da bwin： Debashis Mohanty, who made a successful comeback to the Indian teamafter a gap of 35 matches, expressed satisfaction at his performanceagainst West Indies on Saturday
Staff and Agencies01-Jul-2001* Comeback man Mohanty pleased with standout performanceDebashis Mohanty, who made a successful comeback to the Indian teamafter a gap of 35 matches, expressed satisfaction at his performanceagainst West Indies on Saturday. The 24-year-old Orissa medium pacerstrangled the West Indies top order to produce the standout figures of3/18 from 10 overs."I just concentrated on making the batsmen play – and restrict themeven from scoring singles" said Mohanty who was overlooked for the Manof the Match award, which went to Sachin Tendulkar. Mohanty wascautiously optimistic about his chances of playing for India in thefinal of the tournament on July 7. "It depends on how I do in the nextgame on Wednesday (also against the West Indies)" he said according toPTI.Railways medium pacer Harvinder Singh, also making a comeback of hisown, was happy too with his showing. Harvinder took 2/25 in his tenover spell, conceding just two runs in the 50th over of the WestIndian innings. He said that he had remodelled his action from side-onto front-on "to avoid injury".Meanwhile skipper Sourav Ganguly suggested that he was back in goodnick after his knock of 85 against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. "I wasmoving pretty nicely in my strokes in yesterday’s game. Everythingseems to be falling in place but for the umpire, it seems. Perhaps Inow need to take umpires out for dinners" he joked. A large section ofthe Indian team left for the Victoria Falls, 350 km north of Bulawayo,on Sunday.* Madhavan questioned Tendulkar over Ahmedabad TestThe Indian cricket board’s Vigilance Commissioner, K Madhavanquestioned Sachin Tendulkar before the Zimbabwe tour in connectionwith the controversial Ahmedabad Test in 1999, reported PTI. Tendulkaras skipper had declined to enforce the follow-on against New Zealandin Ahmedabad last November despite a first innings lead of 275. TheTest which ended in a draw had also figured in the CBI probe into thematch-fixing scandal.Tendulkar was the third person to be called in for questioning overthe matter after team manager Ajit Wadekar and coach Kapil Dev.Madhavan who is a former Joint Director of the CBI refused to commentwhen approached for confirmation. He did however admit that he wasprobing the Ahmedabad Test and would hand in his report by the end ofthis month after speaking to one more witness. "My inquires haverevealed that the match was drawn due to certain factors and I cannotsay anything beyond this" he added.Madhavan suggested that rules against carrying mobile phones to thematch venues or inviting unknown persons to hotel rooms by playersshould become mandatory around the world. The vigilance commissionergave a thumbs up to the report submitted by the ICC’s Anti-CorruptionUnit chief Sir Paul Condon, saying "it was well researched anddefinitely a step in the right direction."