Saurav reaches career best rankings
New Delhi: Indian squash player Saurav Ghosal has risen one rung to a career-high 11th in the latest world rankings. Also moving up was veteran Joshna Chinappa, who jumped two positions to be 14th in the rankings for women. She is now just four spots away from clinching her career-best 10th spot, achieved a little less than two years ago. However, Dipika Pallikal Karthik dropped four rungs to be on 23. Harinder Pal Sandhu improved to 57th from 60th, while Ramit Tandon took the 59th position, an improvement of five rungs. Mahesh Mangaonkar rose to 64th from 68th and Vikram Malhotra took the 72nd position, up from the previous month's 84th.
ATK suffer second successive defeat in isl
Kolkata: Northeast United FC defeated former champions ATK by a solitary goal in an Indian Super League football fixture at the Saltlake Stadium on Thursday. The home side, who kicked off the fifth ISL season with a 0-2 loss to Kerala Blasters, were reduced to 10 players in the 32nd minute when Sena Ralte was sent off for a sloppy challenge. The visitors found the winner through Rowllin Borges from a 89th minute corner by Federico Gallego. It was the Highlanders' first win against the Kolkata franchise from five matches as the win took the Eelco Schattorie-coached side to the top of the table with four points from two matches. ATK still struggled to get off the blocks and they remain at the bottom of the 10 team standings.
goa to host national games in april-may 2019
New Delhi: The much-delayed 36th National Games in Goa will be held from March 30 to April 14 next year, officials said on Thursday. Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) Executive Director V M Prabhudesai made the announcement after a meeting with visiting officials of the Indian Olympic Association. "Opening and Closing ceremonies will be held at PJN Stadium, Fatorda. Opening ceremony will be on March 30 and closing ceremony will be on April 14," Prabhudesai said at a media conference. Prabhudesai said shooting and cycling events will be held in New Delhi as Goa does not have facilities for these two sports.
Delhi beat MP by 75 runs in vijay hazare
New Delhi: India discard Naman Ojha's deplorable on-field behaviour stopped proceedings for 20 minutes but couldn't stop Delhi from thrashing Madhya Pradesh by 75 run in a group B encounter of Vijay Hazare Trophy on Thursday. Batting first, Delhi scored 284 for 8 riding on Nitish Rana's 98-ball-107 studded with 10 fours and three sixes. Having already lost focus due to their captain's outbursts, MP could manage only 209 in 42.4 overs as part-time off-spinner Lalit Yadav picked up five for 25. Delhi now have 22 points from seven games and look good to qualify for the quarter-finals of the National championship. Earlier, skipper Gautam Gambhir (41) and Unmukt Chand (41) added 89 runs for the opening stand to provide a platform for Shorey and Rana.
Jayaram enters taipei open quarters
Taipei City: Indian shuttler Ajay Jayaram progressed to the quarterfinals of the Chinese Taipei BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament after ousting Denmark's Kim Bruun in straight games in the second round here Thursday. Jayaram, a former world no 13 Indian, registered a 21-10, 22-20 win over Kim in a 37-minute battle. The 30-year-old, who had reached the finals of Korea Open in 2015, will face Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia next. Former national champion Sourabh Verma, who had won the $ 75,000 Russian Open in July and had qualified for the Indian team at 18th Asian Games after recovering from injury, lost to Japan's Riichi Takeshita 21-19, 21-23, 16-21 to bow out of the tournament.