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Lanka in Sharjah opener MUMBAI, Aug 24: India would take on Sri Lanka on October 20 in the opening match of the Coca .......more
Bangladesh invites DHAKA, Aug 24: India has been invited to play with Bangladesh in their maiden test in coming ........more
TENNIS WTA Pilot Pen NEW HAVEN (Connecticut), Aug 24: Second seed Monica Seles eased into the semifinals of the ......more CHENNAI, Aug 24: The Bhambri sisters - Saana and Ankita - of Delhi entered the quarterfinals of the .......more |
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Rajinder Tickoo Memorial day-night
Cricket Shahenshah, Junoon Clubs win respective ties Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Aug 24: Shahenshah Cricket Club defeated KCC by 18 runs to advance in the ongoing .........more Sachin
bags first Excelsior Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Aug 24: Sachin Thakur son of Mr Baldev Singh bagged first place in the debate competition .............more Inter-school
tourney of Excelsior Sports Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Aug 24: The Inter-school Tournament of the Udhampur zone today concluded ...more Massive
talent hunt in State Forest Deptt By Sanjeev Sharma JAMMU, Aug 24: The Minister for Forest, Peerzada Gulam Syed has shown a true sportsmanship by launching....more |
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India to take on Lanka in Sharjah opener MUMBAI, Aug 24: India would take on Sri Lanka on October 20 in the opening match of the Coca Cola Trophy three-nation limited overs Cricket Tournament to be held at Sharjah. Zimbabwe is the third team in the tournament which is set to conclude on October 29, as per information received here. Each team plays the other team twice in the round-robin phase leading to the title-clash. The matches are to be played under lights from 2:30 p.m. (5 p.m. Ist) onwards daily. The tournament schedule is: Oct 20: India v Sri Lanka Oct 21: Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka Oct 22: Zimbabwe v India oct O3 and 24: rest days Oct 25: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Oct 26: India v Zimbabwe Oct 27: India v Sri Lanka Oct 28: rest day Oct 29: final. (PTI) |
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Bangladesh invites India to play first test DHAKA, Aug 24: India has been invited to play with Bangladesh in their maiden test in coming November, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president, Saber Hossain Chowdhury said today. "We have invited India to play the historic first test and we hope we will know their reply within the next three or four days", Chowdhury said. Bangladesh were planning to play with England earlier but the proposal failed to materialise after England said it was unable to fit the tour in its schedule in November. Expressing disappointment for not being able to play their first test against England, the BCB chief said, "since England is the oldest test playing nation and Bangladesh the youngest one, BCB initially invited England to play the first test". But England were interested in playing in December after their Pakistan tour which did not suit the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) as the holy month of Ramzan falls in December this year. "It will be Ramzan and we don’t want to play the west during Ramzan". Chowdhury said. Chowdhury also disclosed that Bangladesh is likely to appear in two four-day and three limited overs matches against the provincial sides in South Africa after the ICC knock-out tournament in Kenya. Bangladesh was granted test status in the Annual General Meeting of the ICC in June this year in London. (PTI) |
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TENNIS
WTA Pilot Pen NEW HAVEN (Connecticut), Aug 24: Second seed Monica Seles eased into the semifinals of the $535,000 WTA Pilot Pen here by ousting Belgian sixth seed Dominique Van Roost 6-1 6-2. The only other match completed before rain washed out play for the day saw Patty Schnyder recover from the brink of defeat to overcome Russia’s Elena Dementieva 1-6 7-5 6-3 in a second-round encounter. Seles repeated the score of her only previous meeting with Van Roost, in the 1996 Sydney Tournament. Although Van Roost began by competing well in the rallies and showed more versatility in her game, her groundstrokes lacked the accuracy and consistency of Seles. The American also hit with more power and found better angles, and it was that which enabled her to pull Van Roost wide and force a backhand error to earn a break for 3-1. A weak backhand error from the Belgian then gave seles a second break for 5-1 and she wrapped up the opening set in just 26 minutes. In the second set, Van Roost’s third double-fault gave Seles a break for 2-1, and her game collapsed. She conceded 16 consecutive points as Seles built a 5-1 lead, and only a late fightback prevented a complete loss of face. She saved a match point at 5-1, and then held her only break point against Seles in the next game. Seles saved that and went on to claim a 55-minute victory. "Throughout the match I was very focused today. I knew I didn’t want to let her too much into the match, because she can play pretty good tennis," said Seles. Although it appeared van roost had given up after losing her serve early in the second set, Seles believed that was misleading. "She goes for it, and I think sometimes from the outside it looks like her shot doesn’t make sense. She’s a streaky player, because she goes for so much that the margins are pretty low. She’s going to hit an amazing angle, or miss it," said Seles. "It really helped when I broke her though. She started missing quite a few shots after that." Schnyder was overwhelmed by Dementieva in the first set, and after twice breaking serve in the second set, only to have the Russian break back each time, Schnyder broke again to lead 6-5. She was almost denied again, but saved a break point and took the set, and then won the final four games of the match in the third to set up a quarter-final meeting with top seed Venus Williams. "She started so fast and was hitting winners with her forehand," Schnyder said. "But in the second set I made her play more balls and was moving better, and I hit some really good winners at the end of the second set. In the third I was able to hold serve easier than her and I had more confidence and was able to dominate the rallies." (AFP) |
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CHENNAI, Aug 24: The Bhambri sisters - Saana and Ankita - of Delhi entered the quarterfinals of the Texdec-Aita Mini and Sub-junior Tennis Championships here today. Sanna Bhambri defeated Nidhi Shah of Maharashtra 6-2 6-2, while Ankita beat Sandri Gangotri of Andhra Pradesh 6-1 6-2. Others to make the grade (under-14) were Maharashtra’s Karthika Bhat, Divya Vijayakumar (Karnataka), Tara Iyer (Delhi), Neha Singh (Chandigarh) and S Preeti and Sharanya Pattabi (both Tamil Nadu). In the boys under-14 section, Maharashtra’s Samrat Gautham, Somdeep Appernini (Andhra Pradesh) and Anshuman Dutta were joined by Vijay Sundar Prasant, R Vasudevan, Ajay Selvaraj and Anantha Bhaskar (all Tamil Nadu) in the last eight. (PTI) |
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Rajinder Tickoo
Memorial day-night Cricket Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Aug 24: Shahenshah Cricket Club defeated KCC by 18 runs to advance in the ongoing Shaheed Rajinder Tickoo Memorial day-night Cricket Tournament being played at Baba Jamuna Dass ground, Paloura, here today. Earlier, after winning the toss and decided to field, KCC bowlers bowled well and restricted the Shahenshah Club to 97 runs for seven in the 15 overs quota. In reply, KCC failed to reached the required mark and the whole side was bowled out for 79. Manoj was the maximum scorer with 35 runs including one six and two boundaries, while Wasim contributed 14 runs to Shahenshah Club’s total. For KCC Kamit and Vinod took three and two wickets respectively. For Shahenshah, Lucky and Deepak shared two wickets each. Manoj was declared a man of the match for his highest runs. In the second match, Junoon Cricket Club down DCC by 72 runs. Batting first after winning the toss, Junoon Club scored 135 runs for the loss of six wickets in the stipulated 15 overs, but in reply DCC could not maintain the required run rate. They played slow innings and made only 63 runs in the 15 overs losing eight wickets. Rippan and Gugu contributed highest 29 and 18 runs respectively to the Junoon Club total. Whereas, Surinder took two wickets for DCC. Gugu and Rippan, who earlier batted well had good spell and overs. Gugu claimed two wickets, while, Rippan took one. On the basis of his all-round performance, Rippan was declared as man of the match. United Cricket Club V/s Doctor Manzoor XI. Karan Nagar (Jr) V/s Ever Green Cricket Club. |
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Sachin bags first place in debate competition Excelsior Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Aug 24: Sachin Thakur son of Mr Baldev Singh bagged first place in the debate competition organised by the Middle School, Dharmari, near here today. Second place went to Meenakshi Thakur daughter of Mr Baldev Singh, while third position was secured by Mohd Amran son of Suban Din. Overall third place went to Gulshan Hill Public School, Dharmari. In all, three schools took part in the competition the topic of which was, " The Independence Day of India". Commanding Officer of the Sikh Li, Dharmari gave away prizes to the winners. A number of senior citizens, teachers and Head of the Institutions, besides and Government officials and political leaders were among those present on the occasion. Principal, Gulshan Hill Public School, Mohd Shafi was also present. |
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Inter-school tourney of Udhampur zone concludes Excelsior Sports Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Aug 24: The Inter-school Tournament of the Udhampur zone today concluded with the holding of a simple but impressive prize distribution function at Higher Secondary School (Boys), here today. Mrs Krishna Gupta, Principal Higher Secondary School, Girls Udhampur was the chief guest and Mr Mohan Kailoo, Principal HSS Boys was the guest of honour. The winners and runners-up were called one by one by the stage secretary and were given away prizes by the chief guest, Mrs Krishna Gupta amidst thunderous applause. Only two events of Badminton and Table Tennis took place in the three age groups of U-19, U-17 and U-14 in both boys and girls sections. The final results: Badminton Girls Singles Under-19 yrs: Swati of HSS Reasi, winner and Ruhani of HSS Udhampur, runners-up. Under-17 yrs: Gagandeep Kour of Nitel High School, Udhampur, winner and Promila of A/O Convent High School, Udhampur, runners-up. Under-14 yrs: Sonia Jamwal of A/O Convent HS Udhampur, winner and Vaishali of Rishi Bawara, runners-up. Under-17 yrs (Doubles): Gagandeep Kour and Meena Gupta of Nitel High School, Udhampur, winners and S Abrol and Usha of HSS Udhampur, runners-up. Under-19 yrs(Doubles): Swati and Lalita Sharma of HSS Reasi, winners and Harpreet and Risha of Happy Model, Udhampur, runners-up. Boys singles Under-19 yrs: Rajiv Bedi of HSS Ramnagar, winners and Manjul of HSS Udhampur, runners-up. Under-14 yrs: Devinder Singh of Sharon Public School, Udhampur, winners and Rahul N M Academy, Udhampur, runners-up. Under-17 yrs: Ashwani Kotwal of Happy Model HSS, Udhampur, winners and Vishal Modi of HSS, Ramnagar, runners-up. Under-14 yrs(Doubles): Devinder Singh and Manjeet Singh of Sharon Public School, Udhampur, winners and Aditya Bhatyal and Sumit Sharma of AO Convent, Udhampur, runners-up. Under-17 yrs(Doubles): Amit Verma and Satveer Kumar of HSS, Reasi, winners and Ashwani Kotwal and Kanwarjeet Singh of Happy Model, runners-up. Table Tennis Girls Under-17 yrs (singles): Ruhi Mahajan of National Academy, Udhampur, winners and Sandhya of HSS Udhampur, runners-up. Under-17 yrs (doubles): Ruhi Mahajan and Roop Rashai of National Academy, Udhampur winners and Sandhya and Sonika of HSS Udhampur, runners-up. Boys Under-14 yrs (singles): Deep Kumar of Vivek Niketan, winners and Pawan Deep Singh of National Academy, Udhampur, runners-up. Under-17 yrs (singles): Atul of National Academy, Udhampur, winners and Aamir Bandey of Vivek Niketan, runners-up. Under-19 yrs (singles): Ravi of Happy Model HSS, Udhampur, winners and Amit of HSS Udhampur, runners-up. Under-17 yrs (doubles): Keval and Vijay Kumar of Vivek Niketan, winners and Anil Khajuria and Sunny Pandita of National Academy, Udhampur, runners-up. Under-19 yrs (doubles): Rajat Kotwal and Sahil of Happy Model, Udhampur, winners and Parnav and Jagdeep of Happy Model Academy, runners-up. |
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Massive talent hunt in
State Forest Deptt By Sanjeev Sharma JAMMU, Aug 24: The Minister for Forest, Peerzada Gulam Syed has shown a true sportsmanship by launching a massive talent hunt in his Department for the forthcoming 9th All India Sports Meet to be held in the month of January-2001. It was for the first time that any State Department has made such kind of efforts to identify the hidden talent, to give them proper coaching and then explore their talent in the national meet by winning medals. The coming January-2001 meet is not the first one wherein J&K Forest Department is taking part, but it will be the third consecutive year when J&K will field its squads in different events. In the earlier two competitions, the Department has won a number of medals for the state. In 1998, the state won gold in Bridge, two silvers in Table Tennis and one bronze in the Athletics. Whereas, in 1999, Forest Department cricketers gave tremendous performance and brought gold for the state and surprised the whole nation. The state contingent had to its credit first place in the march past too. To continue with the old medal winning tradition and add more medals, the Forest Minister is making extra efforts to bring atleast a medal in every event in the coming meet. To get the good stuff, the Minister this year has flashed the message to all corners of the state and sportspersons serving at any position in the department have been asked to come forward for the trials. Different zones have been created all over the state to hold competitions to identify the talent in the events of Table Tennis, Badminton, Swimming, Bridge, Cricket, Kabaddi, Volleyball, Athletics, Football, etc. Similar internal competitions are being held in the MA Stadium by the Department. And to have the first hand assessment, the Minister today paid a visit to the different sports fields in the MA Stadium and Indoor complex. During his visit, the Minister had a chat with EXCELSIOR. He informed that to properly utilise five months time before the competitions, special committees have been formed for the smooth conduct of the whole affair. Main committee is being headed by the Forest Commissioner as its chairman and the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest as its secretary. The sub-committee which is of provincial level being headed by the Chief Conservators of Forests at Jammu and Kashmir respectively, he further informed. The Minister disclosed he wants that the probables in different games should be ready upto October, so that they will get proper coaching in the remaining time. During the Stadium tour, the Minister was accompanied among others by Mr Ajit Singh Wazir, Sports Officer, State Sports Council. |
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