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Pak cricketers revolt KARACHI, Oct 18: Seven Pakistan cricketers have revolted against team coach Javed Miandad and an emergency meeting has been called later today to diffuse the crisis, news reports said today..........more Inter-districts
Kho-Kho Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: To give fillip to sports in the rural areas, Department of Youth Services and Sports organised a divisional level inter-district Kho-Kho tournament at Government High School Jhiri. The tournament was declared open today by Divisional Youth Services and Sports Officer, Mrs Veena Bakshi who is also organising secretary.........more Jawahar
Institute Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Batote organised a thrilling 15 days adventure course for 50 school girls and teachers of Kendriya Vidhalayas Udhampur and Dehradun........more NCC cadets
take part Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: 50 NCC cadets attending annual training camp at NCC camping ground Nagrota took part in social service.......more |
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Cricketor
refuses to meet even fans Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Local cricketors have received a big boost as prominent cricketor Ajay Jadeja joined..............more Jammu
Squash Open Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Arshad Khan entered into the quarter-finals of the Jammu Suqash Open being played at Jammu Club, here...........more Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Reigning billiards and snooker champion Kamal Rohmetra, Arun Gulati, Sanjeev .........more 2nd
Martyr’s Memorial Basketball begins Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: The Second Martyr’s Memorial Basketball Tournament organised by the Royal ......more |
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Pak cricketers revolt against coach Miandad KARACHI, Oct 18: Seven Pakistan cricketers have revolted against team coach Javed Miandad and an emergency meeting has been called later today to diffuse the crisis, news reports said today. ‘The Dawn’ newspaper quoted highly placed sources to report that the seven players clashed with Miandad, himself a former Pakistan captain, on the distribution of prize money earned from the ICC Knock Out Trophy where the team lost to ultimate winners New Zealand in the semi-finals. The crisis had initially erupted in Kenya, but deepened after the team’s return on Saturday, the paper said. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Lt Gen Tauqir Zia confirmed that he had called the seven players in an effort to avert a crisis. "I came to know of the situation only on Tuesday morning," `The Dawn’ said. "I don’t want to lose Javed Miandad or the players on the eve on an important test series. I want to settle this issue in a friendly atmosphere," the daily quoted Zia as saying. The English team has already arrived in Pakistan for a three-test and three-one-dayer series. (PTI) |
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Inter-districts Kho-Kho tourney declared open at Jhiri Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: To give fillip to sports in the rural areas, Department of Youth Services and Sports organised a divisional level inter-district Kho-Kho tournament at Government High School Jhiri. The tournament was declared open today by Divisional Youth Services and Sports Officer, Mrs Veena Bakshi who is also organising secretary of the tournament. Five matches were played today among which three matches were under the age group of 14 years, two matches were under-17 and under-19 years of boys and girls categories respectively. In the first match of the day in under-14 category of the girls, Jammu district defeated Poonch by 10 points. Heena, Sunaina and Varsha scored 4, 3 and 4 points respectively for the winning team. In the under-14 boys category, Jammu district beat Kathua by point in tough contest. Jammu district managed to win the match just by the performance of its captain Summet who individually scored 3 points and Karan Singh who scored two points for their team. For Kathua district, Ranjeet Sharma scored 3 points. In the third match of the day district Udhampur beat Doda district in under-17 category of girl by a solidarity point. For Udhampur Babli, Pinki and Jyoti Devi were main scorers while Rabiya and Farkhanda were main scorers for Doda. In another match played between district Rajouri and district Doda in the under-14 category of the girls, Doda district defeated Rajouri by one point. Rozy Bano and Sunita Devi performed brilliantly for Doda while Kiran Bala and Anuradha scored maximum point for Rajouri. In the last match of the day today, Rajouri district defeated Udhampur by three points in the under-19 category of boys. Today’s matches were officiated by Mrs Kuldeep Kour, Mr Rakesh Kakkar, Mrs Kanta Pathania, Sangeeta Kumari, Champa Devi, Kamlesh Arora and Usha Chunni acted as chief of technical and selection committee. Mr Ram Chand, B N Bhat, Harparkash, Geeta Sharma, Swaran Wazir and other officers of the Department witnessed today’s matches. |
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Jawahar
Institute organises adventure course Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Batote organised a thrilling 15 days adventure course for 50 school girls and teachers of Kendriya Vidhalayas Udhampur and Dehradun. According to a press release, the students were taught techniques of rock climbing, taken on tracks ot high altitude areas, trained in river crossing beside first aid, flora and fauna and environment. The participants were divided into three groups to have healthy competition amongst the groups. Rope number III was awarded the best rope trophy, rope number I and rope number II were adjudged as second and third. In the individual performance Ms Mamta of Kendriya Vidhalayas of Dehradun topped in the course. Ms Preeti of Kendriya Vidhalayas, HBK Dehradun and Ms Meenu of KV, Udhampur secured second and third positions in the training course. A special consolation prize was awarded to Ms Jyoti of KV Dehradun. The prizes were awarded by Mr S C Jain, Assistant Commissioner, KV, Dehradun region at a colourful function at Patnitop. |
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NCC cadets take part in social service Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: 50 NCC cadets attending annual training camp at NCC camping ground Nagrota took part in social service activities today. According to a press release, cadets cleaned, repaired and white washed the building of primary school Tookan Wajiran, Nagrota. Cadets also cleaned and erected fencing of Shiv Mandir of the village. This social service derive was taken as part of the NCC training of the cadets. People of the village and surrounding areas very much appreciated this social gesture of the NCC cadets and the NCC organisation. |
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Cricketor refuses to
meet even fans Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Local cricketors have received a big boost as prominent cricketor Ajay Jadeja joined them in nets at Moulana Azad Stadium. Former vice-captain of Indian team was here in connection with the beginning of the preparation and selection camp for the Ranji squad of the state. Mr Jadeja, who severed ties with his home team Haryana since long, had got himself registered as member of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association last years and is expecting to play as member of J&K squad in the forth-coming Ranji encounters. Moulana Azad Stadium today witnessed heavy rush as large number of youngsters gathered there to witness Jadeja with bat, ball and on field. But they had to return without seeing action of Jadeja as the prominent cricketor (Jadeja) preferred just to watch local players in action. Star allrounder who was an important member of the national squad before match-fixing scandal, bowled only two balls. Tinted in much-talked match-fixing scandal, former Haryana cricketor maintained silence over queries of mediamen. He, however, uttered that performance of J&K team will be improved in the coming days. He praised local players and said that J&K squad had performed well in the last Ranji league matches. He recalled that J&K team had defeated star-studded Delhi team in limited over Ranji match previous year. Local cricketors have reasons to get their morale high as being an experienced player Jadeja will guide them at every point. His presence in the team will not put psychological pressure on the opponent but also give boost to the local team. In the stadium, people particularly youngsters and children made repeated attempts to have an autograph of the star cricketor but their attempts failed to yield any result as Sports Department and J&K Cricket Association members continued to restrict them from meeting Jadeja. A teen-aged girl came with a small bat in her hand and asked Jadeja to give autograph but he refused to do so and said that after practice he will give autograph to all. But he left the stadium without fulfilling his promise made with the fans. |
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Jammu Squash Open Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Arshad Khan entered into the quarter-finals of the Jammu Suqash Open being played at Jammu Club, here. Arshad Khan, who yesterday defeated Sidhartha in straight three sets, continued his winning spree and outplayed Manu Bhai and Sandeep Sethi in the second day of the first round. Thus making his entry in the quarter-final. In the first match, Arshad Khan thrashed Manu Bhai with scores 9-1, 9-0, 9-5 while in the second match, he trounced Sandeep Sethi with scores 9-3, 9-3, 9-0. Both these matches saw excellent squash from Khan, who stunned his opponents by big margin. In third match of the day, Manu Bhai who earlier suffered defeat at the hands of Khan beat S Mehta with scores 8-10, 7-9, 7-9. Krishan Kumar bounced back to defeat Pankaj Aggarwal in another match with scores 9-4, 9-4, 9-7. Ashish Dhar outplayed S S Aandhi with scores 9-5, 9-6, 9-3 and Nitin Wazir thrashed Sidhartha Malhotra 9-1, 9-4, 9-3. The semi-finals of the Squash Open will be played on October 21 and final will take place on October 22. The Tournament has been organised by Tank Owners Association. |
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10th District J&K
Billiards, Snooker Championship Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: Reigning billiards and snooker champion Kamal Rohmetra, Arun Gulati, Sanjeev Gupta and last years runner up Jyoti Anand entered into the quarter finals in the senior snooker of the 10th Billiards and Snooker Championship being played at M A Stadium. The last year’s double title holder in Billiards and Snooker Kamal Rohmetra today stunned Karan Kapoor by 3-0 in best of five frames with scores 72-33, 43-30, 73-47 and entered into the quarter-finals. Such was the brilliance, strength and techniques in the shots of the Kamal that Karan Kapoor became tense and played foolish shots. Kamal on the other hand continued attacking performance and never left any chance to credit scores in his account. The last year’s double title holder seemed confident and played very freely to maintain dominance in all the sets of the match. Resurgent Kamal humbled all the moves of Kapoor and with marvelous snookes made his position strong and continued with token fight. In second match, Arun Gulati defeated Ankur Mahajan, last year title holder in junior snooker by 3-1 with scores 44-60, 37-28, 56-11, 61-8. In this match brilliant snooker was witnessed from both the sides as Ankur Mahajan too showed praise-worthy snooker. He, while playing gave tough fight to Gulati and won the first set. But in all other sets were dominated by Gulati who registered comfortable win over Mahajan. In third match Sanjeev Gupta bounced back to defeat his opponent Sanjeev Khajuria by 3-0 with scores 63-36, 66-33, 60-42. This match too saw brilliant snooker from Sanjeev Gupta. Khajuria continued to make mistakes in his shots and Gupta never lost any chance to cash them. It was superb effort by Gupta, who outperformed his opponent in straight sets, which saw his through to the quarter-final. Jyoti Anand, the last years runner up continued his winning spree in both senior and junior snooker and thrashed Sohail Khalid by 3-0 with scores 30-19, 54-30, 62-12. Arun Gulati trounced Krishan Sharma by 3-0 with scores 62-4, 56-46, 63-33 and Karan Kapoor who received set back at the hands of Kamal Rohmetra earlier outplayed Bhanu Pathania by 3-1 with scores 49-46, 58-14, 6-47, 47-43. Manjeet Singh thrashed Arvind Sharma by 3-0 with scores 55-42, 60-40, 65-35 and Tarun Singla beat Sheetal by 3-1 with scores 49-37, 49-39, 13-57, 44-39. Ravinder Sharma tasted defeat at the hands of Vishal Arora by 3-1 with scores 72-33, 43-30, 73-47 in the second round of the senior snooker. All the quarter-final matches in senior snooker will be played tomorrow. The Tournament has been organised by the State Billiards and Snooker Association and sponsored by State Sports Council. |
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2nd Martyr’s
Memorial Basketball begins Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 18: The Second Martyr’s Memorial Basketball Tournament organised by the Royal Sports Club got to a flying start today with a colorful opening at University Campus. Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University Prof R R Sharma was the chief guest on the occasion. Prof Sharma inaugurated the Tournament by cutting the ribbon. He was also introduced with the players of the teams whose match was played today. Prominent among others who were present on the occasion were Messrs Sheetal Singh, SP North, J S Kotwal, retired Superintendent of Police, R K Mahajan, District Director Rotary Group and Mr M M Sharma, Assistant Director Physical Education Department, University of Jammu. In the opening match, Jammu and Kashmir Police exhibited their might against spirited Vijay Club who gave their counterpart some anxious moments before going down 37 to 88. In the second match of the day, experienced Alpha Club who is the runner-up of the 10th State Championship got better of 5 Guards 67 to 39. In the last match of the opening day, host Royal Sports Club played skillful basket ball to beat Air Force, Jammu by 57-32. Azad Singh, Nishant Dev, Sumit and Rakesh displayed great offensive and defensive skills. For the losers, Anil Kumar contributed maximum. This Tournament is organised by the Royal Sports Club annually in the memory of martyrs of the motherland, specially to give fillip to the young basketballer of the State. The Tournament has been co-sponsored by Messrs Jay Pee Share Shoppee, Rotary International, Pepsi, J&K Sports and Jammu Motors. |
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