OID‰†KOID‰†OID‰†MOID‰†C 18 Thursday,December 4, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Sukur’s brace keeps Galatasaray alive Deepak hits the golden one Germany: Hasan Sukur’s two goals lift- The match was also delayed 15 minutes Sanjay Sekhri By Shashank Shekhar game. They forced three out ed Galatasaray to a 2-0 Champions CHAMPIONS LEAGUE because of traffic jams around the sta- TIMES NEWS NETWORK of their four penalty corners League victory against Juventus on The match, rescheduled from last dium. in the last five minutes, but Tuesday , keeping alive the Turkish Tuesday, was moved from Istanbul be- The result left Galatasaray third in New Delhi: Indian Oil Cor- with Dilip not around, they team’s hopes of advancing into the sec- cause of the terrorist bombings, but it Group D with six points, but now only poration’s (IOC) chances of a had no one to smash it in di- ond round. was still close to a home match for two back of Real Sociedad, which it maiden title triumph in the rectly. They had to resort to Hasan Sukur stunned Juventus just Galatasaray with 60,000 Turks living in plays in its final match, which means it Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey indirect methods which were 100 seconds after the break on his first Germany among the 66,000 spectators at could advance with a victory.Juventus, tournament hinged, to a too sloppy to be effective. goal, a running header that flew inside sold-out Westfalenstadion. through to the second round, failed to large extent, on the Prabhjot IA also created field goal the right post after Sabri Sarioglu set it When Sukur scored for the first time, get the point it needed to be sure of fin- Singh-Deepak Thakur duo. up with a low cross while breaking smoke bombs exploded and delayed ishing first. The two predators have opportunities in this period, the best of which was muffed down the left. His second came in injury play and the sea of red-and-yellow wear- The Italian champions, which opened scored many a snap goal for time as the Italians opened up, vainly ing the side’s colours never stopped with 15 unbeaten matches, now has lost India. They did it for their by Mukesh Kumar.The veter- chasing the equaliser. singing and waving flags afterwards. two straight. AP employers too at the Shivaji an Hyderabadi, alone in the Stadium. And Indian Air- ‘D’, had IOC goalkeeper De- lines (IA), 1-2 losers in vesh Chauhan at his mercy Wednesday’s final, were left but tried an airy-fairy shot to rue their luck once again; when he had time to control they had finished runners-up the ball and take proper aim. last year too. IOC too were guilty of not The lanky Prabhjot gave converting any of their five his team the equaliser with a penalty corners. They had breathtaking reverse hit in other opportunities too but the 10th minute after IA had were thwarted by IA custodi- taken the lead in the opening an Jagdish Ponappa, as well minute itself through anoth- as by their own diffidence in er India star Arjun Hallappa front of the post. whose scoop had found the The final itself left some- net. And Deepak caressed a thing to be desired consider- stray ball into the goal from ing the plethora of senior close in the fifth minute of and junior India players on the extra time for the title- view. Both sides were incon- winning golden goal. IOC’s Prabhjot Singh (right) vies with an IA’s V S Vinay in the sistent with their trapping While the stars delivered final of Shastri hockey tournament on Wednesday. and passing which made for for the winners, for IA, it was fence stalwart Dilip Tirkey tional Lazarus Barla, were some scratchy hockey. The a story of missed chances had to leave midway through carrying injuries. match, however, was a con- and missing stars. While the tourney to honour a prior Still, IA more than test between equals which high-profile Dhanraj Pillay commitment. To make mat- matched their opponents and gave the goodly crowd was away attending a family ters worse, a few of their even had them on the ropes some rousing moments to bereavement, skipper and de- players, including interna- in the final minutes of the cheer about. Batsmen make hay Murali spins Poms Galle: Ace Sri Lankan spin- behind trying to push and as Pak take series ner Muttiah Muralitharan then bowled Vaughan with grabbed two quick wickets a gem of a delivery. Faisalabad: A maiden un- shall b Walker 64, Inzamam-ul-Haq b to put England under pres- The England captain beaten century from New Cairns 25, Abdul Razzaq c Marshall b sure in the opening cricket tried to pad the ball away, Zealand rookie Hamish Mar- Walker 34, Shoaib Malik c and b Test here on Wednesday. but it spun sharply and shall was not enough to deny Walker 15, Moin Khan c Cumming b The off-spinner removed went between the batsman’s Pakistan a 51 run victory in Walker 1, Mohammad Sami not out 1, openers Marcus Trescoth- legs before hitting the their third one-day interna- Saleem Elahi not out 4. Extras: (1lb, ick and Michael Vaughan in stumps. tional Wednesday. 3nb, 12w) 16. Total: (for 7 wickets his testing opening spell be- Sri Lanka 1st innings (overnight 138-4): All of Pakistan’s top order in 50 overs) 314. Fall of wickets: 1- fore England reached 97-2 at H. Tillakaratne c Read b Giles 0, T. Sama- batsmen had a hand in com- 142, 2-183, 3-236, 4-289, 5-308, 6- stumps on the second day in raweera c Read b Flintoff 45, U. Chandana 309, 7-309. Bowling: M Mason 10- lbw b Flintoff 21, K. Dharmasena lbw b Bat- piling a massive total of 314 reply to Sri Lanka’s first-in- ty 27, C. Vaas not out 22, D. Fernando c for seven, while the Black 0-74-0 (1nb, 1w), Kerry Walmsley 10- nings total of 331. Graham Collingwood b Batty 4, M. Muralitharan c Caps played out innings to 0-53-1 (1nb, 2w), C Cairns 8-0-48-1 Thorpe was batting on 20 Read b Giles 38. Extras: (b5, lb2, nb1, w1) (1w), M Walker 7-0-49-4 (6w), C Har- 9. Total (all out in 127.5) 331. Fall of wick- finish at 263 for seven. with Mark Butcher (15). ets: 5-202, 6-238, 7-239, 8-279, 9-291. Pakistan won the first ODI ris 5-0-21-0 (1w), D Vettori 10-0-68- Trescothick (23) and skip- Bowling: Hoggard 20-4-49-0, Johnson 17- by three wickets before de- 1 (1nb, 1w). per Vaughan (24) scored 5-54-1, Flintoff 23-7-42-3, Collingwood 4- New Zealand: Craig Cumming c 0-12-0, Batty 31-5-98-2, Giles 32.5-9-69- molishing New Zealand by freely against pace to put on 4. 124 runs in the second match. Moin b Akhtar 10, Richard Jones c 56 for the opening wicket be- England 1st innings: M.Trescothick c San- Marshall, a 24-year-old Hameed b Razzaq 23, Mathew Sin- fore Muralitharan struck gakkara b Muralitharan 23, M. Vaughan b clair run out 32, Hamish Marshall not Muralitharan 24, M. Butcher not out 15, G. right-handed batsman from twice on a turning pitch to Thorpe not out 20, Extras: (b4, lb5, nb6) 15. Auckland, completed his cen- out 101, Cs Harris b Sami 46, Chris restore balance in the clos- Total (for 2 wkts in 37 overs) 97. Fall of tury in the last over to re- Cairns c Shabbir b Sami 9, B McCul- ing session. wickets: 1-56, 2-67. Bowling: Vaas 6-1- main unbeaten on 101 off 109 lum lbw b Sami 1, Matthew Walker st 14-0, Fernando 3-1-21-0, Dharmasena 11- The spinner had left- 3-20-0, Muralitharan 10-5-15-2, Chandana balls and hit seven fours and Moin b Farhat 10, D Vettori not out 9. handed Trescothick caught 7-1-18-0. AP two sixes. Chris Harris, play- Extras: (1b, 9lb, 7nb, 5w) 22. Total: ing his first game of the se- (for 7 wickets in 50 overs) 263. Fall ries, and Marshall were in- of wkts: 1-12, 2-58, 3-81, 4-188, 5- volved in a 101-run partner- 206, 6-213, 7-226. Bowling: S ship but never looked like Akhtar 7-2-30-1, M Sami 8-1-22-3 beating the Pakistan target. (2w), A Razzaq 10-0-50-1 (4nb, 1w), Harris made 46 off 62 balls . S Ahmed 10-1-42-0, S Malik 10-0- Pakistan: Y Hameed c Cumming b 64-0 (2w), I Farhat 3-0-22-1, Salim Walmsley 63, Imran Farhat c Marshall Elahi 1-0-10-0, Yasir Hameed 1-0- b Vettori 91, Yousuf Youhana c Mar- 13-0 (3nb). AP Sociedad hold Valencia Madrid: Spanish league leaders Valencia missed a chance to pull clear of title rivals Real Madrid when they were held to a goaless draw at lowly Real Sociedad on Tuesday.Valen- cia are at the top with 28 points, one point ahead of Real Madrid who face city rivals Atletico on Wednesday. Real So- ciedad, lying dangerously close to the relegation zone and now in 15th position, needed a good result from their home tie and swiftly moved into attack but were unfortunate when an opening goal after two minutes from Russian mid- fielder Valeri Karpin was ruled as offside.