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The Times of , New , Saturday,April 12, 2003

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All questions have to be answered with the performance on the ground We’ll step in if and we are happy that some of them have been answered Yuvraj stars in India win Pak skipper AP Dhaka: Middle-order batsman ’s dopers are not SPORTS DIGEST maiden , backed by lethal bowling, helped

AFP India crush by 200 runs in the opening match of a tri-nation limited-over tourna- punished: Verma ment in Dhaka on Friday. Bangladesh crashed to 76 runs in reply to India’s By Indraneel Das 276. It was Bangladesh’s 33rd consecutive defeat in TIMES NEWS NETWORK One-day Internationals. The team matched its He is keeping himself abreast with the lowest total of 76, scored against in latest twists and turns in the Hyder- Colombo in 2002. abad National Games doping tale that’s Even many Bangladeshi fans at Bangabandhu threatening to rock Indian sports. National Stadium cheered Singh’s brilliant un- Union Minister of Sport and Youth Af- beaten knock of 102 from 85 balls. He reached the fairs, Vikram Verma assured that no landmark after striking a boundary off Khaled one who’s tested positive would be Mahmud, the Bangladesh , in the last over spared. In an exclusive interview with of the match. the Times News Network he shared his Yuvraj Singh’s knock included some elegant views on the subject. Excerpts: shots, including four sixes and nine hits to the Did you know about the A tions. They will not be al- boundry. sample defaulters’ list? lowed to attend any of the He went on playing impressive shots in spite of We knew about the list and national camps nor use any falling around him and was named man-of- were about to write to Indi- government infrastructure the-match. an Olympic Association to during the ban period. With a tough target of 277 runs to win, furnish the details on the What if they go to Court? Bangladesh lost their five top-order batsmen at 38 issue when the news broke. How can they contest our Pakistani captain Rashid Latif lifts within the first 15 Would you have declared it tests? Our lab is fully the Sharjah Cup on Thursday after overs. if the news wasn’t broken? equipped and will be grant- winning the final against Zimbab- India’s new Yes we would have, through ed temporary accreditation we in the Four Nation Tournament. speedster Avishkar the Indian Olympic Associ- very soon. The infrastruc- won by eight wickets. Salvi marked his ation. It is the IOA who is ture is as good as any ac- debut by claiming keeping a close tab on the credited lab in the world. IHF announces probables: A list the of issue and they are the ones Moreover, when our of 30 probables for the double-leg in- opener Mohammad who will declare the names sportspersons go for any in- vitational hockey tournament in Aus- Ashraful in his after all the formalities are ternational meets their tralia was announced by the Indian first over. over.We can’t take a chance names are cleared by this Hockey Federation in the Capital on Ashraful’s depar- with anyone’s career. Our lab, now if they say they Friday. Besides India and hosts Aus- ture on five started lab just does the test. Other are not satisfied with the tralia, the tournament, to be played in a Bangladesh slide formalities are undertaken same place then they are Perth from May 28 to June 1 and in with four other top- Sydney from June 4 to June 8, will by the IOA. By April 23, the not being straight. order batsmen fol- also feature Pakistan and and an list will be Will it affect lowing him to the Australia ‘A’ side. declared. THE DOPE TRAIL the Afro- dressing room too The probables: Kamaldeep Singh, Devesh What is your stand? Asian Games? Chauhan, Bharat Chetri, Raja Rajan, , early, disappointing the home crowd of nearly We are very clear. We don’t It will not affect the Afro- , , Dinesh Nayak, 20,000. Salvi, who finished with two wickets for 16 Sharonjit Singh, , , Bimal encourage any unfair Asian Games at all. This runs off seven overs, was brilliantly backed by fast Lakra, , Devendra Singh, Prabool means in sports. We will was just a domestic meet Tirkey, Sandeep Michael, Prabhdeep Singh, Vinay V bowlers Ajit Agarkar and . not tolerate doping in our and the defaulters will not S, Rajbeer Singh, , Mukesh Kumar, Khan had a haul of four wickets for 19 runs, and Baljit Singh, , Deepak Sonkhla, country.We will have to put be allowed to participate if , Tejbir Singh, Tushar Khondkar, Raj- Agarkar finished with three wickets. Off-spinner an end to this. I feel even they are serving a ban. pal Singh, Gurcharan Singh, Daljit Singh. PTI contributed with one wicket. the state Olympic associa- Are you certain that the ac- Earlier, Indian captain won the tions and federations creditation will be granted Tuffnell retires: Former England toss and decided to bat first in a placid wicket. Yuvraj Singh celebrates his century against Bangladesh during the inaugural match of the should test their athletes by then? spinner Phil Tufnell announced his re- Opener started slowly with debu- tri-nation series in Dhaka on Friday. before sending them for We already have 9001 ISO tirement from first-class cricket on tante . any domestic meet. certificate. By July we are Thursday. “Phil Tufnell has decided Gambhir was the first Indian batsman to fall to a SCOREBOARD What action will you take hopeful of getting the 17025 that, due to the lack of guaranteed sharp off seamer Tapash Baishya. Sehwag certainty regarding his contract with India: Total: (All out, 49.3 overs) 276 A Khan c Patel b Agarkar 9 against the guilty? ISO certificate. Most of the Middlesex being extended beyond went on playing strokes and made 63 before he was Gambhir c Mashud b Baishya 11 Fall of wkts: 1-46, 2-82, 3-132, 4-144, 5- Hossain c Gambhir b Harbhajan 0 We won’t take action, the process is already over. We trapped leg before the wickets by spinner V Sehwag lbw b Rafique 63 162, 6-172, 7-264, 8-271, 9-271. K Mahmud c Patel b Agarkar 10 IOA will through the re- are waiting for the IOC in- the 2003 season, it is time to an- S Ganguly c Rafique b Kapali 30 Bowling: M Islam 6-0-31-0, T Baishya 10- M Rafique 18 nounce his retirement from the first- Mohammad Rafique. M Kaif c Mashud b Hossain 23 0-65-3, K Mahmud 7.3-0-46-2, M Rafique T Baisya c Patel b Zaheer 2 spective federations. We’ve spectors who will finally class game,” a statement released In his second spell, seamer Baishya removed In- Y Singh not out 102 8-0-52-1, A Kapali 10-0-42-2, S Hossain 8- M Islam c Harbhajan b Zaheer 1 made our intention clear to give the nod for temporary by the left-armer’s firm Paragon dian tailenders Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan D Mongia lbw b Kapali 3 0-35-2 Extras: (lb-5, w-5, nb-1) 12 the IOA which is also very accreditation. Gradually P Patel c and b Hossain 4 Bangladesh: Total: (All out, in 27.3 overs) 76 Sports Management said. AFP in two successive balls in his last 10th over.Baishya Agarkar c Imran b Mahmud 20 M Ashraful c Sehwag b Salvi 5 Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-5, 3-11, 4-24, 5-37, serious about curbing the we’ll upgrade it to a full- finished with three wickets for 65 runs. H Singh b Baishya 3 M Hossain lbw b Salvi 0 6-43, 7-43, 8-65, 9-75. menace. fledged testing centre — the Bhupathi-Mirnyi advance: In- Spinners Mahmud, Sanwar Hossain and Alok Z Khan b Baishya 0 T Imran b Zaheer 2 Bowling: Salvi 7-1-15-2, Zaheer Khan 7.3- If the federation doesn’t take 6th in Asia. dia’s and Max Kapali each claimed two wickets to bowl out India A Salvi c Kapali b Mahmud 0 A Kapali c Salvi b Zaheer 5 1-19-4,Agarkar 7-2-18-3, Harbhajan Singh action... In case of an eventuality for Mirnyi of Belarus advanced to the Extras: (lb5, nb2, w10) 17 K Mashud lbw b Agarkar 12 6-2-19-1 with three balls remaining. AP third round of the $556,000 ATP Tour The federations are under the Afro-Asian Games, we event at Estoril, Portugal, on Thurs- pressure. They will have to are keeping Bangkok as an day. Bhupathi and Mirnyi, the top take action according to alternative. We should have seeds, defeated Jarkko Nieminen of their respective internation- a tie-up with them soon. Finland and Russian Andrei Stoliarov Badani, 129, helps Langer, Ponting punish al rules. If they don’t then Do you know anything 6-2 6-2 in the second round, accord- we have the power to dere- about the Ludhiana Games ing to information received. PTI cognise them. We’ll cut the defaulters’ list? inflow of funds and will not Yes. I’ve got some com- Rixon eyes Lankan job: Former Elite C post 426 send their athletes abroad. plaints about that too. What Australian wicket-keeper Steve Rixon Windies with centuries Kochi: Left-handed Hemang looking well set for a big And the defaulters? I can say is that action is among three candidates in the fray Georgetown (Guyana): It was a day of West Indies wasted ideal condi- Badani made a patient 129 to score, but We’ll keep their names and couldn’t be taken against to succeed Dav Whatmore as Sri centuries, the second of the first Test tions to only score 237 runs after win- help Elite C score a com- got the breakthrough when they will not be cleared for those athletes because Lanka’s cricket coach, a top official between Australia and the West Indies ning the toss. manding 426 in their first in- the batsman edged a catch to any international meet and there were some technical said on Friday. Sri lankan cricket on Friday.At lunch, responding to West In reply,when failing light ended play board chief executive Anura Ten- nings on the second day of keeper Ajay Ratra. will be barred from partici- difficulties. This time Indies’ first innings score of 237, Aus- 10 overs early, the Australians were do- nakoon said former New Zealand off- the Duleep Trophy cricket Elite C (1st innings): 426 (S Parab 44, Y pating in domestic competi- there’s no escape. tralians marched their ing it easy and had spinner John Bracewell and South match against Plate B here Goud 34, H Badani 129, P Dharmani 73, N Doru 30, J Yadav 41; Prasad 2/36, Sreeku- way to 254 for one. Not cruised to 120 for one, African were also in on Friday. SCOREBOARD mar Nair 3/84, Hirwani 2/121. out batsmen Justin trailling by 117 runs contention. Whatmore, however, is Replying to Elite’s mam- Plate B (1st innings): 76 for no loss (J Langer (130) and Ricky West Indies (1st innings): with Justin Langer un- expected to stay as coach for sri lan- moth total, Plate B openers Arunkumar batting 41, Sujith Somasundar Zimbabwe’s England tour batting 34). Ponting (103) were going W Hinds c Langer b Hogg 10 beaten on 55 and Ricky ka’s home Test series against New Captain J Arunkumar (41 D Smith lbw b Lee 3 Elite B in driver’s seat: In from strength to Ponting on 46. Zealand this month. AFP batting) and Sujith Somasun- D Ganga b Gillespie 0 , Vinayak Mane and strength. If not for 28-year-old dar (34 batting) did well to B Lara lbw b Bichel 26 still waiting for approval NCA zonal coaches: In the Na- Ambati Rayudu scored fine After 83 overs, Aus- M Samuels c Hayden b Hogg 0 Chanderpaul and a score 76 without being sepa- tional Cricket Academy meeting in half centuries to enable Elite tralia were 319 for S Chanderpaul lbw b Bichel 100 courageous unbeaten Harare: Zimbabwe’s scheduled 10-week cricket tour of Eng- on Thursday following rated at close R Jacobs not out 54 B to take a vi- four. Opener Langer half-century from strick- land and Ireland, due to start in 19 days time, has still not coaches were selected for the Zonal of play. DULEEP TROPHY V Drakes c Gilchrist b Bichel 0 tal 194-run was the last man to go M Dillon lbw b MacGill 20 en wicketkeeper Ridley been approved by the Mugabe government’s Sports and Cricket Academies, 2002-03. Resuming first innings lead against after making a bril- P Collins stpd Gilchrist b MacGill 3 Jacobs, the Windies Recreation Commission here. Zonal Cricket Academy (north): Madan Lal, Gur- J Lawson b Lee 0 sharan Singh, Suresh Luthra. ZCA (central): at their overnight score of Plate A on the second day of liant 146. Windies would have been in an The decision whether to allow the tour to go ahead rests 273/3, Elite C received a jolt Extras: (b10, lb2, w3, nb6) 21 Parthasarthy Sharma, Shashikant Khandar, Kailash the Duleep Trophy cricket speedster Drakes took Total: (All out, in 50.3 overs) 237 even more parlous posi- with this body, which formally approves or refuses permis- Gattani. ZCA (east): Ashok Malhotra, D Mukherjee, losing Pankaj Dharmani af- match here on Friday. all three wickets that Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-10, 3-47, 4-47, tion after champion sion for all sports tours overseas of whatever discipline, in- R. Venkataraman. ZCA (west): Dinesh Nanavaty, P 5-53, 6-184, 7-184, 8-222, 9-236. Shivalkar, N Satham. ZCA (south): , A ter the batsman had added Resuming at overnight 87 fell today. batsman Brian Lara was cluding up to Olympic Games squads. just one run to his overnight Bowling: Lee 10.3-1-41-2 (5nb 3w), Raghuram Bhatt, W.V. Raman. for 2, Elite B were all out for Earlier on Thursday, Gillespie 12-3-40-1, Bichel 8-1-55-3, dismissed cheaply for 26. The Union is increasingly anxious score of 72, edging an easy 329 in 104.5 overs with Mane clutching to Shivnarine Hogg 8-1-40-2, MacGill 12-4-49-2 Chanderpaul and Ja- about the delay. Chief executive Vincent Hogg said: “We are India in semis: India defeated catch to point fielder top-scoring with 76 and Chanderpaul’s hundred, (1nb). cobs retrieved their team becoming very concerned. The squad is due to fly to London Australia 25-19, 25-23, 18-25, 25-21 Venkatesh Prasad off Rakesh Australia (1st innings): Rayudu making 52. The two third-fastest in Test his- J Langer batting 130 from 53 for five at the loss on April 29 but we haven’t received the Sports Commission’s to sail into the semi-final of the 4th Dhruv. added 106 runs between them tory,West Indies reached M Hayden run out (Drakes) 10 of Lara’s key wicket be- approval yet, and there is so much to do.” Asian Youth volleyball championship Nikhil Doru, who re- in 31.2 overs. a respectable 237. The lo- R Ponting batting 103 fore lunch with a 131-run ZCU general manager Ian Robinson confirmed on Thurs- in Visakhapatnam on Friday. pleaced Dharmani, gave am- Plate A (1st innings): 135 cal Guyanese hero Extras: (lb5, nb6) 11 stand. Chanderpaul had day that a decision whether they have permission to send a Results (QF): India bt Australia 25-19, 25-23, 18- Elite B (1st innings): 329 (V Mane 76,A Pag- Total: (For 1 wkt, at lunch) 254 25, 25-21; North Korea bt Qatar 25-19, 25-20, 25- ple support to Badani, who nis 55, A T Rayadu 52, R Powar 37; S Joshi smashed 15 fours and Fall of wicket: 1-37. to be helped from the team to England and Ireland had not been received. 22; China bt Thailand 25-15, 25-22, 25-22; Iran bt continued his good work. 2/85, Ananthapadmanabhan 2/69, H Kanitkar two sixes in his 100 from Bowling: Dillon 15-0-77-0, Collins 17- ground in a motorised He said the application was formally submitted to the SRC Chines Taipei 25-18, 25-18, 25-14. Badani, 99 overnight, execut- 3/24. 72 balls, reaching his 1-60-0 (3nb), Lawson 9-0-48-0, Drakes cart upon his dismissal several weeks ago. “It was certainly timely,” he said. All Saturdays’ semi-final matches: India vs North Ko- Plate A (2nd innings): 74 for two (R Bar- 13-4-35-0 (3nb), Samuels 8-0-28-0, rea; Iran vs China. ed some delightful shots rington batting 35, H Kanitkar 30, R Kumar seventh Test century in Ganga 1-0-1-0. (scorecard incomplete) when he was struck on arrangements for the lengthy tour are in place in England through the covers and was batting 5. PTI just 69 deliveries, but the left knee. Agencies and Ireland. AFP ‘Sharjah victory Ajit Ninan ‘We’re ready to answers queries’ Gangjee confronts Vijay and the heat bounce back’ Sharjah: Satisfied with the By Sukhwant Basra him. With Arjun’s lustre club house . He had, perhaps, the opportune moment to de- Dhaka: With the World Cup successful completion of TIMES NEWS NETWORK gone, the showcase looked a earned the right to say it. flate the tension. A lesser disappointment behind “the first stage of the re- New Delhi: After the thrills bit bare and the other semifi- Shiv was the sixth seed person would have been glad them, South African coach building process”, Pakistan that the SRF Matchplay nal failed to enthuse more and is known for carrying to be not facing the re- Eric Simons is now deter- captain Rashid Latif said championship presented than a paltry crowd. the fight to the last hole. But doubtable Arjun, but Rahil is quite a few questions regard- over the last three days, Fri- His withdrawal saw Vijay today he seemed to have used ruing the missed opportuni- mined to put his young team ing Pakistani cricket had day proved to be a bit of a Kumar book a finals berth by his driver a shade too often ty. “We live in the same city, on the recovery path and been answered in the Shar- dampener. Especially for the default. Vijay faces Rahil and the DGC course frowns down the same street and looking forward to the tri-se- jah Cup tournament, which final on Saturday. Gangjee who took 17 holes to at those who seek to conquer he’s been my idol all this ries here to strike the right his side won on Thursday An upstart who upsets an master the never-say-die it with force. It prefers the while. But I would have loved note by trying out new ideas. night beating Zimbabwe by entrenched star may well Shiv Shankar Prasad subtle wooing of the irons to have had a crack at him,” “The World Cup disap- eight wickets. pull in some curious ones, Chowrasia. and fairway says the 24-year-old with an pointment is behind us. We “All questions have to be but the top seed bowing out Vijay goes SRF MATCHPLAY woods. Rahil impish smile. are read to bounce back,” answered with the perform- to a heat stroke is definitely into the final attributed his The final on Saturday will said Simons who survived ance on the ground and we deflating, for both spectators with a refreshing break to- recent run of form to the fit- be a 36-hole affair and Rahil the axe despite South Africa are happy that some of them and organisers. day while Rahil trudged ness programme his coach will need to draw on his re- bowing out of the World Cup have been answered,” Latif Arjun Atwal has taken two through 41 degree Celsius for Ajay Gupta has thrust upon serves to come up with anoth- in the first round itself. said when asked whether the European PGA titles in his the majority of his afternoon him as well as the new Ti- er win in the debilitating heat. Simons is depending on wholesale changes in the stride but the cocktail of round. Not that it is worry- tleist gear he’s started using. With Arjun’s withdrawal, fresh blood to deliver the Pakistani side after the steroids to check a virulent ing the Kolkata resident. “I His other ‘secret’ weapon Shiv takes third place and Rs goods in this tournament World Cup debacle were jus- throat infection, coupled am fit enough. I’ll beat Vijay stays his caddy Sanjay 50,000. Arjun gets Rs 35,000. where their main rivals will tified. Pakistan, with a new- with the sapping sun, tomorrow,” avowed Rahil Choudhary who he claims be India, given the indiffer- Semi-final results: 5-Vijay Kumar w/o 1- look side, won all their brewed a condition that Gangjee as he mulled over an has the uncanny knack of Arjun Atwal; 18-Rahil Gangjee bt 6-SSP ent form of hosts matches in the tourney.” PTI proved too much even for iced tea in the chill of the saying something funny at Chowrasia 2&1. Bangladesh. PTI

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