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The Times of India, New Delhi, Monday,November 3, 2003

Bryant jeered on return Montgomerie facing Tour rap Rooney says no to Chelsea Kobe Bryant got a mixed reception on his Colin Montgomerie could be in hot water with Everton striker Wayne Rooney has laughed off NBA comeback as he awaits trial on a European Tour officials after losing his cool speculation that he is set to join Chelsea. The 18- sexual assault charge. While there were during the defence of his Volvo Masters on year-old had been singled out as a potential few cheers there were boos aplenty on Saturday. The Scot blew his top after just target for Chelsea owner Roman Saturday as Bryant’s 15 points helped missing with an 18-foot birdie putt on the ninth Abramovich, but insists he is staying at Lakers to a 103-99 victory at Phoenix Suns hole on his second round in Valderrama Goodison Park. Ronaldo inspires Real Madrid to a 3-0 win over Atletic Bilbao in the Spanish League

That's not really my con- cern. I'll just come and expect the worst. Everything's pretty Chris crosses fingers for form Pathan helps much up from that point, if Mandar Tannu you expect the worst. Los Angeles Lakers basket- Kiwis hoping History doesn’t ball star Kobe Bryant on the India beat Pak crowd’s hostile reaction to his TIMES NEWS NETWORK and Pakistan were shot out NBA comeback game against to defy Aussies augur well for NZ for 138 in 34.2 overs. Phoenix Suns New Delhi: Left-arm seam- By Rajesh Korde By Amit Karmarkar India Under-19: S Shukla c Sohail b Afri- TIMES NEWS NETWORK er Irfan Pathan finished a di 3, S Kukreja c Zulqarnain b Afridi 1, A SPORTS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK brilliant weekend helping Uthappa c Zulqarnain b Mansoor 40, Sun- Ajit Ninan Pune: The focus in Mon- ny Singh c Shahid b Altaf 12, A Rayudu c Pune: History doesn’t augur well India Under-19 beat Pak- Khurram b Khalid 9, S Raina c Zulqarnain day’s Trans-Tasmanian ri- for New Zealand. But that’s not de- istan Under-19 by ten runs b Khalid 1, K Karthik c Zulqarnain b Khalid valry here will be only Chris terring them to take a crack for a at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadi- 7, I Pathan c Salman b Mansoor 28, Cairns — not just for the Piyush Chawla c Khurram b Afridi 1, bright future. As their coach Ashley um on Sunday. This may New Zealanders but also the Avinash Yadav b Mansoor 2, V Singh not Ross said: “We’d like to be a cham- help the Indians erase sad Australians. out 17, Extras: (lb-7, w-12, nb-8) 27, To- pion team, rather than a team of memories of their four- tal (all out, 38.2 overs) 148. One of the more colourful champions.” loss to Sri Lankan Fall of : 1-5, 2-10, 3-39, 4-66, characters in the New 5-74, 6-93, 7-105, 8-125, 9-128. Historically, for Kiwis it’s been colts on Friday. Zealand side, Cairns finds Bowling: Riaz 5-0-22-0, Afridi 10-2-18- “all’s well that begins well”. After the Pathan, who did well the Nehru Stadium here as 3, Altaf 6-0-34-1, Khalid 6-0-27-3, Qadir reverse in Faridabad at the hands of against the Sri Lankans by 2-0-7-0, Mansoor 9.2-0-33-3. one of his favourite grounds, Australia their lucky charm isn’t scoring 32 and taking three Pakistan Under-19, (target: 149 runs): for he got his first One-day Khalid Latif lbw b Pathan 1, Jahangir quite there but they seemed hell bent wickets for 61, played an century here eight years ago, equally effective double Mirza c Uthappa b Singh 3, Sohail Ahmed though his team lost to India to reverse that practising on Sunday c Raina b Pathan 0, Shahid Yousuf c role against Pakistan, ac- Rayudu b Singh 27, Khurram Manzoor b by five wickets. under a pleasant cloud cover. Let’s refresh our memories as to cording to information re- Pathan 1, Mohammad Altaf b Singh 0, The Kiwis’ inspirational Salman Qadir not out 57, Zulqarnain how New Zealand have performed ceived here. all-rounder, who missed the Pathan came to the res- Haider c Karthik b Sunny 2, Riaz Afridi b last match at Faridabad due in certain One-day tournaments:— Yadav 27, Mansoor Amjad c Raina b Ya- cue with India tottering at dav 0, Wahab Riaz lbw b Yadav 1, Extras: to a hamstring injury,will be 1992 World Cup: NZ reached the semis riding on Martin 93 for six on being inserted (b-1, w-15, nb-3) 19, Total (all out, 34.2 back for a re-match against overs) 138. Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-6, 3- Crowe’s form and innovative tac- in. He made a fighting 28. the World champions Aus- He then played his part 6, 4-8, 5-13, 6-68, 7-72, 8-130, 9-130. tralia. “Cairns is fit,’’ New tics. Lost to Pakistan in the semis. Bowling: Pathan 10-2-23-3, Singh 9-0- 1996 WC: Surprised England in with the ball also, claiming 58-3, Sunny 8-2-36-1, Chawla 3-0-7-0, Zealand skipper Stephen three wickets for 23 runs Yadav 3.2-0-10-3, Shukla 1-0-3-0. Harmeet in good nick: India’s Fleming said here on Sunday the first game. Then lost a high- Harmeet Kahlon shot a final round of after practice. scoring match to Australia. 5-under 67 in the fourth round of the 1999 WC: After beating Cairns has been a match- second stage of the European Tour Bangladesh in their first tie, they qualifing school in Torremirona Golf winner for New Zealand on It’s crucial to get Sachin number of occasions and accounted for Australia. But then club in Spain. Harmeet had a four lost to Pakistan in the semis. round total of 9-under 279 certainly the Kiwis are banking on him for an en- 2000 Mini World Cup: The only (72,73,67,67) and entered the final big tournament Kiwis have won. out early: Buchanan stage of the Q school to be played core on this ground. (103 and Starting with a win against Zim- Pune: Australian coach John Buchanan on Sunday next week in Emporda and Pals Golf three wickets in 1995). babwe they beat Pakistan and India said the team management would asses Indian maes- Courses in Spain. TNN Smarting under a compre- in semifinal and final respectively. tro Sachin Tendulkar at the end of the ongoing TVS Cup tri- hensive defeat at the hands of Kremer wins in Thailand: Armin 2001-02 VB Series: Started it angular tournament before India’s tour of Australia starting the depleted Australian at- Kremer and co-driver Fred Berssen with a 23-run upset of Aussie and next month. tack, the Black Caps will go Australian One-day captain bats at the nets in Pune on the of Team MRF Tyres bagged the maxi- eve of the crucial tri-series match against New Zealand on Sunday then played a moral poser by giving “In the general sense if we don’t take Sachin’s wicket ear- all out for a win and stay on mum of 19 points by winning the a bonus point to South Africa which ly,he will go after the bowling and the other Indian batsmen track in the series. Kiwi Group N (unmodified) category and blocked Australia’s final berth. build the innings around him,’’ Buchanan said here. coach Ashley Ross said that THE SHOTMAKERS finishing second overall as the three- “Hence it is extremely crucial for any team to get Sachin they were quite happy with a Eventually,lost in the finals. day Rally of Thailand, which is also out as early as possible and hope that the Indian innings four-day break they got after Australia: Ricky Ponting (captain), tain), Lou Vincent, Craig McMillan, Chris Here they had a creditable draw in the fourth round of the FIA Asia Pa- crumbles after his exit,’’ he added. “It is too early for us to as- the Faridabad match. , , Cairns, Chris Harris, Jacob Oram, Scott the Test series then the series open- cific Rally Championship (APRC), sess Sachin but we hope to do so at the end of the tourna- concluded in Rayong on Sunday. Jimmy Maher, , Andrew Styris, Brendon McCullum, Kyle Mills, er against India was washed out. But obviously the record ment before the Indians start their 82-day tour of Australia Reigning APRC champion Karamjit Symonds, , Michael Chris Nevin, Daryl Tuffey, Daniel Vettori, book favours the Aussies. MORE ON OUR WEBSITE next month,’’ Buchanan said. Singh won the Overall title. TNN Clarke, , , Andy Ian Butler and Paul Hitchcock. Australia have a 59-25 head- Bichel, Michael Kasprowicz, Brad Umpires: D Shepherd and Hariharan. TVS Cup: NZ vs Australia When asked, who other than Sachin the Aussies were England in selection dilemma: to-head record against them Williams and . TV Umpire: A V Jayprakash Live Scorecard and Commentary wary of, Buchanan said, “All the Indian batsmen are talent- Richard Johnson's man-of-the-match and have won 10 of their 11 New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (cap- Match start: 8.45 am. ed but we are wary of VVS Laxman, who can swing a match display in England's emphatic win matches on neutral venues. visit www.timesofindia.com in his team’s favour on his day,as well.’’ PTI over Bangladesh on Saturday has given selectors a major dilemma.The Somerset seamer was signed up as a Ganguly fit for late replacement for the injured We handled spinners better James Anderson in the two Test matches against Bangladesh. we took minimum risks in the first FINISHING TOUCH spells of Harbhajan Singh and Anil Bangalore tie Anand advances: V Anand Michael Bevan Kumble. Later when we were well set Kolkata: Indian skipper cruised into the last 16 of the 7th up for the final onslaught, we took Sourav Ganguly’s ordeal fol- The most heartening as- Corsica Masters chess tournament in them on and ensured that we reached a lowing an abscess in his left pect of Sunday’s win Bastia, France. He beat Croatian score of 275-plus. thigh seemed to be over with over hosts India was the Miso Cebalo 1.5-0.5 in the round of Even the medium pacers were not the doctors on Sunday de- way our batsmen per- 32. Anand, who has won this title for easy to handle as the ball was stopping claring that he was available formed on a turning past three years, scored 6.5 points and the bounce was really inconsistent. for the November-12 tri-se- out of the possible nine in the quali- track against a quality Once we reached that total, we were ries match against Aus- fiers with four wins and five draws. spin attack. confident of defending it, especially af- tralia. “He has recovered Another Indian, K Sasikiran, however, Our middle-order did not fare too well fast. From our side, we have lost in the round of 32 to Mikhail ter the departure of Sachin and Dravid at Gwalior and did not have to bat at in quick succession. no problem if he plays the Gurevich 0.5-1.5. PTI Faridabad, but on Friday, we all con- November 12 match at Ban- FIH launches ranking: The Inter- tributed handsomely to prove that we There is no extra pressure on the bat- galore,” Dr Sukumar national Hockey Federation (FIH) are now used to the con- ters because of the absence of our reg- Mukherjee, head of the six- launched its first official World Rank- ditions and can cope with ular bowlers. We are member medical board ing System on Sunday. whatever comes our way going about our tar- formed to treat Ganguly. Rankings: Men: 1. Germany (1928), 2. Netherlands now. Newspapers claim- gets in much the same The doctors, who went to (1805), 3. Australia (1800), 4. Korea (1448), 5. Pak- way as before, with istan (1390), 6. India (1224), 7. Argentina (1068), 8. ed that India’s bowlers Ganguly’s residence during England (1008), 9. Spain (851), 10. Malaysia (793). did not bowl to potential, the knowledge that if the day and examined the Women: 1. Argentina (1854), 2. Netherlands (1778), but I think that it was our we do our job well the wound, felt Ganguly was 3. Australia (1691), 4. China (1635), 5. England pressure would come (1183), 6. Korea (1073), 7. Spain (1058), 8. Ger- batting rather than ordi- now physically fit to play. many (1025), 9. New Zealand (946), 10. United nary bowling that saw us off the bowling. Inter- “However, the Indian Crick- States (738). post such a good score. estingly, the bowlers et Board can decide upon it have performed so after a fitness test,” he said. Khanna elected: Former pro For me the key to the well that we have He said that Ganguly now golfer and leading industrialist Arvind batting on Friday was the way we handled the quite forgotten that had no problem in stretch- Khanna has been elected as presi- they are inexperi- dent of the Professional Golfers As- spinners. It was a ing and the limp had also enced when compared sociation of India (PGAI). Khanna re- tremendous improve- gone. “Today, we made him places Pawan Munjal who completed ment on our Gwalior to the veterans they walk before us. He is perfect- a four-year term as president this Oc- performance, because have replaced. Gameplan ly fine,” Mukherjee said. PTI tober. The PGAI is the governing body which runs the Hero Honda tour. The new panel of board mem- bers includes tour stalwarts Rohtas Becks may pick matrimony over Madrid Singh, Shiv Prakash, Vijay Kumar, Ut- tam Singh Mundy and Ram Dayal. England captain could leave Real to save marriage, says tabloid TOP MONEY EARNERS London: England soccer captain GOLF David Beckham may leave Spanish Rank Player Money club Real Madrid and return home 1 Vijay Singh 6827507 to save his marriage, a leading 2 Tiger Woods 6557413 tabloid reported on Sunday. 3 Davis Love III 5693096 Beckham’s celebrity wife Victo- 4 Jum Furyk 4990865 ria has 5 Mike Weir 4716410 broken 6 Kenny Perry 4173661 her pledge 7 David Toms 3607705 TODAY’S to join 8 Ernie Els 3226997 him in 9 Chad Campbell 2620864 SPECIAL Spain and 10 Stuart Appleby 2567738 the Real Note: Prize money in US dollars. source: bbc.com Madrid star has told friends he may have to return home to save his marriage, ‘The News of the BETTING METER World’ reported. CRICKET The 29-year-old Victoria has not NZ vs Australia - TVS Cup 5th Match fulfilled her promise to move to NZ 2/1, Australia 4/11 Spain with kids Brooklyn, 4 and as per ladbrokes.com Romeo, 1, because she is busy with her music career. TODAY’S ACTION Now the England captain is thinking about joining the newly- NATIONAL rich Chelsea club to keep his fami- CRICKET: New Zealand vs Australia, TVS ly together, the report said. Spain brings pain: David Beckham with wife Victoria Cup tri series, Mumbai (Live on DD Sport The club’s Russian billionaire nently at the moment. everything to me. I don’t know and DD National 8.45 am) owner Roman Abramovich has al- “I really miss her. I love her so what to do.’’ INTERNATIONAL ready spent 112 million pounds on much and miss my boys and have Beckham, believed to have rent- FOOTBALL: English Premier League: Birm- big soccer names. been thinking about finishing my ed a 4.5 million pound house in ingham City vs Charlton Athletic (Live on According to the tabloid, Becks football career back home. Madrid, has run up a 433,000- Star Sports, 1.25 a.m. Tue). phoned a close pal to say “things “Chelsea is an option - possibly pound bill in three months at the AMERICAN FOOTBALL: Green Bay Packers haven’t changed, really.Victoria is within two years. five-star Santa Mauro hotel. But in vs Minnesota Vikings (Live on ESPN, 6.58 working on her solo-career so she “I’m playing the best football of the past three weeks Victoria has a.m). won’t be moving over here perma- my career but my marriage means spent just five days there. Agencies

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