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11122003 Cap Mpr 22 D C OID‰†KOID‰†OID‰†MOID‰†C 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 not out 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 wickets: 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 Cricket 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 wicket: 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 Sandeep Singh. Midfielders: Gurbaj Singh, 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, Rajpal Singh, Birendra Lakhra, to reach Bangkok I’ve not New Delhi: Golf is one sport catch/misfielding Sandeep Michael, Dhanraj Pillay 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.
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