Zimbabwe
thrashes Pak by 7 wickets in first test
PESHAWAR,
Nov 30:
Zimbabwe tasted its maiden test victory today
abroad when it defeated Pakistan by seven wickets
in the first test of the three-match series.
The visitors,
needing just 92 runs to win, achieved it in mere
101 minutes on the fourth day with Murray Goodwin
hitting an attractive unbeaten 73 which included
13 forceful boundaries.
Andy Flower
remained undefeated on 17 and hammered
leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed for a big six over
mid-wicket before bringing in victory with a
ferocious square cut off Aaqib Javed to point
boundary.
Pakistan, which
got a vital 58-run first innings lead yesterday
after dismissing Zimbabwe for 238, was run out
for 103 in the second innings in less than three
hours. This left Zimbabwe a target of 162 in more
than two days.
After resuming at
the overnight total of 70 for one Zimbabwe
batsmen scored at a rapid pace with Goodwin
leading the run-charge and playing some exquisite
drives on either sides of the wicket. Wasim
Akram, the left-arm paceman, playing in his 82nd
test match got both wickets to finish with a
match bag of eight for 99. He raise his test
match wickets to 354 one short of Australian
Dennis Lillee’s 355-mark.
Akram had Grant
Flower (31) caught by wicketkeeper Moin Khan.
Flower put on 81 runs for the second wicket with
Goodwin in 114 minutes and hit five fours.
A sloppy Pakistan
fielding continued on the fourth morning when
flower was dropped by Azhar Mahmood in second
slip off Waqar Younis. It raised the tally of
dropped catches by the Pakistani fielders to five
in the match.
Captain Alistair
Campbell (12) scored all his run in boundaries
which included two off Younis before he failed to
keep Akram’s vicious bouncer down and
spooned the ball to waiting Ijaz Ahmed in gully.
Zimbabwe had lost
10 out of 14 test matches played abroad before
today’s victory. It was overall its third
test win in 32 matches and second against
Pakistan.
Zimbabwe had won
two tests at home both at Harare. It defeated
India by 61 runs last month and had earlier
beaten Pakistan by innings and 64 runs in 1994-95
season. (AP)
Indian
Hockey team leaves for Asian Games today
CHENNAI,
Nov 30:
The Indian hockey team would be leaving the
shores for the Bangkok Asian Games tomorrow with
a mission—to win the gold, which it had won
way back in 1966.
Indian coach M K
Kaushik said he was confident that the team would
win the gold and would not repeat the mistakes it
committed during the recent commonwealth.
Addressing a press
conference here on the eve of team’s
departure to Bangkok, he said the boys have
worked hard during the camp and were raring to
go. The boys have studied the mistakes through
the video tapes of the matches of the
Commonwealth Games and "I am confident that
they would not repeat it", he added.
To a question, Mr
Kaushik said we have worked hard on the penalty
corner rebounds and tried about seven to eight
variations and it would be worked out according
to the strength of the opponents, he said.
Kaushik described
as "bad luck" India missing chances
against Malaysia at the Commonwealth Games.
"No team can afford to miss so much of
chances". "It’s bad luck", he
added.
Asked whether he
had worked out any strategy for its match against
Asian giants Korea, considering the latter’s
superb showing in the Champions Trophy recently,
Mr Kaushik said the boys were shown the video
recordings of the matches played by Korea and
Pakistan. We have worked on defence and penalty
corner aspects during the camp, he added.
"But I feel
India has the upper hand against Korea and
Pakistan after watching their performance in the
Champions Trophy". "I am confident that
the boys will do the best", he added.
India had last
lost to Korea 3-4 in the World Cup at Utretcht
few months back.
Indian Hockey
Federation (IHF) vice-president and manager of
the team M S Malik said special drills were given
to the two goalkeepers. Considering their vast
experience both of them should do well.
"It’s going to be different this
time".
IHF secretary K
Jyothikumar said India, silver medallists in the
last games, would be playing two practice matches
against Japan and Thailand before beginning its
campaign with Singapore on December nine. (UNI)
BMFC
shocks JCT, on way to semis
MUMBAI,
Nov 30:
Local league champions Bengal Mumbai Football
Club (BMFC) shocked last year’s winners JCT,
Paghwara, 1-0 in their last group-D league match
in the 1998 Bristol Rovers Cup Football
Tournament here today.
With this win the
local outfit has made it to the semi-finals.
The all important
goal came in the sixth minute of the match when
BMFC’s Nigerian winger Emeka Achelifu scored
off winger Shaikh Sanjib cross after JCT
custodian Baljit Singh failed to collect the ball
cleanly.
Just a minute
before the interval BMFC defender G P Singh
effected a goalline save by heading out JCT
Meharvinder Singh’s try off winger Jasbir
Singh’s flag-kick.
In the 60th
minute, Jasbir Singh’s cross was well
collected by BMFC custodian Gumpe Rime. Twelve
minutes later BMFC defender Alok Das’ try
off a free kick was well saved by Baljit Singh.
In the 75th minute
JCT striker Sukhjit Singh hit over a Hardip Singh
cross. Five minutes later JCT medio Dipankar
Roy’s free kick was not collected neatly by
Gumpe Rime. However, G P Singh managed to clear
the ball before any of the three JCT forwards
could get to it.
In the dieing
minutes, BMFC substitute Jasprit Singh was off
the mark on a cross by substitute Uday Konar.
Soon after Uday Konar himself was off target.
(PTI)
Australia
takes a 1-0 lead with a seven-wicket win
PERTH,
Nov 30: A
remarkable spell of fast bowling by comeback kid
Jason Gillespie spearheaded Australia to a
comprehensive seven-wicket win in under three
days in the second cricket test at the Waca
today.
Australia, set to
make 64 runs to win, had a three-wicket setback a
half hour before tea, but emerged to take a 1-0
lead in the five-test series after the Brisbane
test ended in a Thundery, rainy draw.
The Waugh twins
Steve and Mark took Australia from 36 for three
to 64 for three, remaining unbeaten on 15 and 17
respectively.
Resuming the day
on 126 for five, still two short of making
Australia bat again, England was bowled out for
191 just ten minutes before the lunch break.
After bowling out
England for 112, Australia scored 240 to take a
128-run lead.
Gillespie, playing
his first test in 15 months since the 1997 Ashes
series, dismissed four English batsmen in the
space of six balls.
Gillespie, 23, was
forced to return home after the test in Trent
Bridge and missed 12 tests with a stress fracture
in his lower back. He was the 12th man in
Brisbane.
The three-day
finish is the second in three Ashes contests
following England’s 19-run win at the oval
in the last test in 1997.
Australia’s
push for victory on the second day was stalled by
a spirited 91-run sixth-wicket stand between Mark
Ramprakash and Graeme Hick after coming together
at 67 for five just after tea. Hick, in his
seventh-test comeback, pummelled the Australians
for 68 off 73 balls with eight fours and two
sixes.
Once Gillespie
accounted for hick with his second ball of the
day caught by Ricky Ponting at third slip the
rest capitulated, leaving Ramprakash High and dry
on an unbeaten 47.
It was another
all-too-familiar England collapse, its fourth in
as many innings in the two tests.
England, having
recovered from 67 for five to 158 with a further
fall, lost the last five wickets for 33 runs in
11.2 overs to Gillespie.
Gillespie, who was
hit for 69 in his nine overs on the second day,
including 23 in one, took 5-15 in 35 balls after
replacing fellow fast bowler Glenn McGrath at the
Lillee-Marsh stand end.
In the first
innings England was shot out for 112, losing the
last five wickets for 38 runs.
In the first test
in Brisbane, England collapsed from 315 for five
to be bowled out for 375 in the first innings. It
was saved by tropical thunderstorms after being
set 348 to win, with England facing defeat at 179
for six.
In a spell that
matched England’s Rookie paceman Alex Tudor
for pace, Gillespie blew away the England tail in
65 minutes.
Gillespie stole
the limelight from swing bowler Damien Fleming,
the chief destroyer with a nine-wicket match
haul.
Man-of-the-match
Fleming, who took a career-best 5-46 in the first
innings, finished with 4-45 in 19 overs for a
tally of 9-91 in his eighth test.
On Hick’s
departure, Ramprakash and Dominic Cork added a
further 31 runs to guide England close to the
lunch break until Gillespie struck for the second
time.
Cork, who had
shrugged off a blow to the head from Fleming
early in his innings, was trapped leg before
wicket and Alex Tudor lasted just two balls
before edging to wicketkeeper Ian Healy.
Darren Gough fell
next ball, trapped lbw, and Gillespie was on a
hat-trick in his next over.
Ramprakash denied
Gillespie the hat-trick but took a single, and in
doing so exposed Mullally, who was bowled on a
slow full toss to end the English innings.
The third test
begins December eleven in Adelaide. (AP)
SCOREBOARD:
England, 1st
innings 112: Australia, 1st innings 240: England,
2nd innings: Overnight 126 for five:
Mark Butcher c
Ponting b Fleming 1 Mike Atherton c Taylor b
Fleming 35
Nasser Hussain lbw
b Fleming 1 Alec Stewart c Taylor b Fleming 0
Mark Ramprakash
not out 47 John Crawley c Langer b Miller 15
Graeme Hick c
Ponting b Gillespie 68 Dominic Cork lbw b
Gillespie 16
Alex Tudor c Healy
b Gillespie 0 Darren Gough lbw b Gillespie 0
Alan Mullally b
Gillespie 0 Extras (8nb) 8
Total: 191 all out
Fall of wickets:
1/5, 2/11, 3/15, 4/40, 5/67, 6/158, 7/189,
8/189, 9/189, 191.
Bowling: Glenn
McGrath 26-10-47-0 (1nb), Damien Fleming
19-7-45-4 (1nb), Jason Gillespie 15.2-2-88-5
(6nb), Colin Miller 10-4-11-1.
Batting time: 310
minutes. Overs: 70.2. Australia, 2nd innings:
Michael Slater c
and b Gough 17 Mark Taylor c Hick b Mullally 3
Justin Langer c
Atherton b Tudor 7 Mark Waugh not out 17
Steve Waugh not
out 15 Extras (3lb, 2nb) 5
Total: 64 for
three
Fall of wickets:
1/16, 2/24, 3/36.
Bowling: Darren
Gough 9-5-18-1, Alan Mullally 9-0-24-1, Alex
Tudor 5-0-19-1 (2nb).
Batting time: 101
minutes. Overs: 23
Result: Australia
won by seven wickets.
Man-of-the-match:
Damien Fleming (Australia).
First test at
Brisbane: Drawn
Umpires: Daryl
Harper (Australia) and Srini Venkataraghavan
(India). Television umpire: Terry Prue.
Match referee:
John Reid (New Zealand). (AP)
Mayor’s
Cup swimming
NASHIK,
Nov 30: On
the 4th day yesterday, hosts Maharashtra topped
the medals tally and bagged three gold medals at
the 44th Mayor’s Cup national level aquatic
competition, being held at the Swatantraya Veer
Savarkar Pool here.
In under 14 girls,
Madhurika Ghatge (Kolhapur) and Amar Muralidharan
(Pune) picked up the Gold medal in 200 mts
butterfly stroke. While a Mumbai boy Avinash
Krupalani and Shee Yen Sho also representing
Mumbai won the Gold in 200 mts breast stroke.
Maharashtra are on
the top with 42 Gold, 39 Silver and 20 Bronze
medals followed by Karnataka in the second
position with 27 Gold, 19 Silver and 20 Bronze
medals. West Bengal are third with 9 Golds, 12
Silver and 20 Bronze medals.
However, no
records were broken yesterday. Under 19 boys
group Maharashtra’s Yogesh Watve won the
Gold medal in one metre spring board event, while
in the girl’s section, Karnataka’s
Asmita Mohite won the Gold followed by Goa’s
Swizlik Dimelola and Maharashtra’s
Geetanjali Gulapalli winning silver and Bronze
medal respectively.
In 200 metres
breast stroke Shee Yen Sho of Mumbai bagged a
gold medal for Maharashtra, while Veena S and
Archana Bhushan of Karnataka won Silver and
Bronze respectively.
Under 19 boys
group Gujarat’s Parmit Bhargav won Gold
medal in 500 metre free style event, while
Kaustubha Rahalkar of Maharashtra and V K P Kuber
of Karnataka won Silver and Bronze medal
respectively. In water polo, Maharashtra team
beat Punjab by 14 goals to five. (UNI)
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