Doping Set to Hit Asian Games

14 Saturday 20th November, 2010 South Welshman had already shown All Island Junior Carrom Tournament enough to prove he was primed to thwart the much-hyped English attack Down Under. Sheriffdeen, Roshita win “I think he is a superstar,” he said of Khawaja, named in a 17- strong first Test squad for Australia. Under 21 titles “I think he is a 10- to 15-year Test M. Sheriffdeen and Joseph Roshita emerged winners player. of the Boy’s and Girl’s categories respectively in the “If he gets a call-up he will have Under-21 singles of the All-Island Junior Carrom no problem stepping up to that level. Tournament which concluded on Sunday. Over 400 “He is ready. I am really slicers (boys and girls) took part in the tournament from impressed with him. all parts of the island in the age groups of Under “He oozes class. He is a bloke 13,15,17,19 and 21. The tournament commenced on who just seems to have so much time October 30. The matches were worked off at the Sri at the crease when he plays.” Lanka Carrom Federation Head quarters. The results As much as Lehmann respected are as follows. Hussey and the equally besieged Marcus North, he thought either Under 13 Girl’s Singles-Winner- Detuni Hewagamage bt. Sanduni could make way for Khawaja for the Tharaka 25/0 first Test if Australia wanted to Under 13 Boy’s Singles- Winner- M. Sabri bt. W.M. Mufeez 25/9 reclaim the Ashes. Under 15 Girl’s Singles- Winner - Gayani Ranasinghe by. Milini Paul 25/0, 25/0 “It’s a big Test match. We have to Under 15 Boy’s Singles- Winner- Vibhavi Charithma bt. Dilusha win it to get the Ashes back,” Dilrujith 25/01, 25/05 Lehmann told AAP. Darren Lehmann Under 17 Girl’s Singles– Winner- Arosha Wickremasinghe bt. “So they have to get the selection Maduka Dilshani 15/25, 25/2, 25/0 Under 17 Boys Singles– Winner- Manuka Ashen bt. Pramedha Mendis 25/13, 13/25, 25/24 Under 19 Girl’s Singles- Winner- Nethmi Umanga bt. Madushika Kanchanamala 25/21, 5/25, 25/23 Under 19 Boy’s Singles- Winner- Ishan Kannangara bt. A.N.M. Ameer 25/19, 25/5 Khawaja a ‘superstar’, Under 21 Girl’s Singles- Winner- Joseph Roshita bt. Chalani Lakmali – 25/15, 10/25, 25/18 Under 21 Boy’s Singles- Winner- M. Sheriffdeen bt, M. Dayanandan 25/10, 25/10 Under 17 Girl’s Doubles- Winners- Gayani Ranasinghe/Sasmitha Abayajith bt. Chamathka Navoji/Pavani Yashodha 25/22, 15/25 25/13 Under 17 Boy’s Doubles –Winners- Pramedha Mendis/Kasun Fernando bt. Udesh Chandima/Vibhavi Charithma 25/14, 19/25, 25/24 lauds Lehmann Under 21 Girl’s Doubles- Winners- Joseph Roshita/Rebecca Dalrene est aspirant Usman Khawaja bt. Madushika Kanchanamala/Nadini Madubhani 25/03, 25/4 has shown enough to convince right - I would go with Khawaja. Under 21 Boy’s Doubles - Winners- M. Sheriffdeen / M. Dayanandan bt. Ishan Kannangara/Chanaka Jeevan– 25/19, 25/4 (MP) Tformer international Darren “But of course Hussey and North Lehmann he is a “10- to 15-year” have both been great players over a player for Australia. long period of time. Seen in direct competition with “It depends on which way the International Masters Goodwill Soccer Tournament 2010 veteran Michael Hussey ahead of selectors - and of course Ricky the first Ashes Test, Khawaja, 23, Ponting - go, experience or youth. has been described by fellow leftie “I guess only time will tell.” Indonesia meet India in final Lehmann as a “superstar” ready to Lehmann conceded England had The final of the Fifth International Masters Goodwill enjoyed a much better preparation Soccer Tournament 2010 between Indonesia and India will meet the challenge from England Usman Khawaja this summer. ahead of the Ashes but believed that be kicked off at 3.30 p.m. at the City Football Complex, Poised to become the first would mean nothing come the first the Gabba on the first day. perform considering they had not Slave Island under the patronage of the City Football Muslim to play for the national delivery in Brisbane next Thursday. “Come the first ball it doesn’t won an Ashes series Down Under President R. A. Puvenendiran today. cricket team, Pakistan-born “Test match cricket provides a matter. And on the Gabba which since 1986-87. There were six teams participating in the tournament. They were Sri Lanka, India, Mauritius, Malaysia, Khawaja has poured the pressure on different pressure of its own,” he always provides bounce, carry and “They were pretty good in the Singapore and Indonesia. Of them Indonesia and India Hussey ahead of the Ashes series said. swings there, I would back us any Botham era weren’t they,” Lehmann qualified for the final. with Australia A selection against “You can do all the talking before day of the week.” laughed. Next year the tournament will be staged in Mauritius. England in Hobart. the game but at the end of the day it Lehmann said if anything the “Hopefully we can prolong that comes down to how you perform at pressure should be on England to agony a bit longer.” (AAP) The champions of the tournament will be awarded the But Lehmann reckoned the New International Masters Goodwill Trophy. (MP) HOBART, Australia (AP) - Ian the back of centuries in England’s before falling to a catch in the deep Bell scored 192 to move England matches against Western and from an errant hook shot. The into a winning position Friday South Australia. Australian media continues to Doping set to hit Asian Games against Australia A in its final pre- Friday’s play in Sheffield highlight Ponting’s recent vulnera- Ashes tour game, and in the Shield matches at last provided bility to his favourite shot, the pull. 92 in 20 overs. It was Pakistan’s process answered the taunts that some succor to Australia’s fans and Australia’s poor recent form, as first gold in Guangzhou, after had accompanied his previous its selectors. a team and individuals, had dimin- collecting silver in wushu and Ashes tour. Mike Hussey made 118 for ished confidence that Australia a bronze in snooker. When England was humbled 5- Western Australia against would win the Ashes, as it has in Earlier, Japan defeated 0 in 2006, Bell was a figure of fun. Victoria. After an 18 ball duck in every home series since 1986-87. China by seven wickets to Australia spin great Shane Warne the first innings, the under-pres- “We’re not in crisis and the ulti- clinch bronze. The men’s com- cruelly dubbed Bell “the sure middle-order batsman was at mate Test of our cricket team is petition starts on the weekend. Sherminator” for his resemblance risk of losing his Test place. But he what happens over the next seven Haeider Hamarasheid, who to the priapic character of the hit 15 fours and two sixes in a time- weeks,” Cricket Australia chief does his training in a river due American Pie series of teen sex ly return to form. Marcus North executive James Sutherland said. attend the news conference. BY DENNIS PASSA to the lack of a rowing basin in comedies. was 23 not out when Western “There’s nothing to make judg- The competition began last Iraq, earlier gave his country Bell could not answer with the Australia declared its second ment on right now, it’s the contest Saturday and continues GUANGZHOU, China (AP) - its first medal of the games, bat, managing 331 runs in 10 innings at 222-3. against England that we’re all wait- through Nov. 27. There are The Asian Games looked set to taking a bronze in the men’s innings, and his ordeal was There were also promising ing for.” more than 10,000 athletes com- be hit with its first doping case single sculls. peting in 42 sports in on Friday after officials sched- The race was won by Guangzhou. uled a late afternoon media Bajrang Lal Takhar, who gave On the seventh day of com- conference to discuss India its second gold of the petition, Nida Rashid scored unsourced reports of an ath- games. China took the featured an unbeaten 51 and took four lete testing positive for drugs. men’s eights while Eri Wakai wickets for 16 runs to lead Chinese news agency of Japan won the women’s Pakistan to the first-ever crick- Xinhua first reported the case, lightweight single sculls on the et gold medal awarded at the but did not publish details. final day of rowing competi- Asian Games with a 10-wicket A member of the World tion. emblematic of England’s woes. signs with the ball as Shane victory over Bangladesh in the Anti-Doping Agency group Hamarasheid, one of five Four years later the tables look Watson and Mitchell England’s Ian Bell women’s Twenty20 final. observing the doping controls Iraqi rowers at the Asian to have turned. England holds the Johnson each claimed five leaves the field After being sent into bat, at the games was expected to Games, said when he told his Ashes and on Friday he completed wicket hauls. after being dis- Bangladesh was bowled out for friends two years ago that he an imperious innings against Johnson followed missed for 192 would one day compete at the Australia A to ensure he heads into his unbeaten innings runs against the first Test at Brisbane from Nov. of 121 for Western Olympics in rowing, they Australia A on the weren’t sure whether to 25 as anything but an object of fun.

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