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SriLank vs Australia Match
A clinical Sri Lanka rode on captain Mahela Jayawardene's unbeaten half-century to register their first win of the cricket tri-series with an eight-wicket crushing of Australia in a rain-affected match here on Friday. Score
Chasing a revised target of 152 for a win under the Duckworth-Lewis method, Jayawardene (61 not out) anchored the run chase with a solid 67-ball unbeaten knock after opener Tillakaratne Dilshan (45) and Kumar Sangakkara (30) laid the foundation for an easy win at the SCG.
Earlier, electing to bat, Australia were all out for 158 in 40.5 overs after the match was reduced to 41-overs-a-side affair with rain interrupting the tie at the end of the 26th over when Australia were 88 for six.
The target for Sri Lanka was revised to 152 and they chased it down in just 24.1 overs, thereby collecting a bonus point also. They needed to overhaul the target in 32.4 overs to get a bonus point.
Sri Lanka got five points (including one bonus point) from Friday's win and they now have seven points. All the three teams have played four matches each and India now lead the table with 10 points, ahead of Australia (nine). Each team has two matches left in the series before the finals.
Sri Lanka were in cruise mode from the beginning of the run chase with the openers Dilshan and Jayawardene putting on 74 runs from 11.4 overs before the former was out.
Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc bore the first brunt of Dilshan's aggression as the Lankan smashed a short of length delivery over square leg boundary for a six in the fourth over.
Next over, it was the turn of Brett Lee to face the wrath of Dilshan who hit the veteran pacer for three consecutive fours to take 14 runs from the fifth over.
Lee was taken off by stand-in skipper Ricky Ponting and was replaced by Clint McKay and Sri Lankan batsman scored in singles and doubles to quietly reached 66 for no loss after 10 overs.
Dilshan fell in the 12th over to a McKay length ball wide of off stump and the batsman Dilshan threw his bat at it and got a thick edge straight to the slip fielder David Hussey.
Dilshan faced 41 balls and hit four boundaries and a six for his 45.
Run rate slowed down a bit after Dilshan's departure and Sangakkara reached his personal milestone to become the 10th batsman in the world and third Sri Lankan -- after Sanath Jayasuriya and Jayawardene -- to score 10,000 ODI runs with a single off left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty in the 18th over.
Soon after reaching the milestone Sangakkara punished Doherty again with a four and a six in the same over but two overs later, he fell to Lee caught by Doherty at mid-on while trying for a bit hit.
Sangakkara, who was playing in his 315th match, faced 29 balls for his 30 and hit four boundaries and a six.
By the time Sangakkara was out, Sri Lanka were on the verge of victory at 133 for two and they took another three overs to reach the target of 152 which they secured through a leg-bye of Chandimal (six not out).
Jayawardene, who hit his 63rd career fifty today, carried his bat through the run chase, facing 67 balls and hitting five fours.
Earlier, Sri Lanka stifled Australia with a disciplined bowling and fielding display as the home side were shot out for a modest 158.
Electing to bat, the Australians failed to stitch any substantial partnership in the face of tight bowling by the Sri Lankans.
But for the 49-run stand between David Hussey (58) and number 10 Mitchell Starc (17 not out) for the ninth wicket, the highest stand in the Australians innings, the total would have been much lower.
David and Starc batted sensibly for eight overs to give some respectability to the Australian innings after their top-order came a cropper to be reduced to 88 for six at the rain interruption.
David was, however, fortunate to survive a dropped chance from Malinga when the batsman was on eight.
The Lankans also effected three run-outs as the home side were bundled out with one ball remaining.
For Sri Lanka, Farveez Maharoof and Thisara Perera bagged two wickets each for 18 and 29 runs respectively. Malinga, Angelo Mathews and Rangana Herath grabbed a wicket each.
Maharoof, in his return match, used a similar slower delivery to account for stand-in skipper Ricky Ponting (2) who was foxed to an early stroke to give a simple return catch in the 11th over.
Next over, Thisara Perera engineered the run-out of Matthew Wade (15) with a lightening throw to snap the stumps and soon Angelo Mathews joined the party to account for Michael Hussey (13).
Michael Hussey, who returned to the Australian side after being rested from the Adelaide match, was looking good as he hit a six from Mathews but next ball he failed to negotiate a delivery too close to his body and edged behind.
Peter Forrest (16) became the second victim of Maharoof's tight length and line to offer a catch to the slip and before rain came, Daniel Christian (6) fell lbw to Perera as Australian sauntered to 88 for six.
After the rain break, Clint McKay (3) and Bret Lee (0) fell in quick succession before David Hussey and Starc took the score past 150 with some sensible batting.
Chasing a revised target of 152 for a win under the Duckworth-Lewis method, Jayawardene (61 not out) anchored the run chase with a solid 67-ball unbeaten knock after opener Tillakaratne Dilshan (45) and Kumar Sangakkara (30) laid the foundation for an easy win at the SCG.
Earlier, electing to bat, Australia were all out for 158 in 40.5 overs after the match was reduced to 41-overs-a-side affair with rain interrupting the tie at the end of the 26th over when Australia were 88 for six.
The target for Sri Lanka was revised to 152 and they chased it down in just 24.1 overs, thereby collecting a bonus point also. They needed to overhaul the target in 32.4 overs to get a bonus point.
Sri Lanka got five points (including one bonus point) from Friday's win and they now have seven points. All the three teams have played four matches each and India now lead the table with 10 points, ahead of Australia (nine). Each team has two matches left in the series before the finals.
Sri Lanka were in cruise mode from the beginning of the run chase with the openers Dilshan and Jayawardene putting on 74 runs from 11.4 overs before the former was out.
Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc bore the first brunt of Dilshan's aggression as the Lankan smashed a short of length delivery over square leg boundary for a six in the fourth over.
Next over, it was the turn of Brett Lee to face the wrath of Dilshan who hit the veteran pacer for three consecutive fours to take 14 runs from the fifth over.
Lee was taken off by stand-in skipper Ricky Ponting and was replaced by Clint McKay and Sri Lankan batsman scored in singles and doubles to quietly reached 66 for no loss after 10 overs.
Dilshan fell in the 12th over to a McKay length ball wide of off stump and the batsman Dilshan threw his bat at it and got a thick edge straight to the slip fielder David Hussey.
Dilshan faced 41 balls and hit four boundaries and a six for his 45.
Run rate slowed down a bit after Dilshan's departure and Sangakkara reached his personal milestone to become the 10th batsman in the world and third Sri Lankan -- after Sanath Jayasuriya and Jayawardene -- to score 10,000 ODI runs with a single off left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty in the 18th over.
Soon after reaching the milestone Sangakkara punished Doherty again with a four and a six in the same over but two overs later, he fell to Lee caught by Doherty at mid-on while trying for a bit hit.
Sangakkara, who was playing in his 315th match, faced 29 balls for his 30 and hit four boundaries and a six.
By the time Sangakkara was out, Sri Lanka were on the verge of victory at 133 for two and they took another three overs to reach the target of 152 which they secured through a leg-bye of Chandimal (six not out).
Jayawardene, who hit his 63rd career fifty today, carried his bat through the run chase, facing 67 balls and hitting five fours.
Earlier, Sri Lanka stifled Australia with a disciplined bowling and fielding display as the home side were shot out for a modest 158.
Electing to bat, the Australians failed to stitch any substantial partnership in the face of tight bowling by the Sri Lankans.
But for the 49-run stand between David Hussey (58) and number 10 Mitchell Starc (17 not out) for the ninth wicket, the highest stand in the Australians innings, the total would have been much lower.
David and Starc batted sensibly for eight overs to give some respectability to the Australian innings after their top-order came a cropper to be reduced to 88 for six at the rain interruption.
David was, however, fortunate to survive a dropped chance from Malinga when the batsman was on eight.
The Lankans also effected three run-outs as the home side were bundled out with one ball remaining.
For Sri Lanka, Farveez Maharoof and Thisara Perera bagged two wickets each for 18 and 29 runs respectively. Malinga, Angelo Mathews and Rangana Herath grabbed a wicket each.
Maharoof, in his return match, used a similar slower delivery to account for stand-in skipper Ricky Ponting (2) who was foxed to an early stroke to give a simple return catch in the 11th over.
Next over, Thisara Perera engineered the run-out of Matthew Wade (15) with a lightening throw to snap the stumps and soon Angelo Mathews joined the party to account for Michael Hussey (13).
Michael Hussey, who returned to the Australian side after being rested from the Adelaide match, was looking good as he hit a six from Mathews but next ball he failed to negotiate a delivery too close to his body and edged behind.
Peter Forrest (16) became the second victim of Maharoof's tight length and line to offer a catch to the slip and before rain came, Daniel Christian (6) fell lbw to Perera as Australian sauntered to 88 for six.
After the rain break, Clint McKay (3) and Bret Lee (0) fell in quick succession before David Hussey and Starc took the score past 150 with some sensible batting.
Asia Cup match against India is not about revenge: Afridi
Karachi: They were knocked out of the last World Cup by India but all-rounder Shahid Afridi has refused to dub Pakistan`s eagerly-awaited Asia Cup clash with the arch-rivals as a revenge match.
"I don`t think we should look at the match against India as a revenge one. We need to treat every match with same importance and significance," Afridi said.
Pakistan and India clash in the Asia Cup on March 18, the first meeting between the two sides since the World Cup semi-final last year.
Afridi said that the team should be more aggressive in the tournament, to be held in Bangladesh.
"I think we need to be more aggressive in the Asia Cup and our batsmen have to play hard at the bowlers," he said on returning from Bangladesh, where he was competing in the BPL. Afridi felt that one reason for Pakistan`s defeats in the one-day and T20 series against England last month was their defensive approach.
"We must realise that our bowlers can`t win us matches all the time. It is time for the batsmen to also score runs heavily. We lost to England as I thought we were a bit defensive."
Afridi said Pakistani batsmen needed to be more consistent and support the bowlers, but ducked questions on the captaincy issue.
"I don`t want to make any comments on the captaincy," he said when asked if he would be willing to lead Pakistan again.
Rana Naved who along with Afridi played for the Dhaka Gladiators, told reporters that he had no connection with the Pakistani national arrested during the BPL for being a suspected bookmaker.
"By the grace of God I am back home and I don`t have any links with this guy. I don`t even know him. I am not involved in such things. I just love the game and doing well for my teams."
"I don`t think we should look at the match against India as a revenge one. We need to treat every match with same importance and significance," Afridi said.
Pakistan and India clash in the Asia Cup on March 18, the first meeting between the two sides since the World Cup semi-final last year.
Afridi said that the team should be more aggressive in the tournament, to be held in Bangladesh.
"I think we need to be more aggressive in the Asia Cup and our batsmen have to play hard at the bowlers," he said on returning from Bangladesh, where he was competing in the BPL. Afridi felt that one reason for Pakistan`s defeats in the one-day and T20 series against England last month was their defensive approach.
"We must realise that our bowlers can`t win us matches all the time. It is time for the batsmen to also score runs heavily. We lost to England as I thought we were a bit defensive."
Afridi said Pakistani batsmen needed to be more consistent and support the bowlers, but ducked questions on the captaincy issue.
"I don`t want to make any comments on the captaincy," he said when asked if he would be willing to lead Pakistan again.
Rana Naved who along with Afridi played for the Dhaka Gladiators, told reporters that he had no connection with the Pakistani national arrested during the BPL for being a suspected bookmaker.
"By the grace of God I am back home and I don`t have any links with this guy. I don`t even know him. I am not involved in such things. I just love the game and doing well for my teams."
ACB court grants bail to 5
The court granted the bail on condition they furnish two sureties each for Rs 10,000 and also directed them to appear before the Anti-Corruption Bureau DSP every day between 10 am and 2 pm till further orders.
Meanwhile, the court dismissed the bail petitions of four liquor syndicate leaders, including Anishala Anand, A. Sudhakar, P. Mohan Reddy and Ch. Santosh Reddy. They were all arrested during ACB’s state-wide raids on liquor syndicates.
ACB has been opposing bail to liquor syndicate leaders on the ground that they have been encouraging corruption by bribing public servants and committing violations.
Andhra cops thrash 16-year-old boy; probe ordered
Karimnagar/Hyderabad: A day after a sixteen-year-old boy was allegedly beaten up by police in full public view at Jagtial town in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, the state human rights commission today directed the DGP to file a status report on the incident on March 7.
"This incident appears to be barbaric and violates the human rights of the boy, who was dealt with unlawfully," SHRC Member (Non-Judicial) Kakumanu Peda Peri Reddy said, adding the commission has taken a suo motu cognisance of media reports which last night telecast the footage showing the cops beating up the boy.
Circle police inspector Deva Reddy and constable Ganga Reddy yesterday picked up the boy from Brahmin Street in the town on suspicion that he along with one Gopi was involved in theft of petrol and spare parts from parked vehicles, family members of the victim said.
They alleged that the duo repeatedly slapped the boy and also hit him on his hands with a stick in middle of the road and the inspector even took out his revolver and pointed it towards the boy.
After a local television channel telecast the footage of the boy being beaten up by policemen last night, an inquiry was immediately ordered into the incident.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), A Rama Rajeshwari, who conducted an inquiry into the incident and submitted a report to the higher officials, found the inspector and constable resorted to "high-handedness" and has recommended a disciplinary action against the duo.
"I also saw the original video footage and the cops prima facie seem to be responsible for the high-handedness and I recommended for disciplinary action against them," she told PTI, adding the locals handed over the boy to the police when they caught him "indulging in theft".
As part of the investigation, the inspector had taken the boy to scene of offence and while being examined the CI and the constable seem to have slapped and hit the boy with a stick, she explained.
"This incident appears to be barbaric and violates the human rights of the boy, who was dealt with unlawfully," SHRC Member (Non-Judicial) Kakumanu Peda Peri Reddy said, adding the commission has taken a suo motu cognisance of media reports which last night telecast the footage showing the cops beating up the boy.
They alleged that the duo repeatedly slapped the boy and also hit him on his hands with a stick in middle of the road and the inspector even took out his revolver and pointed it towards the boy.
After a local television channel telecast the footage of the boy being beaten up by policemen last night, an inquiry was immediately ordered into the incident.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), A Rama Rajeshwari, who conducted an inquiry into the incident and submitted a report to the higher officials, found the inspector and constable resorted to "high-handedness" and has recommended a disciplinary action against the duo.
"I also saw the original video footage and the cops prima facie seem to be responsible for the high-handedness and I recommended for disciplinary action against them," she told PTI, adding the locals handed over the boy to the police when they caught him "indulging in theft".
As part of the investigation, the inspector had taken the boy to scene of offence and while being examined the CI and the constable seem to have slapped and hit the boy with a stick, she explained.
Latest AP by-polls: BJP to contest for only one seat
Hyderabad: The BJP Tuesday said it has decided not to contest the upcoming bypolls to five of the six assembly segments in Telangana region to honour the local sentiment.
"Inspite of pressure from party cadre and pro-Telangana organisations, the party has decided not to contest five assembly seats and will extend support to those candidates who are seeking re-election after their resignations in support of separate statehood," Andhra Pradesh BJP chief G Kishan Reddy told reporters here.
Seven assembly seats - six in Telangana region and one in Coastal Andhra is going for by-poll on March 18.
Except Kovur, all other seats ? Mahabubnagar, Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Station Ghanpur, Adilabad and Kamareddy ? fall in Telangana region, which has often witnessed turmoil over the issue of separate statehood.
Reddy said the BJP will contest only the Mahabubnagar assembly seat since it fell vacant following the death of the sitting Independent MLA, associated with Congress.
"Inspite of pressure from party cadre and pro-Telangana organisations, the party has decided not to contest five assembly seats and will extend support to those candidates who are seeking re-election after their resignations in support of separate statehood," Andhra Pradesh BJP chief G Kishan Reddy told reporters here.
Except Kovur, all other seats ? Mahabubnagar, Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Station Ghanpur, Adilabad and Kamareddy ? fall in Telangana region, which has often witnessed turmoil over the issue of separate statehood.
Reddy said the BJP will contest only the Mahabubnagar assembly seat since it fell vacant following the death of the sitting Independent MLA, associated with Congress.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
AP: Some bribe-takers are more equal than others
HYDERABAD: Big fish or small fish, the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s requests for prosecution of bribe-taking officials have run the same course for years: let off with a recommendation to ‘drop action’; or slapped on the wrist with the decree of ‘department action’; or referred to a ‘commission of inquiry’ (COI).
Successive governments from the regime of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy through K Rosaiah to Kiran Kumar Reddy have followed the same three-pronged course of action that virtually ensured that nothing came out of hundreds of corruption probes, reducing the ACB to a toothless existence.According to ACB data available with Express, there are at least 34 officials of various ranks in the Agriculture and Cooperation Department who have been accused of colluding with suppliers.While all of them were accused of the same offence, the government’s decision on each of them was different.Action was dropped against many; some faced departmental action; and a few ended up with the COI.The government did not state any reason why different individuals are treated differently for the same offence.For instance, L Venkatram Reddy, project director in the same department, was found by ACB to be possessing disproportionate assets worth `55 lakh.He got away with departmental action, which is still pending.In sharp contrast, a joint director in the same wing, C Vidyasagar, accused of possessing disproportionate assets, was allowed to go free as the government decided to ‘drop action’ against him.In the Consumer Affairs, Food and Civil Supplies Department, there is this case of an assistant controller of legal metrology, Thota Surya Prakash, found in possession of disproportionate assets worth over `46 lakh.The ACB sought his prosecution while the government ordered departmental action.In contrast, it handed out a ‘drop action’ decree against S Raja Reddy, a district supply officer in Karimnagar district, who possessed disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 40 lakh.One comes across similar instances in the Home Department as well.Three bribetaking police constables faced departmental action, but SDPO M Raghav Reddy, had ‘action dropped’ against him for a similar offence.Sources in the ACB say differential rulings on ACB referrals was par for the course.“Those who have contacts and have the ability to bribe their superiors get away with ‘action dropped’ while others face departmental action,’’ one source said
Successive governments from the regime of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy through K Rosaiah to Kiran Kumar Reddy have followed the same three-pronged course of action that virtually ensured that nothing came out of hundreds of corruption probes, reducing the ACB to a toothless existence.According to ACB data available with Express, there are at least 34 officials of various ranks in the Agriculture and Cooperation Department who have been accused of colluding with suppliers.While all of them were accused of the same offence, the government’s decision on each of them was different.Action was dropped against many; some faced departmental action; and a few ended up with the COI.The government did not state any reason why different individuals are treated differently for the same offence.For instance, L Venkatram Reddy, project director in the same department, was found by ACB to be possessing disproportionate assets worth `55 lakh.He got away with departmental action, which is still pending.In sharp contrast, a joint director in the same wing, C Vidyasagar, accused of possessing disproportionate assets, was allowed to go free as the government decided to ‘drop action’ against him.In the Consumer Affairs, Food and Civil Supplies Department, there is this case of an assistant controller of legal metrology, Thota Surya Prakash, found in possession of disproportionate assets worth over `46 lakh.The ACB sought his prosecution while the government ordered departmental action.In contrast, it handed out a ‘drop action’ decree against S Raja Reddy, a district supply officer in Karimnagar district, who possessed disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 40 lakh.One comes across similar instances in the Home Department as well.Three bribetaking police constables faced departmental action, but SDPO M Raghav Reddy, had ‘action dropped’ against him for a similar offence.Sources in the ACB say differential rulings on ACB referrals was par for the course.“Those who have contacts and have the ability to bribe their superiors get away with ‘action dropped’ while others face departmental action,’’ one source said
