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Gautam Gambhir has stepped down as captain of Delhi Daredevils after team’s dismal performance in the ongoing IPL season.

Shreyas Iyer now will lead the GMR-owned franchise.

Gambhir said that he couldn’t handle the pressure.

Gambhir has been named skipper of the struggling Daredevils who — coming off the 2017 IPL season in which they finished sixth on the points table with six wins from 14 games — again face a very tough road ahead to qualify for the play-offs.

They currently languish at the bottom of the IPL 11 with one win from six matches.

Daredevils coach Ricky Ponting, CEO Hemant Dua, outgoing captain Gambhir held a press conference at the Feroz Shah Kotla to announce the new captain of the team.

Gambhir steps down as Delhi Daredevils captain

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The BCCI has recommended former India captain Rahul Dravid for the prestigious Dronacharya award and once again nominated Virat Kohli for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna honour. Legendary opener Sunil Gavaskar’s name has been recommended for Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award.

CoA chief Vinod Rai confirmed Dravid’s nomination for the Dronacharya award.

“Yes, we have sent a number of nominations in various categories to the government. Rahul is the BCCI nominee for the Dronacharya award,” Rai told Media.

Dravid has been nominated for successfully guiding the India U-19 team to World Cup title early this year. Under his guidance, the Colts batch of 2016 played the finals.

He has worked with India A team also and is the bridge between international and junior cricket. BCCI had stopped sending nominations for Dronacharya awards due to multiple coaches at times claiming credit for a player’s success.

“It happened when a former India opener had signed two nominations where coaches claimed that the player worked under them. From then, we had stopped sending nominations,” a senior BCCI official said.

“However when Rajkumar Sharma (Kohli coach) got Dronacharya award, it was a personal nomination. He was not BCCI nominee. For someone of Rahul’s stature, we have decided to depart from convention,” the official added. As per Kohli’s nomination for Khel Ratna, it has been learnt that BCCI has nominated the Indian captain him for the second time.

Kohli’s name was sent in 2016 but being the Olympic year, the three stars of Rio, PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Deepa Karmakar were conferred with the award. As far as Gavaskar is concerned, his contribution in Indian cricket as a player and then as a critique has been unquestionable. Normally, the convention for Dhyan Chand award is to confer those who have not got Arjuna award during their playing days. However Gavaskar is an Arjuna awardee.

BCCI recommends Dravid for Dronacharya, Kohli for Khel Ratna

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Nagpur: Nagpur Today, the Orange city’s most loved web news portal, has made it to the quarter finals of the ongoing Media Badminton Tournament 2018 which is being presented by Gaikwad Patil International School and Sports Journalist Association of Nagpur. The tournament is underway at NMC Sports Hall behind Sai Mandir.

Farhan Kazi from Nagpur Today won his third match against Lokmat by 30-18 and entered in quarter final. The quarter finals will be held 27th April.

The 3-day tournament kicked off on April 26. Nine times national winner Arpana Popat inaugurated the event.

On the occasion Arpana requested to all journalist players to also promote the emerging players who made it happen, while they write about the champion already hogging the limelight. A struggling played should also get their share of honor and respect, she added.

Nagpur Today enters Qtr final of Media Badminton Tournament 2018

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Nagpur: Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Nagpur organized a programme to felicitate its students who excelled in Annual Sports Meet 2018 held at IIIT, Gwalior from March 8 to 11. A total of 28 students of IIIT Nagpur took part of the sports meet. Amongst the 11 IIITs in competition, IIITN students bagged many medals in various categories at various competitions.

Ravi Kumar Sinha, Abhishek Sunda, Ayushman Sigh and Vivek Sharma won silver medal in 100m Relay race. Sagar Suman, Abhishek Thakur, Vaibhav Agasti and Sanket Kale won Gold medal in Chess competition. Abhishek Sunda won bronze in 200m race while Ravi Kumar Sinha won Silver in 100m race. Kartik Kinge and Anushree Laddha, students from IIITN, also brought laurels in technical competition by winning first prize for their project in software industry category for ‘Best Innovation Awards 2018’ Nagpur Zone Contest held at G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur. Kartik Kinge from ECE branch and Anushri Laddha from CSE branch represented their project in software category and secured first prize. They also got short listed for level 3 and hence represented at Raisoni College, Saikheda (MP) where they bagged second prize.

The appreciation ceremony took place in the presence of Dr. Narendra

Chaudhari, Mentor Director, Dr. M V Aware, In-charge Dean, Kailas Dakhale, In-charge Registrar, Dr. Aatish Daryapurkar, Student Affair Council In-charge and staff members where all of them congratulated the winners on their achievements.

IIIT, Nagpur students excel in Annual Sports Meet 2018 held at Gwalior

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MOIL XI went down fighting to a Nagpur Hockey Academy (NHA) 3.2 in their league match of the VHA-MOIL Super Division Hockey League organised by Vidarbha Hockey Associaiton on Thursday. In another match, Kamptee United mauled SOS Hockey Academy 9-1. Thanks to Tushar Yenchilwar who scored a hat-trick. He was ably supported by Ishant Linganwar and Akash Kanojia wjho scored a brace each in Kamptee United victory. Aifaz Pathan was the star for the winners as he scored two goals while assisting in one goal as NHA won the match 3.2. MOIL got immediate success when Vishal Sahare scored a spectacular goal through reverse hit after Players in action during VHA Senior Division Hockey Tournment at VHA ground in the city on Thursday being fed by Avkash Raut from right.

However Sachin Choudhary equal-ized for NHA six minutes later. After dodging a couple of MOIL XI players, Aifaz Pathan passed to Sachin smashed a power-ful hit, which MOIL XI goalkeeper Raymond Francis failed to stop. After an equaliser NHA started making some aggressive moves. Soon, they got the penalty corner in the 20th minute. Pathan made no mistake and successfully converted it to put NHA ahead.

Thus NHA were ahead 2-1 at the breather NHA took the game nor-ther away from MOIL XI in the 39th minute when Pathan Aifaz Pathan entered from left side and to hit a power ftilly MOIL. XI goal monuth. Goalkeeper Francis almost stopped but ball sneaked through his legs. With 3.1 lead, NHA looked favourites and they did well to hold on to the lead.

Today’s matches Nagpur Hockey Academy vs Late Sanjay Pandey Academy 7 a.m.; Bright Sports Club vs SOS Academy at 4 p.m.

Pathan shines in NHA victory

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Nagpur: Farhan Kazi of Nagpur Today has on Thursday beaten Reynold Morees of Lokmat by 15-4, 15-11 in the quarter finals of ongoing Media Badminton Tournament 2018, jointly organised by Gaikwad Patil International School and Sports Journalist Association of Nagpur. The tournament is underway at NMC Sports Hall behind Sai Mandir here.

Farhan will now face Suhas Nayse of Times of India in the semi-finals to be held on Saturday.

Earlier Nagpur Today won his third match against Lokmat by 30-18 and entered in quarter final. The quarter finals was held on Friday. The 3-day tournament kicked off on April 26. Nine times national winner Arpana Popat inaugurated the event.

Media Badminton Tournament 2018 : Nagpur Today’s enters semifinals, to face TOI

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SOS Hockey Academy, after facing a big 1.9 loss at the hands of Kamptee United staged a spectacu-lar comeback and drubbed Bright Sports 6-2 in the ongoing VHA-MOIL Super League Hockey Tournament at VHA ground. SOS boyshad an upper hand right from the word go. Thanks to their striker Abhinav Shukla sounded the board twice for SOS Hockey Academy.

He opened the account in the first minute of play to set the ball rolling. Five min-utes into the match, Prashant Manwatkar stretched the cad scoring from a close range. Bright Sports succeeded in reducing the margin on a defensive lapse from SoS Hockey Academy. Vaibhav Akre surprised the rival defendrs and slammed powerful hit into the board to make it 1-2 in the 10th minute.

In the second half, SOS Hockey Academy continued their dominance and scored four more goals against one. Abhinav Shukla once again was in action he scored his sec-ond and team’s third goal in the 35th minute after receiving a pass from left flank. Muttulal Sutara made it 9-1 in 43rd minute and two minutes later Sattrabh Wankhede increased the lead scoring a soft goal.

Raman Miser scored the sixth goal for SOS Academy before Athary Kamle reduced the margin for Bright in the last minute of play. In the morning session,

Nagpur Hockey Academy got walk over from Late Sanjay Pande Hockey Academy.On Saturday: Bhartia Aqua Hockey Academy vs Nagpur Gymkhana at 4.30 pm.

SOS Academy drub Bright 6-2

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Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami’s estranged wife Hasin Jahan has now accused her husband of age-fudging and fooling the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Hasin, who has been involved in a spat Shami for quite some time, said the fast bowler created a fake birth certificate to play national and state-level cricket. Hasin also posted a picture of a driving license on Facebook, claiming it belonged to Shami.

According to the document posted by Hasin, Shami was born in 1982, while official records show his birth year as 1990.

The post was later deleted from the social media platform.

Hasin in her post also added that Shami fooled BBCI and Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) by providing a fake birth certificate in order to play in age-group cricket.

“See friends, the real birth year of Shami Ahmed. He made a fake birth certificate and has fooled everyone by showing his birth year as 1990. He fooled BCCI, CAB and also public by making a fake birth certificate that allowed him to play Under-22 cricket,” Jahan had written, as quoted by Hindustan Times.

“Imagine the injustice done to a genuine 22-year-old cricketer who was denied a place in U-22 team because of Shami.”

The public feud between the both started in March, when Hasin had accused Shami of extra-marital affairs with several women and following an official complaint, Kolkata Police lodged an FIR against the India pacer and four of his family member.

Over the next weeks, both Hasin and Shami took potshots at each other and issued strong statements in the media. Both parties accused the other of lying and Shami questioned Hasin’s mental health.

Hasin, meanwhile, said Shami was a flirt and periodically released screenshots of his alleged chats with other women.

Hasin had also mentioned Shami’s involvement in match-fixing, which forced the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to withhold his central contract. But, after a thorough investigation from BCCI’s anti-corruption unit (ACSU) head Neeraj Kumar, he was cleared of any such thing and BCCI offered him a fresh central contract, which it had withheld following his wife’s police complaint.

Shami has refuted all the allegations and said that someone was misleading his wife.

Hasin Jahan accuses Mohammed Shami of age-fudging

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After recovering from their respective injuries, Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and Sourabh Verma will look to regain touch and form when they compete at the USD 150,000 New Zealand Super 300 tournament starting here tomorrow. Jayaram, who returned to action at the China Masters early this month after recovering from a hamstring injury that took nearly eight months to heal, opens his campaign against fourth seed Hsu Jen Hao from Chinese Taipei. “Ifs been very long recovery process for me.

I played in China but it didn’t go well. But my leg seemed thin Last two weeks training has gone better. So, hope fidly these two tournaments would turn out better for me,” Jayaram, who was world no. 15 in July last year, told Media. “I am trying not to expect too much and just enjoy the game. I’ve been in this situation before and know that it’s important to give yourself time to get back to form.” Sourabh, who had suffered an ankle injury after Swiss Open, will make a comeback at the event taking on Australia’s Abhinav Manota in the opening round.

Ajay Jayaram, who recovered from a hamstring injury that took nearly eight months to heal, ooens his campaign against fourth seed Hsu Jen Hao from Chinese Taioei.

“After Swiss open, I got injured while training in India. It was an ankle injury. I had to miss Orleans and Finland (events) last month. But now fin fit again to play. So let’s see how it goes,” he said. Singapore Open champion B. Sai Praneeth, who had lost to Olympic champion Chen Long in the second round of Asia Championship last week, will face Israel’s Misha Zilberman, while former national champion Sameer Verma will square up against Indonesian Sony Dwi Kuncoro in another men’s singles match.

Young sensation Lakshya Sen will tight it out with Malaysian June Wei Cheam in the opening round, Subhankar Dey takes on Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto, seeded sixth, while Karan Rajan Rajarajan meets eighth seed Thailand’s Kantaphon Wangcharoen. In women’s singles, Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka will lock horns with Australia’s Hsttan Yu Wendy Chen, while former national champion Rituparna Das will cross swords with Japan’s Natsuki Nidaira, seeded 8th. Sai Uttejitha Rao Chukka and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli will face qualifiers in their opening round. In men’s doubles, fifth seeds Maim Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy, young Arjun MR and Ramchandran Shlok will be in action.

Also in the fray would be eighth seeds Francis Aiwin and K. Nandagopal, and young pair of Rohan Kapoor and Shivain Sharma. Fast-rising women’s doubles pair of Meghana Jakkampudi and S Ram Poorvisha and mixed doubles pair of Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg will also be in the competition. Experienced mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N. Sikki Reddy will take on Indonesian combo of Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja. PT,

Jayaram, Sourabh eye good run at NZ Open

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Nagpur: Bollywood star Akshay Kumar will attend the inauguration ceremony of country’s first multisport festival on May 6.

With the rising temperature the organizing committee of the Khasdar Krida Mahotsav have decided to change the venue of the opening ceremony from Yeshwant Stadium to the Indoor Stadium of Divisional Sports Complex, Mankapur.

The inauguration of the 20-day, 20-game and Rs 62,82,200 prize money sporting extravaganza will be done by the hands of Sports Minister and Olympic medalist Rajyavardha Rathore. Union minister Nitin Gadkari will preside over the function. On the occasion, national badminton coach padmashree and padmabhushan Pullela Gopichand will be the guest of honour along with Akshay Kumar.

The opening ceremony of the event which is expected to attract a participation of over 25,000 fitness enthusiasts of the city will begin at 5pm with a 35-minute show of some local sports being planned to be performed by city players informed convener of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav Sandip Joshi.

Bawankule unveils official mascot ‘Maya’

The organizing committee of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav unveiled the official mascot of Nation’s first grassroot level multisport event at a city hotel on Tuesday.

The mascot – tigress ‘Maya’ – was launched by guardian minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule in the presence of officials of all the 20 sports disciplines.

On the occasion, Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Vikas Mahatme, mayor Nanda Jichkar, MLAs Sudhakar Deshmukh, Sudhakar Kohole, Milind Mane, Vikas Kumbhare, Girish Vyas, former MP Datta Meghe and others were present.

“Nagpur has so many wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves beaming with the big cat in and around the region.

Also, Nagpur city is the gateway to Tiger Capital of India and Maya being the most popular and tourist friendly tigress from Tadoba, the members of the organizing committee of decided to prepare a mascot and name it as Maya,” Joshi said.

Khasdar Krida Mahotsav Nagpur mascots Maya unveiled

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Nagpur: The Sporting fever which has gripped Nagpur during the ‘Khasdar Krida Mahotsav to be promoted as Chak De, Khelo Nagpur Khelo, will be reaching its peak on 27th May 2018 with the Walkathon event for the fitness enthusiasts of the city. The Walkathon is being organized jointly by the Rotary Club of Nagpur Vision and Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) as the culmination event of the grand sports festival envisaged by our beloved Union Minister Shri Nitinji Gadkari.

The purpose of the Walkathon is to involve the general public in an event to spread the message of regular walking as one of the best ways of promoting good health and preventing life style diseases. In addition to the walk there is also a 10km competitive run organised for the enthusiastic runners of Nagpur City.

The walkers road will be abuzz with men, women and children in similar T-shirts and Caps. The atmosphere will reverberate with the energy of the young and old as they gather at the venue — Ramgiri. There will be much cheering as some participants vie for the top place. There will be walkers who want to prove their strength; there will be some who will be there to enjoy the ambience; there will be some who will come to enjoy the Sunday morning with friends. But all will be there to WALK.

There will be three basic categories; 3 KM Fun Walk, 6 KM Competitive/Prized Walk and 10 KM Timed Run, all these will start from Ramgiri located at the serene Walkers Road, Civil lines Nagpur from 5:45 amonwards.

This Walkathon is unique as number of special categories has been added for the first time, there will be a ‘Family Walk’ wherein the biggest participating family will win, ‘Parent-Child Walk’ in which the children will walk with any single parent for the prize and to take care of the special citizens of our society a unique ‘Specially Abled-Buddy Walk’ will be held wherein a Normal person will choose a specially abled participant and compete for a short distance walk, people from various categories of disability like Blind, Physically Challenged, Deaf & Mute and Mentally Challenged will enthusiastically participate in the event.

Members of Rotary Club of Nagpur Vision along with Shri Sandeep Joshi, Convener of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav are working hard to make this one of the biggest sporting cum Fun event of Nagpur City. Orange City Runners Society-OCR which is the premier running club of Nagpur along with Run Buddies a professional Marathon organizing company from Pune are extending their technical and wholehearted support to make ‘Khasdar Krida Mahotsav-Rotary Walkathon’ a memorable event.

The winners of the 10km event both in the open men and women category and in the veteran (45+ category men and women) will take home a prize money of Rs 21,000 while the second finisher in all the sections will be awarded a cash prize of Rs 11,000 and the podium finisher will be richer by Rs 5,000 each.

Similarly in the 6km event, the winners the men and women and also in the veterans’ section, takes home Rs 5,000 each, while Rs 3,000 will be given to the runner-up and Rs 2,000 will be awarded to the third place finisher in every category.

Attractive prizes will be given in the 3km event and for the special categories.

The registration for Walkathon and 10 Km Run can be done online or at various sporting venues of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav.

Khasdar Krida Mahotsav : Walkathon event for the fitness enthusiasts on May 27

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Nagpur: The inaugural ceremony of 20-day, 20-game and Rs 62,82,200 prize money Nation’s first multisport grassroot level event – Khasdar Krida Mahotsav – will be held at the Indoor Stadium of Divisional Sports Complex in Mankapur on Sunday evening.

A brainchild of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, the sporting extravaganza will be inaugurated by the hands of Sports Minister and Olympic medalist Rajyavardhan Rathoreat 5pm on Sunday. On the occasion, national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar will be the star attraction and special guest. Union Minister Nitinji Gadkari will preside over the inaugural ceremony.

The actual competition of the 20-day multisport event which provides a platform for fitness enthusiasts and professional players of Orange City to be played between May 6 and 26, will begin from Monday. The matches will be played at 32 venues across the city. Around 585 teams will participate in the event where over 4643 matches are scheduled to be played and over 25000 participants are expected to be part of the first ever Khasdar Krida Mahotsav to be promoted as Chak De, Khelo Nagpur Khelo.

The inaugural function will begin with a march past by the players of all the 20 sports disciplines, while local participants will perform Lezim, Dandpatta, Women Wrestling, Yoga and many such events infront of the gathering.
With as many as 294 events being planned during the Khasdar Krida Mahotsav, around 288 trophies and 2285 medals will be distributed in addition to the individual and cash awards. To attract the crowd during the championships, a special event of Luck Draw for the spectators is also being planned. Winners of the lucky draw will also be awarded branded and attractive prizes.

For the inauguration on Sunday, Convener of the organizing committee of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav Sandip Joshi and co-conveners Pravin Datke, Nagesh Sahare, Sambhaji Bhosale, Piyush Ambulkar, Ashafque Sheikh, Padmakar Charmode, Shivani Dani, Sachin Deshmukh, Ashish Mukim and others have requested all the citizens to reserve their seats 15 minutes before the function.

Stage set for grand inauguration of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav on Sunday

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Nagpur: Former Mayor and senior sports administration of the city Atal Bahadur Singh unveiled the glittering trophies to be distributed to the podium finishers and top performers of all the 20 sports disciplines.

The trophy unveiling ceremony was held at the residence of Atal Bahadur Singh in Kadbi Chowk on Saturday evening.
Atal Bahadur was very happy after having a look at the trophies and said “these are very beautiful trophies and all the winners would be feeling proud to have them. Players will fight hard to win these trophies” Praising the championship trophy (which is approximately 4 to 4.5ft high) he added, “Though I have distributed many trophies in my lifetime but I have not seen such a beautiful trophy.”

Atal Bahadur Singh asked all the members present during the ceremony to five a Five-cheers instead of the regular three-cheers for Khasdar Krida Mahotsav and Union Minister Nitinji Gadkari.

Special trophies have been prepared for the podium finishers of both the individual and events including attractive medals.

Around 288 trophies and 2285 medals will be distributed during the event.

Atal Bahadur concluded the ceremony wishing luck to the organizing committee of the Khasdar Krioda Mahotsav.

Former Mayor Atal Bahadur Singh Unveils Khasdar Krida Mahotsav Trophies

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Nagpur: Khasdar Krida Mahotsav, the much-awaited nation’s first multi-sports grassroots-level event, comprising 20 sports that run for 20 days, was inaugurated at the Indoor Stadium of Divisional Sports Complex in Mankapur, today on Sunday evening.

The krida Mahotsav was inaugurated by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari a brain child of the event and and Olympic medallist and Union State Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore along with the Star attraction on the occasion, National Badminton coach Pullela Gopichand and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar as the special guests.

Before the start of the ceremony Jallosh band entertained the people. The inaugural ceremony began with a march past by the players of all 20 sports.

Nikita raut a player of nagpur handed over the iconic Torch which covered every part of the city to Nitin Gadkari.

Students of Keshav nagar vidhyalaya nagpur ke student presented Malkham performance, Shivkalin youdh prakar, Rope Malkham by the young aspiring students. The performance of these pure souls moved everyone present and even Akshay Kumar jumped from the stage to join them.

Nitin gadkari took sankalpana and appealed the people to go and see the games and be a part of it as it will boost the sportsman spirit and will lean you toward sports more. I know nagpur and Vidarbha have high potential and with the performance like these will definitely amaze the world by the talents of the participants.

Union Sports Minister Rajyawardhan Singh inspired students to play and learn and prepare themself for the national and international games.

Akshay Kumar while concluding the ceremony said that to remember one important mantra in life that ‘I am the champion’ and move forward and bring more people in games.

Grand opening of 20 day’s multi-sports event Khasdar Krida Mahotsav

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New Delhi: India’s veteran shunter Saina Nehwal believes she can still reach higher levels and achieve greater things as she feels she has got rid of the physical issues that were bogging her over the past couple of years. The 2012 Olympic medallist was inconsistent in the past couple of years, thanks to the physical troubles, especially failing to get into full rhythm after undergoing a knee surgery in August 2016, days after the Rio Olympic Games. However, Saina’s recent form saw her overcome obstacles on and off the court.

The two time World Championship medallist credits her recent strong fitness to the strength and conditioning exercises she has undergone in the past 45 days with physic) Christopher Pedra, who joined the Indian after the Indonesia Open. In April, Saina played a big role in India’s gold medal triumph in the mixed team competition of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Gold Coast, Australia in the first and second weeks of April. The 28-year-old also got the gold medal in the women’s singles contest as she defeated compatriot P.V. Sindhu in the final.

Saina then grabbed her third Asian Championship bronze medal with a semi-final appearance at Wuhan, China on Saturday “It is about working hard. You see (tennis legends) Serena Williams and Roger Federer still doing extremely well at the higher levels. I have that never give up attitude — which of course helps,” she said on the sidelines of the Badminton Association of India (BAI)’s felicitation ceremony of the CWG medallists. “Moreover when you feel well, the court becomes really easier. Now I have one of the best physios in Christopher Pedra. He has been extremely valuable. I can feel the difference,” she added. “There were hip and knee issues from which I was struggling to come out of.

Now there is a lot of improvement on my strengths. I am moving much easily on the court. There were some weaker areas in my legs on which he has worked. Now there are less niggles.” Asked about her secret in handling pressure for such a long time, Saina said: “It is important to be positive when you play. It is not a burden I have
the attitude of giving my best and whining. I have been playing for so many years. I believe I can pull off 90 per cent of the matches. It is not easy to take the pressure. I always give my best – sometimes I lose as well. I try to relax as much as possible. “All opponents are dangerous. I have a good record against most of them. I have issues against some of the players as well. I keep working on the areas I feel. Always be careful and alert.” One opponent that has been regularly getting the better of Saina is Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying.

Saina’s 25-27, 19. 21 loss in 45 minutes in the semi-final in the Asia Championships was her ninth on the trot against Tai, who now has taken a 11-5 lead in the head-to-head record against the Indian veteran. Saina said that she needs to get better in order to beat world No.2 from Chinese Taipei. So what makes Tai such a ferocious opponent? Saina answered: “She was good with her hand and strokes, the only thing she had to do well was improve on her fitness. She has done that. That is working well for her. Due to her incredible confidence, thanks to the so many wins she has posted in the last one and half years, she has been coming out on top even in difficult moments.

” Saina then talked about her loss in Wuhan. “It was a matter of last two points. I was leading both the games. I should have been more alert. Tai certainly changed the game in the last two points. When you play someone like her, she is really smart and you have to be alert with her in the last few moments,” she said. “All of us have been struggling against her. She has every shot as a deceptive shot. She will make you mad at any point of time. Her consistent hand-stopping movement tires you down in two games and she knows that the third game is her strength because of her fitness level.”

Unstoppable Saina Nehwal raring to go

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Khasdaar Krida Mahotsav Football Tournament
Day-2 First Match

Rabbani Club 4 Bts Nagpur Colts 0
Saquib Anwar 21st min
Nusrat Kamal 72nd min
Shahbaz Khan 76th min
Moin Kamal 82nd min

Caution
Nagpur Colts side
Naushad Aansari 38th min

Man Of the match : Sumeet Pendur Nagpur Colts team Today’s
Chief Guest: f First match Mr.Harish Vora

NDFA vs RABAANI at motibagh ground

Khasdaar Krida Mahotsav : Day 2 Football Results

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SENIOR WOMEN:
Vidarbha Krida Mandal bt Nav Maharashtra Krida Mandal 16-3
For Winners: Ekta Rodhankar, Aakansha Khadse and Puja Taple pled well.
For Losers: Suryawanshi did well.

Chattrapati Yuwak Prasarak Maandal bt Shreeram Krida Mandal, Ramtek, 13-11
For the winners: Disha Bhonde, Sonali Mokashe, Deepali Sabane.
For losers: Ragini Zade, Darshana Uikey.

SENIOR MEN:
Viudarbha Krida Mandal Katol bt Shreeram Krida Mandal, Ramtek, 16-9
For the winners: Akshay Umathe, Dilraj SInghare and Nikhil Pusadkar played well.
For losing team: Badal Uikey did well

SUB-JUNIOR GIRLS:
Vidarbha Krida Mandal Katol bt Nav Maharashtra Krida Mandal 13-5
For the winners: Vaishnavi Umathe, Yashodha Umathe, Chaitali Gajbhiye played well.
FOr losing team: Prajakta Gaidhane and Sakshi Hirnekar did well.

Vidarbha Youth Kirda Mandal Katol bt Shreeram Krida Mandal, Ramtek, 13-11
For the winners: Anushka Ingole and Manasvi Satfade played well.

SUB-JUNIOR BOYS:
Vidarbha Youth Krida Mandal Katol bt Maharashtra Krida Mandal Nagpur 17-8
For the winners: Parth Kharabe, Komal Mahajan and Rupam Jambhde played well
For losing team: Piyush Rathod and Yash Shende did well.

Nav Maharashtra Krida Mandal bt Chattrapati Yuwak Prasarak Mandal 13-9
For the winners: Devraj pal, Piyush nandurkar played well.
For oosers: Kedar Chapekar and Soham Paigninwar.

Khasdaar Krida Mahotsav : Day 2 Kho Kho Results

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Vidarbha’s pace sensation Rajneeth Gurbani has been selected in India W team for four-day matches to be played at United Kingdom.It can be mentioned here that right arm pacer Gurbani has played an important role in Vidarbha’s Ranji Trophy victory this season. So far in 11 first class matches he has claimed 56 wickets. In Ranji Trophy final against Delhi at Indore he became only the second bowler to claim a hat trick in a Ranji final – after Tamil Nadu’s Kalyana sundram against Bombay in 1972-73.

While talking to media, 25 year old bowler said, ” I feel very happy that I have been selected in India A! team. Actually I was expecting India ‘A call and now my dream comes true.

I will try to deliver my best in England and for that I am really working hard”, he said. He also said, ” It’s time to learn from the great Indian cricketer and the great coach Rahul Dravid”. Gurbani was also one of the nominees of Lokmat’s Maharashtrian of the Year award this year.

In the squad for the four day matches, skipper Karun Nair will be assisted by young talents such as Ravikumar Samarth and Mayank Agarwal of Karnataka, Abhimanyu Easwaran of Bengal and Mumbai’s Shaw among others in batting while Shahbaz Nadeem, Ank it Rajpoot, Mohammad Siraj, Navdeep Saini and Rajneesh Gurbani are the pace bowlers.

Vidarbha pacer Gurbani selected in India ‘A’ team

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Md Sameer (Own Goal ) 45+2 min
Md Sujat 55th min
Fahad Junaid 64th min

caution
Y.MF.C.side
Bleson Saji 31st min
Qidwai side
Md Sameer 45+2 min

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Blues side
Amol Roy 70th

Caution
GRC
Amod Mahato 14th min
Blues side
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