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HE West Indies qualified for the Super Eights stage of the World Twenty20 after their Group B match against Ireland was abandoned due to rain on Monday. Ireland made 129-6 in their 19 overs before heavy rain at the Premadasa stadium prevented the West Indies from starting their innings. Both teams gained one point each, but the West Indies joined Group B winners Australia in the next round due to a superior net run-rate over the Irish. The West Indies will be placed alongside defending champions England, New Zealand and hosts Sri Lanka in group one of the Super Eights which starts on Thursday. The other half has Australia, South Africa, India and either Pakistan or Bangladesh, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the semifinals. The match, watched by barely 1,000 fans, was reduced to 19 overs per side after an hour's interruption midway through Ireland's innings due to rain.
scoReboaRd iReland: 0 w. porterfield b edwards p. stirling c gayle b sammy 19 e. Joyce b narine 17 25 n. o'brien b gayle g. wilson c Ramdin b gayle 21 13 K. o'brien b Rampaul T. Johnston not out 15 n. Jones not out 14 5 extras: (lb2, w2, nb1) Total (for six wickets, 19 overs) 129 fall of wickets: 1-0 (porterfield), 2-33 (Joyce), 3-37 (stirling), 4-70 (wilson), 5-96 (n. o'brien), 6-107 (K. o'brien). bowling: edwards 3-0-23-1, Rampaul 4-0-20-1, sammy 3-023-1, narine 4-0-21-1 (nb1), Russell 2-0-19-0 (w1), gayle 3-0-21-2 (w1) Match abandoned due to rain Toss: west indies umpires: Kumar dharmasena (sRi) and asad Rauf (paK) TV umpire: simon Taufel (aus) Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (sRi)
Colombo: west indies cricketer fidel edwards (C) celebrates with his captain darren Sammy (l) after he dismissed ireland cricket captain william Porterfield during the iCC Twenty20 Cricket world Cup match between west indies and ireland at the r. Premadasa Stadium. AFP Chris Gayle turned star performer with the ball with two wickets as the Ireland innings failed to gain any momentum after the West Indies won the toss and elected to field. Niall O'Brien made 25 and Gary Wilson scored 21, before both batsmen fell to Gayle's off-spin. Irish captain William Porterfield was dismissed off the first ball of the match for the second time in a row, bowled by Fidel Edwards. He had also fallen to Australian Shane Watson's first delivery in Ireland's previous match last week.
The West Indies, who had lost to Australia in a rain-affected match, endured another wet outing as rain lashed the ground during the innings break. Earlier, Chris Gayle turned out to be the star performer with the ball with two wickets as the West Indies kept Ireland in their loop. The match, which sent the winners into the Super Eights round, was reduced to 19 overs per side after an hour's interruption due to rain. Niall O'Brien made 25 and Gary Wilson scored 21, before both batsmen fell to Gayle's off-spin as Ireland lost wickets
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at regular intervals. Irish captain William Porterfield was dismissed off the first ball of the match for the second time in a row, bowled by Fidel Edwards. He had also fallen to Australian Shane Watson's first delivery in Ireland's previous match last week. Paul Stirling and Ed Joyce carried the total to 33-1 when two wickets fell in the space of four runs. Australia have already qualified for the next round from the group, having beaten both Ireland and the West Indies.
A chastened England will resume their faltering defence of the World Twenty20 later this week desperate to find a way to tackle spin after crashing to their biggest loss in T20 cricket. India's spinners sent Stuart Broad's men packing for just 80 in Sunday's group A match in Colombo, a defeat of 90 runs. It was England's lowest total in the shortest format and their heaviest defeat. Luckily for England, the capitulation came in a match of no consequence in terms of the tournament since both teams had qualified for the Super Eights stage after knocking minnows Afghanistan out. But the holders' failure to deal with spin will be of great concern to Broad, who attempted to play down the embarrassing loss. "Any international defeat is really frustrating, especially when you put in a performance like that," Broad said. "But it does not change our destiny a huge amount. Knowing that it does not change anything really -- apart from us having to maybe face a few more spinners in the nets -- is nice." Broad also brushed aside suggestions that the team missed their best player of spin bowling -- axed batsman Kevin Pietersen, who is in Colombo but only as a studio expert for the host broadcaster. "We've got these 15 guys here, and we've known that all along," the England captain said. "We did not perform well with the bat, but we did in the last three or four games. "It's important we focus on what we did well in those games and learn from what we did wrong against India." England will travel to Pallekele for the Super Eights round starting on Thursday, where they are grouped with hosts Sri Lanka, New Zealand and either Ireland or the West Indies. The collapse against spin also does not bode well for England beyond Sri Lanka - they begin a four-Test series in India next month. For India, veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh marked his return to the team after a year with 4-12 and leg-spinner Piyush Chawla took 2-13.
PUNjAB YOUTH FESTIvAL 2012
FESTIVAL ACTIVITY GAINING UNIFORMITY LAHORE sTaff RepoRT
The Tehsil level of the Punjab Youth Festival, which is the third level of the threemonth long activity has got uniformity in its competitions and on Monday around 60, 000 entered into different events throughout the province and 16662 won their games. In Lahore, the number of participants doubled in just two day and reached nearly 3000 and the winners were 1216. All the nine Towns of Lahore showed great enthusiasm in different events of the Tehsil level as in the Samanabad town’s badminton, union council 92 beat union council 104, 2-0. Umer Mushtaq of union council 106 beat Shakeel of union council 89, 2-0. Union council 93’s Umer Rafiq defeated Bilal Rasheed of union council 90, 2-0. Union council 93’s Qasim Abbas beat union council 106’s Imtiaz 2-0. In doubles, union council 106’s Zaheer and Imtiaz beat union council 92’s Usman and Zuber by 2-0. In Tug of War, union council 88 defeated union council 89. In Samanabad, Union council 91’s Abdul Wakeel beat union council 102’s Zikraya 15-12 in badminton event. In doubles, union council 91’s Sarfraz Ali and Zikriya defeated union council 102’s Basharat and Abdul Wakeel. In Table Tennis events, Ehsan bin Kosar of union council 24 won the competition .The score was 21-7, 21-9. In Badminton, union council 24 beat union council 22, 2-0. In Football, union council 18 defeated union council 23, 4-2.In Arm Wrestling, union council 23 beat union
council 24, 2-0. In athletics, Iftikhar of union council 23 bagged first position in 200 M race. In Billiard, union council 23’s Abdullah beat union council 24’s H.M Shahzad 2-0. In Data Ganj Bax town, Badminton, union council 85’s Shakeel beat union council 86’s Haider 2-0.In doubles, union council 86’s Umair and Haider beat union council 85’s Farhan and Ijaz.In Aziz Bhatti Town, Badminton matches were held. Ahmed Zafar of union council 67 beat Mian Shakeel of union council 2, 2-0.In the Doubles, Ahmed and Intikhab defeated Shakeel and Iftikhar 2-0.In the Cricket Tapeball matches, union council 44 thrashed union council 57 by 4 runs. Union council 48’s Khokhar XI destructed union council 45’s Ishrat XI by 15 runs.Lahore Badshah XI of union council 54 vanquished union council 55’s Chan XI by 20 runs.Ghaziabad XI of union
council 56 beat Faysal XI of union council 69 by 15 runs.In the Table Tennis competitions, union council 43’s Adeel XI was unsuccessful against union council 44’s Salman Baig XI. In Gulberg, Cricket Tapeball matches, union council 97 beat union council 99 by 10 wickets. Union council 96 defeated union council 128 by 5 wickets. Union council 32 beat union council 130 by 10 wickets. Union council 126 thrashed union council 31 by 1 wicket. In Basketball, union council 97 beat union council 130 by 14 points.Union council 129 defeated union council 127 by 2 points. In Football, union council 96 beat union council 128 by 2-1. In Chess, union council 32’s Mudassir Akram won over union council 129’s Farukh Pervez. In the TOwn, healthy baby competition was held in which Fatima Khan took the first position, Zulqarnain was second and Mo-
hammad Moiz got the third position. In Iqbal Town, union council 110’s Aziz was declared winner in 70 KG category.In 72-85 KG, Usman of union council 110 bagged first place. In 70-85 KG, union council 117’s Abdul Waheed won the competition. In 85 KG, union council 118’s Nabeel won while in 70 KG, union council 119’s Shehriar won the competitions. In the other districts of Punjab, activities gathered pace with participation of people of all walks of life are seem in all the 10 sectors of the Tehsil level. In Rawalpindi division, 3089 people took part in events including billiard, volleyball, tug of war, badminton, cricket tape ball and hard ball, football and badminton. Besides, competitions of painting, speech (English and Urdu), Naat Khani, Qirat, Dog Race, healthy Baby, family dressing and pigeon flying were also held. In this division, the district of
Attock was the most active where 1919 youngsters and students took part in the events and 1127 won their matches. At Chakwal 404 took part in 13 sports events and 129 won their matches while at Jehlum, 766 displayed their skills in four team events and also there were competitions of naat khani and qirat and 364 were the winners. At Bhakkar, 533 put their talent to display but most talented turned out to be 136. In Gujranwala, it was the division where most of the events were contested and active activity was witnessed. In this division a total of 7774 took part in around 50 events of both sports and general category. At Sahiwal 1120 took part and 375 were the winners, Multan had 4388’s participation while 1452 were the winners here and at Dera Ghazi Khan 35 won their events when 551 got involved in the activities of the festival.
Tuesday, 25 September, 2012