OID‰†‰KOID‰†‰OID‰†‰MOID‰†‰C 20 Tuesday,December 2, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi GRAFFITI JCT rob IB; Tolly AP United stakes increased: Mal- PCB chief quits after TV row colm Glazer, owner of Super Bowl hold Churchill champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Lahore: The chairman of the nored the state-owned Pak- Pakistan Cricket Board istan Television (PTV). The has bought more stock in Manchester NFL United, raising his ownership to almost Tauqir Zia resigned on Mon- move triggered a row be- 15 per cent, the club confirmed to the Chennai: JCT, Phagwara started day, two days after a televi- tween the two channels stock exchange on Monday. Glazer their National Football League sion fiasco deprived millions which resulted in the first now owns 37 million shares in Man- (NFL) campaign on a winning note of fans of live coverage of the one-day match on Saturday chester United plc, giving him a 14.31 defeating a hapless Indian Bank 3-0 Pakistan-New Zealand one not being broadcast live. per cent stake in the Premier League here on Monday. Nigerian Stephen day match. Cricketers appeal: Mean- side. In October, Glazer raised his Abarowei, Sukhjinder Singh and “Yes, I have resigned from while, top Pakistan cricketers stake in the club from 3.17 per cent to Charanjit Singh scored one apiece my post because four years is and coach Javed Miandad ap- 9.7 per cent. Irish horseracing tycoons for the former champions. a long period for which I was pealed to President Gen. Per- J P McManus and John Magnier have In the absence of Joe Paul An- in charge. I have other things vez Musharraf to reject the also increased their holdings in the cheri, former Indian captain, I.M. to do in my life,” Zia told re- resignation of Zia saying his club, sparking talk of a takeover. Vijayan, who retired from the in- porters at Gaddafi stadium services would be needed Wanted coach for All Blacks: ternational football last month here. “The resignation has ahead of the crucial tour of The New Zealand Rugby Union has played a prominent role. been accepted by President Indian team to Pakistan. begun advertising for an All Blacks The Punjab team took lead in the Pervez Musharraf,” Zia said. Tauqir Zia Miandad, skipper Inaza- coach but has specified ‘foreigners’ 12th minute. Following a free-kick Musharraf, who is is pa- mam-ul-Haq, speedster need not apply. “The role needs no in- just outside the left of the box by tron of the Pakistan Cricket reer as long as he wants to on Shoaib Akthar and former troduction,” said advertisements Rampal, Bank goal keeper Edward Board (PCB) has yet to an- the basis of his perform- skipper and wicket-keeper which ran on Monday in New Zealand jumped out of his charge and failed nounce Zia’s replacement. ance,” Zia told reporters in Moin Khan made the appeal newspapers. The union indicated last to collect the ball. Vijayan played a Zia later said that it was be- Lahore while admitting he on a local television channel. week that it would seek applications Soccer legends Pele (L) from Brazil and Eusebio from Portugal play during ‘dummy’ and Stephen Abarowei cause of concerns over the was affected by all-round crit- They said considering Zia’s for the coaching position after the All the Euro 2004 draw in Lisbon on Sunday. booted home. Seven minutes later, cricketing career of his son icism of his son’s inclusion experience and his rapport Blacks’ third-place finish at the World Sukhjinder trapped in a Sukhjin- that he took the step. in the national side. with the Indian officials, his Inspiration for Vaughan: England cricket captain Michael Vaughan wants Cup in Australia. Incumbent John der pass and in the 69th minute “I believe there will be no Zia awarded television cov- services would be required to tap into England’s rugby World Cup success hoping some of the magic will Mitchell was told he would have to erage rights to Dubai-based rub off ahead of the 2007 cricket World Cup. Vaughan plans to meet England Chanranjit completed the rout. pressure on Junaid now and during the tour of India which reapply for the position he has held Churchill held: In Margao, a list- he can pursue his cricket ca- private channel GEO and ig- starts in two month’s. Agencies since 2001. The union also decided coach Clive Woodward and captain Martin Johnson as he sets about preparing to emulate their Sydney heroics in the Caribbean. Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 less Churchill Brothers played a the position would not be advertised goallessdraw against Tollygunge internationally. Chairman Jock Hobbs on Sunday, “It gives you a hell of a lot of inspiration seeing them play in such a manner and the way in which they prepared for the World Cup. We’re building Agragami in another match. The said a ‘foreigner’ would not hold New match was devoid of any thrill with Zealand rugby’s most prestigious for our World Cup in 2007, so we have to try and emulate what the rugby side have done. I’d love to meet Martin and Clive and pick their brains on how they play confined mostly to the mid- coaching position while he was in of- made their team successful.” field, Tollygunge showed a lot of fice. “The role of All Blacks coach is promise in the initial stage. Jiten essential to New Zealand rugby and English soccer champions Manchester Manchester United ring in deal: Rai and Akeem Abolanle played in the wider New Zealand public,” the United said on Monday that they have extended their sponsorship with mobile tandem to put the rival defence un- advertisements read. The successful phone giants Vodafone, agreeing a new four-year deal worth $62 million. Their applicant can expect a salary of about current 30 million pound agreement, signed in June 2000, was due to expire at der pressure. But they failed to en- $186,000 per year. the end of May next year. ter the defence as Osumanu played an outstanding game. PTI Lessons from the past Sami, Razzaq ground By K Datta COMMONWEALTH GAMES inning the bid to host the 2010 Kiwis in second ODI Commonwealth Games has will have grown from a “developing” into a “developed” capital. AFP W added to the feel-good factor Lahore: Paceman Mohammad that Indian sport has already been ex- But seven years is a long time. Politi- cal equations can undergo a change, as Sami rocked New Zealand with periencing for the last few months. five wickets in 11 deliveries in Starting with the exploits of the volley- they did in the run-up years to 1982 Asi- ad. The Asian Games had been totally Pakistan’s convincing 124-run vic- ball and hockey teams and followed by tory in the second One-day Inter- Anju George’s World Cup long jump forgotten in the emergency years till Vi- jay Kumar Malhotra, the MP from national here on Monday. medal and Pankaj Advani’s world Sami, the 22-year-old right-arm snooker title, we suddenly seem to be South Delhi, got 200 odd parliamentari- ans to sign a memorandum to remind paceman, skittled through the winning a lot more. As if all this wasn’t Kiwi tail with career-best five enough, even the Afro-Asian Games the post-emergency government of the “national commitment” made in 1976. wickets for 10 runs as the tourists dream became a reality at Hyderabad. Morarji Desai, the then Janata Party collapsed to 157 in 38.5 overs in re- And the medal haul of 63, including 14 Prime Minister, agreed but urged that ply to Pakistan’s healthy total of gold, is not bad at all. we “cut the coat according to the cloth.” 281 for six off 50 overs. The bidding campaign has been Another upheaval followed as the Jacob Oram, debutante Tamma marked by the commendably sporting Janata government fell and Mrs Indira Canning, Paul Hitchcock and Bren- manner in which all concerned put Gandhi returned to power. Rather un- don McCullum all were bowled by their weight behind it — from Suresh sportingly, Malhotra was removed and Sami’s rocketing pace while Daniel Kalmadi and Randhir Singh to Sunil a brand new “Special Asian Games Or- Vettori offered a dolly catch. Gavaskar, Anjali Bhagwat and the rest. ganisation Committee” was formed. Opener Richard Jones top But without government support even How could anyone else take the credit scored for the tourists with his go-getting sports leaders will not be for the Games when the Congress was slow 63 off 110 balls before Sami able to think big. Prime Minister in power? In spite of the ugly jockeying returned for his second spell and Atal Behari Vajpayee and his govern- for positions of power in the commit- wrapped up the innings in quick ment, it must be said, have stood behind tee, New Delhi still was ready for the time. He claimed four wickets in the cause of sport as no one before him games in a matter of 18 months under a his seventh over without conced- has done. set-up headed by S.S. Gill, an able bu- ing a run and then finished the In this upbeat mood it is not surpris- reaucrat. match by clean bowling McCul- Pakistani batsman Yasir Hameed ing that we are talking of going in for The lessons of the Asiad days is lum in his next over. hits a boundary during the second the 2016 Olympic Games itself.