WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016 (PAGE 12) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Ranji Trophy-Group C South Africa hammer hapless Haryana in sight of outright victory over J&K Australia to win Test series HOBART, Nov 15: the final day-night Test against the It brought Adam Voges to the MUMBAI, Nov 15: three points. tourists in Adelaide next week. crease under immense pressure to In the second innings, Kerala South Africa demolished It was Australia's fifth consec- save his faltering Test career after Jammu and Kashmir were scored 154 for 4 with skipper Australia by an innings and 80 utive Test defeat this year, after a highest score of 47 in his last 10 38/0 in their second essay after Rohan Prem batting 60 following runs after yet another batting col- also losing all three Tests in Sri innings. bundling out for paltry 262 runs up on his 130 in the first innings. lapse to claim their third succes- Lanka in August. But Voges' self-doubt showed against Haryana's mammoth total Summarized Scores: sive Test series Down Under "We have to find a way to be a through when he tried to withdraw of 502 runs in Ranji Trophy 1) Kerala 342 and 154/4 today, piling the pressure on coach bit more resilient. It seems at the from at attempted pull shot only to Group C Match at Cuttack in (Rohan Prem 60 batting) Darren Lehmann and captain moment, regardless of what the glide a deflection to JP Duminy in Odisha, today. Goa 286 (Shadab Jakati 85, Steve Smith. ball is doing, we need to find a the gully for two after scoring a Earlier, on day-3, resuming CV Vinod Kumar 4/68) The Proteas bowled out the way to hit it better," said Smith. duck in the first innings. from an overnight total of 84/1, 2) Jammu and Kashmir 262 home side for 161 before lunch on "We need to find a way to be Voges trudged off the field J&K bundled out for 262 despite and 38/0. the fourth day, taking their last successful, because what we are after scores of 0 and 2, fearing his Pranav Mahajan's brilliant 94 Haryana 502 (Rajat Paliwal eight wickets for 32 in 116 balls doing at the moment is not work- Test career was over at the age of runs. 194, Nitin Sharma 90, Sanjay after routing Australia for 85 in the ing." 37. In another Group C Match, Pahal 59). Chief Sports Officer, Abdul Qayoom alongwith other dignitaries inaugurating TT first innings. The Australians fell apart again Callum Ferguson was the vic- Kerala have taken a sizeable lead 3) Tripura 171 and 165/3 Championship in Jammu. — Excelsior/Rakesh The latest overpowering victo- on Tuesday, losing their last eight tim of another ugly dismissal, of 210 runs against Goa in a (Yashpal Singh 46 batting) ry followed a 177-run win against wickets with all the apparent bending to evade Rabada only to Ranji Trophy group C encounter Andhra 524/6 decl (Hanuma Smith's shattered team in the first weaknesses again exposed by glove to Dean Elgar at third slip here today. Vihari 233). 38th Stag J&K State TT Perth Test, with South Africa emu- potent South African pace bowl- for one after scoring three in the Having scored 342 in the first 4) Chattisgarh 238 and 175/4 lating the intimidating West Indies ing. first innings. innings, Kerala restricted Goa to (Abhimanyu Chauhan 69) teams of the 1980-1990s with Kyle Abbott and Kagiso Wicketkeeper Peter Nevill 286 in their first innings thereby Himachal Pradesh 314 (Bipul three straight series wins in Rabada led the rampage with was the next to go, failing to get C’ship 2016 gets underway taking a 56 run lead ensuring Sharma 86). (PTI) Excelsior Sports Correspondent Council was also present on the present on the occasion were Australia. Abbott taking six for 77 and out of the way of a Rabada bounc- occasion. Sanjay Wahi, Satbir Singh, Rajan "This cricket team is a tough young gun Rabada four for 34. er and gloving to Duminy in the JAMMU, Nov 15: The 38th Two hundred and twenty ped- Sharma, I.P Singh, Satish Gupta, team to get a win against them on Once Usman Khawaja was gully for six, while Joe Mennie Stag J&K State Table Tennis dlers drawn from across the State Ajay Sharma, Vasu Dewan, Anil their home soil," said South out just 20 minutes into the fourth lasted just two balls before he was Championship got underway are participating in different age Dutta, Gurvinder Singh Sasan, African captain Faf du Plessis. day, the wickets continued to tum- leg before to Rabada. today at Indoor Hall, MA groups to be held in the next five Sandeep Khadotra, Shorya "So to come here and do it is ble. The Proteas claimed Smith's Stadium, here. days. Sharma, Narinder Singh, Sheetal special for us. To win a series 2-0 Khawaja was twice beaten by prized wicket, caught behind off The championship was Earlier, in Under-12 Cadet Gandotra and Sanjeev Gupta. with one game to play, I am very Abbott's movement off the pitch the rampaging Rabada for 31 after declared open by Abdul Qayoom, boys first round, Vivek beat Ceyl Ashok Singh, Manager MA proud of the way the team is mov- before he went for a cut on the last his unbeaten 48 in the first innings Chief Sports Officer, J&K State by 2-1, Harman drubbed Mohd Stadium and Narinder Singh ing forward." ball of the over and nicked to shambles. Sports Council. Zafar by 2-0, Sarthak trounced from Poonch were also present The second innings destruction wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock Mitchell Starc came to the Mr Qayoom encouraged the Jaskaran by 2-1, Salin outplayed on the occasion. heaped more pressure on Smith for 64. crease but became Abbott's fifth young players of the State to play Pranay Sharma by 2-0, The matches were officiated and Lehmann and increased calls It was a body blow for the victim, caught behind for a duck, in the right spirit of the game. Karmanya Wahi got better of by Sandeep Khadotra (NIS Table for significant team changes for Australian hopes of salvaging the with Nathan Lyon the last man out, Medal winners in Rope Skipping National posing for a group Shiv Kumar Sharma, Joint Shiveen Aggarwal by 2-0. Tennis coach) and Meenu Test so early into the fourth day giving man-of-the-match Abbott photograph. Secretary J&K State Sports Prominent among others Rajesh. Batra's main focus is and ended a 50-run stand with his sixth dismissal of the innings. KCIS students win medals in to make hockey Smith. (Agencies) Indian eves, England men reach finals popular, reachable MEHRAJ (BATHINDA), Nov margin of 41-19. This is the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Rope Skipping Nationals DPS Jammu wins overall 15: fourth time that the Indian eves Janta Party led Punjab govern- NEW DELHI, Nov 15: The England men team and would be playing the finals of this ment that our traditional sport of Excelsior Sports Correspondent and Janvi Rajput brought laurels Indian eves became the first mega sporting tourney. Kabaddi has become to the School as well as State. The first non-European to head the International Hockey C’ship in Inter-DPS Nationals teams to reach the finals of Dr BR The first semi final of the day International as several countries JAMMU, Nov 15: Among They won bronze medals in Federation, newly-elected FIH Excelsior Sports Correspondent timing of 2:07:47 micro seconds Ambedkar 6th World Cup was played between Iran and such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Sri the five students of KC Under-14 girls category. President Narinder Batra today and Silver in Time Trial (300 m) Kabaddi 2016. England. It was for the first time Lanka, Tanzania, Iran and others International School, who par- Vice Chairman, Chaitanya said his main focus would be on JAMMU, Nov 15: Dhruv race with a record timing of The two semi finals of each in the history of World Cup are competing in this mega sport- ticipated in the 62nd National Chowdhary and Principal Maya the 10-year Hockey Revolution Gupta of Class 10th and Raghav 47:99 seconds, while Raghav from men and women section Kabaddi that the decision was ing tourney. School Games Rope Skipping Mishra lauded the efforts of stu- strategy starting from 2019, Gupta of Class XIIth of Delhi Gupta qualified for semifinals of were held in the Multipurpose taken with the help of a tie break- He also thanked Chief Nationals at Jabalpur, Madhya dents, coach Tarsem Sharma and which aims at making the sport Public School (DPS) Jammu 750 m race. Sports Stadium of village Mehraj er as the score remained tied at Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal Pradesh recently, 3 students Activity Coordinator Rajni more popular and reachable. created magical history for the Thus DPS lifted the overall in Bathinda district today. In the the end of finishing time. Cabinet and Deputy CM Mr Sukhbir Arpan Pandita, Jassica Singh Malhotra for this achievement. Batra, who was elected Institution by winning overall Championship for their school first semi final of the day, that was Minister and Chairman of Punjab Singh Badal for choosing Mehraj, President last Saturday, said as Championship trophy in presti- by winning 8 points out of 10. played between Iran and England Kabaddi Association, Mr one of the largest villages of the part of the Hockey Revolution gious Inter-DPS Skating The skaters were guided in their from men section, the European Sikarndar Singh Maluka was the country, as the venue for the programme the world body is team defeated Iran by 41-39, chief guest for today's matches. World Cup Kabaddi matches. set to introduce a nine-team while the first semi final of While speaking on the occa- In first semi final match of the home-and-away league of inter- women section, Indian eves sion, Mr Maluka said that it was day, that was played between Iran national teams which also serve defeated New Zealand with a big only due to the efforts of and England, the European team as Olympic and World Cup defeated Iran with a thin margin qualifiers. of 41-39. Stopper Sandeep Singh "There is one game I am Sandhu "Nangal Ambian" was passionate about is hockey. I the star of the match, who secured want to contribute to the game 14 points for his team, which led and make it more popular and to their entry into the finals. For bigger," Batra told in his first England, raiders Narwinder, media conference here after Avtar and Amandeep scored 12, 4 becoming the world body chief. and 3 points respectively, while Winners posing for a photograph alongwith chief guest, "As part of the plan, the FIH Champion Skaters of DPS Jammu posing alongwith the stoppers Sandeep Singh Sandhu Karanjeet Singh at GHS Simbal Camp in Jammu. will introduce a 10-year Hockey School Management. "Nangal Ambian" secured 14 2nd Diwali Cup Revolution programme from points and Jagtar and Amandeep 2019. The programme's aim is Nationals held from November achievements by coach, Arnav Uppal secured 5 and 2 points to ensure the next generation 11 to November 13, 2016 at Mahajan. respectively. Similarly, for Iran, JKCC outplays Samar takes up the sport. It's overall DPS Karnal in Haryana. Principal, DPS Jammu, raiders Mayean, Behman Javedi aim is to make hockey more 52 players drawn from 26 Ruchi Chhabra congratulated Winners posing for a group photograph alongwith the digni- and Payman scored 6, 5 and 3 Cricket Club by 53 runs popular and reachable. (PTI) DPS Schools from all over India both the winners, their parents taries during Annual Sports Day at KV-2 in Jammu. points respectively while stoppers participated in different Skating and the coach, Arnav Mahajan Hamid, Majtaba and Ali Safari Excelsior Sports Correspondent Association Cricket Club Simbal Hockey Olympian, Ace events. and remarked that the KV-2 Jammu Cantt organizes secured 7, 6 and 5 points for their Camp at Government Boys High Dhruv Gupta was awarded Championship award would team. JAMMU, Nov 15: JKCC School, Simbal Camp, here today. Archer among sports with the Best Player's trophy of serve as encouragement for In the second semi final of the thrashed Samar Cricket Club by a Electing to bat first after win- stalwarts honoured the tournament by winning Gold other young skaters to follow Annual Sports Day day, Indian eves defeated New big margin of 53 runs in the ongo- ning the toss, JKCC made 125 in 750 mtrs race with a record their foot steps. Zealand by a big margin of 41-19. ing 2nd Diwali T20 Cup, being runs by losing 9 wickets in 20 RANCHI, Nov 15: Excelsior Sports Correspondent by the chief guest alongwith the (PTI) organized by Youth Welfare overs. Parvinder Singh scored 50 releasing of the balloons fol- not out, while Aman and Puneet Hockey Olympian Sylvanus DDCA mess: No selector at JAMMU, Nov 15: Kendriya lowed by the welcome song and contributed 33 and 10 runs respec- Dungdung and ace archer Deepika Saina eyes comeback, Sindhu Kumari were among the sports stal- Vidyalaya No-2, Jammu Cantt colourful cultural items. tively. For Samar Cricket Club, Ranji training, cash crunch organized its Annual Sports Day Abhinav of Clss 12th, Parvez scalped 2 wickets by giv- warts who were presented with five with pomp and show here, today. Abhishek of Class 7th, Rhythem aims for maiden title in China ing away19 runs in 3 overs, while lakh rupees on the occasion of the NEW DELHI, Nov 15: today. The Chairman of the of Class 10th and Harjit of Class Prince Vishavjeet and Vivek took 17th Jharkhand Foundation Day The Delhi team has had its FUZHOU (CHINA), Nov 15: had said earlier. today. Vidyalaya Committee, Brig 9th emerged as best performers one wicket each. Delhi's senior state team spate of injuries. However all While Saina will resume her Archer Laxmi Rani Manjhi and Randhir Singh was the chief for the institution in different In reply, Samar Cricket Club began its training after a four- the medium pacers including Three months after limping international journey, young P V hockey Olympian Niki Pradhan guest on the occasion, while sporting events. Jammu bundled out for 72 runs in day break at the Feroz Shah Sumit Narwal and Navdeep Kamal Padha, Nominee The chief guest while giving out of the Rio Olympics due to a Sindhu, who meanwhile became also got the prize money for their Kotla Stadium but three selec- Saini are fit to play. Pradeep 17 overs and lost the match by 53 laudable contribution. Chairman was the guest of hon- prizes to the winners appreciated severe knee injury, Saina Nehwal the toast of the nation after tors Nikhil Chopra, Atul Wassan Sangwan and Parvinder Awana will be back on the court to test becoming the first Indian woman runs. Raman, Goldy and Prince The sportspersons, who our. their efforts. and Robin Singh Junior were along with Vikas Tokas also hit her recovery when the Thaihot to win an Olympic silver medal contributed 21, 18 and 10 runs to brought laurels to the state, were Earlier, Principal of the The Annul Sports Day culmi- not present to check out on the the straps under the watchful China Open Super Series at Rio, will look to annex her first the total. For JKCC, Puneet honoured in presence of Jharkhand School, Bhushan Kumar present- nated with the vote of thanks players with the team set to be eyes of coch KP Bhaskar. Premier begins here tomorrow. super series title. scalped 3 wickets by conceding 4 Governor Droupadi Murmu, ed welcome address. presented by the chief guest, selected within two days. The other thing that has hit Saina, the bronze-medallist at After two second round exits, runs in 4 overs, while Monu and Union Minister for Road Transport, The Meet began with the Sushma Jain, Vice Principal of London Olympics, lost in her seventh seed Sindhu will hope Aman took 2 wickets each. Highways and Shipping Nitin Delhi is set to play Rajasthan the team hard is the recent lighting of the ceremonial lamp the School. second match of the Rio for better results when she begins Parvinder Singh was adjudged as Gadkari, Chief Minister Raghubar at Wayanad from November 21 demonitization as the associa- Olympics to lower-ranked Maria her campaign against Chia Hsin man of the match. Das, Union Minister of State for which will also be Shikhar tion finds it difficult to provide Ulitina of Ukraine and what fol- Lee of Chinese Taipei. The match was officiated by Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha, Dhawan's comeback match. the players with adequate valid lowed was a surgery and a long "My training has been very Kulbir Singh (Physical Edu- Minister of State for Agriculture It was learnt that Chopra had currency. rehabilitation program. good. I am prepared well. I cation Master) and Gurvinderpal and Farmers welfare Sudarshan fever but some in the DDCA "In one of our recent trips, After spending some time haven't seen the draw. It doesn't Singh as umpires, while Gurmeet Bhagat, Speaker Dinesh Oraon and found it strange that not even the team had paid an excess training under coach Vimal matter I guess since you have to Singh maintained the scorebook. cabinet ministers. (PTI) one among the three turned up. baggage penalty of Rs 1.44 lakh Kumar, Saina decided to give the play every good player at some "It is not mandatory for the for the entire squad from their China Open a shot, a title she had stage. Nobody is going to be easy selectors to come at the training own pocket. Apart from the won two years back and finished and everybody will fight till the session. But yes, it is always cricket coffins, one needs to runners-up in the last edition. last point so even if it is a lower better to watch the practice ses- understand that due to neutral The Indian will be up against ranked player, you have to give sions rather than procure second venue format, all the teams need Thailand's Porntip Buranapra- your best," Sindhu said. hand information from coaches to carry excess clothing which sertsuk, who she has beaten as In men's singles, Ajay and support staff. Atleast one would have to last three weeks. many as nine times in the past, Jayaram will be up against Zhu should have been present," a We are trying to deal with it," a but the fourth seed knows well Siyuan of China, H S Prannoy senior DDCA official said DDCA official said. (PTI) that those record won't matter will meet Hong Kong's Ng Ka when she walks out to the court Long Angus and B Sai Praneeth tomorrow. will face the experienced German Rahul’s century coincides "Saina is still short of Marc Zwiebler in the opening endurance and strength," Vimal round. (PTI) with Test recall Shreyasi wins double trap, VIZIANAGARAM improbable target of 525. (ANDHRA), Nov 15: At stumps on the third and It was double delight for penultimate day, Rajasthan, at Rashmee crowned skeet champion Students of Heritage School after emerging winners in Inter- young K L Rahul as the 118/6, were on the verge of suf- School Quiz. JAIPUR, Nov 15: Sekhon 13-11 in the finals to win Karnataka player struck a fluent fering a drubbing. They trailed gold, while Saniya Sheikh of UP century in a Ranji Trophy game by 407 runs with only four Bihar's Shreyasi Singh bagged the bronze. Heritageans emerge winners before earning a recall to the wickets remaining in their sec- reclaimed the women's double Manisha Keer was the other Indian cricket team for the sec- ond innings. trap title with a facile victory over top performer of the day, helping ond Test against England. Karnataka had scored 374 in ONGC's Shagun Chowdhary, her Madhya Pradesh team bag In Inter-School Quiz The fit-again opener was their first innings, with Rahul while Rashmee Rathore of two gold medals in the women's Excelsior Correspondent Heritageans emerged victori- today added to India's squad for (76) and Mayank (81) making Andhra bagged the gold medal in and junior double trap event. She ous in both the senior as well as the Test starting November 17 the bulk of the runs, after opting skeet event on day two of the 60th also won an individual bronze in JAMMU, Nov 15: Herita- the junior categories. The senior in Visakhapatnam. to bat. They bowled out National Shooting Championship junior double trap. geans proved their mettle at category comprised of Shivansh He scored 106 off 131 balls, Rajasthan for 148 but chose to Competition for Shotgun here. Asees Chhina of Punjab also Inter-School Quiz Competition, Ganjoo of XI and Ojasvi Sharma decorating his innings with 13 not enforce follow-on, declar- Army's Seema Tomar settled bagged two gold medals winning organised by Bhartiya Vikas of XII and Junior category com- boundaries and four sixes ing their second innings at for the bronze in the double trap the junior national skeet title Parishad at Maharishi Vidya prised of Anveksha Sharma of against Rajasthan at the Dr 298/6 in 62.1 overs. event. before teaming up with Ganemat Mandir, here. VIII and Danish Mehmood of PVG Raju ACA Sports Seamer R Vinay Kumar, Winner in 2012, Shreyasi shot Sekhon and Simran Preet Kaur The theme of the Quiz was VIII. Complex. who returned figures of 4/28 in 98 to clinch the gold in an event Johal to bag the junior team title. 'Bharat Ko Jano'. All the students have been Owing to Rahul's knock and the first innings, has already where she had to contend with the N Nivetha of Tamil Nadu In all, 9 rounds were con- selected for the State level com- a 63 by Mayank Agarwal, taken three wickets on the third silver medal last year. defeated Bhavna Chaudhary of ducted and Heritage School petition which will be organized Karnataka put themselves in the day, while S Aravind, who also In the women's skeet, Haryana 76-71 to clinch the junior competed with three other on November 19, 2016 at GCW, driver's seat in the Group B had a four-wicket haul, picked Rashmee beat Punjab's Ganemat women's double trap crown. (PTI) schools for the final round. Parade Jammu. game, by setting Rajasthan an up two wickets. (PTI)