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1SUNDC COL 21R2.QXD (Page 1) œND‰‰†KœND‰‰†œND‰‰†MœND‰‰†C The Sunday Times of India, New Delhi, June 1, 2003 In the fast lane Toyota won’t rebel A legend’s backing Tim Montgomery is the fastest man Ford, Renault, Ferrari, Mercedes and Annika Sorenstam may not have made on earth. Now he insists he’s just BMW want a breakaway GP circuit if the cut on the PGA tour but has earned hitting his stride en route to 9.75 FIA does not award the manufacturers the admiration of Martina Navratilova. seconds: “I’m getting stronger. I am more revenue. But Team Toyota ain’t The legend insists that the glare of 28 and this is when sprinters peak. interested saying an independent publicity was the actual reason why My time’s coming” body is always better Annika’s short-game faltered West Indies inflict another defeat on the Aussies BRIEFLY Hinds proves Aussie SPORT Reuters India beat Pak to enter final AP tormentor again Perth: Continuing their recent domination of their arch-rivals, India registered a fluent St George’s (Grenada): vertently helping the ball 2-0 victory against Pakistan in their last Opener Wavell Hinds scored over the boundary for anoth- league match here on Saturday to move into a career-best 125 not out to er six in the process. Lee re- the final of the three-nation invitational guide West Indies to a three- turned to the attack in the hockey tournament. wicket win over world cham- 40th over, Sarwan driving his Unperturbed by the loss they suffered in pions Australia in their One- first delivery to the covers their previous league match against Aus- day International match on where Andrew Symonds took tralia, India persisted with their attacking Friday. a low diving catch to make it game and scored through strikers Baljit West Indies, chasing Aus- 181 for three. Singh Dhillon (18th minute) and Prabhjot tralia’s 252 all out, won in 48.4 It was Australia’s second Singh (55th minute) to win the first match be- overs to reduce their deficit defeat in a row. Australia, tween the two sides this year. in the seven-match series to who won the toss, were left India, who finished their league engage- 4-2 with one game to play. rueing their missed chances ments with two wins from three matches, “Wavell played a fantastic after Adam Gilchrist, with a will meet Australia in the final on Sunday. innings but we never really run-a-ball 64, and Matthew The victory was India’s fourth in the five nailed any partnerships,” Hayden had hammered 90 in matches played between them in the last one Australia captain Ricky the first 15 overs. AFP year. “As usual the match was quite exciting. Ponting said. But we prevailed as we played well in all the Hinds put on a 114-run SCOREBOARD departments and dominated them for most third-wicket stand with Australia: 252 part of the match,” an elated Indian coach Ramnaresh Sarwan (50) after West Indies: Rajinder Singh said after the match. Brian Lara had fallen cheap- C Gayle c Gilchrist b Lee 18 W Hinds not out 125 India, who have come to the tournament ly only for Australia’s quicks B Lara c & b Symonds 15 aiming to fine-tune their skills for the Cham- to hit back and put the home R Sarwan c Symonds b Lee 50 pions Trophy in August and next year’s side under pressure again. M Samuels b Lee 0 The 26-year old opener ham- R Powell c & b Lehmann 1 Athens Olympics, began well by exerting R Jacobs c Maher b Bichel 8 Tiger Woods reacts after missing a par pressure on the opposition defence with mered six sixes — five of D Bernard lbw b Gillespie 7 putt on the 18th hole of the Muirfield some fine moves, led by mercurial striker which were to his favoured V Drakes not out 0 Village Golf Club in Ohio, US on Satur- Dhanraj Pillay, Dhillon and Prabhojot Singh. long-on slot and five bound- Extras: (b-4, lb-15, w-8, nb-3) 30 day during the second round of the Total: (For 7 wkts, in 48.4 overs) 254 Though the Indian strikers completely aries — preying mainly on Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-67, 3-181, 4- Memorial Tournament. outshone their counterparts in the first 15 the Australian spin bowlers. 181, 5-193, 6-213, 7-244. minutes, success came only in the 18th He survived a scare at the Bowling: Lee 9.4-2-50-3, Gillespie 9-2- half-century point when 33-1, Bichel 10-0-52-1, Symonds 4-0- Jadeja returns to official cricket: minute when they earned a penalty corner. 19-1, Hogg 10-1-35-0, Hauritz 5-0-35- Having won a temporary repreive from the Putting into play all his experience, Dhillon Brett Lee spurned a catching 0, Lehmann 1-0-11-1. High Court in a protracted legal battle scored off the penalty corner to give the side opportunity at long-on, inad- with the Cricket Board, Ajay Jadeja on 1-0 lead which the Indians managed to hold Saturday returned to the cricket field, till the half time. turning out for Air Sahara in the Lala Hari Pakistan, desperate to snatch a big win for Lankans suffer pay cuts Ram Memorial day-night cricket tourna- a place in the final, stepped on the gas for an ment here. A High Court order, on Colombo: Sri Lanka’s crick- per cent from the match fee of equaliser in the second half. But they failed Wednesday, allowed Jadeja to play in do- eters, under fire for a string $1,750 for each Test match mestic competition even as the Indian to penetrate the Indian defence due to some of below par performances, and $1,250 for every One-day board’s appeal against the order of a brilliant defending by former captain Dilip are facing a 30 per cent pay International. court-appointed Arbitrator quashing the Tirkey and Jugraj Singh who kept the rival cut as the authorities attempt However, the fees will be five-year ban on the all-rounder is still strikers at bay with some fine work. to raise the dipping stan- increased by 50 per cent for pending. PTI “Against Australia, we were disappointed dards by introducing win against one of the top with the defenders. But today all of them spe- performance incentives on four ranked sides and 25 per Mhambrey calls it a day: Former In- cially Tirkey and Jugraj played really well to Saturday. cent for a win against teams dian paceman Paras Mhambrey on Satur- thwart Pakistani moves,” Rajinder Singh The Board of Control for placed fifth to eighth in the day announced his retirement from first- class cricket. Mhambrey, who led Mum- said. Pakistan’s desperation to score the Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCC- International Cricket Coun- bai to their record 35th Ranji Trophy tri- equaliser helped the Indians in taking fur- SL) said on cil (ICC) world umph recently and also played two Tests ther lead when Prabhjot Singh came up with Saturday that THE SHAKEUP rankings. and ODIs against England in 1996, said a brilliant goal 15 minutes before the hooter it was slashing The players that he decided to quit from first-class to put his side in a comfortable position. the fixed contract fees as part are also entitled to an addi- cricket so that he can concentrate on India carefully negotiated the final min- of the shake-up. Sri Lanka tional $500 for each win. The coaching assignments. Mhambrey has utes of the game playing sensibly and hardly did not impress despite mak- cuts reflect the tightening fi- played over 300 first-class matches. He gave any opportunity to rival team to have an ing the semifinals of this nancial situation of the has played 60 Ranji Trophy fixtures, tak- aim at their goal. year’s World Cup and later cricket board, which an- ing 208 wickets and claimed five wickets Rajinder Singh lauded the team effort for failed to make the finals of a nounced a $2.7 million loss 11 times and ten wickets once (against the win and did not think that the absence of four-nation tournament in for 2002. Gujarat at Valsad in 1997-98). He has also Sharjah and a tri-series at some senior players in Pakistan side includ- The contracted players are: Hashan Tillek- scored 1174 runs in Ranji Trophy matches ing Sohail Abbas and former captain Mo- home. from 65 innings for an average of 20.50 eratne, Marvan Atapattu, Sanath Jayasuriya, hammed Nadeem helped India’s cause. Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Ma- with a century and four half centuries to The board reduced the “It was good to see the seniors and junior India’s Prabhjot Singh exults after scoring the winning goal against Pakistan at a three-nation number of contracted play- hela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara, Rus- his credit. PTI sel Arnold, Dilhara Fernando, Kumar Dhar- playing well in tandem. It is a good sign for hockey tournament in Perth on Saturday. India won the match 2-0 and will meet Australia in ers to 12 from the previous masena, Prabath Nissanka and Thilan Ahn the hero: South Korea’s World the game in the country. ,” he said. PTI the final on Sunday. year’s 15 and decided to cut 30 Samaraweera. AFP Cup hero Ahn Jung-Hwan struck the de- cisive goal to beat Japan 1-0 on Satur- day in a match to commemorate the an- niversary of both countries co-hosting the 2002 World Cup finals.
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