Thursday 28th January, 2010 Umpire review Australia and system looks certain Pakistan to to stay Zaheer tears through contest U-19 final Based on the precept that genies cannot be thrust back into their bottles, the technology now avail- able to help review umpiring deci- hapless Bangladesh sions cannot now be denied to the officials themselves. Theoretically, the International Shahadat’s belligerent innings Council (ICC) can still SCOREBOARD ensured the home side lost none of the scrap the Umpire Decision Review momentum they had gained yesterday System (UDRS) under which Bangladesh 1st Innings: 233 Harbhajan Singh 26-7-75-1, Pragyan and left India frustrated. either side can refer an on-field India 1st Innings: 544-8 declared Ojha 22-4-77-2, 7-2- With Ashraful holding up one end with a cautious approach, Shahadat umpire’s decision to a third offi- Bangladesh 2nd Innings 11-0 (1w) was given license to go for his shots cial who has access to television (Overnight: 228 for three ) India Second Innings Australian Mitchell Marsh replays and ball-tracking technolo- and he pegged India’s bowlers on the gies. T Iqbal c Dhoni b Khan 151 G Gambhir 0 back foot with an attacking display. ensured his team will meet Pakistan in The case for returning to pure- I Kayes c (substitute) Karthik b Khan 5 V Sehwag not out 0 Zaheer and Ishant Sharma opened the under-19 cricket World Cup final after ly on-field decisions was robustly J Siddique c Dhoni b Khan 55 Extras: (2b) 2 proceedings for India, but the pair starring in Wednesday’s two- put by England and Wales Cricket S Hossain c Sub Mishra b Singh 40 TOTAL: (without loss) 2 failed to secure the breakthrough in defeat of Sri Lanka near Christchurch. their first spells and Shahadat put Board (ECB) chairman Giles M Ashraful c Dhoni b Ojha 25 Overs: 0.3 Marsh scored 97 and chimed in with Clarke during the fourth Test Pragyan Ojha under pressure by hit- R Hasan b Khan 5 Did not bat: Rahul Dravid, Sachin ting the left-arm spinner for a towering three catches as his team squeaked past between South Africa and England the Sri Lankans with nine balls to spare this month. S Al Hasan c Gambhir b Ojha 7 Tendulkar, Murali Vijay, Mahendra Singh six in his first over. “We are better off with the old M Rahim not out 10 Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan was brought on in the to set up Saturday’s final, also to be system,” Clarke said. “If the M Mahmudullah c Vijay b Khan 0 Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Yuvraj final over before the first drinks break played at Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln. umpire is as deaf as a post and as S Islam b Khan 0 Singh and Shahadat enjoyed a reprieve on 33 Without the efforts of their skipper, when Amit Mishra put down a simple blind as a bat at least it’s the same R Hossain b Khan 0 : 0.2-0-0-0 the Australians may have struggled to for both sides.” catch in the deep, but that lapse did not overhaul Sri Lanka’s total of 205, which Extras: (7b, 5lb, 2w) 14 Umpires: Billy Bowden, New Zealand, prove too costly. In practice, excluding match was built around steadying knocks of 52 officials from replays of controver- TOTAL: (all out) 312 Marais Erasmus, South Africa Shahadat attempted to hit from allrounder Akshu Fernando and 40 sial decisions freely available to Overs: 90.3 TV Umpire: Sharfuddoula, Bangladesh. Harbhajan over long-on, failed to find from Kithuruwan Vithanage. New ball the casual television viewer is Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-219, 3-222,4- Match Referee: A.J. Pycroft, Zimbabwe elevation and Mishra made no mistake with the catch. bowler Josh Hazlewood did the damage unlikely to be endorsed by the 290, 5-291, 6-301, 7-304, 8-304, 9-304 Toss: Won by Bangladesh Ojha then removed Ashraful in the with the ball, claiming three early scalps ICC’s cricket committee in Dubai Bowling: Zaheer Khan 20.3-2-87-7 Result: India wins by 10 wickets in May. next over, the batsman feathering an and finishing with four for 26 off 8.2 (1w), Ishant Sharma 15-2-50-0, Series: India 2-0 “If it becomes just too hard edge to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. overs. And the home side then showed and too costly maybe we just have Australia were teetering at 93 for five to accept that situation and deal familiar signs of imploding when before Marsh combined with wicketkeep- with human umpires,” ICC general Shakib Al Hasan fell cheaply. aheer Khan destroyed Bangladesh one over India’s first-innings total er Tom Triffitt for a 78-run stand that car- manager Dave Richardson said in with a seven-wicket haul as India of 544 for eight declared. The Bangladesh captain hit Ojha for a telephone interview. Zclaimed a comprehensive 10-wick- India then knocked off the two runs a straight six off the first ball he faced, ried them within sight of victory. When “But at this point in time the et win on the fourth day of the second required to win without fuss, complet- but perished in Ojha’s next over, sweep- Triffitt was the eighth batsman to fall, for general consensus seems to be: ‘It Test in Dhaka. ing an astonishing win with a day and ing the left-arm spinner straight to 50, just four runs were needed. Gautam Gambhir at short square leg. works, it gets more decisions right, Bangladesh had appeared well set to close to two full sessions to spare. Pakistan are unbeaten at the 16-nation Zaheer was brought back for his it is resulting in more correct deci- leave India chasing a sizeable target, Night-watchman Shahadat Hossain tournament while Australia have lost sions and therefore work on third spell just before the lunch inter- but instead Zaheer triggered a dramat- had frustrated the visitors with a once, to South Africa in pool play. improving it, refining it and stan- ic collapse by snaring four wickets in stroke-filled 40 and Mohammad val and he made further inroads by Also in Lincoln on Wednesday, South dardising it’.” eight balls as Bangladesh - nicely Ashraful made 25, the pair well bowling Raqibul Hasan, the batsman Richardson said the UDRS had poised on 290 for three at one stage - past the first drinks interval and shouldering arms to a that Africa secured fifth place with a six-wick- been used during 13 Tests in South were bowled out for 312, a lead of just adding 68 for the fourth wicket. nipped back in and knocked back off et defeat of India in a playoff match. Africa, Australia and New Zealand. stump. David White scored 77 and Dominic Hendricks 63 as the South Africans reached India’s 239 for five with seven balls to spare. Zimbabwe and United States picked IOC close to new sponsorship deals One-third of World Cup up comfortable ranking wins in Plate Championship matches in Napier. LONDON (AP) - The the financial markets. International Olympic The IOC has already Zimbabwe beat Hong Kong by 137 runs to Committee is close to final- secured close to $900 mil- finish in 13th place while the US placed izing deals with new global lion in sponsorship revenue tickets unsold, FIFA says 15th after thumping Afghanistan by nine sponsors for the 2012 for the current cycle, and wickets. London Games. Heiberg’s goal is break the (TVNZ) IOC marketing commis- $1 billion mark. sion chairman Gerhard “That’s what I had Heiberg told The Associated hoped to be able to bring,” Press that he hopes to wrap he said. up the negotiations in “Let’s see.” Brit bookies cut Vancouver at next month’s Any new deals would be Winter Games. only for the London “We are still speaking Olympics, as it is too late odds on Woods to several companies, and for the Feb. 12-28 Vancouver we will speak to them just Games. Heiberg said it playing at Masters before the games in would be the first time the Vancouver,” Heiberg said in IOC signed up a TOP spon- a telephone interview. “We sor for only one Olympics LONDON (AP) - British bookmaker are in good communication in a four-year cycle. William Hill has cut the odds on Tiger with some possible spon- Heiberg declined to Woods playing at the Masters. sors. We are still talking. specify which sponsorship The world’s No. 1 golfer is taking an We are close. We need to categories were being con- indefinite break from the game since a finalize.” sidered, but said there are The IOC currently has more than one. November car crash outside his home in nine companies in its top- “Let’s hope I have some- Florida and reports of marital infidelity. tier TOP sponsorship pro- thing to tell people when Shortly after the crash, William Hill was gram for the four-year cycle I’m in Vancouver,” he said. giving 4-6 odds that Woods would be back covering the Vancouver and One thing is certain: in time for the Masters in April. On London Olympics, two The IOC has ruled out find- Wednesday, the company cut the odds to 1- short of the number from ing a TOP sponsor in the 4. the previous period. car category. Talks with potential Heiberg said that possi- “We’ve only taken money on the one new sponsors stalled bility was dropped after side that he will be playing there, so that’s because of the global eco- London organizers recently Football officials say one-third of World Cup tickets remain unsold less than five months before the why we shortened it right up,” William nomic downturn. Heiberg signed up BMW as a domes- tournament begins. FIFA said in a Wednesday statement that South Africans and Americans led the Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said. said in October that he tic sponsor and Russian 1.2 million ticket bids in the third round of sales which will be settled by lottery next month. Two “Everybody who’s had a bet seems hoped to sign up three new officials reached a deal with ticket draws remain before the World Cup begins June 11. Here Malaysian models in traditional cos- absolutely certain that he’ll make it to sponsors before Vancouver Volkswagen for the 2014 tume pose beside the FIFA World Cup trophy after its unveiling during a press conference at Kuala Augusta.” because of improvement in Winter Games in Sochi. Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. The trophy arrived in Adams said they have taken 224 bets Kuala Lumpur Wednesday as a part of its world tour. (AP) and 217 of them are that Woods will be playing at Augusta National. At odds of 4- 1, people who bet $1 and win will get $4 plus the $1 stake back. At 6-4 odds, a $4 bet Arthur resigned over disagreement with CSA would get $10 in return. Adams said the bets have come from EAST LONDON, South Africa (AP) - Arthur resigned from the post bringing stability and a lot of calmness and caretaker coach Corrie van Zyl. all over the world, with at least one com- Mickey Arthur said Wednesday he Tuesday after nearly five years in charge to the side and he can be proud of what Majola said Arthur’s resignation ing from Dubai via the Internet. resigned as South Africa coach because of the team. He said “there comes a time he achieved.” “came through the normal stocktaking Although Woods has not spoken pub- he and the national cricket body had dif- when you have to move on and I know in The South Africa team could now be process which followed the recent licly since the Nov. 27 crash, a celebrity ferent visions for the future of the team. my own heart that I have taken the right in for a big makeover as Proteas’ four- England home series and against the Web site reported last week that he was at Arthur said at a news conference in decision.” man selection committee headed by Mike backdrop of the disappointing results of his home town Wednesday that Cricket Arthur was accompanied by Proteas Procter was fired by CSA on Tuesday.At 2009.” a sex addiction clinic in Mississippi. South Africa “wanted to make some captain Graeme Smith, who dismissed least one CSA board member had “As this process unfolded and reme- Other reports say Woods and his Swedish structural changes, it was different to speculation that the coach’s resignation accused the selectors of lagging on trans- dies were sought, Mickey expressed the wife Elin Nordegren, who have two chil- what my thinking was at the time.” was because of a rift between the two. formation, and selection duties will now very honest and humble view that he did dren, were trying to work things out. “I don’t believe I can take the team “It hurts to see him move aside,” be handled by an interim panel compris- not believe that at this stage he could “Within the British press there’s a forward under the present circum- said Smith. “We had a great partnership ing CSA chief executive Gerald Majola, continue as coach of the Proteas,” he suggestion that Elin has stances,” he said. over five years. Mickey was integral in former national captain Kepler Wessels said.

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