In Brief

Hunte’s first-class career spanned 17 years during which he scored 8,916 runs at 43.92. He was knighted by the Barbados Government a year ago for his contribution to cricket.

Pushpakumara takes five on return
HARARE: Sri Lanka fast bowler Ravinda Pushpakumara took five wickets on his return to Test cricket as Zimbabwe stumbled to 178 for eight on the opening day of the third Test today. Bad light ended play two overs early.Zimbabwe (1st innings): G Flower c Dilshan b Pushpakumara 13; C Wishart lbw Vaas 1; M Goodwin b Pushpakumara 11; N Johnson lbw Wickramasinghe 70; A Flower c Arnold b Vaas 14; A Campbell lbw Pushpakumara 9; G Whittall c Arnold b Pushpakumara 37; R Price lbw Pushpakumara 2; E Brandes not out 1; B Strang batting 3. Extras (lb2 nb15): 17. Total (for 8 wickets): 178Bowling: Vaas 24-9-40-2, Pushpakumara 21-4-47-5, Wickramasinghe 15-6-28-1, Muralitharan 24-6-51-0, Jayasuriya 4-1-10-0.

Ben Johnson to train Gaddafi Jr
TORONTO: Ben Johnson, the disgraced Canadian sprinter, has been hired as a personal trainer for the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Just weeks after his third positive doping test, Johnson has been hired to go to Libya and help 25-year-old Saad get into shape for the upcoming Libyan soccer season. Johnson will be paid $ 30,000 to $ 50,000 during the 90-day stint. Johnson has been instructed not to look Saad “directly in the eye or touch him.”

Jeev, Ghei ninth
BANGKOK: Jeev Milkha Singh and Gaurav Ghei shot identical one-under par fourth rounds to finish joint ninth in the US $ 200,000 Thailand Golf here today, won by American Fran Quinn. Jeev (69, 70, 68, 71) and Ghei (66, 72, 69, 71) totalled 10 under par 278 to win $ 3,640 each.

Uttam Mundy shot two under par 70 and with six under 282 (72, 69, 71, 70) to finish joint 29th to earn $ 1,720. Arjun Atwal had a one under 71 last round to aggregate five under 283 (73, 68, 71, 71). The fifth Indian in the fray Amandeep Johl, who had carded three successive two under par rounds, shot one over par 73 last round to end five under 283 (70, 70, 70, 73).

North Zone assured semi-final berth
AGARTALA: North Zone were assured a semi-final berth after taking a vital 165-run first innings lead against South Zone on the penultimate day of their Duleep Trophy quarter-final today.

North Zone (1st innings): 589.
South Zone (1st innings, overnight 207-4): Nanda Kishore lbw Nehra 1, Aashish Kapoor c Dahiya b Nehra 0, Thilak Naidu c Dharmani b Sodhi 55, JR Madangopal b Chopra 84, Sridharan Sharath not out 149, Robin Singh c Dharmani b Chopra 28, S Siruguppi c Dahiya b Navdeep Singh 4, Sunil Joshi c Dahiya b Sodhi 75, S Mahesh b Navdeep Singh 3, Venkatapathy Raju c Dharmani b Sehwag 13, Manzoor Ali Khan run out Navdip 0. Extras (b 4, lb 2, nb 6): 12. Total (all out in 133 overs): 424.
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-2, 3-96, 4-168, 5-210, 6-222, 7-366, 8-373, 9-400f3 Bowling: Nehra 17-5-56-2, Shakti Singh 20-1-56-0, Sodhi 24-5-65-2, Chopra 33-3-126-2, Navdeep Singh 31-7-81-2, Sehwag 8-0-34-1.
North Zone (2nd innings): Ashu Dani c Kapoor b Raju 15, Vikram Rathore batting 40, Rajiv Bayyar batting 14. Extras (b 1, lb 1, nb 6): 8. Total (for 1 wicket, in 29 overs):77. Fall of wicket: 1-42. Bowling: Robin Singh 5-0-8-0, Mahesh 3-0-11-0, Kapoor 11-1-40-0, Raju 10-4-16-1.

Baroda earn five points from draw
BARODA: The Under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy match between Baroda and Mumbai ended in a draw as expected and Baroda, who had secured the first innings lead on Thursday, secured five points. The hosts declared late in the day but by then all the hopes for the result had died. Brief scores: Baroda 238 & 196-7 (Yogesh Matorja 83) drew Mumbai 216 & 32-0.

Bengal, PSCBA bag sub-junior TT titles
KOZHIKODE: Bengal won the sub-junior girls and cadet girls trophies while PSCB Academy finished first in both boys subjuniors and cadet section in the final rounds of the team events in 61st National Sub-junior and Cadets table tennis championship today.
Placing: Sub-junior (boys): 1 PSCBA 2 Bengal 3 Assam 4 Delhi 5 Tamil Nadu 6 Maharashtra B 7 UP 8 Pondicherry; (Girls): 1 Bengal 2 Tamil Nadu 3 Karnataka 4 Assam 5 Maharashtra B 6 Maharashtra A 7 Kerala 8 Haryana; Cadet (boys): 1 PSCBA 2 Bengal 3 Assam 4 Tamil Nadu 5 Maharashtra B 6 Delhi 7 UP 8 Rajasthan; (Girls): 1 Bengal 2 Tamil Nadu 3 UP 4 MP 5 Karnataka 6 Gujarat 7 Maharashtra B 8 Maharashtra A.