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OID‰‰†‹KOID‰‰†‹OID‰‰†‹MOID‰‰†‹C The Times of India, New Delhi, Thursday,May 8, 2003 Saying it with tattoos Nick is Priceless now Dream Team in making From Hindi to Latin, David Beckham’s Former world No 1, Nick Price of Be ready for another basketball Dream Team. affair with tattoos continues. Becks, who Zimbabwe, has been elected to The NBA has pledged its support for the had wife Victoria’s name in Hindi inscript- golf’s Hall of Fame. Price, winner of 2004 Olympic Games. That means, top stars ed on his left arm, has added a new three Majors, will be inducted as like Kobe Bryant (R), Allen Iverson, Tracy tattoo on each his forearms, pledging, in 99th member of the club at MacGrady, Jason Kidd and Tim Duncan can Latin, his love for Man United and Victoria St Augustine, Florida be part of the US basketball team Second Test between Lanka and New Zealand ends in a draw We don’t want to see any country picking and choosing tournaments. Bengal team joins —Former Pak coach Ranji final on an edge Javed Miandad Santosh Bane player association SPORTS DIGEST brey, who has marshalled his re- sources superbly, said :‘‘A few ear- By Dinesh Chopra The Indian cricket Reuters Mumbai need IMES EWS ETWORK ly wickets early tomorrow and we T N N board insists that it won’t will be able to wrap it up. Bowling recognise any such body New Delhi: The recently unless all first-class crick- seven wickets, has been our strength, remember.’’ floated Indian Cricket Coach Chandu Pandit backed him eters are included in its Players’ Association up being happy that his gameplan purview. (ICPA) is spreading roots had worked. ICPA officials claim that TN 275 runs with first-class cricketers Tamil Nadu’s only chance was the players, though skepti- slowly becoming its mem- By Pradeep Vijayakar when Powar walked in at 291 for cal, are willing to become a bers. According to a well- TIMES NEWS NETWORK seven with Bahutule and Agarkar part of the association. gone. They needed to keep down placed source, its major “We have a number of pro- Mumbai: Two days-all, one to go. Mumbai to 300. breakthrough came when grammes lined up for Which way,Tamil Nadu’s or Mum- Their matchwinner Balaji with it signed the entire Bengal them. The insurance bai’s will the final day go? Mum- 47 wickets this season (joint top Ranji Trophy side. scheme is just a beginning. bai’s fans will, hopefully, come to with Sunil Joshi) bowled at Mum- “We’ll be announcing We have signed up with the Wankhede stadium on Thurs- bai’s matchwinner. He slipped in a this development and the the National Insurance day to seek the answers to the rid- yorker first ball, Powar kept it out insurance scheme for the company who’ll insure the dle called the Ranji trophy final. of the stumps and Mumbai were player-members in Indian team members for The visitors dominated the first on their way. Kolkata on Thursday. Our free whereas the ICPA will two days. Mumbai dominated the The only sad part was that concern lies with the first- bear the cost of insurance third and the fourth, on Wednes- Powar blotted his book by running class player as the mem- for first-class cricketers day when raising 387 for seven in Michael Vaughan, after being on the pitch while batting. bers of the national team who become members of announced as the new England their second innings. Skipper Now only Hemang Badani have enough people to look the association,” the offi- captain for One-days, poses Paras Mhambrey declared leaving stands in the way. Unless Tamil after them. We have the cial said. before the pictures of former a target of 377 in a possible 132 Nadu find newer heroes at the support of 40 top crick- The insurance cover is captains at Lords on Tuesday. overs at 2.85 an over. Tamil Nadu tailend of the season. eters and are signing first- upto Rs 3.5 lakhs per year used up 42 of those scoring 102 for class players all over the which also includes all the Vaughan out cheap: A day after three. On the final day of the first- SCOREBOARD country,” he said, on condi- dependant memebers of being named England’s One-day class season, they need another tion of anonimity. the player’s family. captain, Michael Vaughan managed 275 in 90. Only once before has any Mumbai (1st innings): 260 only 10 runs against cricket minnow other team scored over 300 to win Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 271 Cambridgeshire on Wednesday as Mumbai (2nd innings, overnight 228/5) — Hyderabad who reached 310 A Mazumdar c Raaju b Suresh 7 his Yorkshire team began the de- with their last pair at the crease B Thakkar retired hurt 66 fense of the Cheltenham & Glouces- against Nawanagar at Mumbai in S Bahutule run out 27 Resume ties: Javed ter Trophy. Rated the world’s top A Agarkar c Balaji b Sriram 4 1937-38. R Powar not out 53 batsman in Tests, Vaughan was Not left any longer in the fray Colombo: Pakistan cricket overs tri-series against Sri caught and bowled by seam bowler P Mhambrey not out 0 are the TN skipper Suresh and his Extras: (b-5, lb-11, nb-6, w-2) 24 coach and famed former Test Lanka and New Zealand. Ajaz Akhtar with Yorkshire on 17 two knights — Sadagopan Ramesh Total: (For 7 wkts, declared, in 105 overs) skipper Javed Miandad says Governments ‘‘should un- against a team from outside the 18 387 that with New Delhi and Is- derstand one thing: they county championship clubs. It was and Sriram, one a Test star, the Fall of wickets: 5-239, 6-287, 7-298 other their season’s highest scorer Bowling: L Balaji 27-3-69-1, M R Srinivas 21- lamabad trying to improve shouldn’t bring politics into an embarrassing start for Vaughan 5-73-3, J Gokulakrishnan 17-3-55-0, S Suresh who has replaced Nasser Hussain as with 636 runs. Both were out be- political relations, time has cricket or any other sport,’’ 14-5-48-1, S Sriram 13-0-60-1, D Dandapani come for India and Pakistan Miandad said. Miandad said the new England captain. AFP fore the close. That should given 10-1-55-0, H Badani 2-0-11-0 an idea which way the dice will Tamil Nadu (2nd innings): to resume cricket contests. he didn’t understand why In- INRC comes north: The MAI run S Suresh b Mhambrey 44 ‘‘Every thing is getting bet- dia played Pakistan in the roll. S Ramesh c Jaffer b Agarkar 6 Indian National Rally Championship Visiting skipper Suresh kept an ter... the governments (of) In- World Cup concluded in is all set to make its debut in north S Sriram lbw b Bahutule 5 optimist front. ‘‘We need to last the S Badrinath batting 12 dia and Pakistan are coming South Africa in March, while India. The 2003 calendar of the INRC first session tomorrow and the H Badani batting 23 to the table and trying to ne- refusing to play in the Asia will have a total of nine rounds in- Extras: (b-4, lb-2, nb-6) 12 gotiate. I’m sure India and Cup scheduled in Pakistan cluding the MRF India Rally 2003, pressure will be turned on Mum- Total: (For 3 wkts, in 42 overs) 102 the final round of the FIA Asia Pacific bai. We have the batting depth for Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-62, 3-62 Pakistan will start playing,’’ this month. ‘‘We don’t want the task.’’ Coach Arun echoed his Bowling: Agarkar 7-1-27-1, Salvi 9-2-17-0, Miandad said on Wednesday to see any country picking Rally Championship. The north India Bahutule 14-3-26-1, Mhambrey 6-3-8-1, leg will be held at Chandigarh from thoughts. Tamil Nadu captain S. Suresh is cleaned up by the rival skipper Paras Powar 5-0-18-0. in Colombo, where Pakistan and choosing tournaments.’’ September 19-21 and would be or- Mumbai skipper Paras Mham- Mhambrey on the fourth day of the Ranji Trophy final in Mumbai. is preparing for a limited- said Miandad. AP ganised by the club Motorsport One. The Himalayan Rally Association will be organising the India Rally 2003. The final venue is yet to be selected. IOA sends doping reports to WADA INRC 2003 calendar: 23-25 May at Chikmaglur; Murali sets another 6-8 June at Nashik; 22-24 August at Kochi; 19-21 By Indraneel Das IOA secretary-general Randhir found guilty by the medical commission September at Chandigarh; 14-16 November at TIMES NEWS NETWORK Bangalore; 5-7 December MRF India Rally (venue Singh, who is also a member of WADA, as per their respective international undecided); 12-14 December at Goa; 26-28 De- confirmed the development. “The let- federation rules. The IOA has already New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Asso- cember at Coimbatore. TNN record in drawn Test ters were signed today and we promptly withdrawn the medals of the athletes. ciation has tightened the noose around sent them to the WADA,” Singh said. Meanwhile, IOA president Suresh Kandy: Muttiah Muralitharan took his DELAYED START: The game always the 21 defaulters of the Hyderabad Na- Indians for karting meet: A 14- 450th Test wicket and a five-wicket haul looked set for a draw after a waterlogged Copies of the reports have also been Kalmadi said that even the coaches member boys team would represent tional Games by taking the matter to its for a record 37th time on Wednesday,but outfield delayed the start, but it burst sent to the six federations concerned.
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