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OID‰‰†KOID‰‰†OID‰‰†MOID‰‰†C 22 Monday,June 2, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi gether a spinners panel to revive the India senior team, it won’t be a bad might not be enough for FFEERREENN art of spin in the country. idea if he conducts sessions for the the officials to punish the IIFF TT The dearth of quality spinners youngsters. Till then let’s keep the errant sportspersons. Unforgettable, incredible, enjoyable! DD seems to be spreading across the globe. flight going. They need to take proac- May be faster than the race to acquire tive steps like the Aus- Sportingly yours tralians who have decided hat’s the way Annika done her best, and the pres- that she felt “totally sophisticated arms has! Shane Warne, Sorenstam recalls her sure was so great — that drained”, having given her Stuart MacGill, Muthiah Muralitha- he century-old Mohammedan that all members of the Athens Olympic contin- super-hyped week week and the previous best, adding though that it ran, Harbhajan Singh, Daniel Vettori, Sporting club is trying to net the when she played the months — and the emotion was the best week of her S Saqlain Mushtaq are just a handful. gent will have to undergo T T S T Devdas, but not with the alcohol PGA Tour. But she is cate- so built up. “Who knows if I life. R E testing. OK Okay, that can be swollen with the that kept him going in life without gorical in saying that play- would have been able to The support from indi- Kenyan fledgling Collins Obuya. Paro! The rejuvenated Kolkata giants Meanwhile, a laboratory in France has devised a ing at the Colonial was a play Satur- viduals, the crowds, her fel- With people as illustrious as Bishan have decided not to entertain alcohol test to detect blood doping, “one time opportunity”, day and low women players has Singh Bedi, S. Venkataraghavan, Era- companies as a sponsor,but are keen to Spinners’ yarns which helps endurance that she just wanted Sun- meant everything. Nancy palli Prasanna and BS Chandrasekhar instal the legendary Bollywood Dev- athletes to raise the levels to test her game day..” Lopez called to say she on the panel, hopefully India can see a dases, Dilip Kumar and Shahrukh t’s not always that the authorities of oxygen in the blood. The against the best She wished she had had the op- new breed of trundlers who can be Khan, as their patrons. come out proactive. Mostly they test is currently being val- men in the world. con- portunity 25 years ago, and trusted to use flight, spin and guile to I wake up at the eleventh hour or Dilip Kumar was patron of the idated and will be ready in This she has fessed on the Friday fellow com- get the batsmen out. Besides, the board even later. And remind us of the Bolly- Sporting during the 60s, while time before the Athens done and now petitors at the Colonial in- also needs someone who can freshen wood flicks where cops invariably ar- Shahrukh was aregular at the Ambed- Olympics. she “wants troduced themselves rive after all the action is complete. up the mindset of a budding spinner. kar Stadium in Delhi for the club’s to move and said they hoped Anyway,reserve your kudos for the In- With sports psychologist Sandy Gor- matches in the Durand Cup. Going places on” and she’d be back. dian cricket board who have strung to- don proving of immense worth to the Meanwhile, the club has amended get back But Annika its constitution to include ow that the cricket to win- recognises that it a non-Muslim in the execu- board is planning to ning was a big step for tive committee. By a land- N expand its areas of tourna- her, that it’s a A matter of footwork mark decision Vipin Vora, activity to the far-flung ments. “different north-eastern states and Udayshankar a Punjabi industrialist, There league”. re the courts an an- has been named vice-presi- the Union Territories, it are three “majors” to play She hopes swer for sporting dis- dent of the club. might think of banishing and her goal is to win them that if she putes? Sportsper- Life is truly stranger errant players to the An- all. But it was an experi- can take her sons, generally, stay than fiction. A year ego the daman and Nicobar or ence. “..the more I think game to a dif- A Lakshwadeep islands to away from the courts for Sporting were gasping for about it, the more I smile,” ferent level, it fear of retaliation from ad- life and today they are spend a season or two pro- she says “I wasn’t afraid. I will con- ministrators and the courts coming up with a lot of moting the game there as just went out there with tribute to the refrain from sitting in judg- path-breaking ideas. The punishment! the best guys in the world growth of ment over matters of selec- club is all set to sign a joint Jokes apart, the board’s and loved it.” She has no women’s golf tion because its subjective. venture with a Premier idea of spreading the game regrets. in general. But, when six Indian Test League club of England. can’t be faulted even When an interviewer There, if her stars challenged the deci- The club had appoin-ted though some might see it took it for granted that she Colonial experi- sion of the cricket board to London-based FMM Inter- as a ploy to expand its vote regretted missing the cut, ence plays a part, ban them for wanting to national as its agent and bank. Who knows there she told him that was not it will add to her play in the US, the then consultants, which, among could be talented young so, that she knew she had satisfaction. Chief Justice of India E S other things, would look cricketers in places like Manipur or Nagaland, Mi- Venkataramaiah asked the for a sponsor. less it emulates the Indian Hockey Fed- in his hands, making the goalkeeper board to explain as to who zoram or Meghalaya? If Manipur can produce brilliant eration which in one stroke affiliated fall inside the line. Referee A.N.Ja- gave it the authority to se- Proactiveness pays all public sector units and banks by yaraman treated it as a fair charge and lect or ban players. hockey players and hardy boxers then t was delayed a little, but asking them to cough up a tidy capita- awarded a goal. In its wake the stands The board thought it pru- why not batsmen and bowlers and the Indian Weightlifting tion fee. erupted and lawlessness spread. dent to go for an out-of- fielders of superb fitness and reflexes. I Federation sent the If the craze for cricket catches on in Pratul Chakraborty,India’s first ref- court settlement with the right message last week Memories of Musa eree to earn a FIFA badge, had once players by lifting the ban. A these regions insurgency and terror- when it suspended as narrated another incident when in a decade later, the board was ism may be a thing of the past. Who ertain players leave a deep impact many as 35 weightlifters match in Kolkata Musa was pulled up again dragged to the court knows? Also, the surplus cricketing on the minds of the fans and their for using drugs and testing for a foul inside the rival area. Within by Mohammad Azharud- provided he fulfilled the ja throws some light. talent in major centres in search of C deeds are recalled long years later. positive, an all-time record whispering distance of the man in din, who was also party to norms and criteria for se- When the judges report- greener pastures will then have wider Musa, a former Pakistani footballer for any Indian federation! black he uttered that ‘‘this referee has the earlier litigation, and lection. But the court edly asked if Jadeja was se- options to choose from. who had played for leading Kolkata no one but me to watch.’’ The referee Ajay Jadeja, challenging wouldn’t give him the green rious about dancing or Even a junior weight- Of all the Union Territories, the one clubs in the 1950s, could be counted chose an occasion a few minutes later the ban on their playing signal to play in the Lan- playing cricket, the advo- lifter who failed to appear place where cricket is really flourish- among them. to retort: ‘‘Musa, who else is here to cricket following match-fix- cashire league. cates were quick to point for a drug test was handed ing is Chandigarh which has produced Dash and dribble, penchant for watch but you?’’ ing charges. This time How motivated is Jadeja out that their client was out the same punishment, a number of international stars, in- poaching goals and showmanship all around, the board decided to play cricket now that he dancing to prove that he a two-year ban, as his 23 cluding Kapil Dev, Ashok Malhotra, formed part of his varied qualities. In- It will be difficult to forget players to defend its decision. is a keen golfer and a film was fit to play cricket. Well, other colleagues who test- Chetan Sharma, Yograj Singh and his cidents packed his tenure on the foot- like Musa in a hurry. He was reported The Delhi High Court, star in the making? The ex- footwork is a prerequisite ed positive while partici- son Yuvraj and Dinesh Mongia and ball fields of the country.

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