THE HIMALAYAN MAIL JAMMU Q TUESDAY Q MARCH 23, 2021 11 ISSF World Cup: Sensational Umpire’s call creating lot of Saurabh Chaudhary, Manu Bhaker confusion, if ball is hitting stumps shoot 10m mixed pistol gold it should be out: Kohli after trailing 0-4 at the PUNE, MARCH 22: India skipper be if it hits the stumps, or it misses the end of the second series. Virat Kohli on Monday criticised the stumps. It doesn’t matter how much This is India’s fifth gold at fiercely-debated umpire’s call in the it’s hitting, and those kinds of things, the ongoing event. Decision Review System, saying it is because it’s creating a lot of confusion. The Iranians began well creating a lot of confusion and LBW “...and you know the one more factor but once the Indians over- dismissals should be based solely on that needs to be considered is that, you came their starting trou- whether the ball is hitting the stumps, know, how the fielding team responds bles, they were unstop- even if marginally. to a dismissal that is claimed is also pable and lived up to the As per the existing rule, at least 50 somewhere, defining soft signals as huge expectations by per cent of the ball should be hitting at well,” he said. claiming the top prize. least one of the three stumps for the “You have to question what the Also for India, batsman to be adjudged LBW on re- spirit of the game is and what those Yashaswini Singh Deswal view in case an umpire’s call has been guidelines are, because if, things like and Abhishek Verma challenged. that happened with the Indian cricket bagged the bronze medal “I played for a long time when there team overseas, then you are talking after getting the better of was no DRS. Right. If the umpire about a totally different conversation of Turkey’s Sevval Ilayda made a decision, whether the batsman spirit of the game...,” he asserted. Tarhan and Ismail Keles liked it or not, it stayed like that. Vice Kohli said the things could come to a 17-13 at the Dr Karni versa the umpire gave it not out and it head in high-stakes tournaments if Singh Shooting Range. was out, it stayed like that, whether it controversial umpiring calls end up af- Earlier this morning, was marginal or not,” said Kohli ahead fecting results. Elavenil Valarivan and Di- of the first ODI of a three-match series any debate on that. If the ball is clip- “...there’s a lot at stake in the future vyansh Singh Panwar had against England here on Tuesday. ping the stumps, that should be out with the big tournaments, and you NEW DELHI, Bhaker notched up the The Indians beat Gol- combined to claim the “According to me, umpire’s call right whether you like it or not, you lose the don’t want some grey area factors in MARCH 22: The sensa- 10m mixed air pistol gold noush Sebhatollahi and 10m air rifle mixed team now is creating a lot of confusion. review.” the game, which leaves you with no tional duo of Saurabh in the ISSF World Cup Javed Foroughi of Iran 16- gold. When you get bowled as a batsman, Kohli, who was critical of the on- clarity to be the defining factors of Chaudhary and Manu here on Monday. 12, making a brilliant rally you don’t expect the ball to hit more field soft signals following Suryaku- those big tournaments.” than 50 per cent into the stumps to mar Yadav’s dismissal during the T20 Spin great Shane Warne for long has consider yourself bowled. series against England, said the game called for a tweak in the umpire’s call, Divyansh, Elavenil claim 10m mixed air “So from basic cricket common- has to be kept simple. expressing a view similar to Kohli on sense, I don’t think that there should be “That’s how simple the game has to the subject. rifle gold for India in ISSF World Cup 3rd T20I: Demoralised Indian women look to make the final after finish- ing fifth in the qualifying with a total score of 418.1. avoid series whitewash against South Africa In the finals, Divyansh and Elavenil shot 10.4 and visitors overwhelmed it with hati Reddy and Simran Dil 10.7 to begin with, even as six wickets in hand. Bahadur, too, have been inef- their Hungarian opponents Harleen Deol and Shefali fective. managed 10.1 each. Verma has been among the South Africa, on the other That was followed by a runs in both the matches but hand, looked like a well- 10.6 and 10.5 from the visi- inconsistent performances oiled machine as both their tors, whose scores in the of Mandhana, Jemimah Ro- batters and bowlers have ex- third series read 9.9 and drirues and Richa Ghosh did celled on the tour. 10.7. not help India’s cause. Lizlee Lee, Anneke Bosch Peni and Denes contin- India seem to be badly and Laura Wolvaardt have ued to shoot scores above 10 missing the services of regu- been in red-hot form with in the remaining series but lar skipper Harmanpreet the bat. Skipper Sune Luus, NEW DELHI, 10. This is India's fourth of the US bagged the bronze that was not enough to get Kaur, who is out with a hip too, is in good touch, while LUCKNOW, MARCH plan as the momentum In- MARCH 22: India's Di- gold in the ongoing event. medal ahead of Poland's the better of the home injury. Mignon du Preez didn’t get 22: The series already out of dia gained with good perfor- vyansh Singh Panwar and The Indians shot a 10.4 Aneta Stankiewicz and favourites. On the bowling front too, much opportunity to show- their grasp, Indian women mances from 2017 to 2019 Elavenil Valarivan pro- each in the final shot to se- Tomasz Bartnik (15). Having managed 10.4 the spin trio of Gayakwad, case her mettle in the short- would look to avoid a white- got lost somewhere after duced some excellent shoot- cure the top prize while the In the second qualifica- and 10.7 in the first two se- Poonam Yadav and spin- est format. wash and end it on a positive they were completely out- ing to comfortably claim the Hungarian pair got 10.7 and tion, Elavenil and Divyansh ries, Divyansh and Elavenil ning all-rounder Deepti Shabnim Ismail and note when they take on played in the two limited gold medal in the 10m 9.9 at the Dr Karni Singh grabbed the top spot after mostly shot mid or high 10 failed to live up to expecta- Bosch shone with the ball for South Africa in the third and overs formats by South mixed air rifle event of the Shooting Range. shooting 211.2 and 210.1 re- as the final entered its last tions, while pacers Arund- South Africa. final T20 International here Africa, a side they have ISSF World Cup here on Before that, they more or spectively, for an aggregate leg. on Tuesday. beaten consistently over the Monday. less sealed the issue with a of 421.3. This was Divyansh's sec- After losing the ODI rub- years. CLASSIFIEADS The India duo shot a com- 10.8 apiece in the penulti- Together, Peni and Denes ond medal in the tourna- CLASSIFIEADS ber 1-4, things went from From poor fielding by NOTICE bined total of 16 in the gold mate attempt, even as their shot a total 419.2 in the ment after his individual NOTICE bad to worse for the Indian Richa Ghosh, Rajeshwari I, Chander Mohan S/o Kuldeep Raj I, Vijay Kumar S/o Sandha Ram R/o medal match to finish ahead opponents managed 10.4 qualification. bronze on the opening day. R/o Samba have applied for Jammu have applied for Transfer team as it lost the first two Gaikawad and Arundhati his vehicle bearing No. JK21B- of Hungarian world num- each. The other Indian pair in But Elavenil missed out on Transfer his vehicle bearing No. T20Is to hand South Africa Reddy, to Deepti Sharma’s JK21C-0790 in favour of Sunny 0096 in favour of Ishtiya Ahmed ber one Istvan Peni and Es- Mary Carolynn Tucker the event, Anjum Moudgil the final in her individual S/o Gulam Nabi R/o Kishtwar. an unassailable 0-2 lead in struggles with the bat and Hans S/o S K Hans R/o Channi zter Denes who managed and Lucas Kozeniesky (17) and Arjun Babuta, could not event. Himmat, Jammu. Objection if any Objection if any may conveyed to the series. stand-in skipper Smriti may conveyed to ARTO Samba ARTO Samba within 7 days. In fact, this is the first time Mandhana’s unimaginative within 7 days. India Legends beat SL Legends by 14 runs to win Road Safety World Series title that the Indian women’s captaincy, nothing went ac- NOTICE NOTICE I, Romesh Chander S/o Paras Ram RAIPUR, MARCH 22: India Leg- Swashbuckling opener Sanath in 36 balls, with four hits to the ropes team has lost a T20 series cording to plan for India in I, Ajay Kumar S/o Gopal Dass R/o R/o Jammu have applied for ends emerged champions in the first Jayasuriya scored 43 while skipper and five sixes. against the South Africans. the first two T20Is. Jammu have applied for Transfer Transfer his vehicle bearing No.