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Lara denies charges BRIDGETOWN (BARBADOS), Nov 2: West Indies batsman Brian Lara has refuted charges by an........more DURBAN, Nov 2: Lance Klusener hit two successive sixes as South Africa completed their fourth ......more North Zone Ranji Trophy match NEW DELHI, Nov 2: Delhi today made light work of services when they defeated their opponents by .........more Lanka seeks Indian COLOMBO, Nov 2: Sri Lanka has asked India to help probe allegations that World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga and his deputy Aravinda De Silva were involved in match fixing, officials said today..........more |
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J&K pip Haryana by 9 wkts Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 2: Jammu and Kashmir made a good start in the Ranji Trophy Tournament with emphatic win in the first test against Haryana. ...........more Gaurav
hits ton as Delhi Excelsior Sports Correspondent KATHUA, Nov 2: Skipper Gaurav Chhabra’s brilliant knock of 120 runs helped Delhi declared its innings at ..........more Football
League Tournament Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 2: New Bharat Club today defeated NGR Club by a solitary goal in the senior division in the ongoing Football.......more Quarters
position cleared in Junior boys Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 2: Shagun Mahajan today lifted the cadets title beating fighting Depinder Kour in the final of the 22nd State......more |
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Lara denies charges in Indian report BRIDGETOWN (BARBADOS), Nov 2: West Indies batsman Brian Lara has refuted charges by an Indian bookmaker who has claimed he had paid him to "underperform" during two one-day matches in India in 1994. "I categorically deny taking money from a bookmaker or anyone else to underperform," Lara said in a statement issued by the West Indies Cricket Board secretariat in St.John’s, Antigua yesterday. The former West Indies captain arrived in London yesterday with the West Indies team for an overnight stop on its way to its forthcoming tour of Australia, to learn that India’s Central Bureau of Investigation report into match-fixing included evidence that a prominent bookmaker had given him "around dlrs 40,000" to "underperform" in the two matches on the tour of India in late 1994. Team manager Ricky Skerritt told the Associated Press from the team’s hotel at London’s Heathrow airport that Lara was unfazed by the claims that had been first hinted at in newspaper reports in Jamaica before the team’s departure Tuesday . "Brian is in great spirits," Skerritt said. "He is aware of it, we have spoken about it and, as far as he’s concerned, it never happened. He’s not even prepared to discuss it further." (AP) |
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DURBAN, Nov 2: Lance Klusener hit two successive sixes as South Africa completed their fourth successive win over New Zealand in a rain-hit fifth limited overs international at Kingsmead here. Klusener made an unbeaten 41 off 18 balls as South Africa won by six wickets with nine balls to spare after being set a stiff target under the Duckworth-Lewis scoring method yesterday. Jacques Kallis played the anchor role for South Africa, making 50 not out off 80 balls. New Zealand had struggle five off 32.4 overs in an innings interrupted twice by rain but South Africa had to make 153 off 32 overs, with the target being revised upwards to make allowance for the curtailment of the New Zealand innings. The task looked difficult on a pitch which helped seam bowlers until Klusener joined Kallis and cut loose. Klusener hit three fours in an over from Geoff Allott, then finished the match with two successive sixes off Shayne O’Connor. Kallis won the man of the match award. Apart from his crucial innings he held two slip catches and took his 100th limited overs international wicket in his 113th match. New Zealand were sent in to bat in seam-friendly conditions after rain delayed the start by half an hour. South Africa’s fast bowlers prospered in helpful conditions after skipper Shaun Pollock won the toss, although New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming (21) and fellow left-hander Roger Twose (38) put on 63 for the third wicket. Chris Cairns batted brightly in making an unbeaten 25 off 30 balls. There was an interruption of more than an hour when New Zealand were on 81 for five after 27.3 overs. Cairns hammered Klusener for three fours in an over when play resumed and then hit a straight six in Klusener’s next over as he and Chris Harris added 33 off 5.1 overs before the second stoppage. Pollock’s decision to bowl was quickly justified when he had Chris Nevin caught at second slip for nought, with Nathan Astle following soon afterwards in the same fashion to Allan Donald. Both Fleming and Twose played and missed several times during their partnership as the ball deviated sharply off the seam but Twose in particular played some aggressive strokes during an innings of 38. Twose was bowled by Jacques Kallis, the 100th limited overs wicket for the South African allrounder in his 113th match. Fleming was given out lbw to Makhaya Ntini in the next over, although replays showed that umpire Wilf Diedricks had erred, with the ball pitching outside the leg stump. South Africa lead the series 4-0. The first match of the series was rained out. SCORECARD: New Zealand (innings closed due to rain) C. Nevin c Kallis b Pollock 0 N. Astle c Kallis b Donald 3 S. Fleming lbw b Ntini 21 R. Twose b Kallis 38 C. Cairns not out 25 C. Mcmillan c Boucher b Ntini 3 C. Harris not out 9 Extras (lb-14, w-1) 15 Total (5 wkts, 32.4 overs) 114 Falls: 1/2, 2/8, 3/71, 4/73, 5/81 Bowling: Pollock 6-2-22-1, Donald 6-3-11-1, Ntini 8-2-21-2, Kallis 6-1-14-1, Klusener 4-0-26-0, Hall 2.4-1-6-0. South Africa: D. Cullinan lbw b Allott 7 G. Kirsten c Parore b Cairns 3 J. Kallis not out 50 N. Boje c Harris b Astle 29 J. Rhodes b Astle 19 L. Klusener not out 41 Extras (lb-1, nb-1, w-7) 9 Total (4 wkts, 30.3 overs) 158 Fall of wickets: 1/11, 2/11, 3/76, 4/100 Bowling: Allott 6-1-38-1, Cairns 7-0-29-1, O’Connor 5.3-1-22-0, Styris 6-0-27-0, Astle 5-0-32-2, McMillan 1-0-9-0. (AFP) |
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North
Zone Ranji Trophy match NEW DELHI, Nov 2: Delhi today made light work of services when they defeated their opponents by a huge margin of 168 runs in the North Zone Ranji Trophy match here. Former India speedster Ashish Nehra took a haul of six wickets conceding just 31 runs as Services were bowled out for paltry 99 runs in their second innings chasing 268 to win. Delhi, who had taken 32-run first innings lead, were bowled out for 235 in their second essay, but then reduced the visitors to 83 for eight at the draw of stumps yesterday. Former Ranji champions needed just seven overs on the final day today to bring an end to services fight and claim full eight points from this season opener. Barring services skipper Sanjay Verma, who remained not out on 39, no other services batsman was able to show any resistence and the team failed to garner any point. Delhi travel to Haryana for their next match starting from November 5 to 8, while services will host Himachal Pradesh during the same period. Services started the day on a cautious note with overnight batsmen Sanjay Verma and Syed Javed as the wicket gave support to the medium pacers. Ashish Nehra, who claimed five wickets yesterday, was by stand-in Delhi skipper Rahulsanghvi and the bowler justified the move bowling a tight line to unsettle the Services batsmen. Delhi got the breakthrough in sixth over of the day when Syed Javed was run out following a mix-up in the middle. After the fall of Javed’s wicket, Services lost all hopes of giving a fightback as the last man Arun Sharma could not give necessary support to his captain. Nehra troubled Sharma from the first ball itself and never gave him chance to settle down. Nehra claimed his sixth wicket in the 32nd over of the innings when he bowled a yorker length delivery to beat Sharma, who could just remain mute spectator and see his stumps uprooted. Scoreboard: Delhi Ist innings: 256 Services Ist innings: 224 Delhi IInd innings: 235 Services IInd innings: N Singh c Sharma b Nehra 3 H Bhaskar c Sehwag b Bhandari 6 P Maitree c Sharma b Nehra 0 S Singh b Bhandari 0 S Verma not out 39 A Nadkarni lbw Nehra 5 K Dikshit c Sharma b Nehra 8 S Ghag b Nehra 0 M V Rao b Sanghvi 27 S Javed run out 5 A Sharma b Nehra 0 Extras: (b-1, lb-5) 6 Total: (all out in 31.5 overs) 99 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-9, 3-9, 4-9, 5-19, 6-37, 7-37, 8-82, 9-98. Bowling: Amit Bhandari 8-1-34-2, Ashish Nehra 12.5-6-31-6, Rahul Sanghvi 8-4-14-1, Nikhil Chopra 3-1-14-0. (PTI) |
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Lanka seeks Indian help in match fixing probe COLOMBO, Nov 2: Sri Lanka has asked India to help probe allegations that World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga and his deputy Aravinda De Silva were involved in match fixing, officials said today. Sri Lanka’s Board of Control for Cricket (BCCSL) asked its Indian counterpart for copies of a report published yesterday by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that probed corruption in cricket. "The BCCSL requires to obtain immediately a copy of the 162-page report and relevant authenticated transcripts of evidence," said Sri Lanka’s cricket chief Thilanga Sumathipala in a letter to Indian cricket chief A C Muthiah. Sri Lanka’s Ranatunga, 36, who retired from international cricket in August, said he had never had any dealings with bookmakers nor was he ever offered money to throw matches. "Had any offer of a bribe been made to me at any time I would have promptly reported the matter to the appropriate authorities," Ranatunga said in a one-paragraph statement issued here yesterday. He was reacting to allegations in India that he and his deputy, Aravinda De Silva, accepted bribes to fix matches. "The references to me in the Indian newspaper articles are entirely false," he said. There was no immediate reaction from De Silva, who is still playing test cricket for Sri Lanka. A bookmaker, Mukesh Gupta, had claimed in a testimony published in CBI report that Ranatunga and De Silva helped him fix an Indian victory in the Lucknow test in 1994. (AFP) |
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Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 2: Jammu and Kashmir made a good start in the Ranji Trophy Tournament with emphatic win in the first test against Haryana. J&K defeated Haryana by nine wickets on the fourth and final day of the play today at M A Stadium, here. Playing in the second innings, Haryana lost all the wickets for 212 runs just before lunch paving way for an easy win for J&K. Host had to score only 23 runs for a victory, which the host made in 5.1 overs losing one wicket of Vidhya Bhaskar. In reply to J&K’s 190 runs first innings lead, Haryana batsmen surrendered before the fast bowling of Abdul Qayoom and Surinder Singh Bagal, who claimed five and three wickets respectively in the second inning. Despite the bad show by the batting line-up, Ajay Ratra and Sanjay Dalal faced the J&K bowlers confidently. Ajay played a long inning of 77 runs which he made with the help of ten boundaries, while Sanjay contributed 26 runs. Pankaj Thakur also did a good job for Haryana by adding 27 runs for eight wicket partnership with Ratra and saved his side from humiliating innings defeat. SCOREBOARD Haryana first innings 174 J&K first innings 364 Haryana second innings J Singh c Kanwaljeet Singh b Surinder 8 Jasbir Singh b Abdul Qayoom 3 Rajan Gupta lbw Abdul Qayoom 13 P Sharma c Aslam b Abdul Qayoom 16 R Puri c Vijay Sharma b Abdul Qayoom 15 Sanjay Dalal lbw Surinder Singh 20 Amit Mishra c Aslam b Vijay Sharma 10 Ajay Ratra c Dhruv b Abdul Qayoom 77 Pankaj Thakur c&b Ajay Jadeja 27 Vineet Jain lbw Surinder Singh 8 Firoz Gyas n-o 4 Extras 11 Total (all out in 79.1 overs) 212 Bowlings: Surinder Singh 14-6-22-3; Abdul Qayoom 19.1-5-55-5; Ashwani Gupta 14-2-59-0; Vijay Sharma 7-1-20-1; Jagtar Singh 15-5-77-0; Ajay Jadeja 9-2-23-1; Dhruv Mahajan 1-1-0-0. J&K second innings Vidhya Bhaskar c Sanjay b Amit Mishra 5 Ranjit Singh Bali n-o 15 Kanwaljeet Singh n-o 3 Total for three in 5.1 overs 23 Bowlings: Amit Mishra 2-0-13-1; Parinder Sharma 1-0-2-0; Firoz Gyas 2-0-8-0. Umpires: Sukas Phadkar and R Subramanian. Scorer: Ashwani Sharma. |
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Gaurav hits ton as Delhi
make 275 against J&K Excelsior Sports Correspondent KATHUA, Nov 2: Skipper Gaurav Chhabra’s brilliant knock of 120 runs helped Delhi declared its innings at 275 for nine against Jammu and Kashmir on the first day of the three-day Inter-state U-14 Cricket Tournament which began at Sports Stadium, here today. In reply, Jammu and Kashmir was struggling at 37 for three at the end of the day’s play. Rohit Bhat and Ian Dev were at the crease at 23 and 11 runs respectively. All the three wickets were bagged by Sandeep Kargi for Delhi. Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir won the toss and opted to field. Batting first, Delhi hit the J&K bowlers and declared the innings at 275 runs for nine in 75 overs. Gaurav Chhabra played captains innings and made 122 runs for Delhi, while Sandeep Kargi and Rakshit Pant scored 37 runs each. Mahank also played a good inning of 24 runs for Delhi. From J&K, Ian Dev was the most successful bowler, who took three wickets, while Haseeb claimed two. Skipper, Manish, Appnam and Gaurav shared one wicket each. Earlier the tournament was declared open by MLA, Kathua, Mr Sagar Chand, while the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Mehboob Iqbal presided over the inaugural function. Mehboob Iqbal, who is general secretary of the J&K Cricket Association made tremendous efforts for holding the national level tournament at Kathua for the first time. Whereas, the manager and staff members of the District Coaching Centre, Sports Stadium, Kathua made available the infrastructure for holding the national level tournament in a short span of a week’s time. The match is being officiated by S K Bansal and Vijay Chopra. |
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Football League
Tournament Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 2: New Bharat Club today defeated NGR Club by a solitary goal in the senior division in the ongoing Football League Tournament of Jammu division being played at Mini-Stadium, Parade, here today. Sonu had scored the only goal for New Bharat in the 21st minutes through his solo efforts. Whereas, in the second half, NGR forward Avneesh Goswami made an attempt to equalise the lead in the 42nd minutes, but failed to give finishing touch. In the Junior division tie, Engineer XI defeated Nagrota XI by five goals to nil in a one-sided affair. Ravi Kumar and Ram Bahadur remained in the lime light with their superb play for the winners throughout the game. Both these forwards scored two goals each. First goal came through Ravi in the 4th minutes through header. And in the 13th minutes, Ram Bhadur netted the ball to make it 2-0 lead at the end of the first half. In the second half, Ravi again struck the goal after getting a pass from Sham Kumar in the 40th minutes. Ravi, who had developed a good coordination with Ram Bahadur, gave him a pass in the 51st minutes, which Ram converted in the goal easily. Fifth goal for Engineers XI was scored by Ravinder Bhardwaj in the 57th minutes of the match. Tomorrow’s fixture: Senior division: Vijay Club V/s International Club at 3.15 pm. Junior division: Jammu Sports-A V/s New Dogra at 12.30 pm and Young Christian V/s Youngman Gurah at 2 pm. |
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Quarters position
cleared in Junior boys Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 2: Shagun Mahajan today lifted the cadets title beating fighting Depinder Kour in the final of the 22nd State and Inter-district Table Tennis Championship being held, here. While’s, quarter-finals position has been cleared in the Junior boys group. Before losing to Shagun, Depinder fought well, especially in the first and third set. In the first set, the game was expanded 26-24 in favour of Depinder Kour, whereas in the second set, Shagun who was playing an aggressive game fought back and equalised the lead. In the third set, Depinder again created troubles for Shagun and was leading till the first ten points. But, afterwards Shagun started playing defensive game which went against the wishes of Depinder, who lost successive points and lost the match 2-1. The score: 24-26, 21-13, 21-18. In the Junior boys singles, quarter-finals position has been cleared. Those who have qualified for the last eight stage are Daleep Singh of Poonch, Sandeep Luthra, Wasid of Srinagar, Gurpreet, Nitin Kesar, Anil Datta, Aditya Kanwal and Nikhil Kesar. Whereas, the decision on the eighth pre-quarter-final between Gurpreet and Mrinal Khajuria was pending due to the protest for overage. Mrinal, who won the match was branded as over age by Gurpreet. The organising committee had to take a decision in the evening. Semi-finals position has also been cleared in the Junior boys doubles group. In this category, the pairs of Nikhil Kesar and Nitin Kesar; Anil Datta and Vishal Ghai; Anant Aima and Ankur Sachdeva and Gurpreet and Aditya Kanwal have qualified for the last four stage. The results Junior boys doubles quarters: Nikhil Kesar and Nitin Kesar beat Vipalove and Himanshu 21-7, 21-11; Anil Datta and Vishal Ghai beat Arjun Anand and Ankit 21-11, 21-15; Anant Aima and Ankur Sachdev beat Wasid and Towsif of Srinagar 21-10, 21-14; Gurpreet and Aditya Kanwal beat Sumant and Domesh Jamwal 21-11, 21-5. |
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