OID‰‰†KOID‰‰†OID‰‰†MOID‰‰†C The Times of India, New Delhi, Saturday,April 12, 2003 Jordan on fire It’s green for Maurice Gilly, gilly hoo Michael Jordan’s 40 but the fire is Maurice Greene’s reggae can only Adam ‘Gilly’ Gilchrist’s power there. He was livid after losing to play in the background when he strokeplay is fields away from magic. Boston Celtics. He blamed the returns with a show at 200m event His glovework...em...maybe. But this lack of fire in youngsters. Reports at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 20. magic is for real. The Aussie ’keeper said it was his towering presence A Shaggy fan, Greene says reggae has been watching magic shows in that had the guys miss the basket gets him going just before a race the WI. Picking an odd trick? The government will derecognise associations that don’t take action: Sports minister 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 Rashid Latif AP Dhaka: Middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh’s dopers are not SPORTS DIGEST maiden century, backed by lethal bowling, helped AFP India crush Bangladesh by 200 runs in the opening match of a tri-nation limited-over cricket 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 Sri Lanka 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 captain, 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 wickets 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- Pakistan 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 wicket 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, Dilip Tirkey, early, disappointing the home crowd of nearly We are very clear. We don’t It will not affect the Afro- Kanwalpreet Singh, Jugraj Singh, Dinesh Nayak, 20,000. Salvi, who finished with two wickets for 16 Sharonjit Singh, Ignace Tirkey, Vikram Pillay, Bimal encourage any unfair Asian Games at all. This runs off seven overs, was brilliantly backed by fast Lakra, Arjun Halappa, Devendra Singh, Prabool means in sports. We will was just a domestic meet Tirkey, Sandeep Michael, Prabhdeep Singh, Vinay V bowlers Ajit Agarkar and Zaheer Khan. not tolerate doping in our and the defaulters will not S, Rajbeer Singh, Dhanraj Pillay, Mukesh Kumar, Khan had a haul of four wickets for 19 runs, and Baljit Singh, Gagan Ajit Singh, Deepak Sonkhla, country.We will have to put be allowed to participate if Prabhjot Singh, 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 Harbhajan Singh contributed with one wicket. the state Olympic associa- Are you certain that the ac- Earlier, Indian captain Sourav Ganguly 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 Virender Sehwag 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 Gautam Gambhir. 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 delivery 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 not out 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 Mahesh Bhupathi 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.