OID‰‰†KOID‰‰†OID‰‰†MOID‰‰†C The Times of India, New Delhi, Monday,October 6, 2003 Max show from Biaggi Rooney man enough No breather for Yao Bank on Max Biaggi to thrill racing fans. That Sven Goran-Eriksson thinks highly Winning a ticket to the Athens The Honda-riding Italian raced superbly of Wayne Rooney is no secret. The 2004 Olympic Games doesn’t for a runaway victory in the Pacific GP English coach now insists that the satisfy Yao Ming. The Chinese of Motegi on Sunday, leaving even teenage striker could feature in the key NBA sensation is already looking world champion Valentino Rossi Euro qualifier away to Turkey, despite at helping Houston Rockets some distance behind labelling the match a ‘game for men’ make next year’s playoffs Arsenal beat Liverpool to remain on top of Premiership INDIANS ABROAD Politicians are careful over making the decision to resume Indo-Pak cricketing ties, but people can push Glenn out of India tour, may miss Test too Sania wins ITF crown them into it. Perth: An ankle injury has forced his weight in his of the Australian summer.McGrath foot, it can be a major problem,” Mc- Hyderabad: Teen tennis sensation Sania Mirza de- —Sanjay Manjrekar Australian spearhead Glenn Mc- delivery stride — had been attending an Australian Grath said. feated compatriot Rushmi Chakr- SPORTS DIGEST Grath to withdraw from this and today the pain pre-Test camp here, and earlier in- His absence means Australia will varty 6-3, 7-5 in the final to win the month’s two Tests against Zimbab- was still there. dications were that he would be go into Thursday’s Test without $10,000 professional women’s ITF AFP we and a three-week limited-overs A team ready to take part in the first Test him and the suspended Shane tournament at Jakarta, Indonesia tour of India starting late October. spokesman said against Zimbabwe, starting at the Warne, who have 921 scalps between on Sunday. Sania was in her full el- Officials said on Sunday McGrath, McGrath left Perth WACA Ground Thursday. He had them. The last time the pair were ements and raced ahead in the first 33, was also in doubt for the first to fly home to Syd- said all along he would not play un- absent from an Australian Test line- set outplaying the fighting Rushmi Test in a series against India start- ney where he will less he was close to 100 per cent fit. up was in last summer’s fifth Test to reach to a convincing 4-3 lead, ac- ing in Brisbane December 4. have further ankle surgery this McGrath also indicated he was against England, when Australia Sania cording information received here. McGrath had surgery on his left week. He faced up to two months on prepared to sacrifice the first half of lost by 225 runs. Accelerating her pace, the Wimbledon junior ankle in August and had been re- the sidelines, the spokesman said. the domestic summer to ensure his Western Australian fast bowler doubles champion proved her supremacy with covering well, but pulled up sore af- But Australian physiotherapist fitness for a gruelling schedule over Brad Williams has been promoted to some sizzling cross court shots and humbled Rush- ter bowling in the nets here on Sat- Errol Alcott was confident Mc- the next 18 months. the Australian 12 for the first Test, mi to take the next two games in a row. PTI urday.He felt pain and discomfort in Grath, who has 430 wickets from 95 “For a fast bowler, when you’ve but is expected to be given 12th man the ankle — the one which supports Tests, would be back before the end got ankle problems with your front duties. AFP Mahesh-Max win title New Delhi: India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus on Sunday won the men’s dou- bles title of the $ one million Kremlin Cup in Moscow defeating the Zimbabwean pair of Wayne Pak’s 267 is too big for Proteas Black and Kevin Ullyett 6-3, 7-5, according to infor- mation received here. The duo had defeated Wild AP Lahore: Pakistan defeated tional limited overs competi- Card entrants Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davy- South Africa by 42 runs on tion coupled with Younis denko of Russia in the semi-finals 6-3, 6-1. (PTI) Venezuela’s Alexander Munoz (top) Sunday to win the second Khan’s 41 and Shoaib Malik’s lands a right against Japan’s One-day International at 45 off 53 balls helped Pak- Rupesh wins in Pakistan Hidenobu Honda during their WBA Gaddafi Stadium. Set to score istan raise 267 for seven. super-flyweight title clash in Tokyo 268 to win, South Africa Ntini, who returned none New Delhi: Top seed Rupesh Roy won the first leg on Saturday. Knockout artist of ITF Pakistan International Junior Tennis cham- Munoz outclassed Honda 3-0 to could only score 225 for 9 in for 26 off three overs in retain his title. their stipulated 50 overs. the first one-dayer Friday pionship defeating country mate and second seed Pakistan lead the five- which South Africa lost by Sumit Gupta in a three set thriller in Islamabad on match series 2-0. eight runs, made amends Sunday. There was not much to choose between Witness in rape case: A ‘‘very Earlier, put into bat, Pak- and claimed four wickets for Roy and Gupta, both belonging to the National Ten- useful witness’’ came forward to help istan’s Yousuf Youhana (65) 46 runs. nis Academy, through out the tie but the former police investigating the alleged gang kept up his supreme form In television replays, showed a better baseline game control to take the rape of a 17-year-old by Premier title 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 in just over two hours, according to League players last week, Scotland with yet another half centu- bowler Hall appeared to hit information received here. PTI Yard said in London on Sunday. ry, but exchanged some hot Youhana with his elbow as he Meanwhile, police refused to discuss words with South African passed Hall to complete a run. claims by a man who said the girl bowler Andrew Hall. The match referee Clive Jyoti,Atwal tied 50th agreed to have sex and that four Youhana’s sixth successive Lloyd is expected to take ac- men, not eight, were involved. score of over 50 in interna- tion after the match. Agencies New Delhi: Paying the price for inconsistency,the Nicholas Meikle told a tabloid he, Indian duo of Jyoti Randhawa and two players and another man had SCOREBOARD Arjun Atwal finished tied for the consensual sex with the girl. The Pakistan: Md Hafeez b Pollock 7, Y South Africa: G Smith c Younis b Sami 6, 50th place on the penultimate day of newspaper said his statement was Hameed c Boucher b Ntini 16, Y Youhana H Dippenaar b Hafeez 58, J Kallis lbw b the $6 million WGC-American Ex- backed up by a sworn affidavit from c Boucher b Kallis 65, Inzamam not out Hafeez 42, N McKenzie run out (Sami) 3, press Championship and will now 33, Y Khan c Boucher b Ntini 41, S Malik M Boucher run out (Sami) 5, J Rudolph another of the men allegedly in- b Ntini 45, R Latif run out 19, A Razzaq b lbw b Hafeez 25, S Pollock run out (You- attempt to climb up the leaderboard volved. AP Ntini 15, S Akhtar not out 11; Extras: (5 nis) 11,A Hall b Sami 8,A Dawson not out which has Tiger Woods and Vijay b, 3 lb, 7 w) 15 23, M Ntini not out 16; Extras: (lb 9, w 12, Singh at the top. According to infor- Villeneuve dropped: Former Jyoti Total: (For 7 wkts, in 50 overs) 267; Fall nb 6) 27; Total: (For 9 wkts, in 50 overs) mation received here on Sunday world champion Jacques Vil- of wickets: 1/19, 2/37, 3/138, 4/163, 225; Fall of wkts: 1/19, 2/108, 3/116, leneuve was facing the end of his 5/201, 6/225, 7/236. Bowling: Pollock 4/121, 5/138, 6/163, 7/168, 8/174, from the par-70 course, Randhawa stumbled on his Formula One career on Saturday 10-2-39-1, Ntini 10-0-46-4 (4 w), Hall 9- 9/187. Bowling: Sami 8-1-20-3, Gul 9-0- South African captain Graeme Smith (R) argues with umpire Darrell Hair after Pakistan bats- back nine again and submitted a card of four-over 0-52-0, Kallis 10-1-56-1, Peterson 3-0- 54-0,Akhtar 8-0-43-0, Razzaq 7-0-27-0, 74, while Atwal dropped three strokes in the end for after his manager Craig Pollock 21-0, Dawson 8-0-45-0 (3 w). Hafeez 10-0-37-3, Malik 8-0-35-0. man Yousuf Youhana (L) exchanged some hot words with medium-pacer Andrew Hall during claimed that the Canadian had the second One-day International at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Sunday. his second successive two-over 72. PTI been dropped from the BAR-Hon- da team. Pollock said that he wasn’t sure if 32-year-old, the Openers’ Akaash no longer Sunny 1997 champion, would take part in the final race of the season in Sunil Gavaskar, the broadest Indian bat ever, was Japan on Oct. 12. AFP last seen in a Test match on March 17, 1987.