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OID‰‰†‹KOID‰‰†‹OID‰‰†‹MOID‰‰†‹C The Times of India, New Delhi, Thursday,January 1, 2004 Gemma has guts KFA chief to quit In the drop zone The gruelling Paris-Dakar Kuwait Football Association chief McLaren F1 driver David rally will have Spaniard Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah Coulthard looks set to be Gemma Garcia as the only has decided to step down after the dropped from the team at the female contestant in the national team’s 0-2 loss to UAE in end of the season. He was motorbike section. The rally the Gulf Cup. Fans vented their ire outshone by team-mate Kimi starts on January 1 by staging a protest against KFA Raikkonen in the last season East Bengal beat Mahindras in the National Football League They (Hayden and SIZZLERS AT THE SCG Ponting) are scoring a lot India-Australia Test matches at the Sydney Cricket Ground have pro- of runs at present and if duced three double centuries and a single ten-wicket haul in a match. we can get them out India speak the plan-guage They remains the best at Sydney as detailed hereunder: cheaply there will be a lot of pressure on the guys * Ravi Shastri’s 206 in 1991-92: Dogged and attritional, these are the coming in the middle. Sourav and Co go into fourth and final Test at Sydney with a blueprint adjectives that come to mind when — Sourav Ganguly AP one reminisces Ravi Shastri’s su- Sydney: The Indians have worked well; good cutter-puller. per effort in the New Year Test of SPORTS DIGEST out an elaborate plan against the Weaknesses: Ball leaving him 1992. Opening the innings, he against spinners; looks to sweep and Ajit Ninan Australian batsmen and although faced a hostile pace quartet of slog-sweep. it has hardly worked so far, they Craig McDermott, Bruce Reid and are banking on it to pull off a se- Steve Waugh Strengths: more of a mind player; Merv Hughes with panache. He ries-winning win in the fourth went on to complete his only Test cricket Test starting here on plays point, cover, mid-off; sweeps through mid-wicket; looks to work it double hundred and then fell to a Friday. onside for one to get off strike. tired shot to Test debutant Shane Justin Langer has a very short Weaknesses: short pitch; suscepti- Warne after nine and a half hours stride on the front foot and is a big ble to inswingers; slow starter; not hitting 17 boundaries and two six- lbw candidate to ball coming in to much of footwork against spinners; es. He shared India’s highest ever him, reminds the Indian team’s bowl fourth stump line and get him fifth-wicket partnership (196) dossier on the Australian team, a hitting through cover point; give him against Australia with Sachin Ten- copy of which has been given to nothing on legs. dulkar who scored 148. The match was drawn. every Indian player. Ricky Ponting Langer has so far scored 205 Strengths: good driver; cutter; * Greg Chappell’s 204 in 1980-81: Elegance, style, ruthlessness Greg runs from six innings; 121 of puller; very positive; allround shots. Chappell had it all. An ideal No.3 bat, Greg Chappell pulverised India by which came in the first innings in Weaknesses: big shuffle; early com- occupying the crease for 408 minutes and scoring 204 runs off 296 the first Test at Gabba. He has mitment on the frontfoot; instinctive balls smashing 27 boundaries and helping Australia score 406. Truly a been dismissed leg before wicket puller; struggles for good captain’s innings, it helped complete an innings and four run win inside three out of six times, all of them outswingers. Give him nothing on the three days. to Ajit Agarkar who overall has backfoot; middle-leg line for left-arm or leg spinners; fourth stump line. * Justin Langer’s 223 in 1999-00: got him five times. Damien Martyn On a second day belter, Australia Here is the analysis of some of Strengths: off-side; plays fast bowl- were strangely struggling at 49 for the leading Aussie players. ing better; likes to cut and sweep the two. A further setback looked im- Psychologist for archers: In a Justin Langer spinners; plays inside-out. minent as Justin Langer scratched, bid to enhance the country’s medal Strengths: More of a nudger; Weaknesses: doesn’t like middle-leg prodded and poked around till he prospects in the Athens Olympics, sweeps spinners well; cuts/pulls; ball coming in from fast bowlers; can reached 50. Like long lost lovers, likes to play long innings; tons of pa- Archery Association of India (AAI) will get out trying to cut arm ball of spin- his timing returned and never left be employing the services of a for- tience; likes to grind the attack; likes ners; probably start with spin. to rotate the strike; good off the back him. After reaching 50, he blitxed eign sports psychologist, AAI presi- Adam Gilchrist the Indian attack and compiled dent Vijay Kumar Malhotra said. Mal- foot, pulls well. Strength: big puller and cutter; picks hotra, who was unanimously re- Weaknesses: Short stride on the 223, an innings spread over eight the line early; is not afraid to hit loft- hours 43 minutes and punctuated elected president of the association, front foot; big lbw candidate to ball ed strokes. said Alisan Rodeus of United King- coming in to him; sometimes get a Weakness: tends to hit in the air by 30 fours. Australia won by an dom will start working with the feeling he reads off the wicket; shaky while driving, mid-off and mid-on innings and 141 runs to end a woe- archers from next month. starter; plays half cock most of the closer to bowler than squarish as he ful tour for India as they lost the se- times; spinners should make him does not hit many straight shots. ries 3-0. Asian hockey meet in Delhi: play on the offside (delivery through In addition, there are general bowling The 5th Asian women’s hockey cover); should be bowled off-stump instructions. These are: championship will be held in New line; good length ball coming in. 1. Bowl fourth stump line to all of * Glenn McGrath’s match haul of Delhi from January 31 to February 5, Matthew Hayden them; coming forward. 10-103 in 1999-00: Still wonder- the All India Women’s Hockey Feder- Strengths: Strong of the back foot; 2. Give them nothing to cut or pull. ing whether Justin Langer’s 223 ation president Vidya Stokes said. stands tall; sweeps spinners well; India captain Sourav Ganguly and wife Dona (top of the stairs, left) arrive 3. If you bowl a bouncer it has to be helped him pocket the Man-of-the- The groupings for the event would be likes to play through onside; pulls at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport on Wednesday. good. PTI made on the basis of the four zones Match award? Well he didn’t. Glenn as defined by the Asian Hockey McGrath won it for his splendid fig- Council to promote the game and al- ures of ten for 103 off 35.5 overs. low weaker teams to gain experience. Indians at the Rethink strategy for Sydney Rain before the start meant con- ducive bowling conditions and Mc- Lanka beat India A: Fine all- round display by Kanchan Gunawar- ALLROUND VIEW contributed very little, and this is something Grath exploited them to the hilt dane (40 runs and 3/20) enabled Sri that will trouble the side consistently. The with five important wickets in the receiving end of Ravi Shastri lower order must be able to deliver some first innings including that of skip- Lanka beat India A by 26 runs in the Commonwealth Cricket (under 19) Australia wrapped up the third runs. per Sachin Tendulkar. McGrath was Championship. Test quite comfortably on the Sachin Tendulkar showed some of his old India’s nemesis in the second dig Scores: Sri Lanka 162 in 36 overs (Kanchan Gu- form finally,but he will be unhappy with his too taking five wickets. Australia nawardane 40, T. Mosmulla 40, Mayank Sharma Aussie sledging fifth morning, but I am con- dismissal to a loose shot. 2/22) beat India A 136 in 35.4 overs (Soumick vinced that if India had another romped home in three days. Chatterjee 39, Tapan Jain 31, K. Gunawardane 100-125 runs to defend, they The Sydney Test begins in a couple of - Anant Gaundalkar 3/20) by 26 runs. Sydney: The Indian resistance on the fourth day would have been in a spot of days, and this series is intriguingly poised. of the third cricket Test here was so frustrating for bother. The wicket was getting India allowed Australia to get out of their CHESS RANKINGS the Australians that they resorted to sledging to increasingly two-paced, and stranglehold, but by no means were they unsettle their rival batsmen. Top women players in FIDE list Anil Kumble could have been very dangerous. overwhelmed at Melbourne. I thought they “Where have your learnt your technique, mate! showed a lot of attitude and character, but Swami Army, Beer 1. J. Polgar (HUN) 2722 But he just did not have enough runs to defend. Is this all that John Wright has taught you?’’ 2. M Chiburdanidze (GEO) 2502 In effect, the decisive phase of the match they will have to keep the momentum going Matthew Hayden 3. A Galliamova (RUS) 2502 came on the second morning when India col- for another week.