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The Times of India, New Delhi, Saturday,October 11, 2003

Ali presents book on his life Beckham opposed boycott Hewitt skips rest of season Raising his fists and striking a fighting pose, football David Beckham begged Former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt has withdrawn Muhammad Ali greeted an adoring crowd at the teammate Gary Neville not to lead a boycott of the from all remaining ATP events this year in order to Frankfurt book fair on Thursday who cheered on side’s crucial Euro 2004 qualifier against Turkey in concentrate on the Davis Cup final. It means He- the former heavyweight champ as he presented protest the axing from the squad of Rio Ferdinand, witt will miss next week’s Madrid Masters, along a monumental book chronicling his life. The Sun newspaper reported on Friday. with Guillermo Coria and David Nalbandian.

Jarno Trulli fastest in first qualifying for Japanese GP

It just doesn’t seem to be real to me at the moment. Haydonnit! Super Matt — Kellie Hayden, wife of Matthew NZ need 18 to breathe Reuters SPORTS DIGEST blasts 380, eclipses Lara By Lionel Rodricks Reuters TIMES NEWS NETWORK Perth: Australia batsman Matthew Green cap when the record was bro- Hayden wiped ’s individual ken.’’ : The first Test Test-scoring record from the history The Australian was finally caught at match between India and books with a spectacular of 380 deep square-leg by Stuart Carlisle off is tantalisingly in the first Test against Zimbabwe on Trevor Gripper for 380 shortly after tea. poised after an absorbing Friday. Australia declared on 735 for six imme- third day’s play at the Sardar Hayden’s mammoth effort beat the diately after Hayden’s dismissal with Patel Gujarat stadium at previous mark of 375 set by West Indies Gilchrist unbeaten on 113. Hayden Motera here on Friday. batsman Lara against England in 1994. struck 38 fours and 11 sixes from 437 When stumps were drawn, The Queenslander pushed left-arm slow balls in 622 minutes at the crease. the Kiwis were struggling to bowler Ray Price for a single to long on Australia, 1st innings (overnight 372/3): M Hayden c remain afloat at 282 for the in the penultimate ball before the tea Carlisle b Gripper 380, S Waugh c and b Ervine 78, D loss of eight in reply Lehmann c and b Ervine 30, A Gilchrist 113, Extras to India’s first innings total break to reach 376 before swinging his (lb10, w1, nb3, b4) 18, Total (for 6 wickets decl.) 735. bat above his head in celebration and Fall of wickets: 1-43, 2-102, 3-199, 4-406, 5-502, 6-735 of 500 for 5 wickets declared, raising both hands to the cheers of the : Streak 26-6-131-0, Blignaut 28-4-115-0, Ervine still needing another 18 runs 31-4-146-4, Price 36-5-187-0, Gripper 25.3-0-142-2. to avoid the follow-on. crowd. Zimbabwe, 1st innings: D Ebrahim b Gillespie 29,T Gripper Hayden then kissed his Baggy Green not out 37, M Vermeulen not out 9, Extras (lb1,w1, nb2) 4, Conversely, India have to cap and was bear-hugged by teammate Total (for one ) 79. capture the remaining two Fall of wickets: 1-61 Los Angeles Laker basketball . “I can’t quite believe it, New Zealand wickets before Bowling: Lee 6-1-21-0, Gillespie 10-4-15-1, Bichel 7-0-25- they reach 300, to force the player Kobe Bryant leaves the to be honest,’’ Hayden said. “I’m just 0, MacGill 7-2-17-0, Lehmann 1-1-0-0. Agencies courtroom after a preliminary thrilled that I was wearing the Baggy visitors to bat again. hearing in his rape case at the smashed his Eagle County Justice Centre in maiden Test against Eagle, Colorado, on Thursday. The India, and ninth overall, on hearing recessed until October 15. Friday. It was an endeavour that went a long way in National squash: National squash pulling the Kiwis out of the champion Joshna Chinappa and oth- shadows of an embarrass- er top players like Ramit Tandon of ing, early defeat. Astle notched up 103 runs Kolkata, Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nathan Astle is by Parthiv Patel off on Friday. Nandrajog will be seen in action at and was involved in two the National and Inter-state junior fruitful partnerships, with Two vital partnerships en- and sub-junior squash champi- (34, 98 balls, 5x4) abled the Kiwis, who started Scoreboard: Day 3 onship, which gets under way in and Craig McMillan (54, 93 b, the day on 41 for 3 wickets, to India (1st innings) 500/5 declared Chennai on Saturday. Tamil Nadu, 8x4) that kept at bay the hun- keep their heads above water New Zealand (1st innings, overnight 41/3) R B 4 6 aided by Chinappa, will be the gry Indian spinners and and Astle was involved in Scott Styris c Chopra b Harbhajan 34 98 5 0 favourites in the girls section. They medium pacers. both of them. (caught off bat and pad at forward short-leg) have fielded the most teams in all In a tense post-tea session, Astle and Scott Styris Nathan Astle st Patel b Harbhajan 103 207 14 0 age categories. Robbie Hart (15) and Daniel added 91 runs for the fourth (Charged out, missed and was easily stumped) Vettori ( 28) defied the wicket and denied India the Craig McMillan c Chopra b Sehwag 54 92 8 0 SFA win: Maya Lepcha of the Indians by adding 38 runs for breakthrough they sought so Sikkim Football Association (SFA) XI (reflex action catch off an attempted sweep) the stubborn eighth wicket badly in the morning. After c Dravid b Kumble 5 50 0 0 scored twice to carve out a 2-1 vic- and at the fag end of play Styris’s exit, Astle and tory over Tibetan National Football (hung bat out and edged to first slip) Vettori found an able partner McMillan put on an equal Robbie Hart lbw Balaji 15 58 1 0 Association (TNFA) in the inaugural in (8) who number of runs for the fifth (Walked across the wicket and caught in front) match of the Governor’s Gold Cup wicket, McMillan being the tournament at the Baichuing Stadi- bravely held on to his wicket. batting 28 71 5 0 The pair has so far put on 17 dominant partner in the Paul Wiseman batting 8 28 1 0 um, Namchi on Friday. Baba Tsher- Extras (b 4, lb 13, nb 4) 21 ing got the reducer. precious runs for the ninth stand. New Zealand’s top scorer Total (for 8 wickets, 109 overs) 282 wicket. Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Richardson), 2-16 (Vincent), 3-17 (Fleming), Haryana to award: The Haryana Astle got a life when he must be cursing himself for 4-108 (Styris), 5-199 (McMillan), 6-223 (Astle), 7-227 (Oram), 8- government has decided to give a was on 93. He snicked Harb- stepping out of his crease to 265 (Hart). cash award of Rs 10 lakh to gold hajan Singh, but Parthiv Pa- play Harbhajan. Astle Bowling: Zaheer 18-3-50-3 (3nb); Balaji 23-6-71-1 (1nb); Kumble medal winners in the Afro-Asian tel behind the stumps failed missed the ball and Parthiv 27-9-47-1; Harbhajan 33-7 -80-2; Sehwag 8-2-17-1. Games which are scheduled to begin to take the catch. whipped off the bails. at from October 24. The silver medallist would be given Rs 7 lakh and bronze medallist Rs 5 lakh. Jaldi-5 ATHLETICS RANKINGS Express Andre ‘Lara enjoyed Women’s Long jump my knock’ 1 Tatyana Kotova (Rus) 1308 ‘Nels’ Pakistan Perth: Matthew Hayden 2 Eunice Barber (Fra) 1269 3 Elva Goulbroune (Jam) 1256 Rawalpindi: Paceman hit the winning bound- received many calls after 4 Maurren Higa Maggi (Bra) 1248 Andre Nel took a career ary off Mohammad his epic knock, one of them from Brian Lara. 5 Olga Rublyova (Rus) 1238 best 4-39 and Shaun Pol- Hafeez. ‘‘It was a fantas- 6 Anju George (Ind) 1227 Excerpts: lock conceded just nine tic win. Boys were hun- What did Lara say? 7 Grace Upshaw (USA) 1222 runs off his 10 overs on gry and they hit the 8 Tunde Vaszi (Hun) 1209 He said great things hap- Friday as right areas in the bowl- 9 Jade Johnson (GBR) 1188 pen to good cricketers, 10 Bronwyn Thompson (Aus) 1187 thrashed Pakistan by ing,'' victorious captain and that he really enjoyed six wickets to level the said. source: www.iaaf.org the way we play our game. five-match One-day se- Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez c Your triple hundred was ries 2-2. Boucher b Andre Nel 1, Yasir quick. Hameed c Boucher b Andre Nel 30, BETTING METER South Africa shot Faisal Iqbal c Hall b Andre Nel 0, We play a unique game in Pakistan out for only Yousuf Youhana c Pollock b Andre a lot of ways. We enjoy FOOTBALL 157 in 47.4 overs, and Nel 60, c Boucher b An- scoring runs quickly, and dre Nel 13, Naved Latif b Shaun Pol- Euro 2004, Saturday then (58 then love putting sides un- Turkey 11/10, England 11/5, Draw 2/1 lock 4, Shoaib Malik b Makhaya Nti- der pressure. not out off 87 balls) and ni 5, Rashid Latif b Jacques Kallis Germany 1/3; Iceland 7/1, Draw 3/1 How would you analyse (41 off 18, Shoaib Akhtar c Boucher b as per ladbrokes.com Makhaya Ntini 0, your knock? 46 deliveries) powerful- not out 16, Shabbir Ahmed b When you are batting real- TODAY’S ACTION ly cut, pulled and drove Makhaya Ntini 2. Extras: (lb2, w6) ly well, you are almost in a toward the winning tar- 8, Total: (in 47,4 overs) 157. vacuum, and in that vacu- NATIONAL Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-16, 3-59, get, reached in 38.5 4-105, 5-114, 6-120, 7-122, 8-122, um you feel that time CRICKET: India vs New Zealand, Fourth day overs for the loss of four 9-150. shreds away, and runs are (Live on DD Sports from 9.15 am). wickets. Gibbs' innings Bowling: Pollock 10-4-9-1, Nel 10- just a consequence of be- 0-39-4, Ntini 7.4-0-25-3, Hall 8-1- ing in the vacuum. INTERNATIONAL included seven fours - 31-1, Peterson 5-0-31-0, Kallis 7-0- more than all the Pak- 20-1. You share a great rela- CRICKET: Australia vs Zimbabwe 1st Test, tionship with your skip- Day 3 (Live on ESPN at 7.27 am). istani batsmen com- South Africa: G. Smith b Moham- bined - before he played mad Sami 13, H. Gibbs b Shoaib per. FORMULA ONE: Japanese GP (Live on Akhtar 41, J. Kallis not out 58, J. on to an express deliv- Steve (Waugh) has played STAR Sports at 10.25 am). Rudolph c Latif b Mohammad Hafeez a vital role in my rehabilita- ery by Shoaib Akhtar. 20, B. Dippenaar c Hafeez b Shoaib RUGBY: Ireland vs Romania (Live on Star tion as a Test cricketer. He Sports, 12.30 pm), France vs Fiji (Live on Kallis, dropped on Malik 11, M. Boucher not out 4. Ex- tras: (lb6, nb4, w1) 11 once told me when things Star Sports at 3 pm), South Africa vs nine by Younis Khan in Total: (for 4 wkts, in 38.5 overs) were not going so well Uruguay (Live on Star Sports, 5.30 pm) the slips, completed his 158. hang in there, because you BASEBALL: Chicago Cubs vs Florida Mar- 45th half century, hit- Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-73, 3-116, 4-153. are never out of my lins, Game 3, US National League (on ting four fours and two thoughts. I know you can ESPN, 2.35 am, Sunday). Bowling: Shoaib 7-2-23-1, Sami 6- sixes in his unbeaten 0-38-1, Shabbir 6-1-36-0, Malik 10- do it. That inspired me. knock. 0-29-1, Hafeez 9.5-1-26-1. AP ‘I was privileged to see Hayden’s knock’ By Dinesh Chopra from his hotel room nings than the one played by Hayden. in Perth. "Sunil Gavaskar's 220 on his first tour to TIMES NEWS NETWORK Let's zoom in fur- the West Indies and another double New Delhi: If Gundappa Vishwanath ther on magnificent hundred against England at The Oval was classic, Matthew Hayden is pop-art Matthew's knock. were technically impeccable. But that -- brash and explicit. Both the artist and Former India captain doesn't take anything away from the big the performer were at Perth on Friday S. Venkataraghavan, fella. He batted for almost ten hours, ran when the latter elbowed his way into now an ICC panel um- his runs and also ran for his partners history with the highest individual pire, was closer to the which is a tribute to his fitness." score in a Test innings. Hayden's 380 left Venkat action officiating in Batting as it is said is all about part- Brian Lara's 375 on the number two spot this Test match. "I was nerships and Vishy was all praise for the and former India batsman Vishwanath privileged to be in the best seat in the Australian approach. "These guys have was there at the WACA ground as a house. Hats off to Hayden," Venkat said. very good cricketing sense which is match referee. Almost two days of , a triple backed by their skills. They assess the sit- hundred, plenty of records and Venkat uation quite well and play accordingly. "This is the first triple hundred I have couldn't spot any sign of nerves in Hay- Adam Gilchrist's was a brilliant hundred seen and it's eas- den. "The guy was only circumspect, he and so was Steve Waugh's knock. They all ily the best was never nervous. This caution too just play so well in tandem," he said. TODAY’S knock that I've was when he was starting after each Vishwanath opined that "the fastest been witness to session or a break and not when he was track in the world" is not at its fastest in SPECIAL all my life," Vish- approaching any milestone." this Test match. wanath told Surely, there's a teenager's non-cha- "The nature of the wicket is chang- TNN. That was a big rap coming from lence in Hayden's batting. "He's just so ing. It wasn't as fast as it used to be. Vishwanath who's seen some of the uninhibited. Nothing seemed to bother Even the bounce is not as much as one most amazing hands to hold a cricket him. He's a fearsome hitter of a cricket would relate with the WACA wicket. bat. "His drives through the off-side ball but not as hard-hitting as Adam That must have helped Hayden hit were breathtaking. He was cautious in Gilchrist. through the line of the ball." the beginning today but then eased out Vishwanath, though, felt that techni- But that was good enough for Hayden to play all round the ground," he said cally there have been far superior in- to become the highest Test scorer.

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