OID‰‰†KOID‰‰†OID‰‰†MOID‰‰†C The Times of India, New Delhi, Monday,April 28, 2003 Agassi gains No 1 spot Davenport weds Gayle smashes ton Andre Agassi, who will turn 33 on American tennis star Lindsay Windies’ opening batsman Chris Tuesday, is the oldest man to gain the married investment banker and Gayle celebrated his recall to the No 1 spot in the world rankings since the collegemate Jonathan Leach at a Test team with a century for the ATP adopted computers to decide it in ceremony in Hawaii on Friday. Vice-chancellor’s XI in a match 1973. He wrested the honours from The couple was joined by friends against Australia in Bridgetown. He hit Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and family for the ceremony 129 in the side’s 1st innings total of 290 South Africa’s Paul Adams finished with a match haul of ten wickets in their innings victory against Bangladesh If Shoaib Akhtar does not improve his behaviour and Bahutule takes 5, general discipline, he has no place in the team — PCB chief Delhi-TN tie on even keel Kanwaljeet Singh Mumbai enter final Lt Gen Tauqir Zia By Dinesh Chopra edge before depositing itself in By Peter Pears TIMES NEWS NETWORK wicket-keeper Vijay Dahiya’s safe and then in the next over, SPORTS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK missed the line while trying to New Delhi: Narender Singh Negi gloves. AFP drive again against the pacy just adores hindi movies for their Negi produced a replica of the Vadodara: Mumbai spinners Avishkar Salvi. sheer drama. He’s hoping for some same to get rid of an assured S. Sairaj Bahutule and Ramesh Salvi did have to wait long ‘first day, first show’ action to un- Suresh for 35. The visiting skip- Powar delivered a tottering to pick up his third wicket in fold at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadi- per’s slow walk to the pavilion sug- Baroda the knock-out punch um. So what if it isn’t a Friday to- gested that he had no clue what hit to floor hosts by and innings the match as debutant Dhiren day, Negi wants to steal the show him. As for Negi, his celebrations and 138 runs on the third day Salvi, looking all at sea, hung from now on in the Ranji Trophy culminated with a run to the third- of their Ranji Trophy semi-fi- out a limp bat in the path of a semifinal tie. man boundary. nal match that ended prema- delivery for Vinayak Samant “Tamil Nadu sure have an edge Earlier, Vijay Dahiya and turely at the GSFC ground behind the stumps to take a but we too can force a twist to the Mithun Manhas resumed Delhi’s here on Sunday. regulation catch. Dhiren had the tale. The first session will be batting from 127 for four on a Trying to wipe out a huge a pair in the game. very crucial for us,” he said with rather cool (by Delhi’s standard) first innings deficit of 260, Baroda (1st innings): 130 all out. words zipping at some speed. Sunday.But the opposition imme- the Baroda batsmen never re- Mumbai (1st innings): 390. OK, now we know where that diately turned on the heat. ally applied themselves for Baroda (2nd innings)(overnight 16 for 1): Dahiya was the first to go off a the second time in succes- Connor Williams c Jaffer b Powar 6, Satyajit comes from. Negi is a die-hard Parab b A Salvi 19, Rakesh Solanki c & b Shahrukh Khan fan. persistent L. Balaji (2/70). He did- sion to hand Mumbai a victo- Bahutule 38, Dhiren Salvi c Samant b A Salvi Negi also admires Steve n’t add even a single run to his ry in a platter with about two 0, Tushar Arothe c Mane b Agarkar 1, Ajit Waugh’s gumption. If Negi can overnight score of 19. As if in and half days to spare. Bhoite c A Salvi b Bahutule 19, Nayan Mon- protest, Manhas too departed on With the exception of gia c Agarkar b Powar 6, Irfan Pathan (Jr) b promise to be half as good, Indian Bahutule 4, Rakesh Patel lbw Bahutule 0, cricket can party every weekend. his individual score of 31. Saran- young Rakesh Solanki, who Zaheer Khan st Samant b Bahutule 15, Russia’s Anastasia Myskina takes For the time being, it is as distant deep Singh is an adventurous once again showed that he Valmik Buch not out 0. Russia into the Fed Cup World as Arjuna Ranatunga and Shane soul. That was exhibited in his 20- was a talent to be taken notice Extras (7-nb, 5-b, 2-w): 14. Total: 122 all out. Group quarterfinal after beating Warne meeting for dinner. run knock that had three hits to of, the rest of the Baroda bat- Croatian Iva Majoli in Moscow on the fence. Senior ting made it look like a Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-36, 3-36, 4-40, 5- On Sunday, the 90, 6-102, 7-102, 8-106, 9-115. Sunday. Myskina won 6-2, 7-5. RANJI SEMIFINAL pro Rahul 25-year-old Delhi slaughter of the lambs as the Bowling: Agarkar 9-5-10-1(1w),A Salvi 7-2- Sanghvi failed to do the same and Knight retires from ODIs: Eng- paceman left a bit of his own went down for 122 in the sec- 13-2(1w), Bahutule 13.2-4-21-5(3nb), Powar was out for just three runs. land opener Nick Knight on Sunday touch. Both he and Amit Bhandari ond innings. 17-4-58-2(4nb), Mhambrey 5-2-15-0. announced his retirement from One- (32) added 62 gold-flaked runs for Now, Tamil Nadu would be hop- With skipper Connor No change in side day cricket. The 33-year-old, hit by a the final wicket. Delhi’s innings ing that their batsmen do what Williams falling at stumps on niggling knee injury recently, has was struggling on life-support sys- the bowlers did. And ensure the Saturday, Baroda expected Meanwhile, Mumbai skipper played in 100 ODIs — averaging tem at 194 for nine when the two best place for Negi to search for Satyajit Parab to come up Paras Mhambrey said that 40.41 and hitting five centuries. His met in the middle. The final score dramas is a nearest movie with his fourth century of the Mumbai would not make any departure leaves England coach of 256 looks a lot healthier than theatre. season. But the opener flat- changes in their squad for Duncan Fletcher with the task of Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 327. tered to deceive at the start of the Ranji Trophy final that. Both then returned in an ex- Delhi (1st innings): A Chopra lbw b Suresh 30 G finding a suitable replacement for the tended final session to leave Tamil Gambhir c Raaju b Balaji 31 V Sehwag b Srinivas 0 THE DOUBLE TROUBLE: Delhi medium-pacer Amit Bhandari providing a play on Sunday as on-drove against the winners of the man described as “a fantastic ser- Nadu at 88 for four in the second M Manhas c Dhandapani b Srinivas 31 V Kumar c vital rearguard action against Tamil Nadu on the third day of the Ranji spinner Ramesh Powar for match between Delhi and vant” to the One-day game by chair- innings. Foreheads of the visitors Raaju b Dhandapani 12 V Dahiya c Raaju b Balaji Trophy semifinal tie at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Sunday. two successive boundaries Tamil Nadu. 19 N S Negi c Dhandapani b Srinivas 44 Sarandeep man of selectors David Graveney. aren’t exactly creased as they have Knight said he had been mulling over Singh c Ramesh b Suresh 20 R Sanghvi st Raaju b the cushion of 71-run first innings Dhandapani 3 S Gill c Sivaramakrishnan b Dhan- retirement for some time. “I was des- dapani 12 A Bhandari not out 32. perate to play in the World Cup hav- as well. Also, the Anna of the side S.Sharath is unbeaten too with Extras (lb-5, w-2, nb-15): 22 ing missed out on the last one, but Total: 256 all out. Farcical rainy interlude at Ferozeshah Kotla Sadagopan Ramesh. I’ve got other challenges ahead Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-59, 3-75, 4-96, 5-129, TIMES NEWS NETWORK The two umpires for this prestigious be geared up for such elementary things of me. ”AFP Tamil Nadu could have been a 6-139, 7-165, 8-180, 9-194. little more at peace but for some semifinal match — F Gomes and AM is unbeatable? All this farce left a wet spot Bowling: Balaji 28-7-70-2, Srinivas 23.1-7-47- New Delhi: If it’s Delhi and District Indian Railways win silver: In- disciplined Delhi bowling. Darts 3, Suresh 14-4-34-2, Dhandapani 27-7-96-3, Sahiba — and the BCCI observer R.S. on the Ambedhkar Stadium end of the Cricket Association, drama can’t be too dian Railway lost to Russian Railway were flying all over the place as Sivaramakrishnan 3-1-4-0. far behind. Almost 80 minutes of play was Rathore had no choice but to rush to the wicket as groundstaff tried to dry it up. 110-68 in the world railway basket- the Kotla wicket seemed to have Tamil Nadu (2nd innings): V Sivaramakrishnan c Dahiya b Bhandari 0 S Suresh c Dahiya b Negi 35 lost when afternoon showers hit the Fer- middle to do the needful.