MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2014 (PAGE 12) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Kohli, Rahane tons lead UP 113 for no loss DIG Jammu inaugurates Veteran T20 Cup against J&K on Day 1 Choudhary Club, JKP India fightback on Day 3 KANPUR, Dec 28: league match at the Green Park. Srivastava struck 10 fours MELBOURNE, Dec 28: chance at mid-wicket off Lyon bag of nerves and was dropped Openers Tanmay Srivastava during his 87-ball 56 not out, only to play another similar by substitute fielder Peter and Akash Verma struck a half script convincing wins Virat Kohli and Ajinkya while Verma's unbeaten 55 from stroke against the off-spinner Siddle at mid-wicket in the century each as Uttar Pradesh 87 balls featured five fours and Excelsior Sports Correspondent Rahane struck fluent centuries on the very next delivery as the 110th over. made the most of the 29 overs of and stitched a record 262-run two sixes. ball took a top adge and settled But the youngster played a play possible by scoring 113 for JAMMU, Dec 28: In order to fourth-wicket partnership as Jammu and Kashmir bowlers into the hands of Josh horrendous sweep shot to on no loss on day one of their Ranji bridge the gap between Police India fought back bravely led by their captain Parveez Hazlewood (0-75) at fine leg. the very next ball get a top- Trophy cricket match against and Public, Range Police before a late-order slide Rasool toiled hard for the 29 Skipper Mahendra Singh edge and get caught at fine leg. Jammu and Kashmir here today. Headquarters Jammu in collabo- allowed a sloppy Australia to overs they got today without any Dhoni (11) fiddled around for Harris returned to account Srivastava and Verma ration with Parade Sports claw back in the third cricket success. sometime but his tentative for Dhoni and Ashwin (0) as remained unbeaten on 56 and 55 Association, Jammu, organized Test, here today. Brief Scores: approach from the very start India went from 409/4 to 434/7. respectively at the draw of a Veteran T-20 Cricket Resuming the day on 108 Uttar Pradesh: 113 for no cost him his wicket after Harris Meanwhile, Kohli stayed solid stumps as they took the home Tournament on the eve of New for one in response to the hosts' loss in 29 overs (Tanmay got the wicketkeeper-batsman and crossed the 150-run mark team to a strong position after Year at Parade Ground, here first innings score of 530, India Srivastava 56 batting, Akash caught behind. in his Test career for the first electing to bat in the Group A today. lost their overnight batsmen Verma 55 batting). (PTI) Ravichandran Ashwin was time. He was out just before The tournament was inaugu- early but Kohli (169), register- rated by Shakeel Ahmed Beig, ing his third ton in this series, SCOREBOARD Delhi reach 178/1 after Unmukt, DIG Jammu- Samba-Kathua, and Rahane (147) made sure Australia 1st innings 530 who was accompanied by DIG Jammu, Shakeel Ahmed Beig interacting with players that their stand is the highest India 1st innings (overnight 108 for 1) Madan Jha, Circular Business while inaugurating Veteran T20 Cricket Tournament at Parade for India in Australia at the Gambhir provide solid start Murali Vijay c Marsh b Watson 68 Controller (CBC) Aircel and ground in Jammu. MCG for any wicket. NEW DELHI, Dec 28: stand. Unmukt looked confident Shikhar Dhawan c Smith b Harris 28 Rajesh Gill, organizing secre- The visitors ended the day Cheteshwar Pujara c Haddin b Harris 25 from the onset as he punished JKP, Rajesh Gill was the pick of DIG Jammu also said that Back in form after his fluent tary of the tournament. on 462 for eight as they still Virat Kohli c Haddin b Johnson 169 both pacers and spinners alike. the bowlers, who scalped 4 making Veteran T-20 Cricket century against Rajasthan, Two matches were played on trail by 68 runs at the end of Ajinkya Rahane lbw b Lyon 147 When medium pacer Ishwar important wickets, while Naresh Tournament an annual feature, Unmukt Chand made full use of the opening day today. Day 3. KL Rahul c Hazlewood b Lyon 3 Chaudhary dropped one short, he claimed one. will be a priority for Jammu and playing against below-par In the first match, Aided by five dropped M S Dhoni c Haddin b Harris 11 was quick to rock back and play In reply, JKP chased the tar- Kashmir Police. R Ashwin c and b Harris 0 Gujarat attack with an attractive Choudhary Club defeated catches, India responded well the perfect pull-shot behind get in 12 overs by losing one DIG Jammu said that range Mohammad Shami not out 9 unbeaten 97 that took Delhi to a Parade Sports Association by 65 only to lose a bit of a momen- square for maximum. wicket to win the match by 9 police Jammu has also organ- Extras (LB-1, W-1) 2 comfortable 178 for one on the runs in an easy contest. Batting tum in the end as new-ball He hit three more sixes -- two wickets. Rajesh Gill scored ized various programmes under Total (8 wickets; 126.2 overs) 462 first day of a Ranji Trophy crick- first, Choudhary Club scored a bowler Ryan Harris returned Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-108, 3-147, 4-409, 5-415, 6-430, 7-434, 8-462. off off-spinner Jesal Karia's bowl- magnificent 79 runs, while et match, here today. handsome total of 180 runs for Civic Action Programme (CAP) with figures of 4-69. Bowling: Johnson 29.2-5-133-1, Harris 25-7-69-4 (1w), Hazlewood ing in the arc and one off left-arm Danny contributed 33 runs to With only 53 overs of play the loss of 6 wickets. Narinder viz. Awareness Programme on Pace spearhead Mitchell 25-6-75-0, Watson 16-3-65-1, Lyon 29-3-108-2, Smith 2-0-11-0. spinner Pranjal Sutaria apart from the total . Rajesh Gil was possible on another fog-hit day, top scored with 71 runs, while road safety, social evils, Anti- Johnson (1-133), who bled runs 12 boundaries in 170 balls. adjudged man of the match for Delhi batsmen made full use of a Vinay contributed quick-fire 42 Drug Rallies, different sports through the day, also got Kohli superb all-round show. the next as part of the mini-pro- stumps, putting up 28 runs for low and slow Feroz Shah Kotla Another three runs would runs. For Parade Sports activities etc in order to ensure caught behind to get a consola- Meanwhile, Eleven Star will cession and the No.8 batsman the eighth wicket with Shami. track as Unmukt, in company of give him sixth century in first- Association, Pardeep Bali and people friendly policing. tion wicket as umpires called take on Guru Nanak Club in the could only face four balls Earlier, Kohli and Rahane skipper Gautam Gambhir (66), class cricket and second succes- Sanjay Sharma took 2 wickets The proceedings of the pro- stumps. 3rd Christmas Cup, while Samar before being caught and bowled built on their 77-run platform added 171 runs for the opening sive in the tournament. (PTI) each, while Ashok and gramme were conducted by Getting into heated Club will face Trikuta Cricket off Harris for a nought. they had laid in the morning. Anshuman claimed one wicket Rajesh Dhar, while prominent exchanges with Johnson at dif- Club at the same venue tomor- Harris was supported by The latter had been more each. ferent stages of his innings, row. among others present on the Lyon (2-108) and Watson. The aggressive of the two batsmen Abhay, Agreeney guide Col In reply, Parade Sports Kohli was dropped on 88 by While speaking on the occa- occasion were Rakesh Singh, bowlers gave away far too and he continued in the same Association bundled out for 115 Shane Watson (1-65) at first sion, DIG Jammu said that the Sales Head Aircel, Anand many runs but were disciplined vein. He got to his half-century runs to lose the match by 65 tournament has been organized Tripathi-Aircel; Rajnish Pran, slip in the 85th over and made in the sense that they conceded in the 71st over, off 60 balls, Chopra Academy to big win runs. Sandeep Singh top scored for veteran cricketers, who SSP SO to DIG Jammu; full use of the spill. just 2 extra in the innings so far. and two overs later brought up Excelsior Sports Correspondent valuable 35 runs to the total. For with 31 runs, while Akshay remain busy in their day to day Parshotam Sharma, Deputy Kohli, recording his ninth Post-tea, the two batsmen the 100-run partnership DPS, Anmol took 3 wickets, Khajuria contributed 22 runs. life and get less time for recre- Test ton, mixed the right dose had looked to increase their between them. Director Prosecution, Abhay JAMMU, Dec 28: A brilliant while Aryan Gandral claimed Bansi Lal bagged 3 wickets, ational activities. He said 6 vet- of caution and aggression in his 189-run stand and did so quite India crossed the 250-mark Bakaya, Vijay Sabarwal presi- 5-wicket haul by Abhay Tandon one wicket. while Sunil claimed 2 wickets eran cricket teams are participat- 272-ball stay, his innings laced well. They crossed the 200-run in the 74th over and were near- dent Parade Sports Association; and a superb knock of 65 runs In reply, DPS bundled out for Choudhary Club. Hardeep, ing in the Tournament which with 18 boundaries. partnership mark in the 99th ing the follow-on mark when Anil Mahajan, general secretary by Agreeney Happa helped Col for 96 runs in 18.2 overs, thus Rajesh, Vinay and Bhanu picked include Choudhary Cricket-XI, Rahane, who got his century over of the innings, becoming things got a bit frantic in the Parade Sports Association, R N Chopra Cricket Academy to lost the match by a big margin of one wicket each. Narinder was Parade Sports Association, in just 127 balls, hitting 21 the first batting pair ever to put middle. First, Lyon dropped Sunil Sambyal, Advocate Ajay register a big win over Delhi 74 runs. Aryan Gandral was the adjudged man of the match. Senior Advocate XI, Aircell-XI, fours in his three-hours ten on a 200-standd for the 4th Rahane (70 not out) in the 80th Manhas, David Matoo and Asif Public School (DPS), despite top scorer with 50 runs, while In another match, JKP Atman Sports-XI and Senior minute stay in the middle. wicket at the MCG. over, completely missing a sim- Aryan Gandral’s splendid 50 Raj contributed 15 runs to the thrashed Atman Club by 9 wick- JKP-XI. Gill. Rahane was finally trapped Then they scored the next ple return catch. runs to advance in the ongoing total. For CCA, Abhay Tandon ets in a one-sided contest. lbw off Lyon but not after fifty at brisk pace, the 250- Then as the second new ball Under-16 boys T20 Cricket was the wrecker-in-chief, who Batting first, Atman scored a maintaining a strike rate of stand coming in the 106th over was taken, Johnson hit Kohli Tournament at IIIM-CSIR took 5 important wickets by modest total of 122 runs in 18 85.96. with the 400-mark coming the with a return throw. The bats- ground, here today. conceding 16 runs in his 3 overs, overs. Mushtaq top scored with Rahane's wicket opened up next over. India were scoring at man had an angry go at him and Earlier, winning the toss and while Ayush Singh Slathia 50 runs, while Abhay Bakaya the gates for the host, who more than six runs per over in then lost his composure. In the batting first, Col Chopra bagged 2 wickets. Abhishek and and Hilal scored 24 and 17 runs struck back with four wickets that passage of play. 85th over he edged behind off Academy scored a decent total Marutwan also claimed one to the total respectively. For for 53 runs in the final session But things changed soon in the same bowler and was of 159 runs in the stipulated 20 wicket each. of play. the 108th over when Lyon dropped by Watson at first slip. overs, losing 5 wickets in the The match was officiated by Youngster Iyer's Debutant Lokesh Rahul (3) trapped Rahane lbw to trigger a Kohli then top-edged one process. Agreeney Happa was the Academy’s chief coach, failed to capitalise on a dropped late-order collapse. Rahul was a off Johnson in the following the top scorer with 65 runs, Sukomal Ganguly and Akash century helps Mumbai over only for keeper Brad while Aditya Chib contributed Manhas. They called me spoilt brat, it Haddin not being able to reach reach 306/4 on Day 1 the ball. KOLKATA, Dec 28: Things settled down as their Hiteshwar Singh becomes men’s inline 150-run partnership came up in 20-year-old Shreyas Iyer worked in my favour: Kohli the 87th over and from thereon, smashed his maiden first class Students performing cultural activity celebrating Annual Day champion in State Roller Skating C’ship century (153) to help Mumbai MELBOURNE, Dec 28: moments of the day involved it was all about the milestones. Excelsior Sports Correspondent Abhirab and Jaideep were at Stephens International Public School in Jammu. grab the day one honours Kohli in a verbal spat with Rahane was the first to get to adjudged champions in quads against Bengal in their Group A Never the one to shy away Mitchell Johnson after the his triple-figures, reaching his JAMMU, Dec 28: Hiteshwar and inline boys respectively, Ranji Trophy cricket match at from an on-field showdown, pacer ended up hitting the 3rd Test century in the 90th Singh of Yogananda College while in 10-12 quads girls, Diya Stephens International Public the Eden Gardens here today. feisty Indian batsman Virat Indian while attempting to run over, off 127 balls. (PTI) won gold in men’s inline event Jamwal became the champion. Kohli said being called a Promoted to number three, him out. to emerge champion in the State In 12-14 girls quads, Nikita "spoilt brat" by the Australians Iyer hit the Bengal bowlers all Talking about Johnson, Yuvraj on verge of Roller Skating Championship, Thakur emerged champion, School celebrates Annual Day brought the best out of him as which concluded at Shiva over the park with four sixes Kohli said, "In Brisbane he was while Manya Dubey was the Excelsior Correspondent everyone to dream big and be he smashed a career-best 169- Skating Institute at Peerkho, and 16 boundaries in his 175- batting without pressure third successive ton champion 12-14 inline girls. righteous. run knock to keep the touring here today. ball knock en route to his first because that's not his job. His Arush Kapoor and Dhruv JAMMU, Dec 28: Stephens The budding students of var- side afloat in the ongoing third RAJKOT, Dec 28: Kavneet century as Mumbai ended the job is to take wickets and he Gupta clinched emerged toppers International Public School cel- ious sections wooed one and all cricket Test here today. Kour day at a commanding 306 for was going at 4.7 an over today, Mandeep Singh struck his in 12-14 boys inline and quads ebrated its 8th Annual day with their performances of Folk "It was going on throughout emerged four. and he didn't get a wicket maiden century of this Ranji respectively. ‘UTSAV – 2014’ with great suc- dance, Fusion, Western dance, the day. They were calling me a champion His four sixes included two throughout the day and I Trophy season while Yuvraj In 14-16 quads boys, Raghav cess, reverence and magnitude Drama and Music. spoilt brat and I said 'maybe in women’s against Veer Pratap and one off backed myself to take him on Singh was nearing his third Gupta emerged champion in 14- at General Zorawar Singh School report was presented that's the way I am. You guys inline pacer Ashok Dinda as the even if I keep talking to him. successive ton as Punjab Auditorium, here today. by chairman of the School, Dr hate me and I like that'. I don't event, while 16 boys quads, while Shristi youngster did not give Bengal "I decided whenever he reached 327 for three on day Prof R D Sharma, Vice Kamal Saini. mind having a chat on the field Dhananjay became champion in 14-16 girls bowlers any chance. Poor field- comes on to bowl I will back one of the Group B match Chancellor of Jammu University Prof R D Sharma in his and it worked in my favour I Singh Charak and Harpreet quads. ing too was a letdown for myself and take him on. I don't against Saurashtra here today. was the chief guest on the occa- address complimented the guess," a combative Kohli said Kour bagged gold medals in the Shaguneet became champion Bengal. Iyer's free-flowing mind having a word back, nei- Yuvraj was batting on 95 sion. endeavors of the staff and the at the end of third day's play men and women quads events in in 14-16 inline girls. innings finally came to an end ther does he, so we kept going alongside Mandeep, who was The function started with the students for putting up stupen- which India finished at 462/8, the championship. GS Khurmi, president J&K after he edged Ashok Dinda on 154 off 228 balls. Medium lighting of the ceremonial lamp dous show. still trailing by 68 runs. at it." Earlier, in Under-10 boys Roller Skating Association was behind the stumps, just three pacer Sudeep Tyagi was the followed by scintillating, vibrant Vote of thanks was presented "I like playing against Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane quads, Kartikey Puri emerged the chief guest on the valedicto- overs before bad light stopped most successful bowler for and spectacular performance of by Kunal Saini, Student Leader. Australia because it is very put on 262 runs for the fourth champion, while Jaipreet Singh ry function, who distributed play in 86.2 overs. Iyer put on a Saurashtra with figures of two the students witnessed by the The programme concluded hard for them to stay calm and wicket in reply to Australia's won gold in Under-10 boys prizes among the winners on the 176-run stand for the third for 51 in 15 overs. parents, the social and educa- with the National Anthem. I don't mind an argument on the first innings total of 530 runs. inline event. occasion. wicket with a defiant Abhishek field and it really excites me There have been a lot of heated Yuvraj made a statement Nayar (65 from 127 balls; 8x4). tional luminaries and the alumni with another solid knock after and brings the best out of me. moments in this series and While Iyer was a delight to of the institution. Nazia Malik, D/o Mohd not being named among the So they don't seem to be learn- Sunday's incidents were just watch as he showed no mercy to Earlier, the Principal of the Shafi Malik, R/o 30 probables for the 2015 ing the lesson," said Kohli. another chapter to that saga. an out-and-out seam attack School, Satvinder Saini present- Gujjar Nagar, World Cup. The most dramatic (PTI) from Bengal, hitting them all ed the welcome bouquet to the Jammu, who has The stylish left-hander over the park, Nayar rotated the chief guest followed by a been declared smashed 11 boundaries and strike cleverly as the duo scored thought provoking welcome qualified for the couple of sixes in his 176-ball briskly at 4.69 per over in the speech delivered by Rama award of the effort. association that began in the Jamwal the Vice Principal of the degree of Doctor He had scored 59 and 130 post lunch session. (PTI) School. The speech enlightened of Philosophy (PhD) in in Punjab's tournament opener Applied Aquaculture Faculty against Haryana before mak- of Life Science by the ing 136 in the first innings Barkatullah University, against Maharashtra in Pune. Bhopal. She worked on the Brief scores: Punjab 327 topic, “A Preliminary Study on for 3 in 90 overs (Mandeep the Gut Analysis and Seasonal Singh batting 154, Yuvraj Changes in the History and Singh batting 95; Sudeep Students attending Examination held by Ables Academy Morphology of Ovaries of M. Tyagi 2/51, Kamlesh Jammu Centre in Jammu. Dayanum of Ghou Manhasan Makwana 1/81) against Stream Jammu ,” under the Saurashtra. (PTI) Ables Academy Jammu supervision of Dr Alka Newly elected office bearers of Jammu District Karate Association Handball trials Parashar and Co-Supervision posing along with president AKAJK, Ambedkar Gupta in Jammu. Centre organizes ATSE 2014 of Dr SC Gupta. on Dec 30-31 Excelsior Correspondent issued here, the organizers Atul Pangotra (NIS), State Jammu District Karate J&K Powerlifting team posing along with office bearers of Excelsior Sports Correspondent assure that each student who Awardee and JAMMU, Dec 28: The will appear for ATSE will be the Association. Sher-e-Kashmir Association elects office bearers JAMMU, Dec 28: To pick Jammu Centre of Ables provided with a free Online Test Awardee, who Excelsior Sports Correspondent Gupta, joint secretaries, Shaveta the State team for 20th North Academy, Kota organized Ables Series from Kota, which has 24 J&K Powerlifting team brings laurels got another Gupta, treasurer. Zone Men and Women Talent Search Exam, ATSE round the clock accessibility. achievement in today at its Centre, here. JAMMU, Dec 28: Jammu The meeting among other Handball National A total of Rs 18 crore of Excelsior Sports Correspondent Jain (bronze in Deadlift and the field of Around 300 students partici- District Karate Association, members of the Association was Championship to be held in prizes and scholarships from bronze in Powerlifting; Irvinder Taekwondo as affiliate unit of Amateur Karate pated in different batches to Kota will be awarded to merito- he became International attended by Brijesh Bhau, vice- Himachal Pradesh from JAMMU, Dec 28: J&K Kour (bronze in Bench-Press, Do Association of Jammu and prove their mettle. rious students at the National Taekwondo Master and president AKAJK and Naresh January 10 to January 12, Sports Powerlifting team bronze in Deadlift and silver in Kashmir (AKAJK) and recog- Chander, joint secretary The Exam was conducted for Level. This is one of its own brought laurels to the State by Powerlifting) and Harmeet Kour Hanmadang International 2015, the Handball students of Class VIII to Class nized by J&K State Sports AKAJK. kind Academy in the Country. winning a galaxy of medals in (silver in Bench-Press and silver Referee, from World Association of Jammu and XII. Council held its meeting, under The other members present The second phase of ATSE Subrata Classic International in Deadlift). Taekwondo Headquarter, Kashmir is holding selection ATSE is the assessment of Kukkiwon, South Korea. He the chairmanship of Ambedkar in the meeting were Farhat Zari, will be conducted in January. Dead-Lift and Bench-Press The team was honoured Gupta, president AKAJK and trials on December 30 and scientific aptitude of the stu- The Director of Jammu is first Hanmadang Balbir Singh, Rohit Thakyal and Powerlifting Championship at today at Jammu by the elected its new office bearers, December 31, 2014 at Mini dents at National Level. It helps Centre, Sanjeev Kandhari said International Referee from Rajesh Kumar. Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Managing Committee of the here today. Stadium, Parade Ground, here. the students to identify their that ATSE is also open for all The players who won medals Taekwondo Federation of The newly elected team pre- Association including Rajan The elected office bearers According to a handout learning gaps. schools in the State where it will included Rakesh Kumar (gold in India. J&K Taekwondo sented the vote of thanks and Jain, general secretary, Aditi included Vishal Sharma, presi- issued here, the Association The talented students will be be easier for a large number of Deadlift, silver in Bench-Press Association received the result decided to hold the District dent; Sanjay Kumar and Umesh has advised the players from rewarded along with suitable students to participate and give and bronze in Powerlifting); Sharma, secretary,Vinay and the certificates of Mr Atul Rekhi, vice presidents; Manoj Karate Championship at affiliated units of the State to academic support and scholar- them an opportunity to improve Vijay Choudhary (bronze in Sharma, media secretary, Preet from World Taekwondo Mehra, general secretary; M.A.Stadium Jammu in the last report at the venue at 4 pm ships up to 100%. on their weak areas to excel Deadlift); Pankaj Verma (bronze Dutta, joint secretary and Headquarter, Kukkiwon, Amandeep Singh and Ganesh week of January, 2015. sharp on the said date. According to a handout infuture. medal in Bench-Press); Megha Sanjeev, member. South Korea.