NAGPUR Cricket Academy (NCA) captain Aryan Rathod played a match winning knock of 63 to help his side beat Dr Ambedkar College Sports Academy (DACSA) XI by two wickets and win the Dr R Krishnakumar memorial cricket tournament, the other day. Batting first, DACSA scored 153 for 6 from 25 overs. Opener Palash Khandekar scored 40 while Ranvir Jichkar added 26 as they posted 68 runs for the opening wicket. Avyesh Bhiwapurkar (36) and Yash Chaude (33) were the other main scorers. For NCA, Ayush took ..

NAGPUR Blues’ Mirza Moin Baig scored the 50th goal of the competition but Big Ben ran away with three full points registering their first win (2-1) in the JSW-NDFA Elite Division League Championship on Monday. The 50th goal of the meet came in the 16th match of the tournament with Baig registering his name in the record books when he stunned Big Ben in the second minute of play. Baig collected a ball fed from Saket Kanojiya from right and managed to beat a fragile Big Ben defence to slot the ball ..

Competing in the 57-60 kg weight category, Shruti Zade of CP and Berar college won a gold medal. Shruti won the yellow metal outpunching Nabira Mahavidyalaya’s Sneha Waney in the summit clash. By virtue of her gold, Shruti booked a place in the All India Inter-University Boxing Championship. Shruti’s college-mate Saurabh Sonawane had to be satisfied with a bronze medal as he injured his shoulders during a bout. Principal Dr Milind Barahate, Vice-Principal Dr JK Mahajan, Head of the Physical Education ..

CITY all-rounder Disha Kasat excelled with the willow in her first match to guide India A to a comfortable five-wicket win over India C in the Senior Women’s Cricket Challenger Trophy match at Dr Gokaraju Laila Ganga Raju ACA Cricket Complex-DVR Ground, Mulapadu, Vijayawada on Sunday. In response to India C’s 205 all out in 47.1 overs, India A achieved the target (206) in 46.1 overs losing five wickets. Coming at number four when the team was 45-2 in 16.1 overs, Disha (53; 70b, 6x4) steadied the ..

KAMPTEE outfit Ansar Sporting Club pipped South East Central Railway (SECR) Headquarters 1-0 to record their second win in JSW-NDFA Elite Division Championship under way at Dr BR Ambedkar Football Stadium in Suyog Nagar, north Nagpur on Sunday. After playing an exciting and pacy but goalless first half, Ansar’s hard working centre forward Sohrab Akhtar finally got the reward in 60th minute of play in their third round league match. On a short pass from Rizwan inside the penalty box on the right flank, ..

THE mixed doubles pair of city’s Ritika Thaker and her Hyderabad partner Bokka Navaneeth were ousted from the Bangladesh International Challenge 2021 under way in Dhaka on Saturday. Ritika-Bokka pair found the second seeded Sri Lankan combination of Sachin Dias and Sri Kavidi Sirimannage too hot to handle. The India combo went down 11-21, 10-21 in 27 minutes in the quarter-finals. With the loss, Nagpur’s challenge ended in the BWF event being conducted by Bangladesh Badminton Federation...

MUMBAI-BORN left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel on Saturday entered the record books as he became only the third bowler in the 144-year-old history of Test cricket to take all 10 wickets in an innings on the second day of the second match against India here. Patel, who had migrated to New Zealand with his parents back in 1996, ended the Indian innings with figures of 47.5-12-119-10 to equal England great Jim Laker and Indian legend Anil Kumble, who had achieved the rarest of rare feat in Test cricket. Laker ..

  DHARA Phate kept her best for the last as she guided her side Dharampeth Krida Mandal (DKM) to title victory over arch-rivals Shivaji Nagar Gymkhana (SNG) in the final of Junior District Basketball Championship organised by Nagpur District Bas..

THE ‘A’ team of Dharampeth Krida Mandal (DKM) will lock horns with Shivaji Nagar Gymkhana girls for supremacy in Junior District Basketball Championship organised by Nagpur District Basketball Association at NBYS Courts in Bajaj Nagar. On Thursday evening, both the teams recorded facile wins over their respective opponents in the semi-finals to book final date...

A CAUTIOUS goalless first half. A fast-paced second session. Two goals. Two red-card suspensions. A serious injury. And an exciting draw. That’s how the match between two champion sides can be summed up. Former five-time title holders Rabbani Club, Kamptee came from behind to hold defending champions Rahul Sankrutyayan Sports Association to a 1-1 draw in their third round JSW-NDFA Elite Division League match on Thursday at Dr BR Ambedkar Football Stadium in Suyog Nagar, north Nagpur. Anurag Solanki ..

FORMER handball player of repute Ashish Banerjee has joined Nagpur’s SAI Centre at Wathoda as handball coach. A Shiv Chhatrapati Awardee, Banerjee took charge from Virender Bhandarkar. Banerjee has been transferred to Nagpur from SAI Gandhinagar. He was a goalkeeper in his playing days and was a key member who helped Nagpur University win four gold medals...

‘YOGA Darshan’, a book penned by Patanjali’s yoga teacher, litterateur and social worker Jaiprakash Suryavanshi was released at Arpan Hall of Vidarbha Hindi Sahitya Sammelan the other day. This is the fifth book written by Suryavanshi. District General Secretary of Swabhiman District Nagpur Ritu Zargar presided over the function. Krishna Nagpal,..

IT WAS billed as a high-scoring and one-sided encounter between Young Muslim Football Club (YMFC) and Manganese Ore India Limited XI (MOIL). But the misfiring Momimpura-based former champions wasted chances galore only to win by two goals to nil in the second round match of JSW-NDFA Eite Division League at Dr BR Ambedkar Football Stadium in Suyog Nagar, north Nagpur on Tuesday. A goal in each half from Fahad Junaid (24th min) and ..

ALL-ROUNDER Jagjot Singh Sasan showcased his batting prowess with a quickfire half century as Vidarbha colts dominated opening day of their Cooch Behar Trophy match against Odisha at Azam Campus, Pune on Monday. Put into bat, Vidarbha scored at a brisk pace and were 355 all out in 76.2 overs. For Vidarbha, Jagjot, Abhishek Agrawal and Rohit Binkar hit fifties. In the possible five overs, Odisha openers made 22 without being separated in reply at stumps on first day of the four-day match. Odisha skipper ..

THE Senior Selection Committee of Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) has named a 20-strong side to be led by Faiz Fazal for the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy one-day cricket tournament. The week-long league stage of Senior Elite Group A that gets under way on December 8 will be held at Mumbai. Most of the players who performed well and helped Vidarbha make it to semi-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament were automatic choice for the 50-over version. Vidarbha will play Himachal, Andhra, ..

Soham Jane held his serve and composure to beat Rohit Mirpuri 8-5 in the best of 15 format to clinch the men’s singles title of the Nagpur District Championship organised by Nagpur District Hardcourt Tennis Association at its Ram Nagar courts on Sunday. In women’s final, Kalyani Somewar defeaed Tanaya Choudhary 8-2 in best of 15 format to emerge champion. In the men’s semis, Jane and Rohit Mirpuri made it to the final defeating Om Dhok and Dr Alok Umre comfortably by 6-2 and 6-1 margin respectively. ..

BAJAJ team somehow poses the happy knack of emerging winners when it matters the most. They did it once again at MIACSR in Hingna MIDC by clinching the team duplicate contest on Sunday. Competing from a field of eight teams from Vidarbha region, played across seven rounds of six boards each, Bajaj succeeded in garnering 92.48 VP to emerge champions. Bajaj team comprised S Chhajjed, VJ Puranik, AJ Puranik, Sameer Roy, RP Deshpande and MN Dutta. Team We 4 finished runners-up with 86.16 VP. Their team ..

Rabbani Club, Kamptee regrouped well after their shocking opening game defeat as they got the better of Qidwai Club 2-1 in the second round of the JSW-NDFA Elite Division League Tournament at association’s Dr BR Ambedkar Football Stadium in Suyog Nagar, north Nagpur. Mohd Yaseen (37th min) and Mohd Hanzala (44th min) scored for Rabbani while for Qidwai, Sahil Meshram (53rd) reduced the margin. Qidwai Club, who stunned defending champions Rahul and surprised many with their 2-0 win in the tournament ..

  South East Central Railways’ DRM and President of South East Central Railways Sports Association (SECRSA) Maninder Uppal recently felicitated its employees for being appointed as selectors of Railways and Vidarbha Cricket Association (VC..

  Defending champions Rahul Sankrutyayan Sports Association’s diminutive striker Badal Soren bulged the net twice with his powerful right footers to bring their campaign back on track with a 2-0 win over Nagpur Blues in the ongoing JSW Eli..

  Annie Anthony, talented midfielder of Amma Football Club Nagpur, has been selected in the Maharashtra women’s football team for the 26th Senior Women’s National Championship.The national championship will be held at Kerala from Nov..

City’s Pratima Bonde has been selected in the Indian Powerlifting squad which will participate in the World Para Powerlifting Championships-2021 in Georgia from November 27. Eklavya awardee Pratima, who is also a member of Munishwar Health Club, Mahal, left for Delhi from where the Indian team will fly for Georgia. Pratima is representing India in 50 kg category...

Dishank Bajaj emerged champion of the Nagpur District Chess Association organised 46th Weekend Rapid Chess Tournament. The tournament was held NDCA Hall, at Dhanwate National College, Congress Nagar. Bajaj garnered 6.5 points from seven rounds to claim the title. In the seventh and final round, Bajaj spilt points with Sumedh Ramteke who finished fifth with 5.5 points. Shivain Bansal, with six points in his kitty, finished second while Ankesh Chopde finished third with 5.5 points...

DR AMIT Samarth, ultra cyclist and ‘Bicycle Mayor’ of Nagpur is going to pedal from India Gate (New Delhi) to Zero Mile on November 27 to promote cycling in the region. Indian Oil is the title sponsor for IndianOil XtraGreen Mile by Mile Mission Zero Mile event. “I will be attempting to ride cycle 1035 kms from New Delhi to Nagpur in under 40 hours to create World UltraCycling Association Record,” said Dr Samarth during a presser. It will be non-stop cycling from New Delhi to Nagpur without any sleep ..

SHOBIT Harde scored two second half goals as Nagpur Blues thrashed former multiple-time champions Rabbani 3-0 in what was both the teams’ opening encounter of the JSW Elite Division Football Tournament at Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Stadium in Suyog Nagar, north Nagpur. Rabbani paid for their defensive lapses as Nagpur Blues forwards breached their defence time and again. Ataur Rehman (22nd) and Shobit Harde (50th, 70th) scored goals for Nagpur Blues. Rabbani, the five times champions, had ..

KAMPTEE is known for its football and footballers who went on to represent renowned soccer clubs of the country including Mohun Bagan, Mohmedan Sporting and others. Continuing its tradition, three footballers from the town will be representing Daman and Diu football team in the forthcoming 75th Santosh Trophy Championship. These footballers, who dazzled in NDFA leagues moved out of city for better prospects and landed place in Daman and Diu team...

DEFENDING champions Rahul Sankrutyayan Sports Association started their title defence on a losing note as they went down to Qidwai Sports Club in the opening encounter of JSW-NDFA Elite Division League at Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Football Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The fans were back on the football field for the Elite Division after almost two years and they thoroughly enjoyed the game from behind the chained fence. The stunning 2-0 win helped Qidwai open their account with three points. Qidwai ..

TEJAS Dhande, a student of Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE), has been selected in Maharashtra team which will participate in the 26th National Road Cycling Championship. The championship is being organised under the aegis of Cycling Federation of India and will be held at Pehowa, Kurukshetra, Haryana from November 25 to 28. Tejas, 19, is the youngest in the Maharashtra Under-23 team and only cyclist from Nagpur. Tejas, son of Ajay and Dr Leena Dhande, is trained by Arvind Panwar...

Vidarbha pacer Darshan Nalkande etched his name in history books by taking four wickets in four deliveries but his heroics was too little too late as they lost the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 semi-final to Karnataka by just four runs at Arun Jaitely Stadium in New Delhi on Saturday. Karnataka will meet Tamil Nadu in the final on Nov 22. Rookie medium pacer P Saravana Kumar starred with a fifer as defending champions TN outplayed Hyderabad by eight wickets. Chasing a stiff target of 177, Vidarbha were almost ..

  By Paritosh PramanikEVERY conversation with Sardar Atal Bahadur Singh would conclude with an infectious smile on his face. He showered his love on sportspersons abundantly and whoever approached him seeking help, never returned empty-handed.Th..

CITY shuttler Ritika Thaker and her Hyderabad partner Navneeth Bokka made it to the main draw of the Bahrain International Series 2021. The five-day tournament is being held at India club in Manama, Bahrain. The pair registered twin wins in the qualifying round to move up in the competition. In their first qualifying round match, the Indian mixed doubles pair outclassed Bahrain’s Elyas Jaffar and her South Africa partner Sandra Le Grange in straight games in 24 minutes. After winning the first game ..

Pamir Shahare and Madhura Tepale will lead the men and women sepak takraw teams respectively in the forthcoming 31st Senior National Sepak Takraw Championship. The meet is going to be held at Lovely Professional University, Punjab from November 21 to 25. Maharashtra Sepak Takraw Association declared the men and women’s team. Shekhar Patil, Deputy Director of Sports, Nagpur Region, Vipin Kamdar, Officiating President MSTA, Dr Yogendra Pandey, Officiating Secretary, MSTA, Dr D Welukar, Officiating ..

WHEN Jitesh Sharma arrived at the crease, Vidarbha needed 30 runs from 25 balls but the swashbuckling player made it a no-contest completing his team’s domination over Maharashtra with three consecutives sixes in their Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy pre-quarter-final at Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi on Tuesday. After Vidarbha bowlers did well in the second half to restrict Maharashtra to a modest 157-8, Vidarbha raced to the target in 17.5 overs with seven wickets intact. Sharma smashed 28 from just seven ..

VRUSHABH Arsade scored a huge century as Modern Cricket Academy thrashed Reshimbagh Krida Mandal by 157 runs in the ongoing Guzder League B Division tournament played at Pandav College Ground. Batting first, Modern Cricket Academy scored 370 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. Arsade top scored with 175 runs while Santosh Ade added 50. For Reshimbagh Krida Mandal, Hrishikesh Athode picked up 3 wickets. In reply. Reshimbagh managed only 213 in 40.3 overs. Arsade scalped three wickets giving 18 runs while ..

ALL the teams that have made the cut for knock-out stage of Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 cricket tournament will have one opponent in common — the hazardous Delhi air. Eleven teams comprising five Elite Group winners, five Elite Group runners-up one Plate Group winner will vie for national glory in the final leg of the tourney that kicks-off at New Delhi on Tuesday. All the Elite Group winners have been given direct entry into the quarter-finals. The other six teams will fight it out for the remaining ..

DOUBLE hundred seems to be a new norm these days as far as Guzder League B Division Tournament is concerned. Sultan Ahmed of Ruby Colts became the latest addition to the list of batsmen hammering a double ton in 50-overs matches this season. In a Group B2 game at VCA Kalamna ground, Ahmed hit eleven sixes and 23 fours from 121 balls for his 200. Shashank Manwatkar contributed 86 as the team amassed 365 in 50 overs after electing to bat first versus Qidwai Cricket Club...

NAGPUR’S doubles specialist badminton player Ritika Thaker and her Mumbai partner Simran Singhi have been given top seeding in women’s doubles in the upcoming Bahrain International Series to be held in Manama, Bahrain The five-day event will be held in from November 17-21. Ritika is also playing in the mixed doubles with Navneeth Bokka. The pair will have to go through the qualifying rounds...

 TITLE favourite Jennifer Varghese and Ikshika Umate registered victories in their respective age categories on the opening day of the RYP-Dr Ramesh Yashwant Prabhoo Memorial 1st Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tournament 2021-2022, conducted under t..

NAGPUR Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari recently held a meeting with Sports Minister Anurag Thakur in New Delhi.During the meeting, Tiwari submitted a memorandum to Thakur requesting the Centre to allocate funds from Khelo India Infrastructure Development Scheme ..

CITY’S promising paddler Jennifer Varghese has been seeded top in the Under-15 age category of the Dr Ramesh Yashwant Prabhoo Memorial 1st Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tournament 2021-2022 which gets under way at Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul, Vile Parle (East) from Friday. The competition will be conducted under the auspices of the Maharashtra State Table Tennis Association. Thirteen-year-old Jennifer, who recently clinched the national Under-15 and Under-17 titles, will also be participating ..

HARVINDER Singh slammed an unbeaten double hundred, Krishna Muduli hit a daddy ton while Nilesh Navnage returned with a six-wicket haul as Qidwai Cricket Club mauled Mahal Cricket Club by 322 runs in their Guzder League B Division One-Day Tournament (Group B2) at MSEB Koradi ground on Thursday. Electing to bat Qidwai posted a mammoth 439-5 in 50 overs and then shot out Mahal for 117 in 29.5 overs. Opener Singh carried his bat through to remain unconquered on 202. From the 157 balls he faced, Singh ..

NAGPUR’S international player Gurudas Raut will lead West Zone team in National Twenty20 Divyang Cricket Tournament to be held at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh from November 18 to 21, informs Sanjay Bhoskar, Secretary, Maharashtra Cricket Association for Disabled (MCAD) and West Zone President through a press release. The four-day event is being organised by the Physically Challenged Cricket Association of India. Outstanding State cricketers from all over India have been selected on the basis of their performanc..

DOCTORS from the city excelled in National IMA Sports Olympiad that concluded in Nashik recently. It was multi-sport event and Nagpur doctors participated in cricket, badminton, chess and athletics. Radiologist Dr Manisha Bhawatkar reached in two badminton finals. She emerged winner in 35+ ladies doubles with her partner from Jalgaon and runner-up in singles event. Another Radiologist Dr Sachin Khandekar and GP Dr Arvind Joshi were runners-up in 50+ doubles badminton event. Team IMA Nagpur congratulat..

IT IS for the first time that a Nagpur player, Kartik Jaiswal, has been selected for the Indian Open MMA (Mixed Martial Art) & Super Fight League (SFL) Contender Night which will be held at New Delhi from November 12-14. The championship is organised by Super Fight League and Fight Council of India and will be held at Dr Sahib SinghVarma Stadium, Dwarka, New Delhi. City’s MMA fighter Jaiswal will play under weight categories of (57-61kg). All professional winners will awarded Pro Belt and Rs 10,000 ..

THE shortest format of cricket — Twenty20, is all about big hitting. Bowlers are more often than not on the receiving end. But Monday belonged to one from that tribe. Vidarbha’s ambidextrous spin bowler Akshay Karnewar, who switches his arms depending upon the batsmen he’s bowling to, carved his name in record books. Karnewar bowled 24 dot balls, that is four maidens in a Twenty20 match, to make a world record. Karnewar conceded no runs picking two wickets against Manipur during Vidarbha’s thumping ..

MARTIAL arts players of Pegasus Martial Art Academy (PMAA) representing prominent schools of the city returned with huge medal haul from the 1st State-level Koshiki Martial Arts Championship that concluded at Nashik recently. The event, conducted by Koshiki Association of Nashik and organised by Koshiki Association of Maharashtra, was held at Sports Division Office’s Meenatai Thakre Stadium...

MOHOTAS, one of the older teams affiliated to Vidarbha Bridge Association, polished up their image just that little bit on Sunday. The father and son duo of Basant and Anurag Mohota succeeded in regaining the top perch in pairs event organised by Vidarbha Bridge Association in their sports complex at Shankar Nagar. Competing from a field of 12 pairs from Vidarbha region in 22 deals Match Point contest played in Howell movement, Mohotas became eligible for winners purse by virtue of having secured ..

  AK Nandgawe and MI Hararwala made most of the opportunity celebrating their victory in pairs event organised by Vidarbha Bridge Association in their sports complex at Shankar Nagar. Competing from a field of 10 pairs from Vidarbha region in 24..

VIDARBHA men have not been up to the mark in shortest format and their poor performances at the national level in the past year(s) have relegated them to Plate Group of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 cricket tournament that gets under way on Thursday. They are in the company of ‘Seven Sisters’ — Arunachal Pradesh, Cricket Association of Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and will begin their campaign against Arunachal Pradesh at Vijayawada. In all the other five Elite groups ..

FORMER captain Rahul Dravid was on Wednesday appointed as the head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team by the BCCI, a development that was expected after the batting great was convinced by the board’s top brass. Dravid, who was working as the head of National Cricket Academy, has been appointed for a period of two years till the 2023 50-over World Cup in India. The 47-year-old Dravid, one of the greatest to have played for India, was the only choice for BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary ..