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Equestrian bronze BUSAN, Oct 4: Once again India had to remain content with just one medal in an entire day, a bronze fetched in the Equestrian team eventing, but the ...........more TENNIS HYDERABAD, Oct 4: The stage is set for an exciting second Chess World Cup with both Vishwanathan Anand of India and Chen Zhu of China ........more Indians
should learn BUSAN, Oct 4: With defending champions India appear to be on course for a men’s hockey semi-final showdown with arch-rivals Pakistan ......more Uneven
display BUSAN, Oct 4: Overnight joint leader, India’s Shiv Kapur returned a three over par in the second round today to slip . .........more |
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Sports Club wins Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 4: Young Sports Club lifted the Jammu District Sub-junior boys Handball Tournament beating Young Star 32-28 in the final which was played at Mini-Stadium, Parade here today.........more NCC
camp for Valley Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 4: An National Cadets Corp (NCC) camp commenced yesterday at NCC camping ground Nagrota for the cadets from Kashmir Valley. ........more ICC calls for ‘national’ players association NEW DELHI, Oct 4: Even as the five member review committee takes charge to resolve the players’ sponsorship row, the International Cricket Council (ICC) today cleared the decks by asking respective boards to recognise their own players’ association. ..........more |
Equestrian bronze all for India on day six BUSAN, Oct 4: Once again India had to remain content with just one medal in an entire day, a bronze fetched in the Equestrian team eventing, but the performance of boxer Mohd Ali Qamar and men’s hockey team brought some cheers to the Indian camp on the sixth day of the Asian Games here today. Qamar, gold medallist at the Manchester Commonwealth Games, defeated his Pakistani opponent to move into quarter-finals of light flyweight category, while the hockey team put up a spirited display to draw 1-1 against South Korea in their last league match and set up a likely semi-final showdown with Pakistan. However, it was the equestrian team comprising Indrajit Lamba, Bhagirath Singh, Rajesh Pattu and Deep Ahlawat, which brought the day’s only honour, finishing third in the team eventing conceding 224.08 points. The Equestrian team’s contribution took India’s medal tally to five - one gold, two silver and two bronze - but the country slipped to the 12th position in the medals table. There was disappointment in tennis team event with India crashing out in both the men’s and women’s categories at the quarter-final stage. The men’s team was ousted by Uzbekistan with a 0-3 result despite the star performers Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi playing in the tie while the women lost 0-2 to Chinese Taipei. After winning a silver each on the two previous days, the shooters drew a blank today while Yasin Merchant, who won India’s only gold medal so far in company of Rafath Habib, lost his singles match in snooker individual event. The Indian Equestrian team, who were in the fourth position after the completion of the cross country section yesterday, put up a superb display in the jumping competition today which ensured a podium finish for them. In the individual competition however, the Indians failed to make a mark with Indrajit Lamba, riding tipsy, being the best placed at 10th place. Bhagirath Singh, on Sagar, and Rajesh Pattu, on Shahzada, finished in 13th and 14th positions respectively. The hockey team, seeking to defend the gold medal it won in Bangkok, controlled the game for most of the time but had to settle for a draw. Daljit Singh scored the equaliser for India in the tenth minute of the second half after South Korea took the lead in the fourth minute of the match through Jong Ha Jeon. The result left both the teams on seven points with two wins and a draw each but South Korea emerged at the top of Group A due to a better goal average. With Pakistan likely to top the other group, the stage is set for an Indo-Pak clash for the third time in just over a month. The two teams met twice in the Champions Trophy in Cologne last month and won a match each. The men’s volleyball team finally won a match, defeating Macau 3-0 in a Pool A league game. But the victory came too late as they have already crashed out of medal contention after suffering defeats to China and Iran in earlier matches. Having won the title every time since the game’s Asiad debut in 1990, the Indian kabaddi team began their campaign in style scoring fluent victories in their first two matches today. They defeated Malaysia 39-2 in the first match and followed it with a 39-3 victory over Japan to keep themselves on track for a fourth successive gold medal. In the shooting ranges, the women’s team of Anjali Bhagwat, Raj Kumari and Kuheli Gangulee finished seventh in the 50m rifle prone event with a total of 1738 points. With their favourite events yet to come, the shooters are however expected to bag a few medals later in the competition. (PTI) |
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TENNIS HYDERABAD, Oct 4: The stage is set for an exciting second Chess World Cup with both Vishwanathan Anand of India and Chen Zhu of China confirming their participation to defend their respective titles for men and women in the USD 280,000 tournament beginning at the Ramojoi film city near here from October 9. "Fide has nominated Surya Sekhar Ganguly and S Meenakshi for the tournament," FIDE vice president P T Ummer Koya told reporters here today while releasing a final list of players in the men and women sections here today. Explaining the format, Koya said, eight players would be eliminated in the first round from 24 players and the sixth round would be the final for both men and women. Casto P Abundo of Phillipines would be the chief arbiter while Nikolopoulos of Greece would be his deputy with Abd Hamid Majid (Malaysia), Sultan Al Tahir (Dubai) N Ghalib and N Ratna Kumar (both India) being the arbiters, Koya said adding, pairings would done after the arrival of players. With majority of the top players deciding against participating in the tournament, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, who had earlier won against Anand, Sergei Rublevsky (Russia), Nigel Short (Eng) and Malakhov Vladimir (Russia), remains the seasoned campaigners who would be infusing challenge into the World Cup. Basking in the glory of FIDE confirming her men’s GM norm, local Lass Koneru Humpy alongwith Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, Aarthie Ramamswamy, S Meenakshi and Swathi Ghate would be providing the local challenge with Chen Zhu and Maya Chiburdanidze (Georgia) being the main contenders for the women’s title. (PTI) |
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Indians should learn from mistakes: coach BUSAN, Oct 4: With defending champions India appear to be on course for a men’s hockey semi-final showdown with arch-rivals Pakistan after drawing 1-1 with South Korea today, Indian coach warned his boys to learn from their mistakes to win the tough match ahead. "We have to look forward to the future. Mistakes like poor stopping of penalty corners need to be rectified," coach Rajinder Singh said after the match. Rajinder Singh, Who felt that the team should have played more attacking game to convert the chances, said "our forward-line didn’t do a good job and even our penalty-corner conversions left a lot to be desired". Asked how he assessed today’s India-South Korea match in comparison with the clash between the two sides in the Champions Trophy, he said "in Champions Trophy we had 18 players in our squad which gave the opportunity to shuffle our forward line when situation arose". Rajinder Singh was however satisfied with the way the team has progressed so far. "I am totally satisfied with the performance of the team. The players have raised their game to a great extent in the last two matches." Indian manager Hardeep Singh Dhillon said his team was fully prepared for the tough match ahead whosoever be their opponents in the semi-final. "We are prepared to play any team in the semi-final." (PTI) |
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Uneven display by Indian golfers BUSAN, Oct 4: Overnight joint leader, India’s Shiv Kapur returned a three over par in the second round today to slip to fourth place in the Golf competition at 14th Asian Games here. Three other Indians in the fray also failed to score below par in the second round. Manav Das had two over par 74 and was placed 10th, Harendra Prasad shot six over par 78 for 40th slot and Keshav Misra had dismal eight over par 80 at 45th place. Kapur, who had two under par 70 in the first round, started poorly today as he bogyed the first hole. In all, Shiv hit three birdies and had five bogeies. He has two round total of 145. Manav Das, who scored his second successive two over par round, had two birdies in this round in which he four bogies including a double bogey on the eighth hole. He has a total of 148. Harender Prasad had a poor round, especially on his return nine. He had a birdie and a triple bogey in his first nine and returning back he hit two birdies but came up with four bogies including a double on on the 18th. He has a two round total of 160 (82, 78). Keshav Misra had a very bleak round. He had five bogies, including a double on second hole and only a birdie on his first nine and on his back nine he had three bogies and two birdies to end the two round with a total of 162(82, 80). Promising Anura Rohana kept Sri Lanka’s medal chances alive after an excellent round of golf to take the lead by hitting a two under par 70 round to total 141 (71, 70). Rohana, who was joint third with Japan’s Riki Ikeda after the first day’s tee off yesterday, played even better golf in the second session today to take the lead over Taiwan’s Chen Liang Cheng and Indian Shiv Kapur, who were joint first with a net 70 each on day one. The Lankan lad followed his first day’s 71 with an impressive 70 to total 141 to take the first place out of 62 golfers taking part in the men’s individual championship. Rohana maintains a close lead over the Taiwan pair of Cheng and H.W. Chang, who share the second place with 142. Chang, who only had 75 on day one, was the most impressive today with a net 67 to total 142 and advanced to the second place. Of the other two Lankans taking part in the men’s individual championships, Lalith Kumara is placed 21st with 153 following his first day’s 78 with a slightly better performance of 75 today. Tissa Chandradasa, who fared better than Kumara to take the sixth place after the first round yesterday, had a net 73 today to remain in the same position in overall standings of the men’s individual championship. Though Anura Rohana was the star by the second of the scheduled four rounds, Sri Lanka men’s team slightly lost its control in the team championship. Sri Lanka, which was placed second behind Taiwan on day one, has now gone down to the third place. Heading the team championship standings after the second round of golf are Taiwan (427), followed by Japan (437), Sri Lanka (441), South Korea (448), Malaysia (448), India (453), Thailand (455) and the Philippines (456). (UNI) |
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Young Sports Club wins Distt boys Sub-Jr Handball Tourney Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 4: Young Sports Club lifted the Jammu District Sub-junior boys Handball Tournament beating Young Star 32-28 in the final which was played at Mini-Stadium, Parade here today. Earlier, in the first half, both sides played equally well and tied the score at 14-14 when the whistle for first half was blown. However, in the second half, Young Sports played some exceptional game and managed a 32-28 victory. Gourav Sharma and Vikas Arora enthralled the audience with their power-packed throws in the opponent net. Both of them scored highest seven points each. Shitij Khajuria and Aditya Khajuria contributed five points each to the total. Bharat Malhotra (4) and Bankush Langer (4) also played well. From Young Star Club, Deepak Mehra fought well and remained the highest scorer with nine points in his account. Sourav Mahajan made seven points and was followed Deepak with seven points and Sanu Dogra four. Sahil and Bumesh added two points each to the total score of 28. In the Mini-girls section, wherein only two teams turned-up, Bombay Sports Club emerged victorios beating Young Star club 6-3. Arshi Jamwal, who scored three points, was highest scorer from winners club. Today’s finals were officiated by Sudesh Kumar, Dev Raj and Sanjeev Jamwal. Joint Secretary, State Sports Council, B K Magotra, who was chief guest on the occasion, gave away winners and runners-up trophies. This tournament was organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Handball Association. |
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NCC camp for Valley cadets begins at Nagrota Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 4: An National Cadets Corp (NCC) camp commenced yesterday at NCC camping ground Nagrota for the cadets from Kashmir Valley. The camp, wherein 500 senior and junior division cadets are taking part, was inaugurated by the Camp Commandant, Lt Col R K Singh. He informed that this was for the first time in the decade that an Annual Training Camp (NCC) is being organised exclusively for the cadets from Kashmir Valley. Various competitions and other training events like firing, map reading training and drill are being organised during the camp. Based on the performance of the cadets, the initial selection for participation in Republic Day Parade will also be held during the camp, a handout issued here today informed. |
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ICC calls for ‘national’ players association NEW DELHI, Oct 4: Even as the five member review committee takes charge to resolve the players’ sponsorship row, the International Cricket Council (ICC) today cleared the decks by asking respective boards to recognise their own players’ association. With the "national’ players associations in place, the review committee can interact with them to resolve issues regarding the ‘players terms’ agreement well ahead of the World Cup to avoid any controversy on the eve of the World Cup like the one that cropped up before the Champions Trophy. The ICC today said that it was imperative for countries to have player associations recognised by their boards before the ICC would be able to deal at the international level with a representative body such as the Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA), according to information received here. ICC president Malcolm Gray said, "it would be simpler for the ICC to deal with one body that represented the players, but the reality is five countries regard the issue of dealing with commercial and management matters as the exclusive right of the home board and the ICC should not have a direct role with the players in this area." "This issue has been discussed and debated by the ICC board on several occasions and ICC management has argued strongly for an increased role for player representation in management areas at the international level,"said Mr Gray. "Despite a majority of the ICC board being in favour of player representation at management level, five countries (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa) opposed the proposal. This meant that under ICC voting structure the proposal was defeated." "If player representation is to take place at the international level, it is up to the players in these countries to convince their boards of the value of having this type of system. There is little point in getting upset or angry". "The reality is the boards of five countries do not accept that the players should be represented internationally on these issues, "Mr Gray added. Earlier, on Sunday the ICC decided to constitute a special five-member review committee and revamp the players’ cricketing committee to review any controversies arising out of ‘players terms’ before the World Cup in 2003. The review committee, comprising Mr Gray, ICC CEO Mr Speed, BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, Australian Cricket Board chairman Bob Marriman and ICC vice-president Ehsan Mani, has been put in place only for the World Cup. The ICC top bosses said the issues had to be resolved by mid-november well ahead of the World Cup beginning in South Africa in February next. The committee is empowered to take any decision with regard to players terms. An independent member, with comprehensive legal and commercial background would also be appointed to the committee. The ICC board has also decided to restructure the cricket committee (playing) headed by former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar, by allowing the captains and the boards of the ten member countries to appoint/elect/nominate their representatives to it. "It must be recognised that cultural and industrial relations environments in all countries vary greatly among the ICC members," Mr Gray said. "I have seen comments from some player representatives who are upset about this and my only response is that FICA needs to stop putting the cart before the horse". "Therefore, the players need to work constructively with their employers if they want to change this view," Mr Gray said. (UNI) |
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AS Pathankot lifts best school trophy in debate Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 4: Army School, Pathankot lifted the best school team trophy in the Northern Command Inter-Region Army School debate (English) competition held at Army School, Jammu Cantt, here. In the same contest, runners-up trophy went to Army School, Kaluchak. In Hindi debate competition, speakers from Army School, Unchi Bassi were adjudged as best team and Army School, Kaluchak finished runners-up, a handout issued here today said. Chairman, Army School, Jammu Cantt, Brig Sureshwar Tewari was chief guest. The penal of judges was comprised of eminent educationists. During this debate contest, participants freely expressed their opinion on the issues like ‘Elections in J&K—a ray of hope’ and ‘Potential threat of terrorism at Global level’. The depth of understanding of the issues and enthusiasm exhibited by the contestants was highly applauded by the judges and the audience. |
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Anand to defend title in World Cup HYDERABAD, Oct 4: The stage is set for an exciting second Chess World Cup with both Vishwanathan Anand of India and Chen Zhu of China confirming their participation to defend their respective titles for men and women in the USD 280,000 tournament beginning at the Ramojoi film city near here from October 9. "Fide has nominated Surya Sekhar Ganguly and S Meenakshi for the tournament," FIDE vice president P T Ummer Koya told reporters here today while releasing a final list of players in the men and women sections here today. (PTI) Mongia’s ton props up Board President XI BANGALORE, Oct 4: A brilliant ton by Dinesh Mongia (101) enabled Board President’s XI pile up 275 for eight (declared) against West Indies on the opening day of the three-day tie here today. In reply the Caribbeans were 20 for no loss in their first innings at close. Precariously placed at 17/2, after skipper Mohammed Kaif won the toss and elected to bat, Board President’s XI recovered through Hemang Badani (67) and Kaif (40) who put on 91 for the third wicket. The subsequent hurricane knock of Mongia frustrated the young bowlers of the Windies as he belted three huge sixes and 12 fours. He was also involved in two half century partnerships with Badani and Amit Mishra (10) for the fourth and fifth wicket respectively. Even as the Indian batsmen blasted the Caribbean bowlers, West Indies coach Roger Harper came down heavily on the poor quality of balls used in the tie stating that it was getting soggy and wet leading to frequent change of balls. He was however in full praise of Mongia’s knock as he sent the Windies bowlers on a leather hunt. West Indies speedster Mervyn Dillion, who struck early blows claiming wickets of openers Sanjay Bangar (2) and Gautam Gambhir (11), could not sustain his attack as Badani and Mongia blasted him to all corners of the field. Badani, who seemed to have settled well and heading for a century, was taken aback when the middle stump fell off Pedro Collins’ superb bowling. Kaif was to go next when he was brilliantly caught at gully by Ramnaresh Sarwan of Carl Hooper. Then came a sudden slump for President XI with Parthiv Patel (5), Murali Karthik (1) and Sardeep Singh returning to the pavilion. For the West Indies, besides Dillion, Jermaine Lawson claimed two wickets conceeding 57 runs, while Pedro Collins, spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo and skipper Carl Hooper claimed one wicket each conceeding 52, 56 and 48 runs respectively. Roger Harper said that first two sessions his bowlers did well. But they failed to tighten subsequently. (UNI) |
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