FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017 (PAGE 16) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU J&K Wushu players bring laurels to Sindhu sails into quarterfinals Gujarat beat RCB by 7 wickets to Country in International Wushu C’ship with another easy win keep IPL play-off hopes alive Excelsior Sports Correspondent WUHAN (China), Apr 27: London Games bronze medallist Saina Nehwal, HS BANGALORE, Apr 27: in the season for Gujarat, who dled out for 49 -- the lowest total JAMMU, Apr 27: Winning 5 Olympic silver medallist P V Prannoy and the doubles pairs had so far gathered just four in IPL history -- by Kolkata Sindhu of India sailed into the Riding on Andrew Tye's points from seven games to be Knight Riders two days ago, medals, with 2 gold, 2 silver and exited the tournament on the three- wicket haul and Aaron 1 bronze among the 16 medals, quarterfinals of the Badminton opening day yesterday. languishing at the bottom of the were left tottering at 61-5 in 10 Asia Championships with anoth- Finch's whirlwind fifty, Gujarat table. They now reached the sixth overs. with 5 gold, 5 silver and 6 Seeded third, the 21-year-old Lions notched up a comfortable bronze secured by the Indian er clinical performance here Sindhu is the lone Indian in fray spot with six points. Starting the proceedings, today. seven-wicket win over Royal With this loss, the door is fast seamers Nathu Singh and Basil Wushu team in the International now, and will take on He Challengers Bangalore to keep Wushu Championship at The Rio Games silver winner Bingjiao of China in the quarter- closing for Bangalore, who have Thampi bowled economical easily notched up a 21-14, 21-15 alive their IPL play-off hopes, just five points from nine match- overs as RCB reached 17-0 in Yerevan in Armania, the Jammu finals. here today. and Kashmir ace Wushu players win over unseeded Japanese Aya In the men's event, Jayaram, es now. first three overs. Ohori in the second round match Chasing 135 to win, Gujarat Chasing the target, opener With Thampi keeping the have brought laurels to the who had stunned Chinese fifth lost both openers -- Ishan Kishan Country and the State of Jammu that lasted just 40 minutes at the seed Tian Houwei in the first Kishan smashed a couple of fours pressure, a frustrated Virat Kohli Wuhan Sports Center (16) and Brendon McCullum (3) and Kashmir as well. round, lost in straight games. -- to be reduced to 23-2 but For this outstanding achieve- Gymnasium. In the mixed doubles catego- TODAY’S FIXTURE However, Ajay Jayaram Finch blasted 5 fours and 6 sixes Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Delhi Daredevils (4 PM) Kolkata ment, the office bearers of ry, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N in his scintillating 34 -ball 72- crashed out in the second round Kings XI Punjab Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (8 PM) Mohali Wushu Association of J&K and Sikki Reddy went down to top run innings as the visitors the Chief Sports Officer J&K of men's event, losing 19-21, 10- seeds Zheng Siwei and Chen 21 to Chinese Taipei's Hsu Jen romped home with 6.1 overs to in the first over to make a posi- (10) ended up hitting straight to State Sports Council, Haji Qingchen 15-21, 21-14, 16-21 in spare. Qayoom gave a rousing recep- Hao. 50 minutes. tive start. He picked up two more Finch at short fine leg as RCB World number three Sindhu Earlier right-arm seamer tion to the medalists of the State, Sikki, partnering Ashwinin boundaries before being trapped lost their first wicket. began her campaign in the conti- Tye's three-wicket haul triggered here today. Ponnappa, also lost in the dou- leg before by Badree in the 3rd Gayle then nicked a Tye Medal winning Wushu players being accorded rousing recep- nental tournament by defeating a top-order collapse as Royal The team was sent by the bles competition to South over. delivery straight to wicket- tion in Jammu after returning from Yerevan in Armania. Dinar Dyah Ayustine of Challengers Bangalore were McCullum too perished in the keeper Dinesh Karthik as RCB Wushu Association of India in Koreans Chae Yoo Jung and Kim bowled out for 134 by Gujarat The medalists from J&K Council, Waheed-Ur- Rehman Indonesia 21-8, 21-18 in a lop- fifth over when he was caught at lost both their openers inside the which 19 players from different So Yeong 20-22, 16-21 in 37 Lions after skipper Suresh Raina included Ajaz Hassan (Gold), Parra have conveyed congratula- sided first round encounter. long-on by de Villiers as he powerplay. parts of the Country participat- minutes. (PTI) elected to bowl in their eighth Sunil Dev Singh (Gold), Pankaj tions to the medalists and the became the second victim of Tye struck again in the next ed. match of IPL 10. Raina (Silver),Tsering Angmo Wushu Association of J&K for Badree. ball, dismissing Travis Head in 14 Countries participated in Tye, who had taken a hat- (Silver) and Jabeena Akhter earning such feat at the JKAP distributes sports However, Finch took the fight similar fashion with skipper the Championship. trick on IPL debut against Rising (Bronze). International arena. to the opposition as he blasted Raina taking the catch this time The selection of the players Pune Supergiant at Rajkot, struck The team was coached by The office bearers of the successive sixes in the third and at wide slip. in this Championship was based items in Mattan schools twice in two balls and returned Kuldeep Handoo (Chief Wushu Association of J&K fourth balls of Badree's over to At 22-3, Kedar Jadhav (31) on the performance in the Excelsior Sports Correspondent police officers, Zonal Education with figures of 4-0-12-3 to leave National Coach of India). including Yogesh Sawhney make his intentions clear. joined AB de Villiers and the 32- recently held 25th Senior Officer, Staff members of the the hosts at 22-3 in the fifth over. Minister for Sports, Moulvi (Patron), Vijay Saraf SRINAGAR, Apr 27: In the ninth over, Finch year-old from Maharashtra National Wushu Championship concerned schools, students and Besides Tye, Ravindra Jadeja Imraan Raza Ansari and (President), Ranjeet Kalra (VP) According to the Commandant, picked Aniket Choudhary for blasted three successive fours and Federation Cup at Patiala. other concerned were also pres- (2/28) snapped two wickets and Secretary J&K State Sports and Sunil Sharma (VP) have JKAP III Battalion, Srinagar, the special treatment and blasted a off Thampi as RCB scored 35-3 ent during the function. Basil Thampi (1/34) and Ankit lauded the efforts of the medal Police Department today distrib- couple of fours and a six. He in the first six overs. "The programme was appre- Soni (1/28) picked up one wick- winners for this achievement. uted sports items to different smashed two sixes off Negi and Jadhav hit another four off ciated, welcomed and it was et each as Lions dished out a dis- Those who were present dur- schools of Mattan Zone in kept dealing in boundaries Ravindra Jadeja and then clob- insisted that the Police ciplined bowling performance. ing the function included Sohit Anantnag district under its before being caught by de bered debutant leg-spinner Ankit Department should conduct For RCB, Pawan Negi (32) Sharma (Treasurer), Ajay Paul 'Civic Action Programme' to Villiers at long-on boundary in Soni for a six over midwicket to more such programmes in future and Kedar Jadhav (31) were the Gill, Arun Singh Charak, Lalit promote police-public friendly the 13th over. bring up the fifty for Bangalore. to make the police-public rela- top scorers. Singh, Bhanu Partap Singh, relations. Earlier, RCB, who were bun- (PTI) Chief Education Officer tion better," a statement of the This is only the third victory Rajinder singh, Ashi Jamwal, Police Department said. 5th JTP T20 Cricket Tournament Atul and Rohit. Anantnag was the chief guest on the occasion, while as senior Road Safety XI drubs Wrestling, Cricket, Badminton Medal winning visually challenged clumbers by J&K during YCC by 5 wkts felicitation function in Jammu on Thursady. Competitions held Excelsior Sports Correspondent Rajesh Gill and Balwan bagged Excelsior Sports Correspondent Din of GHSS Marheen thrashed 2 wickets respectively. Dinesh JAMMU, Apr 27: Riding on and RK Bhat claimed 1 wicket State Visually Challenged Baru Din of GHSS Hiranagar. brilliant 72 runs by Yasir Ali and JAMMU, Apr 27: Organized At GHSS Marheen, the each. by the Department of Youth superb 4-wicket haul by Rompy In reply, Road Safety XI opening match of Badminton for Sharma, Road Safety XI defeat- climbers bring laurels Services and Sports, Hiranagar Under-17 boys was played scored 19 runs in 15.5 overs by Zone, the Inter School Wresting, Winners of Chess events posing for a group photograph along ed YCC in an easy contest by 5 losing 5 wickets, thus won the Excelsior Sports Correspondent Residential School for Blind. between Raghav of Unique wickets in the ongoing 5th It is worth mentioning here Cricket and Badminton Model HSS Chadwal and with office bearers and officials in Jammu on Thursday. match by 5wickets. Yasir Ali JAMMU, Apr 27: Visually Competitions were held at Jammu Tawi Premier League played a magnificent innings of that 2nd North Zone Sport Mahesh of GMS Phalapur in T20 Cricket Tournament, being Challenged climbers of J&K Climbing Championship for Sports Stadium, Hiranagar and which Raghav outplayed Jammu Division Selection 72 runs, while Rompy Sharma who brought laurels to the state GHSS Marheen, here today.