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India fumble at the post, Kiwis win 1st major tourney NAIROBI, Oct 15: India fumbled at the finishing post and allowed New Zealand to win the ICC Knock Out Cricket Trophy, being outmanoeuvred by ..........more Paes, Bhupathi win TOKYO, Oct 15: India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi clinched their first title of the season by winning the men’s doubles title at the $970,000.......more Age scandal rocks GUWAHATI, Oct 15: After the match fixing scandal in cricket, now it is the time for the age scandal......more PG Deptt to clash with
Kathua College in Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Post Graduate Department will clash with Degree College Kathua in the final of Kabaddi tomorrow....more GMC, Commerce College
win Inter-Collegiate Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Government Medical College and Commerce College won the finals......more |
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Lt Gen M S Shergill presenting the Inter-Squadron Championship Trophy to the best adjudged Alfa Squadron on the occasion of Regimental Day celebrations by 11 Armoured Regiment. Armoured Regiment celebrates Day Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Armoured Regiment 11 today celebrated its Regimental Day with fervour and enthusiasm. Lt General M S Shergill, PVSM, AVSM, .............more QFs of Open Chess
Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: The quarterfinals of the Open Chess Tournament, Government Medical College, Jammu will be played on October 17..........more Senior snooker category
begins Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Continuing his winning spree in the junior snooker category, Nitin Puri today registered remarkable victory over last year’s.........more |
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India fumble at the post, Kiwis win 1st major tourney NAIROBI, Oct 15: India fumbled at the finishing post and allowed New Zealand to win the ICC Knock Out Cricket Trophy, being outmanoeuvred by the Kiwis powered by a great all-round display by Chris Cairns including an unbeaten 102. The Indian team’s golden run, that saw them beat Australia and South Africa on the way to the final, came to an end when it mattered most. They have only themselves to blame. New Zealand won by four wickets with two balls to spare, despite a blazing batting start by India which went waste due to poor follow-up in the slog overs, wayward bowling and missing of crucial run out chances. The Kiwis romped home making 265 for six in 49.4 overs in response to India’s 264 for six off 50 overs for their first major tournament win. Skipper Saurav Ganguly hit his second successive century (114) after his team had been put in to bat and Tendulkar also got really going today before being run out for a strokeful 69. Thereafter, the Indians lost momentum and made only 264 although they appeared set for a total of around 300 at one stage. It was a fitting finale to the tournament after both teams had reached the title clash razing down giants on the way. India beat World Cup champions Australia and defending champions South Africa in the previous two matches while New Zealand humbled Pakistan in the semi-finals after seeing off Zimbabwe, their recent nemesis, at the quarter-final stage. India were on course to well-deserved victory till a 122-run sixth wicket partnership between man-of-the-match Chris Cairns, coming into the match with an injury, and Chris Harris (46) took the game away from them. Coming at five down for 132 with India back in command after New Zealand at one stage seemed to be running away with the match, Harris took time to settle down but provided the much-needed support to cairns who was in danger of running out of partners had the regular fall of wickets continued. Cairns and Harris were content picking up singles and twos and though the asking rate kept climbing they never lost sight of the task ahead of them. Cairns blasted eight fours and two huge sixes, one each off Tendulkar and Kumble, to keep the asking rate from going out of control. The Indians lost their nerve during the slog overs and were involved in a couple of misfieldings and missed run-out chances to help the Kiwis’ cause. With just 13 runs required from the last two overs, it seemed a cakewalk for New Zealand even when Harris was caught superbly by Robin Singh off Venkatesh Prasad for a well-made 46. Cairns, who completed his century with a single in the 48th over, completed the formalities in the company of Adam Parore (3). New Zealand started their run-chase disastrously losing opener Craig Spearman (3) with only six runs on the board. Spearman was caught brilliantly by Yuvraj Singh off Venkatesh prasad to give India an early breakthrough. Prasad struck again four overs later when he trapped Kiwi captain Stephen Fleming, going through a bad patch, leg before for five runs. Nathan Astle (37) and Roger Twose, the hero of New Zealand’s victories over Zimbabwe and Pakistan, threatened to repeat their semi-final performance with a 45-run third wickekt stand before Anil Kumble, the match winner on so many occasions, dismissed both of them to bring the advantage back to India. Astle was the first to go, caught by Robin Singh for 37 off 48 balls that included five fours. Danger man Twose followed soon after stumped by Dahiya for a 35-ball 31. He struck four fours. Kiwi batsmen never let the scoring rate go down despite the regular fall of wickets and all it required was at least one batsman get his head down and bat right through the innings. They got two with Cairns and Harris doing that job admirably well after Tendulkar had got rid of Craig McMillan, caught by Ganguly for 15, to leave New Zealand in deep trouble. Earlier, put in to bat - a bold decision by Fleming considering their opponents’ record batting first - India wasted a fantastic start by Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar to get restricted at 264 for six, at least 20-30 runs short of what they ideally should have got. Ganguly, who hit his second straight one day century to take his tally to 15, and Tendulkar got off to a blazing start putting on 37 runs in the first four overs before Chris Cairns calmed them down. The first six scoring shots by Tendulkar were sweetly timed boundaries and the fourth one made him the highest run-getter in one-day cricket surpassing former skipper Mohd Azharuddin’s mark of 9378 runs. The Indians continued to plunder runs and put on a stand of 141 runs from 26 overs before a terrible mixup with Ganguly resulted in Tendulkar being found out of crease while trying to sneak in a single. Tendulkar’s 83 ball 69 contained ten fours and a six. Similar fate awaited Rahul Dravid, when after adding 61 runs for second wicket with Ganguly, he was run out for 22. And when Ganguly was out trying to accelerate in the slog over, the Indians’ chances of posting a 300-plus target vanished. The rest of the batsmen were out trying to improvise and go for the big hits and in the end India were fortunate to finish with a total of 264 runs. (PTI) SCORECARD: India S Ganguly c Harris b Astle 117 S Tendulkar run out 69 R Dravid run out 22 Yuvraj Singh c Twose b Styris 19 V Kambli c O’Connor b Styris 1 Robin Singh c Spearman b Allott 13 A Agarkar not out 15 V Dahiya not out 1 Extras (lb-1, w-4, nb-2) 7 Total (for six wickets in 50 overs) 264 Fall of wickets: 1-141, 2-202, 3-220, 4-229, 5-237,6-256. Bowling: G Allott 10-0-54-1, S O’Connor 5-0-38-0, CCairns 10-2-40-0, S Styris 10-0-53-2, N Astle 10-0-46-1, CHarris 5-0-32-0. New Zealand: C Spearman c Yuvraj b V Prasad 3 N Astle c Robin Singh b Kumble 37 S Fleming lbw b V Prasad 5 R Twose st Dahiya b Kumble 31 C Cairns not out 102 M McMillan c Ganguly b Tendulkar 15 C Harris c Robin Singh b V Prasad 46 A Parore not out 3 Extras (lb-15, w-1, nb-7) 23 Total (for six wickets in 49.4 overs) 265 Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-37, 3-82, 4-109, 5-132, 6-154. Bowling: Zaheer Khan 7-0-54-0, V Prasad 7-0-27-3, AAgarkar 6.4-0-44-0, A Kumble 9-0-55-2, S Tendulkar 10-1-38-1,Yuvraj Singh 10-0-32-0. (PTI) |
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Paes, Bhupathi win Japan Open doubles TOKYO, Oct 15: India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi clinched their first title of the season by winning the men’s doubles title at the $970,000 Japan Open Tennis tournament here today. The unseeded pair, the 1999 French Open and Wimbledon champions, edged past the fifth-seeded Australian-American duo of Michael Hill and Jeff Tarango 6-4 6-7 (1/7) 6-3. It was the first time a Japanese title had gone to India since Ramesh Krishnan won the men’s singles in 1986. "The first thing I’d like to say is, I think that the Indian express is rolling again and I’m happy we played some good tennis today," said Paes. "Jeff and Michael played really a good match today, they returned really well, and it made it a lot more difficult for us, but the level of tennis today was the highest of all this week and I’m happy with it. "In the third set, we managed to have a good break at 3-4 and I have to say that this tournament gives us a lot of confidence." Paes and Bhupathi had their finest season last year, becoming the first team to reach the finals of all four grand slams in the same year since Frank Sedgman and Ken Mcgregor in 1952. They reached number one ranking in April and finished the year on the same level. But since then Paes and Bhupathi have been struggling with injuries, playing only five tournaments this season. "This year, we both had a lot of injuries, so it makes it much more special winning the Japan Open, it was the first one back together again since we are both in good health," said Paes. The pair are one of the most popular partnerships in the game and have been surrounded by fans throughout the week. Bhupathi won the 1997 French Open mixed doubles title with Japan’s Rika Hiraki and the US Open with Ai Sugiyama last year. (AFP) |
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Age scandal rocks Assam cricket GUWAHATI, Oct 15: After the match fixing scandal in cricket, now it is the time for the age scandal. Believe it or not the doctors of the Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) have found 21 of the total 26 shortlisted players of under-19 Assam cricket team are overaged. These include Palash Jyoti Das and Mrigen Talukdar who represented India earlier this year while winning the Asia Cup. Assam, a surprise force in the junior and a non-entity in the seniors, has always been on the eye of suspicion of other state’s associations. The BCCI, this time had issued strict guidelines but the Asam Cricket Association (ACA) adhered to 21 of the 26 players had been found using fake age certificates. The ACA sent all the 26 to the GMCH on Thursday and according to medical report among the whole batch only five players were found to be under-19 years of age, said the ACA sources said. Ironically all those 26 have at least two-three years still to play in the under-19 level as per the age certificates. According to GMCH source, some players, who last year played under-15 years group, were found to be over 20 years. The medical reports were prepared on the basis of physical test conducted in the Forensic Medicine Department of the GMCH where X-rays were taken and teeth of the players examined to determine the ages. The ACA has summoned 39 more players for another camp as their first zonal match against Bihar starts on October 20 next. (UNI) |
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PG Deptt to clash with Kathua College in Kabaddi final Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Post Graduate Department will clash with Degree College Kathua in the final of Kabaddi tomorrow at University of Jammu grounds. In the first match played today, Post-Graduate Department defeated Degree College Poonch by 22 points. After winning the toss, PG Department decided to raid and made 48 points while Poonch College claimed only 26 points. Thus suffered defeat. In another match, Degree College beat Degree College Udhampur by 49-29. |
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Armoured Regiment celebrates Day Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Armoured Regiment 11 today celebrated its Regimental Day with fervour and enthusiasm. Lt General M S Shergill, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, Director General, Mechanised Forces at Army Headquarters, who is also the Colonel of the Regiment was the chief guest. Addressing all ranks during a special Sainik Sammelan on the occasion, Lt Gen M S Shergill said it is indeed a matter of great honour and happiness for him to be present on this Regimental Day and conveyed heartiest greetings and best wishes to armymen and their families. He assured that he will do his best to look after the professional needs and welfare of the Armymen. He exhorted them to look after their costly equipment and put up hard training which would instill in them confidence and proficiency to use it for their maximum advantage. Col Wazir Singh, the Commanding Officer of the Regiment informed that regiment is fully greared up and professionally sound to take on any challenge. Later, the General presented the Inter-Squadron Championship Trophy to the best adjudged Alfa Squadron for the year 1999-2000. The other celebrations held on the occasion included a special prayer meeting in the Unit Mandir and Gurudwara, ceremonial Guard Mounting, welfare meet for JCO/OR families and variety entertainment programme for the troops, said a release issued here today. |
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QFs of Open Chess Tourney on Oct 17 Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: The quarterfinals of the Open Chess Tournament, Government Medical College, Jammu will be played on October 17. The Tournament was inaugurated by Dr B Kapoor, Chairman Students Sports Committee, Government Medical College, Jammu. Messrs Parvaiz Reshi, Hardeep Bhagat and Rimmi Sharma organised the Tournament. The participants who have qualified for the quarter-final among boys included Vikram Mahajan, Shialender Bahu, Azmat, Kulwant Bhau, Jagmohan, Abid Hussain, Deepam Singh and Aamir. Among girls the position of participants is—Shipra Jallali, Gurpreet Kour, Savita, 4 points each, Manmeet Kour and Anshumali Gupta, 2 points each. |
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Senior snooker category
begins Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Continuing his winning spree in the junior snooker category, Nitin Puri today registered remarkable victory over last year’s runner up in the senior category Jyoti Anand in the on-going 10th District Jammu and Kashmir Billiards and Snooker Tournament. In the second semi-final in junior snooker category, Nitin Puri put a gutsy performance and beat Jyoti Anand, who was the last year’s runner-up in the senior category, by 3-1 in best of five frames to enter the final in junior snooker category. Though Jyoti Anand gave tough fight and won the first set 67-43 yet Nitin Puri didn’t lose patience and put his every efforts to control the game. The last years runner-up played a patchy game today showing only a few flashes of brilliance and failed to break Nitin Puri’s grip over the match. Anand played erratically in the last three sets and lacked concentration resulting into defeat by 3-1. In contrast to Anand, Puri pounced on the opportunities coming his way to take the total control of the match and won the last three sets by 61-46, 66-39, 47-41 to go through the final. He will clash with Nishant Azad in the final in the junior category later on. Meanwhile, the snooker in senior category started today and three matches were played in best of five frames. In first match, Sunil Jain beat Jatin Khurana by 3-0 with scores 74-63, 36-27, 48-25. This match saw excellent performance from Jain. From the start of the match, he maintained attacking show and didn’t give any chance to Khurana to play freely. Jain, trailing 3-0, put up some astonishing display of power snooker. Later in the second match, Sunil Jain, who earlier defeated Jatin Khurana received set-back at the hands of Sohail Khalid. Jain won one set while Sohail claimed 3 sets thus winning the match by 3-1 with scores 55-62, 48-36, 63-28, 45-32. Sunny Arora thrashed Vikas Pandotra by 3-0 in the third match. The scores were 61-16, 52-34, 72-16. Messrs Raveez Ahmed, Shander Dass and Surjeet Singh acted as markers. |
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GMC, Commerce College
win Inter-Collegiate Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 15: Government Medical College and Commerce College won the finals of Inter-Collegiate Table Tennis Tournament in women and men sections. In the women section, Government Medical College thrashed Acharya Shri Chandra Medical College by 3-0 in one sided match. In the first singles, Kamalpreet Kaur outplayed Fauzia by 21-8, 21-18 while in the second doubles Bhavna and Kamalpreet trounced Anupama and Fauzia by 21-15, 21-17. In the men section, Commerce College emerged as winner by defeating Post-Graduate Department by 3-1. In the first singles Naresh Gupta beat Devam Puri of Commerce College while in the second singles Vishal Gupta lost to Sonal by 21-16, 14-21 and 18-21. Vikrant suffered defeat at the hands of Mirnal with scores 21-16, 14-21, 18-21 in the third singles while in the fourth singles Sonal Gupta outplayed Naresh Gupta by 21-17, 20-22, 21-11. The Tournament was conducted under the supervision of Mr Romesh Magotra, Jammu University Table Tennis coach. |
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