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| McGrath, Warne set up Pak whitewash SHARJAH, Oct 21: Australia’s Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne demolished Pakistan as Waqar Younis’s team..........more It’s
official - medals of NEW DELHI, Oct 21: Drug-tainted distance runner Sunita Rani has been stripped of her gold and bronze medals that she won in the Busan Asian Games.......more Three gold
for NEW DELHI, Oct 21: India bagged three golds, three silvers and an equal number of bronze medals at the.......more Inter-College
cricket Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: Government College for Women (GCW), Gandhi Nagar retained the Inter-college Cricket trophy trouncing the only opponent, GCW........more |
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Younis, Sunny Arora make confident start
in Jr Snooker Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: New Srinagar district champion, Younis Kuchey and budding cueist Sunny Arora have launched their campaign with confident wins over their opponents in the first round of Junior Snooker in the 12th..........more Sports
awareness prog for mentally retarded Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: Special Olympic Bharat, a global sports movement for the mentally retarded, has decided to spread its activities in Jammu and Kashmir also..........more Younis,
Waseem share Excelsior Sports Correspondent SRINAGAR, Oct 21: First timer Younis Nazir has become new junior District Srinagar Snooker champion after he surprised State No.2 Umar Jan beating latter in a close final (48-61, 38-66, 36-73, 34-57, 70-37, 54-43, 49-48, 80-27............more |
McGrath, Warne set up Pak whitewash SHARJAH, Oct 21: Australia’s Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne demolished Pakistan as Waqar Younis’s team headed towards a series whitewash in the third and final test today. Mcgrath, who became the eighth man to take 400 test wickets before Pakistan were forced to follow on when dismissed for 221, once again exposed the brittleness of the top order. Pakistan ended the third day on 176 for eight, still 47 runs short of avoiding a second successive innings defeat. McGrath, 32, reached his landmark right on lunch with Waqar’s wicket on his way to figures of four for 41 and added three for 18 in the second innings. He is the second Australian after leg-spinner Warne, to capture 400 test victims. Warne, who had claimed five for 74 in the first innings, added three for 56. Pakistan’s Hasan Raza, hailed six years ago as the youngest test player at 14 years and 227 days but who has barely played since, provided the Staunchest resistance with 56 not out after making 54 not out in the first innings. The start to the Pakistan second innings was depressingly similar to the first. Mcgrath provided the early breakthroughs, removing Taufeeq Umar and Younis Khan to leave Pakistan struggling at 12 for two. Andrew Bichel made further inroads by dismissing Imran Farhat cheaply and Faisal Iqbal ran himself out to a direct throw from substitute Nathan Hauritz from the deep. Hauritz was substituting for Justin Langer, who was hit on back of the neck at forward short leg by a drive from Raza earlier in the day. Warne wasted no time in exploiting the early pressure. Bowling with a lot of variation, the leg spinner dismissed Misba-ul Haq (17), Rashid Latif (17) and Saqlain Mushtaq (10), all falling lbw to his straighter deliveries. Raza dug in, in the company of Waqar, and the two put on 55 for the eighth wicket — the only highpoint of the Pakistan innings —before Waqar was caught off McGrath for 24. Earlier, when McGrath completed his 400 test dismissals he became the eighth man in history to join an exclusive club. West Indies’ Courtney Walsh leads the elite on 519, followed by Warne (477), Kapil Dev of India (434), New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee (431), Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka (430), Pakistan’s Wasim Akram (414) and Curtly Ambrose of West Indies (405). Pakistan had started the day on 163-6 in their first innings but when McGrath struck in his first over by bowling Saqlain for 44 and then cracking the 400 landmark, the familiar writing was on the wall. In the second test, Pakistan were bowled out for record lows of 59 and 53. (AGENCIES) |
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It’s official - medals of Sunita Rani stripped NEW DELHI, Oct 21: Drug-tainted distance runner Sunita Rani has been stripped of her gold and bronze medals that she won in the Busan Asian Games, it was officially confirmed today raising the possibility of an international ban on the athlete. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) secretary general Randhir Singh told reporters here that he received a letter from the OCA task force yesterday confirming that the athlete had tested positive for an anabolic steroid and subsequently her medals have been stripped. "Both her `B’ samples taken after the 1500m and 5000m races have tested positive for nandrolone," Randhir Singh, also the secretary-general of Indian Olympic Association, said. "As per the rules laid down in the OCA constitution, I would like to inform that OCA has withdrawn the medals won by Ms Sunita and is referring the case to the concerned Asian and international federation for further necessary action," he said. Sunita, who won the gold in 1500m setting a new meet record time of 4 minutes, 6.03 seconds as well as the bronze in 5000m, will now have to return her medals to oca so that "the same can be forwarded to the other athletes who have replaced Ms Sunita in the medal standings". India’s Madhuri A Singh, who finished fourth in the 1500m, will get the bronze while Tatiana Borisova of Kyrgyzstan, who finished second, will get the gold and the silver will go to Japan’s Yoshiko Ichikawa. India’s medal tally now stands at 10 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze medals pushing the country to the eighth position behind Taiwan. Emphasising that he was totally satisfied with the procedures followed, Randhir Singh said, "OCA has gone by the rule book. The doping facility at Seoul is accredited by International Olympic Committee and I can say it was not lax at all". Asked how was it that Sunita did not return a positive test before leaving for Busan, Randhir Singh said, "we do not have an IOC-accredited dope testing facility in the country". Randhir Singh said he was speaking strictly in his capacity as the OCA secretary general and he could not speak on the behalf of Indian Olympic Association. "It is upto the IOA president to decide on further action," he said passing the buck to Suresh Kalmadi. Kalmadi had yesterday announced a one-man committee to probe into the 22-year-old Sunita’s case. "Oca can only strip the medals. Any decision to ban the athlete will have to be taken by the international athletics body. Or any further disciplinary action can be taken by the IOA or the Amateur Athletic Federation of India," Randhir Singh said. He said OCA was "satisfied" that only one athlete had returned positive test and the games overall were a clean one. "A Lebanese athlete had refused to give his sample for testing so his medal was withdrawn. Sunita was the only athlete who tested positive all the four times - that is her a samples taken after 1500m and 5000m as well as the B samples taken after both the races showed positive results." Randhir Singh said though blood or EPO tests were not carried out during the September 29-October 14 games, OCA may introduce the facility at the 15th edition of the games in Doha, Qatar. He also said if the probe committee concluded that the athlete had not committed an offence then he would take up her case with the OCA executive board. (PTI) |
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Three gold for India at Pan Am Taekwon-do NEW DELHI, Oct 21: India bagged three golds, three silvers and an equal number of bronze medals at the 4th Pan American Cup Taekwon-do Championship held at Quebec. The medalists are Pulkit Rajendran, gold in individual sparring and a bronze in individual pattern competition. Ishita Matharu won the gold in individual sparring and a bronze in individual pattern competition among the women category. Other medals winners at the five day competition which began on October 14 were Hardeep Singh —gold in individual sparring for boys, Shivaji Kumar, Ankit Singh, Gaganpal Singh and Jayanat Uppal. (UNI) |
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Inter-College
cricket Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: Government College for Women (GCW), Gandhi Nagar retained the Inter-college Cricket trophy trouncing the only opponent, GCW, Parade, by nine wickets in the final played at University of Jammu grounds, here this afternoon. Needing 121 runs to win in 40 overs, Gandhi Nagar girls attained the required target by making 124 runs in the 30th over with nine wickets in hand. The only outgoing batswoman was Vandana who lost her wicket while running short between the wickets for a single. She contributed 13 runs to the total. Two star performers, Alvin and Cheena remained unbeaten with 38 and 28 runs in their respective accounts. Earlier, putting to bat first after Gandhi Nagar won the toss, Parade college made 120 runs in the stipulated 20 overs for the loss of nine wickets. Divya Dewan was the highest scorer with 36, while Menu Sharma contributed 12 runs. Extras added 41 runs to the total. For Gandhi Nagar College, Vandana was the most successful bowler, who claimed three wickets for 15 runs in her six overs. Kanchan, Gurpreet and Alvin shared two wickets each. Likewise last year, today’s was the first and last match of the Inter-college women cricket. None of the other three teams reported at the venue. These were GGM Science College, GCW, Udhampur, PG Departments of University of Jammu. |
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Younis, Sunny Arora make confident start in Jr Snooker Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: New Srinagar district champion, Younis Kuchey and budding cueist Sunny Arora have launched their campaign with confident wins over their opponents in the first round of Junior Snooker in the 12th State Billiards and Snooker Championship, currently underway at M A Stadium, here today. Younis, who has won his first ever district championship and is in good form, made Avish Sharma his first victim beating later in straight frames 80-37, 64-33. Sunny too won his first knock-out match against Rasia in straight frames of 64-41, 59-25 to sail into the second round. In other first round junior Snooker matches on the day two, Sheetal Bharti beat Varun Wadhera 65-21, 63-48; Ankit Khajuria lost to Deepak Bajaj 29-60, 41-78; Ankush Gupta beat Chankaya 40-22, 60-41; Ankush Gupta beat Ankush Mahajan 46-34, 59-23; Aarush Chowdhary beat Sunny Gupta 29-86, 43-30, 54-53; Ashish Gupta beat Akhil Kohli 48-55, 72-24, 34-29; Sahil Gupta beat Abhishek Magotra 65-42, 37-48, 59-38; Sumit Silwal beat Atal Mahajan 65-35, 52-35 and Ishan Sharma beat Ishan Gupta 40-52, 61-53, 66-32. This championship is being organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Billiards and Snooker Association. |
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Sports awareness prog
for mentally retarded Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: Special Olympic Bharat, a global sports movement for the mentally retarded, has decided to spread its activities in Jammu and Kashmir also. To make it a movement in this part of the country, Special Olympics representative will be visiting Jammu on October 23 for an awareness programme. According to Brig (Retd) Arvind Popli, Chief Executive Officer of the Olympics, these programmes were being on in 21 states of India benefiting 23,000 athletes. Special Olympics does more than developing sports programmes for the mentally retarded and also lays emphasis on ‘health and fitness’ and ‘involvement of families’, he added. Brig Popli further informed that Special Olympics offers year round sports training and competition opportunities to over 1.2 mn athletes in 162 countries worldwide. Special Olympics believes that with the consistent training and guidance, the mentally retarded have the potential to excel in sports, experience joy and be a part of the social mainstream. Presently, the Indian chapter of the Special Olympics International is preparing itself for organising National Games 2002 in seven cities across India. Over 2500 athletes shall take part in this mega sports event. Besides, over 5000 volunteers and officials shall be actively involved in making these games a memorable event. |
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Younis, Waseem share
Snooker titles in Excelsior Sports Correspondent SRINAGAR, Oct 21: First timer Younis Nazir has become new junior District Srinagar Snooker champion after he surprised State No.2 Umar Jan beating latter in a close final (48-61, 38-66, 36-73, 34-57, 70-37, 54-43, 49-48, 80-27, 73-32) played here yesterday. In the senior group, the winners trophy was claimed by Waseem Raja beating Imran Wani in a tough battle which lasted for complete nine frames 5-4. The score: 58-38, 38-68, 60-32, 25-40, 60-32, 16-42, 70-65, 45-65, 75-60. Both these finals, besides other competitions of the tournament, were played under the supervision of Mushtaq Ahmed, joint secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Billiards and Snooker Association. In the finals, Mehraj-ud-Din Wali, was chief guest, who distributed prizes amongst the winners and runners-up different groups and events. Later, vice-president, JKBSA, G N Tantry, presented vote of thanks and expressed his gratitude to all those who extended cooperation in making the tournament a success, especially Masarat Aalam, Ziao Din Chowdari and Ghulam Rasool. The senior and junior group winners were also given a cash award of Rs 5000 by Ziao Din Chowdari of Stick and Balls. |
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Ian retained skipper for U-15 tie today Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 21: Ian Dev Singh has been retained as skipper of the Jammu and Kashmir under-15 team taking on Himachal Pradesh tomorrow in the league tie of the Polly Umrigar Trophy at M A Stadium, here. Except one change of Rohit Bhat, who has replaced Ram Dayal, the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) has retained the same team for the remaining two matches. An addition has been made in the existing 15 member squad in the shape of Vishwa Deep Singh. The second and last league match of under-15 group will also be played in J&K from October 31 to November 2. The team: Ian Dev Singh (captain), Aditya Aima, Narinder, Apnam Gupta, Zain Azaz, Sayed Owais, Divya Partap Singh, Vikrant Jamwal, Nadeem, Omar, Rohit Bhat, Vishwa Deep Singh, Firdos Bhat, Irfan Sadiq Bhat, Aditya Partap Singh and Amir Aziz Sofi. |
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GHSS girls lift Distt Baramulla Volleyball trophy Excelsior Sports Correspondent SRINAGAR, Oct 21: Government Girls Higher Secondary School (GHSS), Baramulla lifted the winners trophy in women section in the District Volleyball Tournament beating Blues Volleyball Club, Baramulla in the final. In Men’s section, Gulshan Club, Zaloora Sopore bagged the winners trophy defeating Khawaja Bagh Sports Club, Baramulla in straight sets. Mr Mushtaq Ahmed, manager, Mini Stadium, Baramulla was chief guest in the final. He also distributed prizes among winners and runners-up teams. Winners in women group were given away trophies by Principal, Girls Higher Secondary School, Baramulla. In Men’s group, 16 teams participated, whereas in girls section eight teams were there in fray. HS Dangri wins boys Volleyball final in rural sports Excelsior Sports Correspondent RAJOURI, Oct 21: High School, Dangri won the boys Volleyball final beating local club, Dangri in final of the rural and women sports meet of block Budhal organised by the State Sports Council. In boys Kabaddi final, local club, Dangri emerged victorious beating High School, Dangri by a margin of five points. Girls Kho-Kho trophy went to Government Middle School, Dangri, who beat BPS Dangri by three points. In Kabaddi, High School, Dangri downed Government Middle School, Dangri by seven points. Finals and prize distribution function was presided over by Headmistress High School, Dangri, Sarvesh Sharma. The competitions were conducted under the supervision of Bashir Ahmed, incharge sports stadium, Rajouri. |
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