SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2018 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Senior National Chess Championship Kohli, Rahane propel India 5 Grand Masters, 1 IM leading to 172/3 after poor start jointly at 7 points each after 9 rounds PERTH, Dec 15: with Ajinkya Rahane's counterat- run unbroken partnership with Excelsior Sports Correspondent RSPB, IM Krishna of RSPB Petroleum Sports Promotion tacking 51 helped India to not only Rahane by stumps on the second beat Rahul of Tamil Nadu, Board, LIC, etc. are participat- Skipper Virat Kohli played a JAMMU, Dec 15: Five Sammed Jayakumar Shete of ing in this event. Total 50 titled overcome the cheap dismissals of day, the stand coming after he added Grand Masters Vaibhav Suri, pivotal role with a workmanlike 82, Murali Vijay (0) and K L Rahul (2), 74 with Adelaide hero Cheteshwar Maharashtra drew with GM players are also playing in this lifting India from a double blow at Aravindh Chithamabaram, Deep Sundararajan Kidambi of Tamil historical and strongest ever but also put the visitors in a position Pujara (24) for the third wicket. Sengupta, Anurag Mhamal and This was after Australia's tail Nadu, IM Akash of Tamil Nadu national of India till date. SCOREBOARD Bakre Tejas and International drew with FM Navalgund All J&K Chess Association Australia first innings: (Overnight 277/6) wagged to add 49 runs to their Master (IM) Stany are in the Winning team players alongwith chief guest posing for group Niranjan of Karnataka, GM under the aegis of All India Marcus Harris c A Rahane b Hanuma Vihari 70 overnight total to finish at 326. India lead with 7.0 points each at the Aaron Finch lbw b Bumrah 50 photograph. Neelotpal Das of PSPB beat IM Chess Federation is organizing trailed by 154 runs. end of 9th round during the Usman Khawaja c Pant b Umesh 5 Post tea, Kohli and Pujara (24) this event. This is also a Asian Shaun Marsh c A Rahane b Hanuma Vihari 45 batted in much the same manner as 6th Christmas T20 Cricket Championship Zonal 3.7 event as India is a sep- Peter Handscomb c Kohli b Ishant 7 arate zone in Asia. Top 10 board Travis Head c Shami b Ishant 58 they did in the previous session. Tim Paine lbw b Bumrah 38 Their pace of scoring was slow, but Simula Cricket Club to lock horns games were shown live on inter- Pat Cummins b Umesh 19 they batted with assurance until net by expert Ganesh Babu of Mitchell Strac c Pant b Ishant 6 Mitchell Starc (2-42) provided the with KC Sports Club in final today Tamil Nadu. Nathan Lyon not out 9 Total prizes of Rs 20 lakhs breakthrough. Excelsior Sports Correspondent chased the target in 19th over by los- Josh Hazlewood c Pant b Ishant 0 It came seven overs after the tea will be distributed among top 10 Extra (LB-7, B-4 W-7, NB-1) 19 ing 6 wickets and won the match by players and first prize being Rs 5 Total (All out in 108.3 overs) 326 break as Pujara glanced a delivery JAMMU, Dec 15: Simula 4 wickets. Puneet scored 61 runs, Fall of Wickets: 1-112, 2-130, 3-134, 4-148, 5-232, 6-251, 7-310, 8-310, 9-326. down leg only to be caught behind, Cricket Club will lock horns with lakh. Total 13 rounds will be Raman chipped in 19 runs and played. Selected players will Bowlers: Ishant Sharma 20.3-7-41-4, Jasprit Bumrah 26-8-53-2, Umesh as his 74-run partnership with Kohli KC Sports Club in the final of the Shashi made 15 runs. Yadav 23-3-78-2, Mohammed Shami 24-3-80-0, Hanuma Vihari 14-1- lead the Asian Zone 3.7 in world for the third wicket came to an end. 6th Christmas T20 Cricket From the bowling side, Ishtiaq 53-2, Murali Vijay 1-0-10-0. events. All States have been Rahane then joined Kohli in the Championship, being organized took 3 wickets, while Shokat and India first innings middle, and initially he faced some under the banner of Christian Sports allowed to field 4 entries while KL Rahul b Hazelwood 2 Bhalwan took 1 wicket each. being host, J&K has been Murali Vijay b Strac 0 issues getting used to the pace and Organization Jammu, Zonal Police Puneet was declared as Man of Cheteshwar Pujara c Paine b Starc 24 bounce off the pitch. Unlike Pujara Headquarters Jammu and Christian allowed to field 8 players. the Match. Soham Kamotra of J&K is at Virat Kohli batting 82 though, he took the bowling head Fellowship Trust Jammu and sup- In second semifinal match, KC Ajinkya Rahane batting 51 on and counter-attacked with two ported by Diocese of Jammu at Chess players busy in making moves during Senior National 4.5 points after 7 rounds, while Extras (LB-6, NB-2, W-5) 13 Sports Club defeated Singh Cricket Sumit Grover and Ajit Singh are boundaries and a six. Parade ground, here tomorrow. Club Akhnoor by 5 wickets. Chess Championship at Jammu on Saturday. -Excelsior/Rakesh Total (For three wickets in 69 overs) 172 It set the pace for his partnership In today's matches, Cricketer at 4 points in this high voltage Fall of Wickets: 1-6, 2-8, 82-3. Batting first, Singh Cricket Club ongoing Senior National Chess Rathnakaran of RSPB, GM event. Other participants from Bowlers: Mitchell Starc 14-4-42-2 , Josh Hazlewood 16-7-50-1, Pat with Kohli, who was solid at the Promoter of J&K Hilal Rather was Akhnoor scored 127 runs for the loss Championship, being played at Cummins 17-3-40-0, Nathan Lyon 22-4-34-0 other end, and grinding down the the special guest who interacted with Karthikeyan Murali of PSPB J&K are Ajit Singh, Khalid of 9 wickets. Amir made 46 runs, Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust, beat Ritviz Parab of Goa, GM Amin, SP Sharma, Ashutosh Australian attack. The Indian skip- the players and conveyed his wishes. while Manik scored 24 runs and here. the beginning of innings to 172 for from where they will look to domi- per reached his 20th Test half-centu- Earlier in first semifinal match, Chanda Sandipan of West Jamwal, Surinder and Ankush three in the second Test against Sumit chipped in 23 runs. On the seventh spot, 7 play- Bengal beat FM NItish Belurkar Bhardwaj. nate the rest of the game. ry off 109 balls as India crossed 100 Simula Cricket Club defeated Road From the bowling side, Abhinav ers namely GM Deepan Australia here Saturday. The India captain stitched a 90- in the 43rd over. of Goa, IM Saravana Krishnan The event is played under & Safety Department team by 4 took 3 wickets, Gagan took 2 wick- Chakraborty, GM Praveen Kohli's unbeaten knock coupled Their 50-partnership came off wickets. of Tamil Nadu drew with GM Fide laws of chess under Swiss ets while Arjun, Vicky and Vivek Thipsay, GM Swapnil Dhopade, 106 balls as the duo settled down to Batting first, Road & Safety Venkatesh of PSPB, IM Vignesh System. International Arbiter scalped 1 wicket each. GM Neelotpal Das, see off the last hour before stumps. Department scored 131 runs for the of Tamil Nadu beat IM Navin Dharmendra Kumar is the Chief In reply, KC Sports chased the Harshavardhan, IM Nitin S and They cut down on the risks even loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 Kanna of DASCB, Srijit Paul of Arbiter of this event who is sup- target in 16.4 overs for the loss of 5 IM Krishna CRG are in with 6.5 more, only occasionally coming overs. Adil Rishi scored 67 runs, West Bengal beat IM Swayams ported by seven Deputy wickets and won the match by 5 point each. forth to play their shots. while Istiaq made 20 runs and Mishra of Air India, Saurabh Arbiters. wickets. Arjun made 57 runs, while GM Sengupta Deep of PSPB Anand of Bihar lost to IM Dr Daud Iqbal Baba, In doing so, Rahane reached his Khalid scored 17 runs. drew with GM Vaibhav Suri of 17th Test half-century before end of From the bowling side, Vivek Vishal scored 22 runs and Abhishant Shyaam Nikhil of RSPB, FM Director, Directorate of Sports chipped in 13 were. PSPB, GM Aravindh Wagh Suyog of Maharashtra lost and Physical Education, Jammu play as the two batsmen were sure took 3 wickets, Vikram scalped 2 Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu in their shot selection and avoided wickets while Shashi and Raman From the bowling side, Sunil to GM Laxman of RSPB and IM University inaugurated the took 4 wickets, while Happy scalped drew with IM Stany of AAI, GM Rajesh of Tamil Nadu beat round 8 and wished good luck to any further damage to the Indian Dutta pocketed 1 wicket each. Anurag Mhamal of Goa beat innings.(PTI) In reply, Simula Cricket Club 1 wicket. Gurpreeth Singh Maras of the players. Arjun Choudhary was declared GM Gupta Abhijeet of PSPB, DASCB. The matches are conducted Athletes during trials at Jammu on Saturday. Surchandra's strike helps Real as Man of the Match. IM Nitin of RSPB drew with J&K players Soham under the overall supervision of The matches were officiated by GM Deepan Chakkravarthy of Kamotra and Sumit Grover are AJKCA President Atul Kumar NEST selects 5 athletes from Jammu Sadiq Hussain, Ashok, Sanju and RSPB, GM Bakre Tejas of Air at 4.5 each.