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* Rajendra Soni won the 30 km Amar cycling race at Wadala with a timing of 52 minutes, 16 seconds.
Results: 30 km: 1 Rajendra Soni (52min 16sec), 2 Ramesh Deokar (Central Railway), 3 Santosh Pansare (Central Railway)
15 km roadstar: 1 Sandesh Shinde (Sachivalaya Gymkhana) 24m 44s, 2 Marion D’Souza, 3 Kapil Thombre
2 km: Ketan Shirurkar (3m 25s), 2 Vishal Thakkar, 3 Deepak Kharat.
Jayasuriya leads in ratings
* Sanath Jaysuriya leads the Ceat Cricket Ratings with 94 points over his nearest rival and team-mate Aravinda de Silva, who has 51.
Pakistan off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq is third with 44 points.
Sri Lanka, with 36 points are in lead, with Australia (27) and South Africa (23) close behind.
Ratings: 1 Sanat Jayasuriya (94), 2 Arvinda de Silva (51), 3 Saqlain Maushtaq (44), 4 Mohammad Azharuddin and M Muralitharan (43 each), 6 Saurav Ganguly (42), 7 Sachin Tendulkar (36)
Team ratings: 1 Sri Lanka (36), 2 Australia (27), 3 South Africa (23), 4 England (20), 5 Zimbabwe (18), 6 India and Pakistan (16 each), 8 New Zealand (11), 9 West Indies (10).
Cricket awards ceremony today
* Last year’s (1996-97) winners Venkatesh Prasad and the Pakistan cricket team will be awarded the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year and Ceat International Cricket Team of the Year award respectively at a function at the Cricket Club of India here on Monday.
The Ceat team award would be received by Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram, who has specially flown down to India.
