Sushant, Amit in team for Hockey tourney
Bhubaneswar: Hockey India on Monday announced a young National Men Team in which two Odisha players goalkeeper Sushant Tirkey and defenders Amit Rohidas conformed their bearth for the 3rd Asian Champions Trophy to be held at Kakamigahara, Japan from November 2 to10. Hockey India Selectors BP Govinda, RP Singh and Arjun Halappa, Roelant Oltmans, Director High Performance, Gregg Clark, Foreign Coach Junior Men Team and Baljeet Singh Saini, Coach Junior Men Team alongwith Government Observer Harbinder Singh selected the list of 18 players with six standbys during the selection trials conducted at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on October 9 to10. Out of the 18 players selected for the 3rdAsian Champions Trophy 13 were part of the Indian Junior Team that won the title of recently concluded 3rd Sultan of Johar Cup in Malaysia.”India is the runners-up as they lost to Pakistan 4-5 in the high voltage clash final of the 2ndChampions Trophy 2012. In 2011, India won the first edition of Asian Champions Trophy defeating Pakistan 4-2 via penalty shootout.
The other participating teams in the 2013 tournament are China, Japan, Malaysia, Oman and Pakistan. India will open its campaign against China on 2 November 2013 followed by matches against Japan, Oman, Pakistan and Malaysia on 3 November, 5 November, 7 November and 8 November 2013 respectively. list of players is as under: GOAl KEEPERS; Sushant Tirkey, Harjot Singh, DEFENDERS; Gurjinder Singh, Amit Rohidas, Surender Kumar, Sukhmanjit Singh, Pardeep Mor, MIDFIElDERS; Prabhdeep Singh, Manpreet Singh (Captain), Satbir Singh, Harjeet Singh, Imran Khan, Kothajit Singh (Vice- Captain), FORWARDS; Malak Singh, Mandeep Singh, Talwinder Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Ramandeep Singh, STANDBYES; Jagdeep Dayal (Goalkeeper), Gagandeep Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh (both defender), lalit Upadhyay (Midfielder), Affan Yousuf, Amon Mirash Tirkey (Forward).
Punjab in driver site against Odisha in Ranji
Bhubaneswar: A-ton each haul by Taruwar Kohli and Mandeep Singh helped Punjab to reach 306 for two in their first innings, taking a crucial 101-run lead over Odisha on Day 2 of a Group A Ranji Trophy match on Monday. Taruwar (109) and Mandeep (116) shared an unfinished 220-run innings between them for the third wicket to not only overhaul Odisha’s first innings total of 205 but also take a crucial lead of 101 with still eight wickets in hand. Earlier, openers Jiwanjot Singh and R Inder Singh begun Punjab’s innings from an overnight score of 11 for no loss but the duo could add only 43 before DR Behera dismissed Jiwanjot with Natraj Behera taking the catch. Jiwanjot could add only 12 runs to his overnight score of six but other opener Inder Singh hit a 100-ball 50 with the help of nine boundaries. He was dismissed by Dhiraj Singh in the 36th over as Punjab slipped to 86 for two. But Taruwar and Mandeep then took the onus on themselves and slowly and steadily build the platform for a big partnership. Taruwar had 15 boundaries and one six in his 256-ball unconquered innings, while Mandeep hit 14 fours and a six in his unbeaten innings which came off 152 balls at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. Brief Score: Odisha 1st innings: 205 Punjab 1st innings: 306 for two in 94 overs (Taruwar Kohli 109, Mandeep Singh 116; Dhiraj Singh 2/44).
‘Training required for football in India’
Bhubaneswar: In present context the standard of professional football has been changed a lot, many stronger players has been entered and the speed and skill of the game as been changed many fold. But the basic of the game is remain same. Country like India need lot of grass-root training camp to develop footballer, said UK based Sheffield’s United Football Club development manager and coach lee Walshaw, while attending a two-day-long trail camp for Tata Football Academy at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Monday. India is very big country many tribes are living in it. So in India we find many tall as well strong players. So it is not difficult to make a team for India. Many believe that 6ft players will play better football, many 5.5 and 5.6ft players are in the world who consider to be match winner.
Angul wins State Muathai meet
Bhubaneswar: Angul bagged 12 gold, 14 silver, 14 bronze and total of 40 medals and emerged champion in the two-day-long 1st State Muaythai Championship, which concluded at Talcher in Angul on Sunday. However, Keonjhar grabbed 10 gold, two silver and one bronze and finishses second and Balaswar claimed five gold, two silver and one bronze and finished third.