OID‰‹‰†KOID‰‹‰†OID‰‹‰†MOID‰‹‰†C The Times of India, New Delhi, Friday,September 12, 2003 Berger to say adieu Coria to sit out Fergie’s no to Chelsea Gerhard Berger, motorsport World No. five Guillermo Coria will Man United manager Alex Ferguson director of BMW at present, will not figure in next week’s Davis Cup is reported to have rejected an offer bring down the curtain on his 25 semifinal against Spain. According to take over as Chelsea boss. The years in racing at the Italian Grand to doctors, the top Argentine has United boss insists it would take Prix. The 44-year-old raced in no torn his adductors. Mariano something ‘catastrophic’ to make less than 210 Grand Prix races Zabaleta will be the replacement him leave Old Trafford. France, Sweden Bulgaria, Czech in Euro 2004 AFP Fans have always great to me — David Beckham Seniors in SPORTS DIGEST AFP the dock By Madhu Jawali CHALLENGER TROPHY TIMES NEWS NETWORK off 97 balls and was decorat- Bangalore: If Rohan ed with 13 hits to the fence Gavaskar and S Sriram of In- and one over it. dia ‘A’ had denied the Sourav Dravid and Agarkar, pro- Ganguly-led India Seniors moted to one-drop, com- on Wednesday,Rahul Dravid pounded the Seniors’ situa- and Co (India ‘B’) made them tion. The duo authored the miserable on Thursday. most productive partnership Leading the assault was cap- of the innings, 136 runs off tain Dravid himself, who 125 balls, which paved the carved a brilliant century. A way for a huge total. string of cameos by the rest It was, however, Vijay helped India ‘B’ put up a Bharadwaj’s 29-ball 41 which Ukrainian heavyweight boxer, whopping 338 in 50 overs in took the cake. He was brutal WBA World Champion Vitali Kl- the second day-night en- itschko with his wife Natalya Kl- against Balaji, carting the counter of the NKP Salve itschko during the launch of a medium-pacer to the fence book ‘Our fitness’ in Kiev on Challenger Series for the thrice in an over. Bharadwaj Wednesday. TVS Cup at the M Chin- hit four boundaries a six. naswamy stadium here on Opener Mongia perished ear- Thursday. Thongchai Jaidee leads: Thai- ly while an unusually flashy land’s Thongchai Jaidee fired a 4- In the end it was 63 runs Shib Sundar Das promised under-par 68 to take the lead on too many for the Seniors as more than he could do (33, Thursday after the first round of the their 50 overs could reap 275 43b, 5x4). for seven. Ajit Agarkar,Amit SCOREBOARD Asian PGA Tour’s $300,000 Taiwan India B: Das b Balaji 33, Mongia c Laxman Masters. Lu Wei-chi and Lin Wen- Bhandari, JP Yadav all took b Zaheer 4, Agarkar c Balaji b Karthik 57, tang, both from Taiwan, were one India Seniors captain Saurav Ganguly watches from slips as India B batsman Yuvraj Singh sweeps during their Challenger Trophy match at the a wicket each. For the losing Dravid b Balaji 107, Yuvraj b Rayudu 30, stroke behind the leader at the side Sanjay Bangar made a Bharadwaj not out 41, Yadav not out 16. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Thursday. Extras: (lb22, nb9, w19) 50. 6,324-meter (6,950-yard) Taiwan scratchy 63 while Hemang Total: (for five wkts in 50 overs) 338. Golf and Country Club in the Taipei CRICKET UPDATE Badani (61 not out) and Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-65, 3-201, 4-225, suburb of Tamsui. AP Reetinder Singh Sodhi (51) 5-281. Bowling: Zaheer 5.1-0-26-1; Balaji 10-0- Basketball team announced: played innings of substance. 76-2, Bangar 7.5-0-43-0, Sodhi 5-0-31-0, The Basketball Federation of India BCCI to institute Kiwis OK Pak tour Dravid was a revelation on Karthik 10-0-47-1, Ganguly 2-0-15-0, retained 11 of the 12 players who Pakistan keen to extend lead this day.The 30-year-old, who Mishra 7-0-51-0, Rayudu 3-0-27-1. Faisalabad: Details of New India Seniors: A Rayudu c Das b Agarkar played in the ABC qualifiers for 22nd walked in to a boisterous annual awards Faisalabad: Pakistan will look to extend their lead over Bangladesh in Zealand’s One-day series in Pak- 4, P Patel c Y Singh b Bhandari 30, R Sodhi Asian Basketball Confederation their One-day series on Friday when they meet at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Sta- welcome from his home c S Singh b Yadav 51, S Ganguly st Naidu b championships, to be held at istan in November have been set- S Singh 25, VVS Laxman b Bahutule 18, H TIMES NEWS NETWORK dium for the second match of the five-match series. Pakistan claimed a crowd, was confident from Harbin, China from September 23 to tled. “New Zealand have confirmed Badani not out 61, S Bangar st Naidu b crushing 137-run win over the cricketing minnows in the opening One- the first ball. He on-drove Mongia 63, A Mishra c & b Mongia 0, M October 1. However, the reigns of Jaipur: The Indian cricket board the short tour after we agreed to day match at Multan on Tuesday. Laxmipathi Balaji and then Kartik not out 1 6 the team have been taken away (BCCI) is going to set up annual some minor changes they had sug- Extras : (b1, w 6, nb 4, lb 11, p 0 22 “We want to capitalize on our first win and perform in a similar fash- leaned forward to cover- from forward Gagnesh Kumar of awards for best performers in the gested in the tour itinerary,” a Pak- Total : (in 50.0 overs, for 7 wickets ) 275 ion,” captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said. All Pakistan’s top ranked batsmen drive the Tamil Nadu bowler. Fall of Wickets: 1-11, 2-49, 3-119, 4-127, Punjab and handed over to point senior, junior and sub-junior cate- istani Cricket Board spokesman were among the runs in Multan’s opening encounter. Yasir Hameed - in That set the tone for the 5-150, 6-263, 7-272 guard S Robinson of Tamil Nadu. gories from December this year. said. Bowling: Agarkar 8-1- 34-1, Bhandari 9- his new role as opener - scored his maiden one-day century,while Inza- evening. He was eventually Mihir Pandey of Railways comes in According to Kishore Rungta, New Zealand are playing five 0- 55-1, Yadav 10- 0- 47- 1, Singh 7- 0- mam and Younis Khan blazed quickfire half centuries to mount an im- castled by Balaji after scor- 46- 1, Bahutule 10- 0- 50- 1, Mongia 6- 0- place of Tinu Joseph, relegated to BCCI treasurer, awards will be giv- One-dayers in lieu of the Test pressive total of 323 for three. Hameed batted at number three in all ing a sparkling 107 that came 33-2 standby, as the lone change. en to the best in batting, bowling, match they pulled out of in three Test matches against Bangladesh and, after scoring centuries in The squad: S Robinson (TN - captain); S Gopinath fielding, wicketkeeping and the Karachi in May last year after a each innings of his debut Test at Karachi last month, was dropped down (TN); S Sridhar (TN); Gagnesh Kumar (Pun); Par- best all-rounder. bomb blast outside their hotel. The minder Singh (Pun); Snehpal Singh (Pun); Murli Kr- the order for the One-day-internationals. ishna (Utr); Desraj (Utr); Riazuddin (Rly); Trideep Rai The final decision in this regard games will be played in Lahore, (Rly), Mihir Pandey (Rly), S P Kadam (Ser). Stand- will be taken in the annual general Pakistan: Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Nazir, Yasir Hameed, Yousuf Youhana, Ju- Faisalabad and Rawalpindi during by: Tinu Joseph (Ser); Binod Chowdhury (Jhr). Offi- naid Zia, Kamran Akmal (wicketkeeper), Shabbir Ahmad, Umer Gul, Shoaib Malik,Abdul Razzaq,Younis Khan, Patel will vie for body meeting (AGM) of the board the November 19-30 tour. cials: K K Chansoria (chief coach); P Ramar Danish Kaneria and Salman Butt. (coach); Ch. Ramesh (coach); K P Changoiwala scheduled to be held on September Bangladesh : Khaled Mahmud (captain), Hannan Sarkar, Habibul Bashar, Sanwar Hossain, Mohammad (manager); Milan Dasgupta (FIBA referee). TNN 27 and 28 in Kolkata. The amount Ashraful, Razin Saleh, Alok Kapali, Mohammad Rafique, Khaled Mashud, Tapash Baisya, Alamgir Kabir, of the cash award will be decided Mashrafe Bin Murtaza, Mushfiqur Rehman, Hasibul Hossain and Tushar Imran. AP ...but SA not sure Naidu to meet F1 chief: To woo jt. secretaryship AFP Formula One to Hyderabad, chief in the AGM, he informed. Faisalabad: South African securi- minister Chandrababu Naidu will When asked about the basis of ty officials would visit Pakistan By Bobbilli Vijay kumar term vision and dy- spend nearly five hours at the Monza the selection of awardees, Rungta this week to evaluate security in TIMES NEWS NETWORK namism. He has actively said that the board will rate the encouraged the concept of racetrack, watch the F-1 race and Karachi and Peshawar, venues for Bangalore: With the little hold discussions with officials during players much on the lines of Ceat NCA and the use of mod- their team’s Test matches, officials game of musical chairs al- his two day visit to Italy, commenc- cricket ratings. ‘‘The board will en- said on Wednesday. ern technology and novel ing on Sept 13. According to gage selectors, former cricketers most over,the Indian crick- methods in cricket.