da pinup bet： South Zone retained the Chandra Tripathi Trophy junior inter-zonalwomen’s cricket championship when they defeated North Zone by ninewickets in the last match of the four team league at the KD Singh Babastadium in Lucknow on Sunday
Staff and Agencies29-May-2001* South Zone women retain titleSouth Zone retained the Chandra Tripathi Trophy junior inter-zonalwomen’s cricket championship when they defeated North Zone by ninewickets in the last match of the four team league at the KD Singh Babastadium in Lucknow on Sunday.Karnataka off spinner Deepika Babu (4 for 21) did the most to restrictNorth Zone to 93 for nine in 35 overs. South Zone for whom Mithali Raj(39) and Savita Nirale (33) put on 83 runs in 16 overs for theunbroken second wicket, cantered home for the loss of only one wicketin 19.3 overs.In another match at the Chowk stadium, Central Zone beat East Zone by13 runs to take second spot. Central Zone scored 147 for eight in 35overs with Rajeshwari top scoring with 44 including four boundaries.Then off spinner Tanuja Chopra got among the wickets as East Zone werebowled out for 134 in 30.3 overs. Tanuja finished with four for 35.* Prabhakar goes ‘underground’ to avoid policeManoj Prabhakar, the Indian former Test player who was bannedfollowing his country’s investigation into match-fixing, is now wantedby police for alleged fraud in relation to a finance company.Police from the town of Naini Tal have been in Delhi attempting toarrest him, but he is said to have gone ‘underground’. He cannot befound at his Delhi home. If the police fail to find him, their nextmove would be to seize his property. A warrant has been issued on acharge relating to a company called Apace, one of many financecompanies in India who take monthly deposits from people.Prabhakar’s problems have arisen because Apace has collapsed and thedirectors appear to have gone missing. He has denied that he is adirector of the company or in any way connected with it. But theIndian magazine `Outlook’, which led the press investigation intomatch-fixing, has produced documents which show that Prabhakar islisted as a company director in Apace’s annual report.