da 888： Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar who scored his 29th ODIcentury against West Indies in the Coca Cola Cup trianguler series inHarare on Wednesday, said as a batsman he would like to carry on thegood work
Staff and Agencies05-Jul-2001* Tendulkar is still hungry to score moreIndian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar who scored his 29th ODIcentury against West Indies in the Coca Cola Cup trianguler series inHarare on Wednesday, said as a batsman he would like to carry on thegood work. “I’d like to go on and on. It was good to score the 29thhundred but I’d like to score more runs,” Tendulkar said after winningthe man-of-the-match award for the third time in four matches in thetournament.Tendulkar’s 122 not out was the best by an Indian against West Indiesin one-day internationals eclipsing Navjot Singh Sidhu’s 114 at Vizagin 1994-95. “We have won four and now we should make it five,” he saidlooking ahead to Saturday’s final.Skipper Saurav Ganguly continued to lavish praise on the showing ofthe bowlers but said the batsmen could have done a little better.”They (bowlers) have done a fantastic job. It was a good effort torestrict them to 229 on a good batting wicket,” he said. Looking aheadto the final, Ganguly said “We hope to fire on all cylinders”.* Uma Bharti agreeable to Indo-Pak cricket ties, but…Indian Sports Minister Uma Bharti said on Wednesday she would notoppose the revival of cricket ties with Pakistan but demanded areciprocal gesture from that country regarding hockey.”If cricket figures in the proposed talks with Pakistan PresidentPervez Musharraf during his visit later this month and it was felt itwas necessary to revive cricket ties to boost relations (between thetwo countries), I would not oppose it,” Bharti told reporters inLucknow.”But if we revive cricket ties, Pakistan should initiate revival ofhockey ties as a goodwill gesture and request the International HockeyFederation (FIH) to change the dates of the Champions Trophy thatclash with the Afro-Asian Games being hosted by India,” she added. AsPakistan is hosting the Champions Trophy, it should request the FIH tochange the dates so that its team could participate in the Afro-AsianGames, she said.* Ghavri to coach Bengal Ranji teamFormer Indian all rounder Karsan Ghavri will coach the Bengal Ranjiteam for the 2001-2002 season. “The Cricket Association of Bengal(CAB) president Jagmohan Dalmiya offered me the job a few months agoand I agreed,” Ghavri who played 39 Tests told PTI in Mumbai onThursday.”In fact, he (Dalmiya) first spoke to me a year ago but I was not tookeen at that time and left it at that. When he spoke to me recently Iagreed,” Ghavri, now 50, added.Ghavri, who takes over the post from former Bengal Ranji player PalashNandy, represented India from 1974 to 1981. He scored 913 runs andtook 109 wickets. He also played in the 1975 and 1979 World Cupcompetitions. Ghavri was also the coach of the Mumbai team which wonthe Ranji Trophy in 1993-94 under the captaincy of Ravi Shastri.