowlers should under- hearts and tie scare against Rupesh Roy in the boys’ section at the Asian batsmen pushed a little in golden ink. They say While a host of veteran These Motivation stand the importance of TIMES NEWS NETWORK Junior Tennis Championships here on Wednesday. more today (against Punjab that good teams don’t de- pros huffed and puffed their mantras are categorised dif- bowling in partnershiips Karan saw off Cheuk Wai Hui of Hong Kong 6-3, 6-0. Ra- on Wednesday). It’s no good pend on toss, they win in New Delhi:The boys from way through the first round ferently for batting, bowling, jagopalan, who failed to find his rhythm, was stretched by collapsing from 311 for four all conditions. The other Government Model High of the Rs 8 lakh NGC Open at fielding, attitude and ap- forget. them aloud before he Roy but kept his cool to enter the quarterfinal with a 2-6, 6- to 390 all out. But we’re sure- one emphasises on the need School, Chandigarh proved the Noida Golf Course on ly in the game.” proach to the game. Sharma goes out to bat.” to up your game in tight sit- 3, 7-5 victory over Roy. their mettle by outplaying Wednesday, amateur Gagan These aren’t those typical says: “These mantras were For instance while field- uation.” Fifth seed Madura Ranganathan lost to Kartiki Bhat 3-6, Maharana Pratap Sports Col- Verma streaked to a 5-under Railways claims that border designed by both me and ing Sharma wants his play- Something that Railways 5-7 in the girls’ section. Sixth seed Zhang Suai of China also par 67 to climb atop the lege, Uttaranchal 3-0 in the on hope rather than convic- Sanjay Bangar. They are the ers to exhibit positive body have already done twice Subroto Cup football tourna- went down to Pichittra Thongdach of Thailand 2-6, 1-6. TNN leaderboard. The best among tion. His team has twice basics which players tend to language. Fast bowler this season. pros was SSP Chowrasia who ment (U-14) on Wednesday. returned a card of 3-under. Gagan scored a brace (16, Gagan opened up on a Hunan favoured 32) while Randeep (24) added scorching note, a la Adam Giles leads England fightback another for the winners. Gilchrist, with a birdie on the New Delhi:Hunan, an im- Meanwhile in other match- first hole and an eagle on the Kandy: England’s bowlers produced a bat- not out. Giles, England’s hero in Galle with pressive winner in her last es, ASV school, Uttar Pradesh second. In fact, he could have tling display to restrict to 277 for bat and ball, recovered from a bad bout of outing, should complete a thrashed St. Joseph Convent, an eagle on the par-5 first too seven at the close on the first day of the flu to take 3/85 from 27 overs. double in the MH Ahm Madhya Pradesh 9-0. Md but for a missed putt from second Test on Wednesday. Sri Lanka, 187 , called up for the Trophy, the main event of Nabab, Ekh-Lakh Ahmed and close. Gagan hit three more for three at one stage, lost the initiative, first time in two and a half years in place the Mumbai races scheduled Nahid Akhtar scored two birdies — on the eighth, 10th losing three wickets for 19 runs before a of leg spinner , top scored for Thursday. goals each while Biru Yadav, and 15th. Even a bogey on the fighting 64-run seventh wicket stand. for Sri Lanka, lacing 10 boundaries in his Selections: HC Clifton Plate: 1,000m: Suresh Patel and Awdhesh Pa- 2.30pm: Seattle Swan 1, Oriental Ace 2, 16th hole could not hold him England, who started the match with 63 from 94 balls. tel were the other scorers. only a three-man attack having dropped Rich Treat 3. Sun Rock Plate: 1,400m: St. Ignatius, Gumla were from taking the lead. Sri Lanka: M Atapattu lbw Kirtley 11, S Jayasuriya c Read Starboard 1,Aag 2, Princess Sultana 3. DW seamers Matthew Hoggard and Richard b Giles 32, K Sangakarra run out 34, M Jayawardene c Kirt- Reid Plate: 1,600m: Eaglecrest 1, Rare held goalless by Vivekananda Leading scores: (Pros): 69 SSP Chowrasia; Johnson, broke through again with the Vidyapeeth, Chhattisgarh 70 Ashok Kumar, Dinesh Kumar; 71 Ali Sher, ley b Giles 45, T Dilshan c Trescothick b Flintoff 63, H Edition 2, Senor Tango 3. A Hoyt Plate; Gaurav Ghei, Pappan, Sandeep Syal, Sanjay second new ball in the 87th over, as James Tillakaratne batting 45, T Samaraweera lbw b Giles 3, C 1,000m: Speedster 1, Silver Line 2, Check- while Apex Public School, Del- Kumar, Vivek Bhandari; 72 Digvijay Singh, Kirtley trapped leg-before, Vaas lbw b Kirtley 33, K Dharmasena batting 1. Extras: (b- mate 3. MH Ahmedbhoy Trophy: 2,000m: hi registered a 3-0 win over St. KPS Sekhon, Manohar Dike, R Srinivas, S to leave the match intriguingly poised. 1, lb-7, nb-2) 10. Total: (For 7 wkts, in 90 overs) 277. Fall Hunan 1, Antiles 2, Smart Supreme 3. Sun Joseph, Nagaland. Madaiah, Shamim Khan, Suleman Ali, Vinod Sri Lanka skipper Rock Plate (div.I): 1,400m: Everlasting Kumar. Amateurs: 67 Gagan Verma; 73 of wickets: 1-20, 2-76, 3-84, 4-187, 5-201, 6-206, 7-270. Joy 1, Rivendell 2, Parmeshwari 3. Thun- DD demand: Meanwhile, Do- Chirag Kumar; found form after a disappointing first Test, Bowling: Kirtley 20-6-75-2 (2 nb), Flintoff 18-3-49-1, Giles dering Beauty Plate: 1,200m: 5.30pm: ordarshan has urged the or- 74 Karanjit Singh. batting out the final session to finish un- 27-5-85-3, Collingwood 7-2-12-0, Batty 13-3-39-0, Strategic Moves 1, Warrior of Light 2, ganisers to pay Rs 1 lakh to Vaughan 5-0-9-0. Reuters beaten on 45. Kumar Dharmasena was one Bhanuja 3. cover the finals of the tourna- ment live. DD covered the the event in the past, but this is the Indian eves win ODI series first time they are asking for a Bangalore: In a nail-biting finish, pay cheque to cover the event Indian women defeated New CROSS COUNTRY for the school kids. Zealand by five runs in the third One-dayer cricket match here on Ganguly maintains lead CAPITAL SPORT Wednesday to wrap up the five- Kozhikode: Grandmaster Surya DAV in semis: DAV School, match series. Chasing a victory Shekhar Ganguly of PSPB extend- Chandigarh beat Barguna Zilla target of 212, the visitors who at ed his lead to a full point after opt- School, Bangladesh by 2 one stage appeared cruising to vic- ing for a quick draw with team- wickets to enter the semifinals tory, ended up at 206 for seven, giv- mate S Kidambi in the 10th round of the DPS world cup invita- ing them an unassailable 3-0 lead. of the 41st National ‘A’ tional cricket for schools. Raz- Championship here on Wednesday. zak High School and Par- zowar Kalindi High School, Seeds find going easy Results (round 10): P Harikrishna (5.5) drew Arghyadip both from Bangladesh, also Lucknow: Barring number seven Das (3); Suvrajit Saha (5) drew Praveen Thipsay (5.5); V Hariharan (2) lost to Tejas Bakre (6); enter the quarters. Anup Sridhar (PSCB), all other (6.5) lost to Neelotpal Das (6.5); (4) drew Scores: Barguna Zilla School, seeeded players had comfortable Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (6.5); Prathamesh Mokal Bangladesh 144 in 38.5 overs (Asmarifur first-round wins in the Jaypee Syed (5.5) drew S Satyapragyan (5); Roktim Bandhodhpay (4) Rahman Roni 38, Naresh Gogyan 3 for beat T S Ravi (3.5); (6.5) beat M Srinivas 23) lost to DAV, CHandigarh 146/8 in 37.4 Modi all-India Rs 8-lakh prize mon- Rao (1.5); (5) drew M R Venkatesh overs (Sumit Khamboj 40 not out, , ey badminton. Top seed Chetan (5.5); (6) beat Vishal Sareen (4.5); S Shahin Azad 3/22) by 2 wickets. Anand led the march of qualifiers, Vikramjit Singh (3.5) drew R B Ramesh (6.5); S Kidambi Razzak High School, Bangladesh 173/9 in beating K Makwana (MP) 15-5, 15-1. (5) drew S S Ganguly (7.5).PTI 40 overs (Azizur Rahman 45, Saidul Basher 42, Harish Kumar 3/21) bt Ravin- Abhinn Shyam Gupta downed dra Public 162 in 39.4 overs (Hossain Arif qualifiers Utsav Prakash (Karnata- Anindita in semifinals 4/25) by 11 runs. ka) 15-9, 15-3 while third seed JBS New Delhi: Eighth seed Anindita Delhi Public School, RK Puram 113 in Vidyadhar knocked out Jibi Vergh- 35.5 overs lost to Parzovar Kalindi High Chakraborty of RSPB who defeat- School, Bangladesh 115/3 in 24.3 overs ese 15-4, 15-2. PTI Results: Men’s singles (first ed top seed Poulomi Ghatak of (Alamgir Hossain 46 not out) by 7 wick- round): C Anand (PSCB) bt K Mak- PSPB 11-7, 4-11, 11-6, 11-7, 13-11 to ets. wana (MP) 15-5 15-1, H Thakkar book a berth in the semifinals of DDCA league results: Oriental Bank of (Railways) bt S Thomas (Kerala) the National Ranking Table Tennis Commerce 119 in 38.2 overs (Anil Arora 15-4 3-1 (conceded), SDS Krish- 31, Vikrant Sehwag 3/25) lost to Super na (AP) bt Amar Mohite (Maha) 1- Championship (North Zone) at the Star 120 in 21 overs (Rakesh Sharma 51 8 15-4, Utsav Mishra (UP) bt Tan- NDMC Indoor Stadium here on not out, Tejender Singh 42 not out) by 9 veer Gill (Delhi) 15-3 15-8. Wednesday. wickets. Rehman Club 156 in 33.4 overs (Shahzeb Naqvi 34, Mohd Imran 54, Aswani Katyal 4/33, Mukesh Dewan 3/26) beat Delhi Blues 150 in 29 overs (Anuj Sharma 43, Mohd Adnan 3/12, Mehboob Alam 3/17).

Satyawati champs: Satyawati College (Evening) and Ramjas College won the team titles in the Delhi Uni- veristy inter-college archery championship. Ravinder Shar- ma (Satywati) and Kiran (Indira Gandhi Inst. of Physical Edu- cation) were individual cham- pions in men’s and women’s sections respectively. Ministry football: Armed Force HQ beat Urban Devel- opment 2-1 in the inter-min- istry football tournament./ Yoga meet: The Delhi state yoga championship will be held at the DAV Public School, Rohini, Sector 7 from December 12.

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