Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 15: ‘Sarbat Da Bhalla’, a National Level Invitational Hockey tournament organised by Sikh Progressive Front was inaugurated at K.K Hakku Stadium, here today.
The inaugural match was played between SGPC Hockey Team and Round Glass Hockey Academy. The result of the match was not declared due to the bad weather as the SGPC Hockey team leads with the 2 goals and the Round Glass Hockey Academy till now scored only 1 goal, the rest of the match which will be for only 10 minutes will be played on tomorrow.
The match was officiated by Amit Sharma and Ashwani Kumar (International Umpire) and the Technical delegate was Mahesh Kumar who monitored the match.
Rajinder Singh Tara Transport Commissioner was the Chief Guest who declared the tournament open and Baljinder Singh DSO JK Sports Council was the Guest of Honour on this occasion. The Chief Guest appreciated the organisers of the tournament for organising such a mega sports event in Jammu after a very long time.
Balvinder Singh President Sikh Progressive Front said that different type of programmes are being organised throughout the world to celebrate the 555th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, but we decided to organise this mega event to spread the message of humanity and universal brotherhood and to promote Hockey in J&K.
As per fixture for the tomorrow, first match will be played between Bathinda X1 and Vijay Club Baramulla at 9:00 am, second match will be played between Y.B Hockey Club Sujjanpur and G.N.N Hockey Cub at 03:45 pm and the third match will be played between Power House Hockey Club Poonch and Sangar Sales Hockey Club Anantnag at 05:45 pm.
The prominent persons who witnessed the match included Surjit Singh General Secretary DGPC Jammu, Tejinder Singh Member DGPC, Jaswinder Singh Kukku, Sharanjit Singh Shunty and M.S Reen.
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