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OID‰‰†KOID‰‰†OID‰‰†MOID‰‰†C 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fists and striking a fighting pose, England football captain David Beckham begged Former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt has withdrawn Muhammad Ali greeted an adoring crowd at the teammate Gary Neville not to lead a boycott of the from all remaining ATP events this year in order to Frankfurt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 Brian Lara’s individual ken.’’ Ahmedabad: The first Test Test-scoring record from the history The Australian was finally caught at match between India and books with a spectacular innings of 380 deep square-leg by Stuart Carlisle off New Zealand 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 wickets in reply Lehmann c and b Ervine 30, A Gilchrist not out 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 Bowling: 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 wicket) 79. capture the remaining two Fall of wickets: 1-61 Los Angeles Laker basketball Adam Gilchrist. “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 Nathan Astle smashed his Eagle County Justice Centre in maiden Test century 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 stumped by Parthiv Patel off Harbhajan Singh 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- Scott Styris (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 (batting 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 Jacob Oram 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 Paul Wiseman (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. Daniel Vettori 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 Hyderabad 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 South Africa 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 Graeme Smith 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, Younis Khan c Boucher b An- scoring runs quickly, and dre Nel 13, Naved Latif b Shaun Pol- Euro 2004, Saturday then Jacques Kallis (58 then love putting sides un- Turkey 11/10, England 11/5, Draw 2/1 lock 4, Shoaib Malik b Makhaya Nti- der pressure.