MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU ADGP Mukesh Singh inaugurates 3rd PPCPL De Villiers, Maxwell fire all-round Magnificent Dhawan takes DC *Elite Tigers, Rising Stars script wins RCB to 38-run win against KKR CHENNAI, Apr 18: Kohli to go over cover with a to emphatic win over Punjab Excelsior Sports Correspondent tossed-up delivery that drifted Glenn Maxwell was good but away from the right-hander, MUMBAI, Apr 18: JAMMU Apr 18 : Additional AB de Villiers was better as Rahul Tripathi pulled off a sensa- Director General of Police Royal Challengers Bangalore tional catch running back from Shikhar Dhawan struck a Mukesh Singh inaugurated the 3rd bested Kolkata Knight Riders by extra-cover. The top batsman was swashbuckling 92 as Delhi Police Public Cricket Premier 38 runs in their IPL match here on nowhere close to the ball. Capitals made short work of a league in an mega opening func- today. Chakravarthy then went 196-run target for a six-wicket win tion at KC Sports Club Jammu Batting first, De over Punjab Kings in the IPL here which is being organized under the Villiers' master class SCOREBOARD today. banner of Zonal Police and Maxwell's count- Royal Challengers Bangalore Dhawan looked in sublime Headquarters Jammu in collabora- er-attacking half-cen- Virat Kohli c Tripathi b Varun 5 form during his 49-ball knock that Devdutt Padikkal c Tripathi b Prasidhrishna tion with Sr. Cricketers of J&K tury propelled RCB to was studded with 13 fours and two and KC Sports Club. 25 ADGP Mukesh Singh interacting with team players during an imposing 204 for Rajat Patidar b Varun 1 sixes. In an inauguration ceremony inaugural ceremony of 3rd PPCPL at Jammu on Sunday. four. In reply, KKR Glenn Maxwell c Harbhajan b Cummins 8 Dhawan was ably supported Mukesh Singh ADGP was the were stopped at 166 AB de Villiers not out 76 by Prithvi Shaw (32 off 15) first up Former Ranji Player, Shahid secured 2 wickets while kartik, chief guest, Chandan Kohli SSP for eight as RCB Kyle Jamieson not out 11 and then skipper Rishabh Pant Parvez, Surinder Singh Bagal, Vansh and Naveed took 1 wicket Jammu was the guest of honour regained the top spot Extras: (NB-3, W-5) 8 (15) and Marcus Stoinis (27 not Rakesh Koul former Ranji each. whereas SP Naresh, Shahid Parvez in the pecking order. Total: (for 4 wickets in 20 overs) 204 out) as DC chased down 196 in Players, Arjun Choudhary MD In reply Friends Club Kathua Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-9, 3-95, 4-148 and Surinder Bagal Sr. Cricketers RCB smashed 56 18.2 overs. Shikhar Dhawan playing a shot against Punjab Kings at KC Sports Club, Ashish Singh could not chased the target and Bowling: Harbhajan Singh 4-0-38-0, Varun of J&K were the special guests on runs in the last three Put in to bat, Mayank Agarwal Mumbai on Sunday. MD Horizon Sports Club, Sudhir managed to score 104 runs for 8 Chakravarthy 4-0-39-2, Shakib Al Hasan 2-0-24- the occasion. Others who present overs, including 21 in and captain K L Rahul stitched a Singh ,Sanjeev Mahajan, RP wickets in the allotted 20 overs, 0, Pat Cummins 4-0-34-1, Prasidh Krishna 4-0- Rahul upped the ante after a rela- straight to Shikhar Dhawan at on the occasion are Rajesh Gill the final six deliveries, century-run opening stand to guide Singh, Saleem Ur Rehman BCCI thus lost the match by 12 runs. 31-1, Andre Russell 2-0-38-0. tively sedate start. sweeper cover in the 13th over, Chief Prosecuting Officer, Hamid thanks to de Villiers Kolkata Knight Riders Punjab to a challenging 195 for Level 1 Umpires. Damanpreet Singh 35 runs, Akrit Agarwal and Rahul adopted an Rahul handed a simple catch to Choudhary Dy SP DAR, 34-ball 76 not out. Nitish Rana c Padikkal b Chahal 18 four. The sponsors of the league 22 runs and Sourav Saini 13 runs aggressive approach against debu- Marcus Stonis at midwicket off Kousheen Koul SDPO Domana Maxwell blazed Shubman Gill c sub (DT Christian) Agarwal made 69 off 36 balls, includes Zonal Police were the main scorers. From ,Sudhir Singh, RP Singh, Saleem away to 78 off 49 b Jamieson 21 while Rahul scored 61 off 51 Headquarters Jammu, Pepsi, bowling side, Harjeet Dogra Rahul Tripathi c Mohammed Siraj Today’s Fixture Ur Rehman, and the teams owners deliveries, hitting nine deliveries as Punjab made a flying Wheelocity Skoda, Rivazo clinched 3 wickets, Sushant took b Washington Sundar 25 While speaking on the occa- boundaries and three start to their innings. CSK versus Rajasthan Royals (Mumbai) 7.30 pm Homes, Horizon sports Club, 2 wickets. Eoin Morgan c Kohli b Patel 29 sion, the chief guest stated that the maximums before the Chasing 196, Dhawan and Women Club and KC Sports Club Sunoop Bhagat declared man Dinesh Karthik lbw b Chahal 2 SCOREBOARD main objective of the J&K Police genius from South Shakib Al Hasan b Jamieson 26 Shaw made a quick start, sharing Jammu., of the match with Rs. 2000 spon- Punjab Kings is to engage the youths at grass Africa strode in and Andre Russell b Patel 31 59 runs in just 33 balls for the Earlier in the first match Elite sored by Rivazo Homes. K L Rahul c Stoinis b Rabada 61 root level in different sports activ- struck the same num- Pat Cummins c de Villiers b Jamieson 6 opening wicket. Mayank Agarwal c Dhawan b Meriwala 69 Tigers defeated Game Changer by Amit Gupta,Harbinder Singh, ities, so that they become able to ber of fours and sixes Harbhajan Singh not out 2 Shaw continued his fine form Chris Gayle c sub (RV Patel) b Woakes 11 51 runs. JD Singh, Ashok Kumar and Varun Chakravarthy not out 2 showcase their sports skills and as his teammate from and smashed a 17-ball 32 before Deepak Hooda not out 22 Batting first Elite Tigers Saleem ur Rehman were the offi- Extras: (W-4) 4 maintain a positive view in studies Australia. being holed out to Chris Gayle off Nicholas Pooran c Rabada b Avesh Khan 9 scored 154 runs for loss of 7 wick- cials in todays matches. Total: (for 8 wickets in 20 overs) 166 Shahrukh Khan not out 15 and sports. He further said that The Knight Riders Arshdeep Singh. ets in 20 overs with Musaif Aijaz Tomm fixture : KAP Smasher Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-57, 3-66, 4-74, 5-114, Extras: (LB-6, NB-2) 8 Cricket is the main game in our were off to a brilliant Steve Smith, playing his first 36 runs, Akshit Gandral 34, Versus Vriddhi Royals at 1 pm 6-155, 7-161, 8-162 Total: (for 4 wickets in 20 overs) 195 country which unites all section of start with leg-break Bowling: Mohammed Siraj 3-0-17-0, Kyle match for DC, looked a pale shad- Harman Deep 26 and Rohan Gill Fall of wickets: 1-122, 2-141, 3-158, 4-179 the society besides there are lot of bowler Varun Jamieson 3-0-41-3, Yuzvendra Chahal 4-0-34-2, ow of himself before becoming 24 runs. From the bowling side, Bowling: Chris Woakes4-0-42-1, Lukman Meriwala 3-0-32-1, scope and career in cricket so Maxwell and de Chakravarthy leaving Washington Sundar 4-0-33-1, Glenn Maxwell2- Riley Meredith's first victim of the Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-28-0, Kagiso Rabada 4-0-43-1, Lalit Yadav 1- Ritesh took 3 wickets, while youths must adopt the game of RCB in early trouble 0-24-0, Harshal Patel 4-0-17-2. day. 0-11-0, Avesh Khan 4-0-33-1. Ranjot, Amit and Aqib Rather cricket as a career. Villiers' knocks made at 9/2 with the big But the wickets hardly had any Delhi Capitals took 1 wicket each. through the defence of Patidar The chief guest also lauded the wickets of skipper Virat Kohli (5) impact on Dhawan, who contin- Prithvi Shaw c Gayle b Arshdeep 32 In reply, Game Changer could the difference: Kohli with one that darted back on Shikhar Dhawan b Richardson 92 efforts of organizing team spe- and Rajat Patidar (1) in the sec- ued his attacking strokeplay to not chased the target and managed landing. Steven Smith c Richardson b Riley Meredith 9 cially Rajesh Gill CPO and former CHENNAI, Apr 18:) ond over. bring up his fifty off 31 balls. to score 109 runs for all wickets in Mixing aggression with cau- Rishabh Pant (c) c Deepak Hooda b Richardson 15 Ranji player for organizing a Glenn Maxwell has taken Opening the bowling for Needing 71 off 42 balls, DC the allotted 20 overs, thus lost the tion, Maxwell and Devdutt Marcus Stoinis not out 27 mega cricket event on the pattern his new team to "like duck to KKR, veteran off-spinner struck gold by picking up 18 runs match by 51 runs. The main scor- Padikkal (25) revived the RCB Lalit Yadav not out 12 of IPL for J&K Cricketers. water" and AB de Villiers' Harbhajan Singh bowled a tight off the 14th over. Extras: (LB 2, W 6, NB 3) 11 ers Samarpit Raina 42 runs, Aqib innings after the early blows at A mesmerizing patriotic song "love" for the franchise too has line and length to stifle the RCB Dhawan hit Meredith for a hat- Total: (4 wkts, 18.2 Ov) 198 14 and Ram Pandey 11 runs. the MA Chidambaram performance by DPL Jammu helped in putting Royal batsmen in his first two overs. trick of fours, besides the bowler Fall of Wickets: 59-1, 107-2, 152-3, 180-4. From Bowling side Abay Tondon Stadium.(PTI) Orchestra was the special guest Challengers Bangalore on the After Chakravarthy lured gave away another boundary off a Bowling: Arshdeep Singh 3-0-22-1, Mohammed Shami 4-0-53-0, Jalaj took 4 wickets, Shavac took 3 Saxena 3-0-27-0, Jhye Richardson 4-0-41-2, Deepak Hooda 2-0-18-0, item which enthralled the audi- right track this season, captain wide ball as DC brought down the wickets while Sukhman bagged 2 Riley Meredith 2.2-0-35-1. ence by their talent. Virat Kohli said on Sunday. margin to 53 off 36 balls. wickets while Sahil clinched 1 Wrestling coach Sahil's trainees Earlier, Rajesh Gill presented RCB beat Kolkata Knight Dhawan, however, fell eight wicket . Abay Tondon was tant Lukeman Meriwala and Rabada. welcome address and brief note of Riders by 38 runs to win their short of a brilliant century when he declared man of the match with Kagiso Rabada, taking their team Rahul's knock was laced with the league. whereas R P Singh third match on the trot with qualify for Tokyo Olympics was cleaned up by Jhye Rs.2000 sponsored by Rivazoo. to 94 for no loss in 10 overs. seven boundaries and two sixes. conducted the proceedings of the Maxwell and de Villiers crack- Richardson (2/41) in the 16th over. In the second match Game Excelsior Sports Correspondent Tokyo Olympics-2021 by Agarwal was looking danger- Big-hitting Chris Gayle (11) opening function and commentary ing blistering 78 off 49 balls Earlier, Pant's decision to bowl Changer Rising Stars defeated clinching Silver medals in 57kg ous during his 36-ball knock and failed to make a mark, perishing of the inaugural matches. and 76 not out off 36 balls JAMMU, Apr 18: Wrestling after winning the toss backfired as Friends Club Kathua by 12 runs. and 62 kg weight categories in ended up hitting seven boundaries soon in search of a maximum. The league is being organized respectively. Coach Sahil Sharma of Jammu the opening duo of Agarwal and Batting first Game Changer Senior Women Wrestling and four hits over the fence. Nicholas Pooran (9) failed yet under the guidance of senior "Maxi has taken to this team Rahul took the attack to the oppo- Rising Stars scored 116 for all Olympics, held at Almaty But DC dismissed both the again but Deepak Hooda (22 not police officers and the reputed like duck to water. AB loves the sition bowlers from the onset, hit- wickets with Sunoop Bhagat 61 (Uzbekistan) from April 9 to 11. batsmen in quick succession to out off 13) and Shahrukh Khan (15 cricketers of theJ&K which team and they were the differ- ting boundaries and sixes at will. runs and Prabjot Singh 11 runs. Sahil Sharma had represent- make a comeback into the match. not out off five) provided the much includes Chandan Kohli SSP ence today," Kohli said at the While Agarwal was the From the bowling side Gourav ed India in many world champi- While Agarwal was the first to needed big hits towards the end. Jammu, SSP Pawan Parihar SO to post-match presentation.(PTI) aggressor of the two initially, DIG Jammu, Rajesh Gill CPO & Saini took 4 wickets, Anubhav onships as coach and his trainees depart, slicing a Meriwala delivery (PTI) had clinched medals in various tourney including each Gold and Jhilli fetches gold at Bronze medals in Asian Games Asian Weightlifting held at Jakarta (Indonesia), 2018, three Gold medals, two Championship Silver and two Bronze medals in TASHKENT, Apr 18: Cadet Asian Championship held at Japan, one each Bronze medal India's Jhilli Dalabehera Wrestling coach Sahil in World Wrestling clinched the gold medal in the Sharma along with his trainee Championship, 2019 held at 45kg category in a severely Anshu Malik. Nur- Sultan (Kazakhstan) and depleted two-lifter field at the Serbia besides Silver medal in Asian Weightlifting achieved another goal as his two World Ranking Series-2021 at Championship here today. trainees namely Anshu Malik Rome (Italy). Jhilli, a junior world champi- and Sonam have qualified for Winning team posing for a group photograph with trophy at onship bronze medallist, lifted Jammu. 69kg in the snatch and followed Mountaineer Col Ranbeer to that up by 88 kg in clean jerk for a total of 157 kg to finish on top RSCC lifts Navreh Cup Trophy donate award money to MAJK of the podium in all three cate- gories of the gold level Olympic Excelsior Sports Correspondent Sunil took two wickets each. Excelsior Sports Correspondent record of summiting the qualifier event which was post- In reply, Navreh CC managed Everest three times in 2012, JAMMU, Apr 18: Superb poned last year due to the pan- to score only 108 runs and thus JAMMU, Apr 18: Colonel 2013 and 2016 and the highest bowling and batting performances demic. lost the match by 3 runs. Rocky Ranbeer Singh Jamwal, an ace peaks of all the seven conti- by Rajesh Salhotra guided RSCC However, 45kg is not a and Sunil made 28 and 24 runs mountaineer of J&K and one of nents besides scaling of six to beat Navreh CC by three runs in the top mountaineers of the Olympic weight category. respectively. From bowling side, 6000mtrs peaks in Chile in just the finals of Navreh Cup-2021 and Rajesh Salhotra and Wali took country who has recently The silver medal went to 10 days, is a highly decorated lifted the title trophy, being played three wickets each while King Philippines' Mary Flor Diaz for received the J&K Govt Award mountaineer of India. at Country Cricket Ground, here Raju and Daleep clinched one her effort of 135kg (60kg+75kg). for outstanding sports persons He is a recipient of the top today. wicket each. With the win, Jhilli bettered After winning the toss by skip- shall present the cash award of the country in Rajesh Salhotra was declared her silver-winning performance per Jai Raj, RSCC made 111 runs award of Rs 51000 to mountaineering, the as man of the match for his all in the last edition. However, it for the loss of all wickets. Rajesh Mountaineering prestigious Tenzing round performance in the finals. was an underwhelming perform- Salhotra made highest 46 runs, Association of J&K Norgay Adventure Man of series (OPPO Mobile) ance as she had lifted 162kg whereas Sanjay, Vikas and Ajay (MAJK) as a good will Award (equivalent to was given to Anil Pandita of the (71kg+91kg) at the same event in contributed 20, 14 and 13 runs gesture to promote Arjuna Award) and was Navreh CC, whereas Best Bowlers 2019.(PTI) respectively for his team. From mountaineering declared the best moun- award was given to Amit Wali of Navreh CC, Sunny Bhan and the RSCC and Best Batsman amongst the budding taineer of India in 2017 talent of J&K. award was clinched by Shailendar with the conferment of of FCC. It was communicated by IMF Gold medal. Colonel Jamwal in an informal On the closing ceremony, Er President Zorawar Singh Kiran Wattal (vice president talk with Ram Khajuria, senior Jamwal and general secretary vice president of Gymnastics Federation of India, Shawetica Khajuria expressed Convenor Vishwa Kashmiri Mountaineering Association of gratitude to the distinguished J&K. Samaj) was chief guest, whereas mountaineer for his kind ges- Pintoo Ji Pandita was guest of Hailing from Barorhi, a vil- ture of donating award money honour (president Global Solace lage in district Samba, Col to the Association. NGO). Jamwal who holds the unique The chief guest and guest of honour awarded trophies and win- CSK, RR in battle to gain momentum ning prize of Rs 20000 and Rs Winning team posing for a group photograph after the match 10000.00 to both winning and run- MUMBAI, Apr 18: Dhawan in the opener. at Akhnoor. ner-up team. Chahar, in particular, came Three-time champion up with a fine spell, which Veterans Cricket Cup Akhnoor Deepak Punia settles Chennai Super Kings and helped CSK restrict its oppo- for silver, Ravinder Rajasthan Royals would look to nent to a below par 106 which build on their first wins and the batsmen chased down with- Singh Veterans beats Jammu ends up with bronze gain momentum when they out much trouble. ALMATY (Kazakhstan), Apr 18: clash in the Indian Premier The Super Kings will expect League (IPL), here tomorrow. Chahar to continue the good Sports Veterans by 3 runs Deepak Punia's defence fell The two sides bounced back work while also hoping that Excelsior Sports Correspondent Veterans failed to chase the target apart in front of his idol and after losing their opening fix- Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur and made 162 runs by losing seven Iranian legend Hassan tures with wins, albeit in con- and the others also step up. JAMMU, Apr 18: Singh wickets in 20 overs. Manoj made Yazdanicharati as the Veterans Akhnoor trounced trasting styles. Also, South African pacer highest 63 runs in 43 balls, where- Olympic-bound Indian settled Jammu Sports Veterans by three as Jagdev Singh made 33 off 18 for a silver medal while While the MS Dhoni-led Lungi Ngidi is out of quaran- runs in the ongoing Veterans CSK had it easy against Punjab tine and could be drafted into and Vishal and Varinder con- Sanjeet claimed a bronze on Cricket Cup Akhnoor, being tributed 19 and 11 runs while fac- Kings, the Royals scraped the playing XI to give more played at Govt Higher Secondary the concluding day of the through against Delhi Capitals teeth to the CSK pace attack. ing 21 and 8 balls respectively. Asian Championship here School Akhnoor, here today. From bowling side, Davinder in the final over. Both teams England all-rounder Moeen Opting bat, Singh Veterans today. would be eyeing a second win Ali was in the thick of action in Chanan got three wickets, SS Deepak lost his 86kg final Akhnoor, scored 165 runs by los- Langeh clinched two wickets, and to give their campaign a boost. the win over Punjab and that ing seven wickets in stipulated 20 Rajinder Sharma bagged on wick- inside the first period by tech- CSK hit back superbly after should please the CSK think- overs match. Ravi Verma made et. nical superiority as the a chastening defeat to Capitals tank. He picked up a wicket highest 43 runs off 32 balls, Davinder Chanan was Iranian's relentless attacks had with Deepak Chahar with his off-spin and batted flu- whereas Sonu Malhotra scored 38 declared as man of the match, the clueless India gasping. putting his hand up with a four- ently. runs off 25 and Mall Ditta, whereas Vikas Bali and Manav It was the second time that wicket haul to break the back of Faf du Plessis made an Brijnandan Singh and Davinder Mehta were umpires and Rahul Deepak was up against 2016 the Punjab batting line-up, set- unbeaten 36 despite not being Chanan contributed 23, 13 and 14 Sharma maintained the scorebook. Olympic champion and two- ting up a six-wicket victory. at his fluent best and would runs in 26, 9 and 10 balls respec- The tournament is being time World champion but chal- Skipper Dhoni would have hope to build on the knock tively. From bowling side, organized by Singh Cricket Club Mukesh Sharma got two wickets, lenged him for the first time as been happy with the bowlers' while the likes of Ruturaj Akhnoor under the overall super- he had withdrawn from the performance after they had Gaikwad and Ambati Rayudu while Koushal, Pawan Sharma, vision of Kr Sham Singh Langeh Kulveer and Jagdev Singh shared 2019 World Championship been taken to the cleaners by need runs to get their confi- (General Secretary JKCA District final against the Iranian due to one wicket each. Jammu). Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar dence back.(PTI) In reply, Jammu Sports a leg injury.(PTI)