Haryana
in dire straits
NEW
DELHI, Dec 28: Haryana were facing the prospects
of a follow on as Services’ medium pacer
Syed Javed claimed three wickets on debt to
reduce the visitors to 151 for seven on the
penultimate day of the four-day North Zone Ranji
Trophy league match at the Harbaksh stadium here
today.
Formr champions
Haryana, left struggling in the North Zone
league, need 26 more runs to avoid the follow-on
with just tree wickets in hand, replying to
Services’ first innings total of 26.
At stumps, Sanjay
Dalal (18) was batting with opener Parinder
Sharma (0), who retired hurt after being hit on
his arm by a Javed delivery.
Javed castled
Jitender Singh (0) on his fourth ball and then
spoiled the party for veteran Amarjit Kaypee (2)
in his 100th Ranji outing to reduce Karyana to
two for two wickets after play resumed 15 minutes
before lunh because of fog.
The 19-year-old
then returned to trap Rajesh Puri, who saved
Haryana from disastrous 54-3 with a solid 88
(148b, 14 x 4), to trigger inhere collapse as
Haryana slumped from 122-5 to 150-7.
For Services,
Javed claimed three wickets for 48 while spinner
Sanjay Sirsat took two for 24.
Earlier, Services,
resuming on overnight 313 for eight, colluded
just 13 more runs as Parinder Sharma (3/49) and
Vineet Jain (3/93) wrapped up the tail. (PTI)
44th
National School Games declared open
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU,
Dec 28: 44th National School Games were
declared open by the Minister of Finance, Mr
Mohammed Shafi Uri in an colour cultural function
at Mini Stadium, here today.
The games, which
are being organised by the Directorate of Youth
Services and Sports, will be held in two phases.
In the first phase the competitions will be held
for the C K Naidu Under-19 Cricket from December
29 to January 1 at different venues. While, in
the second phase Hockey and Korfball matches will
held in both girls and boys categories.
The matches shall
commence from tomorrow at M A M College, G G M
Science College, Jammu University and K V II
grounds, here. Each match shall be of 45 overs
and will be held on knock-out basis.
Twenty teams from
different states of the country have reached and
another two are accepted to reach by this
evening. Informed Mr B D Gandhi, secretary
general, School Games Federation of India, while
presenting a brief report of the activities. He
also gave a brief note of the activities
conducted by Jammu and Kashmir under the aegis of
School Games Federation of India since 1978.
The teams which
have confirmed their entries included Assam,
Bihar, Chandigarh, Daman Due, Delhi, Goa,
Gujarat, Haryana, KVs, Karnataka, West Bengal,
NVs, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, UP. While,
Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh are expected to
reach tonight.
Mr M S Tariq,
Minister for School Education presided over the
inaugural function, while Minister of State for
Social Welfare was the guest of honour on the
occasion.
In his address, Mr
Mohd. Shafi expressed his gratitude to have 20
states from Daman Due to Punjab and Assam to West
Bengal in Jammu. He said that imparting of
coaching in games and improving talent from the
school days would definitely improve standard of
sports in the state.
Earlier, the
Director General, Youth Services and Sports,Mr S
S Ali, who is also organising secretary of the
games welcomed all participants and distinguished
gathering.
Schools which
participated in the cultural progammes were DBN
School, Children Welfare Institute, Srinagar,
Higher Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, Higher
Secondary school, Canal Road, New Era Environment
school and also students from district Kathua.
Prominent among
those present on the inaugural function were
Messrs P L Raina, Commissioner cum Secretary,
School Education, J&K, Sheikh Fazal Ahmed,
Secretary State Sports Council, T S Wazir besides
others.
Sachin
comes to India’s rescue
WELLINGTON,
Dec 28:
Sachin Tendulkar, the pillar of India’s
batting, came to their rescue in the role of
bowler on the third day of the second test
against New Zealand at Basin Reserve today.
Skipper Mohamed
Azharuddin called for Tendulkar’s mixed bag
of off and leg breaks when New Zealand’s
Dion Nash and Daniel Vettori had staged a
partnership that set up a new record for their
eighth wicket.
The 13th run they
added in the morning surpassed by one run the
previous record set up against the West Indies,
at Port of Spain, by Bev Congdon and Bob Cunis,
in 1971-72.
Nash and Vettori,
who had come together four minutes before tea
yesterday and already put on 82 by the close,
batted with absolute comfort against all of
India’s main bowlers, although half way
through the morning, Vettori survived a very
confident appeal for lbw from off-spinner
Harbhajan Singh.
Tendulkar was
called in when only 20 minutes remained for lunch
bowling off-breaks from round the wicket,
Tendulkar had Vettori missed at slip in his very
first over. Vettori, who had contended himself
with stubborn defence after surviving the lbw
appeal, ventured a furious drive and edged it.
Azharuddin, at slip, could only get his
fingertips to the ball as it flashed past.
However, Tendulkar
hunted down his quarry in his last over before
lunch. Vettori shuffled across his stumps to work
the ball away to mid wicket, missed and was
bowled behind his legs. Vettori batted 238
minutes for his 57, the second half-century of
his test career. Tendulkar was kept on in the
attack after lunch and he justified the faith
placed in him by accounting for Paul Wiseman who,
trying to drive him, dragged the ball on to his
stumps.
Kumble, who
finished with figures of four for 83, lost no
time in wrapping up the innings by trapping Simon
Doull lbw leaving the Gallant Nash eleven short
of a well-deserved century. He had batted with
good sense for 298 minutes, during which he faced
230 balls. He hit only four boundaries, out kept
he scoreboard ticking with well-placed shots.
The fact that two
tail-enders had stayed together for almost four
hours was proof that the pitch was easy and the
deficit of 144 they faced should not have been
oppressive.
At tea, they had
reduced it by 71, but at the cost of the wicket
of Ajay Jadeja who, in playing a ferocious pull
of Nash, played on off the bottom edge. That was
at 41 and India were lucky to escape another
calamity two runs later.
The newly-arrived
Rahul Dravid edged a beautiful out-swinger from
Chris Cairns to the wicket-keeper, out survived
because Cairns had overstepped the crease.
SCORECARD:
India 1st innings:
208
New Zealand 1st
innings:
M D Bell c Mongia
b Prasad 4
M J Horne b Kumble
38
S P Fleming run
out (Jadeja) 42
N J Astle b Kumble
56
C McMillan c
Dravid b Srinath 24
A C Parore lbw
Kumble 2
C L Cairns c
Tendulkar b Prasad 3
D J Nash not out
89
D L Vettori b
Tendulkar 57
P L Wiseman b
Tendulkar 0
S B Doull lbw b
Kumble 0
Extras (lb-19,
b-13, nb-5) 37
Total (all out in
148.4 overs) 352
Fall of wickets:
1-7, 2-79, 3-112, 4-162, 5-172,
6-179, 7-208,
8-345, 9-349.
Bowling:
Srinath 36-6-89-1,
Prasad 30-8-67-2,
Kumble
45.4-18-83-4,
Harbhajan
25-6-61-0,
Ganguly 6-0-13-0,
Tendulkar 6-2-7-2.
India 2nd innings:
Ajay Jadeja b Nash
22
Navjot Sidhu lbw b
Doull 34
Rahul Dravid b
Wiseman 28
Saurav Ganguly
batting 47
Sachin Tendulkar
batting 42
Extras (lb-1,
nb-5) 6
Total (for three
wickets) 179
Fall of wickets:
1-41, 2-74, 3-112
Bowling:
Doull 12-4-26-1,
Cairns 11-1-47-0,
Nash 6-4-7-1,
Vettori 10-2-44-0,
McMillan 6-2-16-0,
Wiseman 8-1-38-1.
(AGENCIES)
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Old Jammu XI beat South Jammu XI by 35 runs
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU,
Dec 28:
Chartered Accountants (Old Jammu) XI beat
Chartered Accountants (South Jammu) XI by 35 runs
in a 20 over cricket match, organised in
connection with celebration of golden jubilee of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
at GGM Science College grounds here today.
After winning the
toss, South Jammu XI decided to field first.
Batting first Jammu Old XI scored 219 for nine in
stipulated 20 over match.
Skipper, Vinod
Gupta made highest 59 runs. For Jammu South XI,
Vinod Gupta and Pankaj Gour claimed two wickets
each.
Chasing a high
run-rate of 11 runs per over, Jammu South XI
could score only 184, losing nine wickets in 20
overs and lost the match by 35 runs. For Jammu
Old XI, Sat Sharma clinched four wickets.
Sat Sharma was
declared man of the match.
Mr O P Gar, senior
Chartered Accountant was the chief guest on the
match and gave away prizes to the winner and
runner-up teams. The match was witnessed by the
professionals and their families.
Bengal
inflicts humiliating innings defeat on Assam
GUWAHATI,
Dec 28: Bengal
inflicted a humiliating innings and 206 run
defeat on Assam in their Ranji Trophy match to
top the East Zone pool with 18 points.
The inevitable
happened about an hour before lunch when
Subhrajit Saikia’s brisk innings was cut
short by a stumping from Saba Karim off Wrishik
Mozumder, who ended the day with four wickets.
Resuming at
overnight score of 150 for five wickets, Assam
could add only 104 runs before losing all their
remaining five wickets of which Wrishik picked up
four and Sukla five.
Rajesh Bora,
realising the futulity of chasing a huge deficit,
played his natural game and scored 71 before
gifting a catch to rohan at cover off Wrishik
Mozumder.
The procession
soon began as Nishanta played only a few
deliveries before getting out for a duck and
later Gautam Dutta and Subhrajit Saikia also
followed him.
Bengal with eight
points from the match was now two points ahead of
Orissa.
Bengal coach Arun
praised upcoming bowlers Lakhi Ratan Shukla and
Wrishik Mozumder besides debutant Ranadeb Bose
and Oozed confidence of doing well in the super
league state. (UNI)
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