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JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29: Sacked South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has ......more JOC Sports meet Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: Nandi V. Jain will take on Som Raj Gupta in the final of the Badminton....more Three-day kite festival sponsored by JKB ends Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The three-day kite festival organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Kite .....more Jammu Gymkhana Sports forms cricket club Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: To promote the sports in the state, the Jammu Gymkhana Sports Club, here formed its cricket team in a ....more |
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Gill: IHF may hold another India camp at Jammu Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) may hold another camp for the Indian hockey team at Jammu as part of the ...more Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Indian Airlines, who had launched their campaign in low key today lifted the 4th All India Sher-i-Kashmir....more Coverage by electronic
media Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah today assured the Jammu and Kashmir Hockey Association (JKHA) that he will take up the ....more Veteran cricket tourney begins today Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Ist Gurdeep Singh (Bhagru) Memorial Veteran Cricket Tournament organised by the Luxmi Cricket Club begins here tomorrow at ...more |
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JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29: Sacked South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has reportedly gone into seclusion with a ring of security guards to keep prying reporters at bay, three weeks after the match-fixing scandal involving him broke out. Cronje when contacted at his luxury house in Fancourt Town of the Western Cape province by Johannesburg’s Weekly Mail Daily a few days ago, refused to make any comment till the judicial inquiry into the controversy was over. I can’t talk to you. After the hearing I can talk, but until then everything must come from my attorney in bloemfontein (his home town), the paper quoted him as saying. Cronje was named on April 7 by Delhi police in the sensational match-fixing case surrounding South Africa’s one-day series in India last month. He has admitted to accepting between dollars 10,000 to 15,000 from an Indian bookie during the February one-day triseries at home, but has denied allegations of match-fixing. The paper also quoted South African physio Craig Smith as claiming Cronje brought a mobile phone for a team meeting during the Indian tour. The only thing I thought was odd was the cell phone that hansie turned up with at a team meeting in India. A free phone, with unlimited calls overseas, given to him by a businessman? that didn’t seem to add up, Weekly Mail quoted Smith as saying. (PTI) |
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Sports meet Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: Nandi V. Jain will take on Som Raj Gupta in the final of the Badminton in the ongoing Jammu Olympic Club Sports meet, here tomorrow. Earlier, in the semi-finals, Nandi Jain beat Sanjay Nanda in straight sets of 15-6, 15-1, while, Som Raj defeated Sanjay Anand 15-7, 15-2 to reach the final stage. In the doubles, the pair of Nandi Jain and D S Arora will be fighting against D D Sharma and Som Raj Gupta for the title. In the semis, Nandi and Arora beat Sanjay Nanda and S K Gupta 15-7, 15-12. Whereas, in the second semi-finals, D D Sharma and Som Raj Gupta beat Suresh Gupta and Sanjay Anand 15-6, 15-12. In the Table Tennis event, Sanjay Gupta and Rajesh Sharma reached the final stage. In the semis, Sanjay beat Sudhir Gupta 21-9, 21-10 and Rajesh beat V Bandhu 21-15, 21-14. In the quarters, Rajesh Sharma beat Romesh Gupta 21-4, 21-10; Sudhir Gupta beat Sahil Kohli 21-14, 19-21, 21-16; V Bandhu beat K R Sharma 21-8, 21-7 and Sanjay Gupta beat Prabodh Sharma 21-9, 21-2. In the earlier matches, Prabodh beat Arun Jandial 22-20, 21-17; Rajesh beat S P Sharma 21-11, 21-10; Arora beat Sanjay Anand 21-15, 18-21, 12-17 and V Bandhu beat Arora 21-8, 21-14. In the Table Tennis doubles, the pairs of K R Sharma and Prabodh Sharma and Sanjay Gupta and Rajesh Gupta reached the finals. In the semis, Sharma and Prabodh beat the side of Arun Jandial and Ashok Gupta 21-15, 21-14. While, in the second semis, Sanjay Gupta and Rajesh Gupta overpowered R R Sharma and Prabodh Sharma 21-10, 21-11. |
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Three-day kite festival sponsored by JKB ends Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The three-day kite festival organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Kite Association and sponsored by the Jammu and Kashmir Bank concluded at Mini-Stadium, Parade, here this evening. During the last three-day, people from all walks of life including children and old age Jammuites enjoyed the kites flying in the open ground. Besides, locals a number of kite lovers from other districts also witnessed the art exhibited by the renowned kite fliers from the different parts of the country including some locals. The main attraction was Mr Rasool Bhai, who hails from Ahmdabad in Gujarat and Mr d Kapadia from Mumbai, who represented India in the international kite festival at Japan and Korea. The kites, which were unique in size and designs carried the sponsors J&K Bank’s banner, besides other themes of national importance were flown. Talking to EXCELSIOR, Mr S S Bhalla, president of the J&K Kite Association said that the same team of kite fliers will be taken to the hill station Patnitop for the trails. And if, they will succeed in flying the kites over there, a similar festival will be organised by the association there, he added. Earlier, the festival was declared open by the Minister of State for Food and Supplies, Mr Ajay Sadhotra. Mr P Z Lateef Ahmed, Chief General Manager, J&K Bank and Mr Ajit Singh, Deputy General Manager represented the J&K Bank in the inaugural ceremony. In his address, Mr Ahmed assured the organisers that the J&K Bank shall do its best to promote sports and tourism in the state. On the concluding day today, Mr Bhalla thanked the M Y Khan, Chairman J&K Bank for having sponsored the festival. ========== |
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Jammu Gymkhana Sports forms cricket club Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: To promote the sports in the state, the Jammu Gymkhana Sports Club, here formed its cricket team in a meeting which held under the chairmanship of president Vijay Bakaya. The experts, who named the Club’s cricket team comprising of Messrs V K Malhotra, vice-chairman, A H Kazami, general secretary, Tilak Singh and V K Sharma, both coaches. It was also decided in the meeting that the teams in the other games of Table Tennis, Badminton, Chess and Lawn Tennis will be raised with in a short span of time. The selected team included Ravi Kant Puri (captain), Abhay, Joginder Singh, Rohni, Romil, Vimarsh Kaw, Yassar Shafi, Mosin Iqbal, Gourav Malhotra, Sumit Silwal, Munish Sharma, Kunal Tikoo, Shetanya Kapoor, Sumit Sharma, Anubav and Atul Puri. Whereas, Mr V K Sharma and Tilak Singh were named as coach-cum-manager and team administrator respectively. |
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Gill: IHF may hold another India camp at Jammu Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) may hold another camp for the Indian hockey team at Jammu as part of the preparations for the forthcoming Olympic Games in the month of September. This was stated by non else, but the president of the Indian Hockey Federation, Mr K P S Gill, who was in the city in connection with the final of the 4th All India Sher-i-Kashmir Hockey Tournament which held at K K Hakhu Hockey Stadium, here this afternoon. Addressing the gathering, Mr Gill, who expressed his happiness with the encouragement and support extended by the crowd in the final said that he is thinking for holding of another camp for the Indian team on the one of the best turf available in the country. He reiterated the Jammu turf has proved to be lucky for the Indian team, who had launched the campaign for the Olympics from this turf and have made encouraging start with the winning of the Four-nation Tournament which held in Australia beating Germany in the final. He was of the view that as the young crowd is turning up to see the game in this part of the country, the game of Hockey will emerge as a popular game in the country. Mr Gill again gave thrust on the provision of the flood lights in the K K Hakhu Stadium. He said with the installation of the flood lights, the Jammu Stadium will become the countries first ground to have such facility. |
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Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Indian Airlines, who had launched their campaign in low key today lifted the 4th All India Sher-i-Kashmir Hockey trophy beating the strong side of Punjab Police in the final which played at K K Hakhu Hockey Stadium, here this afternoon. The star studded Indian Airlines having the stalwarts like Mukesh Kumar, Dilip Tirky, Mohd Riaz, Samir Dad and Shakeel Ahmed overpowered the defence line of the Punjab Police in the second half to make it a 4-2 victory. However, in the first half Punjab Police side which too has the best stuff like skipper Baljeet Singh Dhillon, Ramandeep Singh, Harminder Singh Jagdev Singh dominated the proceedings, but Airlines managed an equaliser in the 31st minutes, when right-half Shakeel Ahmed converted a penalty corner into the goal making it 1-1 on the board. Harminder Singh had sounded the board to score the opening goal for the Punjab Police in the 7th minutes of the match. As soon as the second half started, Airlines made a couple of spectacular moves, but every time they were stopped to go beyond the semi-circle. However, Mukesh who was playing at centre-forward position broke the Punjab Police defence line in the 40th minutes and helping his side went 2-1 up. The time, final was proceeding towards its climax, the game saw a sudden change in both the camps. On a number of occasions Punjab Police was looking scattered and lack of coordination prevailed among the forward line which was quite unexpected. At the same time, Brojn Singh and Mukesh led Airlines forward line started making good moves in the opponent’s area. But, still Punjab Police managed an equaliser, when skipper Baljeet Singh Dhillon converted a penalty corner into the net in quite surprise of the goal-keeper in the 50th minutes. Baljeet had converted a penalty corner into the goal in similar way yesterday. It was followed by a number of solo efforts by Brojn Singh who dribbled the ball every time right from 25 yards line to the opponent goal circle, but success never came his way. However, left-in Samir Dad added the third field goal for Indian Airlines sounding the board in the 59th minutes of the match. Mukesh, who was also playing an attacking game succeeded attempts when his scored his second and fourth goal for the Indian Airlines in the 63rd minutes of the match to make it a big win. This time, in the first attempt he failed to through the ball when Ramandeep Singh pushed the ball to left corner in a dramatic way. But, the ball remained in the control of Airlines and Mukesh again made an attempt and succeeded in his fine placing right into the right corner of the goal post. In all, Punjab Police had got six penalty corners and converted one, while Indian Airlines got only one chance which they availed. Messrs R K Gandhi and Satinder Sharma were the umpires, while Ranbir Singh was judge, V Singh and K N Dubey acted as technical officials. Niranjan Reddy was observer from the Indian Hockey Federation and Charanjeet Singh remained there as tournament director. The Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, who was the chief guest on the occasion gave away winners and runners-up trophies to the finalists, besides individual prizes and medals. The Jammu and Kashmir Hockey Association, who deserved the appreciation for organising the national level tournament in a systematic manners also honoured the all the Olympians playing from the sides of Punjab Police and the Indian Airlines. Again the Chief Minister was their to honour these players. They included Dilip Tirky, Mohd Riaz, Shakeel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Surjit Kumar and Samir Dad (all from Indian Airlines) and Ramandeep Singh, Baljeet Singh Dhillon, Harpreet Singh and Jagdev Singh of the Punjab Police. The organisers also gave away some special individual and team prizes. The best player trophy went to Mukesh Kumar of Indian Airlines, while the Punjab and Sindh Bank (Academy) team was declared as the best losing team. Whereas, fair play award went to the side of CRPF (Delhi). Earlier, before the start of the prize distribution function, the Jammu and Kashmir Hockey Association president, Mr Narinder Batra welcomed the distinguished gathering. And the general secretary, Mr Jagjit Singh presented a memento to the Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah on behalf of the JKHA. Prominent among those, who were present on the occasion included the Indian Hockey Federation of president, Mr K P S Gill, Secretary, Major General, Bhupinder Singh (GOC), State Sports Council, Sheikh Fazal Ahmed, treasurer IHF, Mr J N Tyagi, Deputy Chairman, J&K Legislative Council, Mr Harbans Singh, Rafiq Sadiq, honourary vice-chairman JKHA, Mr T S Wazir, Gain Singh and Manager, M A Stadium, Mr Ajit Singh Wazir. |
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media Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah today assured the Jammu and Kashmir Hockey Association (JKHA) that he will take up the issue of non-coverage of national level tournament in Jammu by the electronic media. His assurance came in the view of the complain lodged to him by the JKFA president Mr Narinder Batra, who said that in some states local tournaments are being live-telecast while the national level tournament wherein all the international players took part, was denied the due coverage by the electronic media. Soon after the complain was lodged, the Chief Minister said, "if I was aware of it earlier, I definitely would have talked to the Prime Minister in this regard", adding, " No problem, I will lodge a complaint to the Information Minister and also will take up the matter with the Prime Minister". He pinned high hopes on the Indian team and said the team will definitely win gold in the forthcoming Olympics this time. The Chief Minister, assured that the the next Sher-e-Kashmir Tournament will be held in the winter so that more and more people should enjoy the game. He also made a special announcement that the next year the winner of the Sher-i-Kashmir Hockey Tournament winner will get Rs five lakh as prize money, while the runners-up will get Rs 2 lakh as cash award. Veteran cricket tourney begins today Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Apr 29: The Ist Gurdeep Singh (Bhagru) Memorial Veteran Cricket Tournament organised by the Luxmi Cricket Club begins here tomorrow at Parade Grounds, here tomorrow. This was stated by Mr Kewal Krishan, chief organiser of the tournament. He said that in all, six teams will play in the league cum knock out basis. The have been further divided into two pools of A and Pool-B. In the first match, Luxmi Cricket Club will take on Ever Shine Cricket Club tomorrow, said Mr Pawan Gupta, organiser of the tournament. And the final will be played on May 7. Messrs Rajinder Saini and Rupinder Singh will be the umpires in tomorrow’s match. |
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