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Nagpur: Arun Lakhani is re-elected as President of Maharashtra Badminton Association for second term for the period of 2018-2022 on 30 September 2018 in the MBA Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the year 2018-19. A new body of 26 office bearers was installed at this occasion.

Many national and state level tournaments were successfully organized by MBA during the last couple of years. Due to the robust support from the Association & Lakhani’s able leadership, the Badminton players from Maharashtra could bring laurels to the state.

The Senior National Badminton Championship held at Nagpur in Nov 2017 was his most remarkable achievement amongst many others. The grandeur with which the Championship was organized, it attracted praises from the badminton fraternity and the fans alike. It has been recognized as the best nationals organized so far by the legends of the sport like P. Gopichand.

Many infrastructural development proposals have been prepared and pushed ahead for implementation by the MBA lately as informed by Arun Lakhani at a press conference on Sunday.

Lakhani said, “It’s an honor to be re-elected for the position. The new team is enthusiastic and we are looking forward to taking the sport of Badminton to new heights for the players of Maharashtra. We are planning to develop world class professional academies on the already available infrastructures which are not being utilized to the fullest. We plan to on board as many relevant people as possible including national, international players, Olympians, coaches, bureaucrats, etc. On boarding people brings sustainability, efficiency and accountability in the operations.”

The re-elected President further added, “Our priority will be –

1.Infrastructure & coaching – We see that the number of courts are increasing. However, their organization is missing. We will seek district’s management in the Government courts to better utilize the available infrastructure. For coaching, we have established a Coaching and Development Committee which will be convened by Secretary Coaching.

2.Support to Promising Players – We are planning to arrange National Camps with national international coaching support to our promising players to bring out the best performance from them.

3.Tournaments – MBA will provide strong support to the districts in order to increase participation. We will be enhancing the prize money for tournaments which would again boost the players to participate. Arranging Inter-corporate tournaments is also our agenda.

4.Technology – For seamless mechanism for players to send entries, we are shortly launching a mobile app for players and parents.

The newly elected body of Maharashtra Badminton Association is as follows:

1 Shri Arun Lakhani President Nagpur
2 Shri Pradeep Gandhe Deputy President Mumbai
3 Shri Ashish Bajpai Sr. Vice. President Latur
4 Shri Prashant Thakur Vice President 1 Raigadh
5 Shri Ch. Shivajiraje Bhosale Vice President 2 Satara
6 Smt. Manik Paranjpe Vice President 4 Sangli
7 Shri Kulin Manek Vice President 5 Mumbai
8 Shri Shirish Boralkar Vice President 3 Aurangabad
9 Shri Jagdish P Joshi Treasurer Nagpur
10 Shri Sundar A. Shetty Hon. General Secretary Mumbai
11 Shri Shrikant Vad Joint Secretary Thane
12 Shri Rajan Pillai Hon. Secretary- Coaching and Development Nasik
13 Shri Mangesh Kashikar Hon. Secretary- Tournaments and Event Nagpur
14 Shri Mahesh Wakradkar Member, Executive Committee Nanded
15 Shri Ravi Deshmukh Member, Executive Committee Parbhani
16 Shri Jugal Rathi Member, Executive Committee Amrawati
17 Shri Mohan Shah Member, Executive Committee Wardha
18 Shri Gurunath Khubba Member, Executive Committee Latur
19 Shri Amit Mule Member, Executive Committee Ratnagiri
20 Shri Jitu Rathi Member, Executive Committee Solapur
21 Shri Pradip Gabada Member, Executive Committee Yawatmal
22 Shri Dinesh Dhoot Member, Executive Committee Akola
23 Smt. Nirmala Kotnis Member, Executive Committee Mumbai Suburb
24 Shri Sidharth Patil Member, Executive Committee Aurangabad
25 Shri Nikhil Kanetkar Advisor Olympic Player
26 Shri Pravin Darade Co-opt Member IAS

Arun Lakhani re-elected as President, Maharashtra Badminton Association

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Nagpur: Shining bright with flying colors once again, Himani Fadke clinched three gold medals in the Maharashtra State Inter-School Divisional-Level Swimming Competition, held here at the NIT swimming complex on Wednesday. The four-day meet is being jointly organized by District Sports Office, District Sports Council and Nagpur District Swimming Association under the aegis of deputy director of sports, Maharashtra.

Himani, who on Monday launched her campaign with twin gold medals, clinched her third gold medal in the 200 metres individual medley (IM) while competing in the U-17 girls section. The in-form swimmer finished the race in 2 minutes and 40.01 seconds. Pune’s duo of Gautami Agrawal (2:48.85) and Shrushti Patel (3:04.35) won silver and bronze medals, respectively. There were a couple of more medals for Nagpur.

Dhruv Mishra and Aryan Jaiswal claimed a bronze medal each in their respective events. Dhruv, a student of CPS, won the bronze medal in the 200m backstroke in the U-17 boys category with a timing of 2:27.90, while Aryan captured the third position in the 200m freestyle in the U-14 boys category with a timing of 2:23.50.

Continuing her dazzling show, Mumbai’s Aanya Wala notched up another gold medal in the U-14 200m freestyle, while her city counterpart Ariaa Seth finished second and won silver in the same category. Aanya clocked 2:18.23 to gain the top spot. Ariaa followed her for second place with a timing 2:23:77. Pune’s Siya Shetty placed third. A couple of days back Aanya, a student of Bombay Scottish School, created a new meet record in the 400m freestyle event, while Ariaa, VDWS Vidya Mandir, also improved her mark in the same category on her way to claim silver.

The remaining events will be held on the fourth and final day on Thursday. RESULTS U-14 200m freestyle boys: Anuj Kittur (Nashik, 2:05.95), Rushubh Choubey (Mumbai, 2:06.78), Ishan Bhujbal (Pune, 2:10.76). 200m freestyle

U-19 girls: Sakshi Naik (Nashik, 2:30.39), Radhika Gawade (Mumbai, 2:31.05), Avani Vats (Mumbai, 2:32.88). 200m freestyle U-17 boys: Gaurav Chavhan (KP, Pune, 2:04.52), Yash Patki (Mumbai, 2:06.37), Avadhut Parulekar (Kolhapur, 2:09.70). 200m freestyle.

U-14 boys: Raunak Sawant (Mumbai, 2:19.31), Aarjav Patil (Kolhapur, 2:23,.48), Aryan Jaiswal (Nagpur, 2:23.50). 200m freestyle U-14 girls: Ananya Wala (Mumbai, 2:18.23), Ariya Sheth (Mumbai, 2:23.77), Siya Shetty (Pune, 2:23.72). 200m backstroke

U-19 girls: Mehlam Gadiyali (Mumbai, 2:18.62), Heer Shah (Mumbai, 2:26.55), Ajay Patil (Kolhapur, 2:43.75). 200m backstroke U-19 girls: Sana Gaya (Mumbai, 2:49.00), Advika Ramesh (Pune, 2:49.58), Shraddha Memon (Mumbai, 3:06.32). 200m backstroke U-17 boys: Devant Bapna (Mumbai, 2:19.53), Dhruv Mishra (Nagpur, 2:27.90). 200m backstroke

U-17 girls: Shalmali Walunkar (Pune, 2:42.45), Arya Kruplani, Mumbai, 2:45.36), Ruchita Kadam (KP, Pune, 2:49.41).

200m backstroke U-14 boys: Reyan Gada (Mumbai, 2:34.27), Mohd Chaudhari (Mumbai, 2:36.30), Rudra Ingle (Pune, 2:36.83). 200m backstroke girls U-14: Bhakti Wadkar (Kolhapur, 2:45.22), Asmi Desai (Kolhapur, 2:48.28), Shweta Kurade (KP, Pune, 2:49.63). 200m IM

U-19 boys: Kundal Prasad (Pune, 2:19.96), Heer Shah (Mumbai, 2:21.89), Pruthviraj Dange (Kolhapur, 2:25.90). 200m IM U-19 girls: Yukta Vakhariya (Pune, 2:37.27), Abha Deshpande (Kolhapur, 2:45.35), Sai Patil (Mumbai, 2:45.21).

200m IM U-17 boys: Sahil Gangote (Pune, 2:20.31), Sabyasachi Panigrahi (Pine, 2:27.67), Kunal Shroff (Mumbai, 2:31.92). 200m IM U-17 girls: Himani Fadke (Nagpur, 2:40.01), Gautami Agrawal (Pune, 2:48.85), Shrushti Patel (2:04.35). 200m IM U-14 boys: Tanishk Kundale (Pune, 2:34.84), Anvesh Prasade (Pune, 2:37.59), Tanmay Malik (Mulbai, 2:37.88). 200m IM U-14 girls: Apeksha Fernandez (Mumbai, 2:36.09), Swara Shinde (Pune, 2:50.28), Divya Panjabi (Mumbai, 2:52.50).

Himani Fadke swims to clinch 3 gold medals in Inter School Divisional Level competition

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Prithvi Shaw collected plenty of ‘youngest ever…’ milestones on his debut in the first Test against the West Indies at Rajkot. He started off by becoming the youngest specialist batsman to debut for India since Sachin Tendulkar in 1989 against Pakistan. He became the second youngest Test debut opener for India.

By scoring a 56-ball 50, he became the youngest to score a fifty on Test debut for India. Later, he became the youngest to score a Test century on debut for India. He reached the milestone in 99 balls with 14 boundaries to his name.

Shaw is the 106th player to score a century on Test debut and is the first since Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien against Pakistan earlier in the year. Last Indian to achieve this feat was Rohit Sharma, also against West Indies in 2013. Overall, 15 India players have scored centuries on Test debut.

Earlier, Shaw became the fifth youngest opener to a score a 50 on Test debut behind – Hanif Mohammad, Jeff Stollmeyer, Tamim Iqbal and Imran Farhat. He is the third youngest to score a Test fifty for India behind Sachin Tendulkar and Parthiv Patel and ahead of the likes of Ravi Shastri and Dinesh Karthik.

Not facing one of the best attacks with West Indies bowling looking toothless on the most part. Having said that, the 18-year-old Shaw gave ample evidence of his brilliance with effortless boundaries and confident strokes around the ground.

Shaw received the Test cap from Virat Kohli on the morning to become the 293rd cricketer to represent India and showed supreme confidence from ball one, on which he offered a watchful leave. He then punched the second ball towards the cover boundary for a three, his first runs in international cricket, easing whatever nerves were left inside him. His first boundary came in the second over bowled by Keemo Paul, another back-foot punch towards the point boundary.

While he punched and drove effortlessly off pacers, Shaw was equally comfortable against the spin duo of Devendra Bishoo and Roston Chase.

Prithvi Shaw scores maiden Test century on debut

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India captain Virat Kohli has requested the cricket board to allow wives of players to accompany the team for the full duration of overseas tours. The current policy restricts the stay of wives of players and support staff to just two weeks.

It is learnt that Kohli first broached the issue with a top BCCI official who in turn conveyed the teams request to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators headed by Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji.

Sources said that the CoA has now asked Indian team manager Sunil Subramaniam to make a formal request to change the rule but that they would not be taking a decision any time soon. Since this will require a shift in the BCCIs stance, the CoA is expected to postpone the decision to a time when the new BCCI body will be in place.

The request was made a few weeks back but as it is a BCCI policy decision, the manager will have to submit a formal request first. Anushka has been travelling with Kohli overseas, however, Kohli now wants the old rule to be abolished and a new policy should come up where wives should be allowed to travel with the Indian team, a source said.

The cricketing world for long has been divided on allowing wives and girlfriends on long tours. At present, most countries have restricted family time. In 2007, after an Ashes disaster, the England and Wales Cricket Board asked an independent sports administrator to determine the reasons for the 5-0 whitewash against Australia. The report recommended a limit on the time wives and girlfriends should be allowed on tour. This did not go well with players and Englands star batsman Kevin Pietersen had called the suggestion a load of nonsense.

Kohli wants BCCI to change rule: Let wives stay for full overseas tours

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City’s water polo player Sarthak Dhurve has been selected in the Maharashtra team for the national meet to be held at Thiruvananthpuram in Kerala.

A class XII student of Mohta Science College, Sarthak impressed the select or with his goal scoring abilities inthe state level water polo championship that recently concluded at NIT swimming pool. He scored four goals each against Pune and Nashik during the tournament.

He also participated in the 400m freestyle event. Sarthak wong old medal in the nation al meetin2017-18thatwasheldatPune. Son of international adventure swimmer Sukhdeo, he trains regularly at Kamgar and NIT pools under NIS coach Yogesh Khobragade and Chetan Garge.

Deputy Director Subhash Rewatkar, DSO Avinash Pund,VijaySantan,Sandip Khobragade,Sambhaji Bhonsale,Sanjay Charlewar,Satish Dabhade, ArunKapse, Pravin Dixit,Dada Kolte, PappuThakur, Sanjay Batwe,Vikram Bhonsale,Shailesh Ghate, Balram Sen and others congratulated Sarthak.

Swimmer Sarthak in Mah squad

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Ambedkar Management College girls won the basketball title for the fourth successive year after they defeated arch rivals LAD College convincingly by 46 points (86-40) in the summit clash played on Sunday.

The tournament was organised by the Physical Education and Sports Department of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University at its Ravi Nagar courts. It was talented state level players Shreya Dandekarand Mugdha Amraotkar who made the difference with their excellent performance.

While Shreya scored 46 points, Mugdha added 36 in their team’s title winning cause. For LAD College, Rasika Pande and Rutuja Rotkar both scored 18 points each.

The quarterwise score was 19- 8, 21-12, 18-10, 28-10. MM Architecture women’s College got the better of Ramdeobaba College 24-23 to clinch the third spot. The quarter wise score was 1-10, 8-5, 4-3, 11-5.

The winning team: Ambedkar Management College: Shreya Dandekar, Meenu Sharma,Aisha, Arnika Lamba, Swati Bonde, Shrushti Jog,Vidhruti Warudkar, Aakansha Paigwar,Diksha Verma, Mugdha Amraotkar. Coach: Dhiraj Kadao.

Ambedkar College girls retain basketball crown

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Nagpur: Madrasaul Muslimeen Rabbani High S chool and Junior College boys met with mixed fortunes over the past two days in Wardha, competing in the SGFI Boys U-14 Nagpur Division InterSchool Football Tournament.

On Thursday, they succeeded in emerging champions from the Under-14agecategorywhenthey defeated Agragrami HS, Wardha blanking them 2-0 in the title decider. Mohammed Ashar Ansari (first half) and Hasan Ahmed were the goal scorers.

Earlier in the semi-finals, they out wit Saint Francisde Sales High School, Nagpur 2-0. Rehan-ur Rehman scored once in each half.

WINNER TEAM: M.M.Rabbani H.S: M. Junair Faizee, Intesham Ahmad,Abdul Rahman,M.Tufail, Mohd Zaid,Mohd Ameen,Hassan Ahmad, Ziyad Ahmad, M. Ashar Ansari, M. Shadab, Rehan-urRehman, Ameer Hamza, Tafseer Junaidi, Sajid Jamal, M. Adnan Jamal,M. Hasan, Naqi Raza, M. Uzair.Coach:Atique-ur-Rehman. Assistant Coach: Akhtar Jamaal.

MM Rabbani are SGFI U-14 Divisional football champs

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Nagpur: An inter-collegiate football tournament, organised for the first time by Tirpude Institute of Management Education (TIME) to promote the sport among college students in Nagpur, concluded recently.

Hislop College emerged winner in the 16-team tournament played over two weeks in group, quarter, semi and final matches. The tournament culminated with the final match played between Hislop College and City Premier College on October 9. The Hislop team eased past their opponents to a spectacular win with a final score of 5-0. The City Premier College retained the second position.

In another match of the day, SFS College bagged the third position after beating Tirpude Institute team, on penalties, in an equally exciting match. Prizes to winners were presented at the hands of chief guest, Dr. Kalpana Jadhav, Director of Physical Education Department, Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University. Other dignitaries witnessing the final match include Dr Lalit Khullar, Director, Tirpude Institute of Management Education, Dr Vivek Awsare, Director, Nasikrao Tirpude College of Physical Education, Dr Praveen Mustoor, Chairman-Placements, TIME and Prof Carol Rao, Coordinator-UG, TIME.

The winning team of Hislop College was awarded a trophy and cash prize of Rs 7,500. The second and third prizes of Rs 5,000 cash and Rs 3,500 cash were awarded to City Premier College and SFS College, respectively. Swapnil Bharodia and Vasu Kanojia (both from Hislop) were adjudged the ‘Best Goal Keeper’ and ‘Best Goal Scorer’ of the tournament, respectively. The entire tournament was conducted by Prof Sarang Warudkar.

TIME organised football tournament ends with Hislop College winning trophy

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IN WHAT turned out to be an entire first half of a match of the Elite Division’s relegation league, played lethargically and at least a third of the second, Divisional Sports Association Central Railway, making full use of their experience succeeded in pipping the younger but poorly coordinated Rahul Sankrutyayan Sports Association 2-0 at the South East Central Railway stadium in Motibag on Thursday evening

The railway way men knowing that even their team was not fighting fit used their experience to slow down Rahul SSA,space the mout and take full advantage of their opponent’s sluggish approach in the first half to go on to post their first win and pick up three points.

The railway men have another two matches to play, one each against City Police and SECRSA. Rahul SSA after having played two matches hav e gathered 3 points. These came off their 3-1 victory over Ansar Club, Kamptee earlier. Aziz Qureshi,pairing up with Ravindra Kanojiya in the attack, and being backed upby Nasir Jam al and Ritesh Pongulu succeeded in the 8th minute.

Qureshi’ssecondgo alwasthe one which earned the louderroundapplause as he beat Rahul SSA’s deep defende r Lazarus Anthony top of the go al area,leaving make-shift go al-keeper Sourabh Gore y standing at the go alline in the 54th minute .

Christopher Philippulled back one for Rahul SSA off a right-footed low volley which caught DSACR’s goal – keeper Asif Khan by surprise .

Philip connected a right wing cross by Swaraj Borkar in the 80th minute . On Friday : Elite Di v Relegation League: Rahul SSA vs SECRSA, 3.30 pm.

Qureshi puts CRly past RSSA

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Pooja Dhanda joined the elite Indian company of women grapplers after defeating Grace Bullen of Norway 10-7 in the 57kg Freestyle category to clinch the bronze medal at the World Championships in Budapest on Thursday.

Before Pooja, only three Indian women grapplers Alka Tomar in 2006, Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat in 2012 had won a bronze medal each at the World Championships tournament.

Pooja, who led 6-1 in the first period, had to go through some harrowing moments in the second period when the Norwegian launched an all-out attack which the Indian managed to stave off, despite giving away some passivity points and step-out points.

In fact, what clinched the bronze play-off bout in Pooja’s favour was the four-pointer which zoomed her to an unassailable lead after the Indian got to Grace’s leg and rolled her for the vital clincher.

Earlier, Pooja had defeated Alyona Kolesnik of Azerbaijan 8-4 to reach the bronze medal bout.

Meanwhile, in the 50kg freestyle bronze medal play-off, India’s Ritu Phogat began with a promise only to fade away against the tight defence of Ukraine’s Oksana Livach.

The Ukrainian eventually bagged the bronze with a 10-5 win.

However, Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik failed to past the repechage round, losing 2-3, including a challenge point to Hungarian Marianna Sastin to bow out of the contest.

Earlier in the day, four of India’s Greco-Roman wrestlers got off to a poor start at the World Championships with all of them losing in the first round. Vijay (55kg), Gaurav Sharma (65kg), Kuldeep Malik (72kg) and Harpreet Singh (75kg) crashed out of after meek defeats.

Vijay, who is a World Junior bronze medal winner, lost 1-9 to Chinese Liguo Cao, while Gaurav went down to Poland’s Jacek Michal 3-7.

Then Kuldeep followed suit when Japanese Tomohiro Inoue defeated him 9-0 and finally Morocco’s Zied Ait Ouagram outclassed Harpreet Singh 15-4.

Wrestler Pooja Dhanda Bags Bronze at World Championship

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Nagpur: City’s 14-year old Sanya Pillai won gold medal at the 3rd World Junior Shikai Martial Art Championship held in South Korea recently. Sanya took part in 54 kg Group Under 17 category. Players from 19 countries participated in the event.

Sanya won the gold medal against the tough competition by rivals from Laos, China, Philippines, and Koran players. She is daughter of Manoj and Khushi Pillai and Class IX student of Centre Point School, Katol Road. Making forays into the martial art for keeping hr fit, Sanya has proved her mettle in Kickboxing, Taekwando, and Shikai martial art.

Being a Brown Belt holder in senior group, Sanya has so far bagged 42 medals including 32 gold medals in various contests. On her return to Nagpur and talking to media persons at airport, she said, “The temperature in South Korea was too cold as compared to India. But we blended well with the conditions. The rivals were experts in kick and agility. Watching them closely, we planned our strategy for a win. Talked to coach on how to tackle the rivals. All these aspects helped me emerge winner,” Sanya said.

The Shikai Martial Art Founder Mazhar Khan is mentor of Sanya while Yugant Ugle and Nilesh Somkuwar are her coaches. Impressed with Sanya’s show, Titan Company has appointed her as “Titan Kanya Brand Ambassador.”

City’s Sanya Pillai wins gold at World Junior Shikai Martial Art Championship

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Winning is definitely a habit. For decades Vidarbha had no BCCI trophy to show for and within two years…they have won five! Celebrating the selection of five of their team-mates— Mandar Mahalle, Nayan Chavan, Harsh Dubey, Rohit Dattatraya and Dushyant Tekan for the upcoming India U-19 Challenger Trophy, the motivated boys scored a thumping 83-run win overTamil Nadu to bag the Vinoo Mankad Trophy for the Under-19 one-day limited overs tournament at VCA Civil Lines ground on Sunday.

Chasing Vidarbha’s 297-6, built largely around hundreds from Yash Rathod and Aman Mokhade, Tamil Nadu were bundled out for 214 with leg-spinner Rohit Dattatraya (5-37) returning with a five-wicket haul. Vidarbha winning the titles started as recently as in January 2017.

The Under-16boysthumpedUttarPradesh by 171 runs at Holkar Stadium in Indore to win the first silverware — the Vijay Merchant Trophy. The seniors did an encore in the same city at the same venue winning the Ranji Trophy this year in January

The U-19 boys followed it up with the Cooch Behar title at home and the seniors lifted the Irani Cup at home for the fourth title. The U-19 boys completed the ‘High Fives’with Mankad Trophy. A host of players graduated from the U-16 side that won the Vijay Merchant Trophy while one came from the Cooch Behar winning team. These are the youngsters who are making winning a habit.

Mandar Mahalle, who led the then U-16 side, Dattatraya, Sandesh Durugwar, Mokhade and Harsh Dubey were the team mates while Yash Rathod was the part of Cooch Behar wining side. Rathod was the highest run scorer in India last season and has also represented India U-19 teams in various competitions. The U-19 winning captain Atharva Taide got himself promoted to the Ranji squad and was named in the Indian squad for the Emerging Teams Asia Cup on Sunday.

The day at VCA Civil Lines ground start edona positive note with Vidarbha skipper Yash Kadam winning the toss. Mokhade (101; 124b, 7×4) and Rathod (104; 103b, 13×4) added a massive 194 runs for the third wicket after Mahalle had contributed 33. Kadam (24*) and Dubey (13*) ensured the hosts reach close to 300.

With almost six runs required from every over,Tamil Nadu batsmen were under pressure. They could not have a big partnership and except for opener P Praveen Kumar (48) and skipper R Sonu Yadav (33), none of the batsmen could impress much. Dattatraya was well supported by left-arm spinner Dubey (2-42), Mahalle (1-29) and seamer Dushyant Tekan (1-30).

In fact, from this year only the U-19 event was upgraded from the zonal level to the national level. Earlier, the teams would complete among themselves in the five zone and were declared zonal winners. From this year, all the team were clubbed together for the mega tournament. Nine teams comprised Elite Group A and B, eight Elite Group C and nine made the Pate Group.

From Group A and B, top five teams progressed to the knockouts while two from C and the Plate winner mad e it to the last eight. Vidarbha were the fifth team to qualify from the combined Group A and B.

Vidarbha lift maiden Vinoo Mankad Trophy

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Mayor Cup Sphoorti Archery Carnival at Reshimbagh Group (DOC) Director of Shooting

Laxmikant Khichi is 3rd dan black belt in kung fu, 5th don Black Belt in karate and 2nd don Black Belt in Aikido Hatyog Acharya, This is not he has taken degree in 6 defence game, Nagpur event going on Sphorti The Archery Carnival he is (Dos) Director of Shooting Mr. Khichi is awarded with Zee Ananya Samman in presence of Gadkari at Mumbai recently Mr. Khichi work as special police office for 7 years at Aurangabad he is master trainer of Swayamsiddha Course (Govt. Course for Girls & Women)

He is secretary of Aurangabad Dhanurvidya Association President of Indoor archery Association His son Ashitosh Khichi is also in this field teaching boxing and judo at Aurangabad in khichi sports academy Mr. Laxmikant Khichi Not only in sports he also take care of organic milk plant which his wife look after mamta and family runs in Aurangabad in name of harigeeta Dairy

Laxmikant Khichi From Aurangabad in Nagpur

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Nagpur: Former Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today inaugurated his cricket academy in City at the ground of International School at Dongargaon, around 15 kms from the city. The legendary cricketer, who is regarded as one of the world’s best finishers of the game of all time, has already launched branches of his academy in various cities. Boys and girls in the age group of 7 to 19 years will get world class coaching from the experts.

Nagpur based SGR Sports Academy has joined hands with MS Dhoni Cricket Academy to start the residential cricket academy in September.

Announcing the launch of MS Dhoni Cricket Academy, managing director Mihir Diwakar, also a former India Under-19 and Bihar cricketer, said the entire coaching plan has been designed by Dhoni and he will also spare some time from his busy schedule to visit the residential cricket academy to share his experience with the budding cricketers frequently.

Diwakar, a former medium pacer, said it will be the fifth centre of Dhoni Academy in India. The Dubai franchise of Dhoni Academy has also been launched recently. “We have already started at Lucknow, Varanasi, Noida and Bokara but this will be the first residential academy. The trainees of the academy will study at the Gaikwad-Patil School and stay in their premises. We are looking to get admission of around 150 kids,” said Diwakar while addressing a press conference on Monday.

Diwakar, who has played with Dhoni for many years, said they will make sure everything is in order before starting coaching programme for the youngsters.

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Mangesh Raut, M.S.Dhoni & Mohan Gaikwad

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MS Dhoni Cricket Academy launched in Nagpur

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Nagpur: Jain International Trade Organisation is organising JITO Premier League in city from November 26 to December 2. The event, to be held at Bishop Cotton School ground, will see ten teams participating in the tennis ball cricket tournament. The league matches will be of ten overs and semi finals will be of 12 overs.

On the day of final, a match between President’s XI and Secretary’s XI will also be organised. An All Ladies match will also be held on the day. The tournament to be played in colourful uniforms will be major attraction for cricket lovers.

Similarly, JITO Games will be held from November 25 to December 2 at Dhanwate National College Ground in which badminton, table tennis and chess contests are being held.

Manish Chhallani of Jain International Trade Organisation said at a press conference that 10 teams will participate in JITO Premier League. The auction of players on the lines of IPL was held at Naivadyam Eastoria recently. The owners of ten teams are Nirbhay Sancheti (SMS Smashers), Pagaria Group (Pagaria Strikers), Arpit Jain (Milton Worriers), Nitin Khara (Confidence A Light), Pratik Sarogi (Team Anandam), Sunil Raisoni (Raisoni Achievers), Karan Patni (Arun Avengers), Jayesh Chaudhari (Nakoda Challengers), Sachin Jejani (Jejani Fortunefighters) and Ashwin Shaha (Wardhaman Worriers).

The partners and sponsors of the event are Refugee Events, Walnut Fox, Kirti Publicity, Green Ply Industries Ltd, Qutone, Century Ply, Green Lawn, Pagaria Homes, Siddhart Furnishing, Jaguar Land Rover, (Anand Motors), Springfit, Sankalp Restaurant, and Pankaj Printers.

Others present at the press meet were Dheeraj Malu, Siddhart Runwal, Ashok Raoka, and Gaurav Jhamad.

JITO Premier League from Nov 26 to Dec 2 in city

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VVS was chief guest at Raisoni-SJAN Achievers Award function

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Nagpur: Cricket legend VVS Laxman on Saturday graced the Raisoni-SJAN Achievers Award function as chief guest. The annual event, organised jointly Sports Journalists Association of Nagpur (SJAN) and Raisoni Group, was held at the Nagpur Press Club, opposite Institute of Science, in Civil Lines.

The ace cricketer honoured Congress Nagar-based New English High School, Jyotiba College of Physical Education for promoting Kho-Kho, and Young Muslim Football Club President Kamil Ansari for promotion of football in city. Laxman handed over the Best Female Sportsperson Award to sprinter Rutuja Shende who had recently won a gold medal.

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Similarly, those others who were honoured at the hands of Very Very Special Laxman were Best Junior Sportsman (Batsman) Atharva Tayde, Best Senior Sportswoman (Badminton) Vaishnavi Bhale, and the budding cricketer A K Rajnish Gurbani as Best Senior Sportsman.

Addressing the function, the former Indian cricketer-turned commentator praised the sports reporters saying today he is cricketer. “But when I was struggling, the journalists did a spending job in recognising my talent. My uncle had sent me to a summer cricket coaching camp. There I learnt the finer points of game of cricket and my uncle spotted talent in me. All my family members are doctors by profession. But I chose my career in cricket,” Laxman stated.

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Elaborating on his book, Laxman said that his life’s journey from childhood-to-cricketer-to retirement has been eloquently defined. Changing the subject, the legend advised the patents not to expect too much from their children regarding results in exams. Praising the veteran cricketer Wasin Jaffer who was present at the function, Laxman said Wasim is extending all help to budding young cricketers in his own way.

In his speech, the Maharashtra Badminton Association President Arun Lakhani said the performance of SJAN has been improving year by year. “The members of SJAN, along with their journalistic profession have also been encouraging sports at various levels. The SJAN deserves a pat for organising this event.”

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MLC Anil Sole said, “The SJAN has been organising such events since the past 20 years. I read in Laxman’s book about turning point. In life, turning point has a special role.” MLA Sameer Meghe encouraged the sportspersons present at the function with his pep talk. “Sportspersons should stay away from controversies,” he asserted.

SJAN President Kishore Bagde made introductory remarks and highlighted the activities undertaken by the Association.

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Laxman honours budding sportspersons of city at SJAN function

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Nagpur: The grand opening of ‘JITO Games 2018,’organised by JITO Nagpur Chapter, was held at the hands of its President Ujwal Pagaria on Sunday. The event is being organised at Indoor Stadium of Dhanwate National College.

Other dignitaries present on the occasion include Pratik Saravagi, President of JITO Nagpur Chapter’s Women’s Wing Archana Jhaveri, Dilip Ranka, Manish Chhallani of Jain International Trade Organisation, Atul Kotecha, Dheeraj Malu, Gaurav Jhamad and others.

On the opening day, Badminton, Table Tennis and Chess contests were organised. Total 325 boys and girls participated in the competitions. The winners and runners up will be presents awards at a function to be held on December 2 at Bishop Cotton School ground.

In the Under-15 Chess contest, Gehna Madhur Jain emerged winner while the runner up was Kavayan Rupesh Shah. In the Chess Open Group, Niti Tatiya won the title and Nandkumar Baid was runner up.

In Table Tennis, Siddharth Udapurkar emerged winner while Diwakar Nahta bagged the second position.

In the Women’s Badminton (Open Group), Neha Malu won the title and the runner up was Sangita Badjate. Ankita Batviya and Kanisha Ranka won the doubles trophy defeating Sangita Badjate and Vinita Badjate in the decider. In the Under-15 (Girls) category, the title winner was Kanisha Ranka while Deshna Lalwani bagged the second position. Similarly, In the Under 15 (Boys) category, the winner was Pritesh Jain and the runner up was Riddham Jain. In Men’s Singles, Dr Aditya Jain bagged the title leaving Vivek Parakh at the second position. Pankaj Ranka and Dr Aditya Jain emerged winners in the Men’s Doubles defeating Manoj Jain and Vikram Kotecha who had to content with the runner up trophy.

The JITO Premier League cricket tournament commenced from Monday, November 26. The tournament will end on December 2. The event is being held at Bishop Cotton School ground and ten teams are participating in the tennis ball cricket tournament. The league matches will be of ten overs and semi finals will be of 12 overs.

Multi-sports ‘JITO Games 2018’ opens at Dhanwate National College

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Nagpur: City’s versatile Yoga exponent Dhanashri Lekurwale won two Bronze medals at 43rd Sports Championship held at Patiala recently. The event was organised by Yoga Federation of India at Major Tejinder Pal Singh Sohal Gymnasium Hall. In the Under 17 Artistic Pair Group contest, Dhanashri and Shraddha displayed brilliant talent and bagged Bronze medal. Dhanashri also wona Bronze medal Athletic Yogasan

Dhanashri Lekurwale, a student of Kavi Kulguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, is also a regular Yoga player of YK Group of Institute and Yoga Life Centre. The Vice Chancellor of her University Dr Shrinivas Varkhedi, along with Dr Madhusudan Penna, Dr Kalapini Agasthi, Prof Dr Sharad Suryavanshi, Satish Mohgaonkar, Anil Mohgaonkar and Maharashtra and Nagpur District Yoga Associations congratulated Dhanashri for the outstanding feat.

City’s Dhanashri Lekurwale bags 2 Bronze medals at 43rd Yoga Championship

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Nagpur: The opening day of JITO Premier League-2018 Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament saw four matches being played at Bishop Cotton School ground.

In the first match played between Arun Avengers and Confidence Elite Stars, the latter won the toss and elected to bowl first. Arun Avengers scored 74 runs for loss of four wickets in their allotted 10 overs. Chasing the total, Confidence Elite Stars could manage only 70 runs for loss of four wickets and lost the match by four runs. Man of the Match was Ronak Jain who scored 40 runs and scalped 3 wickets.

The second game of the opening day saw Jejani Fortune Fighters playing against SMS Smashers. After winning the toss and batting first, Jejani Fortune Fighters put up 73 runs losing 7 wickets in 10 overs. SMS Smashers fumbled in the chase and could score only 66 runs for loss of 7 wickets. Jejani won the excited match by 7 runs. Varun Mutha who scored 17 runs and bagged 4 wickets was declared Man of the Match.

Milton Warriors and Wardhaman Warriors vied with each other in the third game. Milton Warriors won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 77 runs losing 6 wickets in 10 overs. Chasing the total, Wardhaman Warriors were bundled out for 67 runs and thus lost the match by 10 runs. Hardik Shah scalped 4 wickets for 4 runs and won Man of the Match trophy.

In the fourth match, Raisoni Achievers won in an exciting game against Team Anandam. After winning the toss and electing to bowl first, Raisoni Achievers restricted Team Anandam to 64 runs for loss of 8 wickets. Raisoni achieved the target in just 7.5 overs losing 7 wickets and won the match by 3 wickets and bonus points as well. Man of the Match was Rohit Jain who scored 32 runs for Raisoni Achievers.

On the second day of the tournament on Tuesday, Pagaria Strikers will play against Arun Avengers, Team Anandam plays Wardhaman Warriors, Confidence Elite Stars Vs Jejani Fortune Fighters and Milton Warriors will vie with Nakoda Challengers.

JITO Premier League: Arun Avengers, Jejani Fortune Fighters, Milton Warriors, Raisoni Achievers win on first day

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Nagpur: Annie Ericson Anthony, an HSC student of Dinanath High School and Junior College in city, has been selected to represent Maharashtra State football team for the National Under-17 football tournament to be held at Tripura from December 9 to 13. The tournament is being organised by Games Federation of India through DSOs.

Earlier, Annie was selected for one month trial held in Kolhapur recently. She will now take part in coaching camp to be held in Chandrapur from November 29 to December 3. The National Under-17 football tournament will be held at Tripura from December 9 to 13.

The School Administrator Trupti Ghosh, Principal Alok Kumar Sinha, Coach Dr Mandal have congratulated Annie Anthony for her selection in Maharashtra State team.

Dinanath School’s Annie Anthony selected for National Football tournament