 |
|
HYDERABAD, Nov 8: Sachin Tendulkar hit...more
Pak 223-4,
play BRISBANE, Nov 8: Pakistan were 223 for four in...more
Agassi
increases lead HAMBURG, Nov 8: Andre Agassi increased his lead...more |
 |
Football League Tournament Vijay Club beat Churchill, leading with eight points Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Vijay Club is leading with eight points with today’s 1-1 draw.....more Shiv
Sharma nominated Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Mr Shiv Kumar Sharma, president J&K Indian Style Wrestling Association...more 21st State
Table Tennis Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Twentyfirst State Table Tennis Championship organised by......more Sports
meet by Bhratiya Shiksha Samiti Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Vidya Mandir, Muthi bagged the overall championship trophy....more Srinath,
Prasad HYDERABAD, Nov 8: The national cricket selectors rested paceman....more |
 |
|
HYDERABAD, Nov 8: Sachin Tendulkar hit a blazing unbeaten 186 and Rahul Dravid a massive 153 during a record one-day partnership of 331 as India walloped New Zealand by 174 runs in the second limited-overs cricket match here today. Skipper Tendulkar and Dravid smashed the world best in a glorious second wicket association as India amassed 376 for two wickets in 50 overs, the second highest ever total in one-dayers and then bowled out the visitors for 202 in 33.1 overs to completely overwhelm the visitors. The maestro blasted an Indian record 186 not out after reaching his 24th one-day century that bettered fellow opener Saurav Ganguly’s previous mark of 183 and stood as the fourth highest one-day knock ever. Dravid, who played an equally commanding role in the run pillage after Tendulkar chose to take first strike on a batting beauty, rattled up 153 for his seventh century in the shorter version which improved upon his personal best by eight runs. Their 331-run partnership sunk the previous record of 318 set by Ganguly and Dravid in India’s 157-run defeat of Sri Lanka in a World Cup league tie at Taunton in May last. The New Zealand reply never took off as they were bowled out with 16.5 overs to spare which enabled India to avenge their 43-run defeat in the high-scoring first game at Rajkot and bounce back into the series in style. Man of the match Tendulkar’s unconquered knock came off only 151 balls with 20 fours and four sixes while Dravid matched his captain stroke for stroke to make his personal best in a run-a-ball effort (153 b, 15x4, 2x6). The visitors, set a near impossible task of scoring 7.54 per over to win the tie, flopped miserably in the face of India’s mammoth total. The thumping victory put the teams on level pegging ahead of the last three encounters scheduled to be played at Gwalior (November 11), Guwahati (November 14) and Delhi (November 17). Adam Parore (39 off 38 balls - 3x4, 1x6) and burly left-hander Roger Twose (28 - 24 b, 4x4) and Scott Styris (43 in 52 balls) were the only batsmen to cross the 20-run mark for New Zealand who were batted out of the match by Tendulkar and Dravid. The bowling honours for India were shared by Javagal Srinath (1/37), Venkatesh Prasad (2/38), Anil Kumble (2/39), Nikhil Chopra (1/38) and Vijay Bharadwaj (1/27) with two run outs. The main feature of the encounter was the brilliant exhibition of attacking batsmanship by Tendulkar and Dravid. The Kiwi bowling was guilty of giving the Indian batting mainstays too much room to cut, pull and drive with their loose line and length. Both batsmen were in roaring form after joining forces in the second over when Ganguly left at 10. Left-arm paceman Shayne O’connor deflected the ball onto the stumps at the non-striker’s end in his follow through with Ganguly just out of the crease. The duo helped themselves with strokes all round the ground and also raised their personal bests in one-dayers. Tendulkar’s 186 not out was the fourth best in one-day history after Saeed Anwar’s 194 for Pakistan against India in 1997, Viv Richards’s 189 no for the West Indies against England in 1989 and Gary Kirsten’s 188 no for South Africa against the UAE in 1996. The master batsman’s previous best of 143 had come against Australia at Sharjah in 1998 while Dravid’s previous best of 145 was made against Sri Lanka in the World Cup when he and Ganguly (183) had piled on a world record 318-run stand for the second wicket which was broken today. The total of 376 also bettered the World Cup score of 373 made against the Lankans. Tendulkar went berserk towards the end and the last five overs yielded a whopping 74 runs during which Dravid fell to Chris Cairns. He hit Cairns straight to Fleming at wide mid-on for the only wicket to fall to a bowler in the innings. The Kiwi run chase started disastrously with the dismissal of openers Craig Spearman (15) and Nathan Astle (9), who had cracked a fifty and century respectively in the series opener at Rajkot, with only 27 on board. Spearman drove Prasad straight to Tendulkar at mid-on while Astle, who made a superb 120 in the first match, was out pulling Srinath low to Ajay Jadeja at short mid-wicket. The stiff asking rate forced the batsmen to play ambitious shots. Parore and hard-hitting Twose succeeded to some extent in taking the score to 67 when the latter was trapped lbw by off-spinner Chopra with his first ball. (PTI) |
|
Pak 223-4, play abandoned due to rain BRISBANE, Nov 8: Pakistan were 223 for four in their second innings today, holding a lead of 15 on Australia’s first innings total of 575, when rain forced an early close to play for the second day in a row. No play was possible after the tea break. The not out batsmen were Saeed Anwar on 118 and Abdur Razzaq on 2. Play started half an hour early today, and was scheduled to run past the usual five p.m. (0700 GMT) close to make up for the hour of play lost yesterday when a thunderstorm caused play to be abandoned. Umpires said play would resume at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow (0500 hrs, IST tomorrow). Scores: Pakistan 223-4 (S Anwar 118 not out, Y Youhana 75, D Fleming 2-47) first innings 367 Australia 575 (overnight 515-9, M Slater 169, M Waugh 100, G Blewett 89, S Warne 86, A Gilchrist 81, S Akhtar 4-153). (REUTERS) |
|
Agassi increases lead in ATP rankings HAMBURG, Nov 8: Andre Agassi increased his lead in the latest ATP tour rankings released today in the wake of his Paris indoor title the previous day. Agassi has amassed 4,649 points from his fifth 1999 title and 44th of his career. He is already assured of the year-ending number one ranking prior to the season-ending world championships in Hanover which start in a fortnight. Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov is a distant second with 3,392 points and Pete Sampras third with 2,655 points. The top eight of the latest rankings are identical with those qualified for the Hanover event, although so far not in the same order. The ATP rankings take into account the best 14 results over 52 weeks, the race to Hanover those of 1999 alone. ATP tour top-10 as of November 8: 1. Andre Agassi, United States, 4,649 points 2. Yevgeni Kafelnikov, Russia, 3,392 3. Pete Sampras, United States, 2,655 4. Todd Martin, United Sates, 2,583 5. Gustavo Kuerten, Brazil, 2,563 6. Nicolas Kiefer, Germany, 2,322 7. Thomas Enqvist, Sweden, 2,310 8. Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador, 2,293 9. Marcelo Rios, Chile, 2,245 10. Tim Henman, Britain, 2,137. (DPA) |
|
Football
League Tournament Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Vijay Club is leading with eight points with today’s 1-1 draw with Churchill Brothers in the senior division in the ongoing Football League Tournament being played at Mini-Stadium, Parade ground, here today. Although, the first goal was scored by Churchill Brothers in the very first minute of the match, but they failed to add more goals in their tally, even after getting a plenty of chances. Deepak Burrat had scored the first minute goal. On the other side, Vijay Club after facing the first goal in the very start of the match equalised their score in the 17th minute. The goal came through Ranjeet Singh, who headed the ball into the net after getting a corner kick from Joginder Kumar. It was followed by a dilly-dallying game from both sides and ended in a draw. However, Churchill made an goal attempt in the dying minutes when an attempt was made from outside the box, which was foiled by the alert goal-keeper. With today’s draw, Churchill Brothers has got four points from their one win and one draw. Whereas, Vijay Club is leading with eight points from two wins and equal number of draws in the league. In another match in the Junior division, New Dogra defeated Nagrota Club 2-1. Jagdish Kumar scored the first goal from New Dogra in the 8th minute. The equaliser came in the 40th minute through Jatinder Singh. From New Dogra, second goal came in the 55th minute through Vikramjeet. In the second match in the Junior division, Engineers XI got walkover against Young Christian, who did not turn up the venue. Messrs Shiv Pal Sharma, Sanson Gill, Ramesh Chander, Yusuf Don, Iqbal Singh, Ramesh Chander Choudhary and David Masih officiated today’s matches. Tomorrow’s fixture: Christian Star V/s Young Sports, Vijay Hero V/s Jammu Sports-B; International V/s Young Heros. |
|
|
|
Sports meet by
Bhratiya Shiksha Samiti Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Vidya Mandir, Muthi bagged the overall championship trophy in the events of Athletics in the three-day Sports meet organised by the Bhartiya Shiksha Samiti, Jammu and Kashmir at Vaid Mandir Complex, Amphalla, here. In the Sub-junior boys Kabaddi event, the overall trophy was clinched by the Vidya Mandir, Hiranagar. Whereas, the Junior Kho-Kho title went in favour of Vidya Mandir. The Kabaddi title in the same age group was secured by Vidya Mandir, Thati in Udhampur. The closing day function was presided over by Prof M R Puri, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Jammu, while Vaid Vishnu Dutt, Member Parliament was guest of honour and Mr Ashok Khajuria, MLA was chief guest in the function. Mr Ashok Khajuria alongwith, Vaid Vishnu Dutt distributed prizes among the winning teams and individuals. Earlier, Prof M R Puri in his presidential address said that the balance between the medium of English and Hindi must be maintained and lauded the role of public schools in removing the illiteracy and maintaining the standard of education particularly of Vidya Mandir. In his address, Vaid Vishnu Dutt, MP, said that the root cause of all problems in the country is the illiteracy and it should be eradicated. He further said Bhartiya Shiksha Simiti is playing effective role in improving the standard of education. Mr Ashok Khajuria while congratulating the Simiti lauded its efforts for organising the Sports meet. The secretary of the Shiksha Simiti, Mr Ram Lal Sharma highlighted the main features and philosophy of Vidya Bharti. Samiti’s president, Mr R C Gupta was also present. |
|
Srinath, Prasad rested for remaining series HYDERABAD, Nov 8: The national cricket selectors rested paceman Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad while making three changes to the 14-member Indian team for the last three one-day internationals against New Zealand to be played at Gwalior (November 11), Guwahati (November 14) and Delhi (November 17). Srinath and Prasad have been rested in view of the forthcoming Australia tour and have been replaced by two other medium-pacers bound for the antipodes - Mumbai’s Ajit Agarkar and Tamil Nadu Rookie T Kumaran, Board Secretary Jaywant Lele announced today. The other change in the 14 has been necessitated by a stiff shoulder experienced by opener Sadagopan Ramesh and his place has gone to Bengal’s Devang Gandhi who is also bound for Australia. Team: Sachin Tendulkar (captain), Saurav Ganguly, Devang Gandhi, Rahul Dravid, Ajay Jadeja, Vijay Bhardwaj, Robin Singh, M S K Prasad, Nikhil Chopra, Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, T Kumaran, Sunil Joshi, Debashish Mohanty. (PTI) |
|
|
|
|
|
| home | state | national | business | editorial | advertisement | sports | |
