Not interested in county: Ishant
New Delhi: Cheteshwar Pujara will be playing for Derbyshire this season while Varun Aaron is also keen on plying his trade in the county circuit but Ishant Sharma, the seniormost bowler of the Indian Test team is not at all keen on playing in England. Would you be interested in playing in county cricket, “No, I am not interested,” was a curt reply from the lanky pacer, who was not allowed to give an elaborate answer by the organisers of the event, at a promotional function relating to bikes, here on Sunday. One of the heroes of India’s lord’s Test win, Ishant was asked which among lord’s (2014) and Perth (2008) was a more satisfying effort according to him, there was another terse reply without any elaboration. “There can’t be any comparisons between the two performances.” While the 25-year-old, who has 178 wickets from 58 Test matches was keen on answering a few questions, a member of the organising team was constantly stopping him from answering cricket-related queries. How disappointed was he after being thrashed by England in the Test series, the seamer replied, “No team wants to lose a contest. We played hard enough but they played better cricket than us.” When someone sneaked in a question about how “cool” Dhoni is on the field, Ishant said,”You guys have seen him (Dhoni). He remains pretty relaxed.”
Chowrasia tied eighth
Torino: Playing flawless golf, SSP Chowrasia brought in a six-under 66 to go up from tied 44th to tied eighth at the end of the third round of the 71st Italian Open here. Chowrasia, who won two co-sanctioned titles on European and Asian Tours, moved to nine-under 207 for 54 holes. Shiv Kapur (68) also moved to tied 33rd at six-under 210. Chowrasia had three birdies on either side of the course and no bogeys. So far he has had 14 birdies, three bogeys and one double bogey. Meanwhile, Hennie Otto of South Africa pulled two strokes ahead after three rounds. Otto posted a one under 71 to move to 16-under and into two shot lead over Scotland’s Richie Ramsay in second spot. Stephen Gallacher needs to win or finish second (alongside no more than one other player) to take the last of available spots on Paul McGinley’s European Team and he is just four shots behind Ramsay with 18 holes of the qualification campaign to go before McGinley completes his 12-man team with three Captains Picks next Tuesday. Gallacher cared a three under 69 to move to ten under and will have to get past Bernd Wiesberger (-13), Ross Fisher and lee Slattery (both-11) if he is to turn his Ryder Cup dream into reality.
Enthusiastic about ISl: Del Piero
New Delhi: Italy’s renowned World Cup winner Alessandro Del Piero has called the Indian Super league football tournament an “adventure” and said he was “enthusiastic” about embarking on this new journey. “I’m very enthusiastic about this adventure. It fits perfectly with the way I chose to move forward since I left Juve,” the 39-year-old Del Piero wrote on his twitter handle. The Juventus legend who has won almost every tournament he has played in for club and country, has many achievements to his name in a career spanning over two decades. The highlight of his career was winning the World Cup in 2006, when he scored in the semifinal and final. Del Piero will playing for Delhi Dynamos FC as its marquee player in the franchise-based ISl tournament, which is scheduled to be held across different venues from October 12 to December 20.
WKl: lions beat United Singhs
New Delhi: Vancouver lions held their nerves during an intense battle as they pipped United Singhs 53-52, by a single point, in a thrilling contest in the World Kabaddi league here on Sunday. At the close of first quarter, United managed to take a mimimum lead with the help of some dour defending as they ended the session at 14-13. The second quarter also continued to be the same and United Singhs again opened up a four point lead at 15-11. However, the match started to change in the third quarter with lions’ mighty raider Gagandeep Singh Sabrawa leading the charge. lions led the quarter with a score of 16-10. The fourth quarter became nail-biter after United managed to level the score at 42-42. Finally, Vancouver lions snatched the victory by pouching onto the raiders one by one.