IBl’s Mumbai name coach, advisor
New Delhi: World number one men’s shuttler lee Chong Wei’s coach Tey Seu Bock of Malaysia was on Sunday appointed chief coach of Mumbai Masters for the inaugural Vodafone Indian Badminton league. Former Indian women national champion Aparna Popat will be the team advisor of the Mumbai side. Tey Seu Bock, also former national coach of the Malaysian team, has a new challenge of leading a team with players from multi-cultural background to compete in the USD 1-million Vodafone IBl.
New sports Institute in Jalandhar
Chandigarh: In order to give a facelift to the existing Sports School and College at Jalandhar, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday asked the Sports Department to develop these institutes as Sports Institute of Jalandhar. Presiding over a high-level meeting of the Sports and Education departments to develop ‘Integrated Education and Sports Hub’ on nearly 40 acres of land on Kapurthala Road in Jalandhar, the Chief Minister said that the Sports Institute of Jalandhar would be completely different from the Centre of Sports Excellence to be developed in the city.
IOB beat RCF 84-45
Coimbatore: IOB Chennai men on Sunday trounced RCF Punjab 85-45 in the All India Basket Ball Tournament for PSG Trophy, here on Sunday. Scoring 24 points, Siva Balan topped for the winners, followed by Prasanna Venkatesh 22 and Vineeth Revi Mathew 14. For RCF, Bijender scored 12, Sadab Khan 10 and Harash netted eight points. In the match for the 12th CRI Pumps Trophy for women, Western Railway beat Kerala Police 62-50, with lincy Joseph scoring 17 points for the winners. Anamika scored 14 and Sona 12 for the Railways while Agnes Davis (15) and Asha Abraham (10) played well for the police.
Navneeth wins Hong Kong title
Hong Kong: India’s Navaneeth Prabhu clinched the Boys Under -1 title in the Hong Kong Junior Squash Open defeating local favourite Au lap Man 8-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8 in the final here Sunday. Unfortunately, there was no more joy for the Indian camp when Mohammad Alsarraj, the Jordanian Squash star and top seed, beat AdhityaRaghavan11-8, 13-11, 7-11, 11-9 in the Boys U-15 final. Navaneeth, a trainee of the Indian Squash Academy, lost the first and third game as his opponent played aggressively moving him to all corners.
Keep Fabregas out of friendly
Madrid: la liga giants Barcelona Sunday said midfielder Cesc Fabregas has injured his right ankle and should not be called for Spain’s friendly against Ecuador. Fabregas was included in Spain coach Vicente del Bosque’s roster for Wednesday’s match, reports Xinhua. “Cesc has sprained an external lateral ligament in his right ankle,” said the club. Fabregas limped off during Saturday’s pre-season friendly in which he scored once and set up Neymar and Gerard Pique in Barcelona’s a 3-1 win against Malaysia.