THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Indian men’s hockey team decimates Hong Surya Bhanu Partap keeps J&K’s flag high, wins bronze Kong China 26-0, betters 86-year old record India at Asiad: Rahi leads the way with gold, JAKARTA, Aug 22 : get on when they earned their first penalty corner but India The Indian men's hockey went for the review which turned wushu delivers best medal haul team today recorded its biggest out to be successful. ever win in international hockey India's chief coach Harendra PALEMBANG/JAKARTA, Aug as it annihilated Hong Kong Singh was happy for his players 22: China by 26-0 in a Pool B match and said they are now part of a of the , bettering an legacy which will be always be Rahi Sarnobat beat all expecta- 86-year-old mark here. remembered in the history of tions to become India's first woman Defending champions India Indian hockey. shooter with an Asian Games gold bettered its record set way back "For me it does not matter, and the low-profile wushu players in 1932 when the national team, but for the players it is a proud delivered their best ever perform- ance even in defeat on another high- yielding day for the country at the regional showpiece. With four gold, three silver and James Anderson shakes hands with after the match. eight bronze medals in their overall tally, India stood seventh in the medal table, which was led by quite Brilliant India pull back a margin by powerhouse China with 82 medals, including 37 gold. The spotlight was on 16-year- old sensation Manu Bhaker, who with 203-run win in 3rd Test shot a Games record qualifying NOTTINGHAM, Aug 22: hands up when it mattered the who is the best batsmen in world score at the shooting range in MEDAL TALLY Palembang. But to everyone's sur- most. currently. He has now Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total A moment of action in the hockey match between India and prise, it was Rahi who delivered the India's cornered cricketers pro- (five-for and scored hundreds in Australia, 1 CHN 37 30 15 82 Hong Kong during 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Wednesday. yellow metal, holding her nerve in a duced a fantastic collective per- half-century) produced an all- South Africa, New Zealand and 2 JPN 20 23 25 68 (UNI) final which was settled after two formance to outclass England by 3 KOR 11 15 23 49 SCOREBOARD shoot-offs. 203 runs in the third Test to keep which had legendary Dhyan moment. When history will be India 1st Innings 329 "Shooting is life for me," said 4 IRI 7 3 6 16 the five-match series alive, here Chand, Roop Singh and Gurmeet discussed, the names of these 18 the former World Cup gold-medal- 5 INA 6 3 7 16 today. England 1st Innings 161 Singh, thrashed USA 24-1 in the players will be there. The record list, who was laid low by an elbow 6 PRK 5 2 3 10 Needing only a on the India 2nd Innings 352-7/decl Olympics at Los Angeles. is always for the players," injury after a gold medal in the 2014 7 IND 4 3 8 15 final morning, India completed the England 2nd Innings The record for the biggest Harendra told reporters. in 8 THA 4 2 10 16 formalities in only 2.5 overs as A Cook c Rahul b Ishant 17 win remains with New Zealand, India did not show any mercy Glasgow. 9 UZB 3 5 6 14 England were all out for 317, well K Jennings c Pant b Ishant 13 who beat Samoa 36-1 in 1994. to their opponents, scoring four 10 TPE 3 3 8 14 Such was their dominance goals in the first five minutes of In Jakarta, four bronze medals short of the mammoth victory tar- J Root c Rahul b Bumrah 13 ing of Yang Hsieh and Yang Tsung- India were already through to that with seven minutes to go the match. They ended the first were settled for in wushu and get of 521 runs. O Pope c Kohli b Shami 16 Hua of Chinese Taipei to win 6-3, 5- the quarters with a first-round bye India took its goalkeeper off the quarter with a comprehensive though not one Indian in the fray India now trail England 1-2 B Stokes c Rahul b Pandya 62 made the finals, it would still go 7, 10-1. and today's round only decided the but more importantly got some field. six-goal lead and made it 14-0 J Buttler lbw Bumrah 106 down as the low-profile sport's best The rowers also continued their placement of the teams in the draw breathing space after a heart- As many as 13 Indian players after adding eight in the second J Bairstow b Bumrah 0 ever performance, in terms of num- good show and qualified for the based on their rankings. India ended breaking defeat in Edgbaston, fol- registered their names in the quarter. final round in three more events. up in the bottom half with Korea in C Woakes c Pant b Bumrah 4 ber of medals won, in the Asian lowed by the debacle at the Lord's. scoresheet today. It turned out to be just a prac- Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan the upper half. Rupinderpal Singh (3rd, 5th, tice match for India, which had Games. The final wicket was taken by A Rashid 33 Singh finished on top in men's light- But just as any other day, today 30th, 45th, 59th minutes), trounced hosts Indonesia 17-0 in Roshibina Devi (women's Ravichandran Ashwin, who dis- S Broad c Rahul b Bumrah 20 weight double sculls repechage was not without its share of heart- (29th, 52nd, their first pool match. 60kg), Santosh Kumar (men's missed James Amderson (11), J Anderson c Rahane b Ashwin 11 56kg) Surya Bhanu Pratap (men's round with a time of 7:14.23s to 53rd, 54th) and Akashdeep The play was restricted to breaks and disappointments. caught by Ajinkya Rahane. Extra: (b2, lb16,nb4) 22 60kg) and Narender Grewal (men's qualify for the final race to be held Singh (2nd, 32nd, 35th) scored a Hong Kong China's half and Star gymnast Dipa Karmakar The win enabled Virat Kohli to Total: (for 10 , 104.5 Overs) 317 65kg) lost their respective semifinal on August 24. hattrick each, while Manpreet Indian P R Sreejesh, had to withdraw from the artistic surpass with 22 Sanda bouts but will go back home In the women's four repechage Bowlers: Bumrah 29-8-85-5, Ishant 20-4-70-2, Ashwin Singh (3rd, 17th), Lalit guarding the goal post, was not team finals due to the knee injury, Test wins and is now five short of content after the stronger-than- round, the Indian quartet of Sanjita 22.5-8-44-1, Shami 19-3-78-1, Pandya 14-5-22-1. Upadhayay (17th, 19th), Varun challenged even once. which had threatened to end her Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 27 wins. expected showing. The previous Dung Dung, Annu, Navneet Kaur Kumar (23rd, 30th), SV Sunil If goalkeeper Michael career not so long back. The team, The heartening aspect was the round performance with wickets England. best was a silver and a bronze in the and Yamini Singh finished fourth (7th), Vivek Sagar Prasad (14th), Chung had not made a few good which missed her, ended seventh in kind of domination shown by the and runs to justify his place and The Indian captain's ability to 2010 Guangzhou Games. with a time of 7:53.29s but still Mandeep Singh (21st), Amit saves in the third quarter, the the final. Indian team in what can easily be make a statement to the sceptics. cut down on his scoring shots, Two tennis medals were also made it to the final to be held on Rohidas (27th), scoreline could have been even After the high of two gold and termed as a complete performance The slip catching improved by showing patience when Jimmy guaranteed with Ankita Raina and August 24. under Virat Kohli's captaincy out- leaps and bounds with Rahul tak- Anderson was on fire was hall- (48th), Chinglensana Singh more worse for Hong Kong the top-seeded paring of Rohan The men's lightweight eight a bronze medal in the freestyle side the sub-continent. ing seven catches. mark of his greatness. (51st), (53rd) China. Bopanna and Divij Sharan pro- team was the last to compete and competition, India endured a disap- "In the four years I have been showed why he Such has been his domination and (55th) were While Sreejesh guarded the gressing to the semifinals of their qualified for the final race by com- pointing end to their wrestling doing this job, if you look at a clin- is considered a minefield of talent that the second-highest scorer the other goal getters for India. post in the first half, Krishan respective events. ing on top with a time of 6:15.62. campaign with Greco-Roman ical performance overseas, I think during his eventful stay at the across both the teams is Jonny It was always expected to be Bahadur Pathak did the duty World number 189 Raina dis- The final will be held on August 24. grappler Harpreet Singh losing his this has to be the best. South Africa crease. Bairstow (206 runs) while Jos a lop-sided affair between world after the change of ends. patched Hong Kong's Eudice The Indian women's compound bronze medal bout. (win at Johannesburg) was gutsy Pant might still be a work in Buttler, after his maiden Test hun- no. 5 India and world no. 45 With India set to take on Chong 6-4, 6-1 to enter the last four archery team qualified second for Harpreet (87kg) lost 3-6 to because that was a nasty track progress as far as glove-work is dred, is placed third with 170 runs. Hong Kong China and it turned Japan on Friday and Korea on of the women's singles. the quarterfinals, pipped by power- Kazakhstan's Azamat Kustubayev. out to be exactly the same. Saturda, India coach Harendra when you won on. But this was concerned but five catches in the From India, Pandya with 160 Bopanna and Sharan, who don't house Korea in the ranking round. (PTI) clinical. When you look at all three first innings showed that it won't runs, is the second best but it has a With a keeper-less Indian said "the real Asian Games will have much experience of playing departments, they stood up. As a be easy for the first choice Test lot do with the debacles in goalpost to attack, Hong Kong begin now" for the defending together, came up with a solid per- batting unit, as a catching unit and keeper Wriddhiman Saha to just the first two Test matches. (PTI) China earned its first chance to champions. (PTI) formance against the seasoned pair- as a unit, so you can't ask walk back into the team once he for more," Shastri said on gets fit. Wednesday. Last but not the least was skip- 3 boxers advance to 2nd round UTTA players shine in While openers KL Rahul and per himself. Easily the best bats- were solid if not men across both sides, Kohli has in World Youth Championship spectacular, the new ball bowlers now taken his tally of runs to 440 State level TT C’ship (2/32 and 2/70) and after knocks of 97 and 103 in the BUDAPEST, Aug 22: Iran's Mobin Alaee in the next Excelsior Sports Correspondent today. (1/56 and third Test. round. On this occasion, former MLA 1/78) were relentless in their Call it a coincidence, Kohli has Asian bronze-medallist Advancing in the women's UDHAMPUR, Aug 22: and chief patron UTTA, Balwant attack. accumulated exactly 200 runs in Bhavesh Kattimani (52kg) and draw was Lalita (69kg), who got Players of Udhampur Table Tennis Singh Mankotia was the chief Vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane the first and third Test matches. debutant Akash Kumar (56kg) a walkover from Thailand's Association (UTTA), brought lau- guest. (81 in first innings) and Test spe- With two hundreds and two advanced to the second round of Baison Manikon. rels at Inter District State Level Earlier, Tarun (Working cialist (72 in half-centuries, Kohli has made the world youth boxing champi- India were assured of two Table Tennis Championship, President) presented the welcome second innings) also put their sure that there are no debates on onships with comfortable open- medals after two women ing wins here. pugilists got direct entry into the organised by the Department of address. Akash, competing in his semifinals owing to the small Youth Services and Sports at Leh. In his address, Tarun congratu- Winners of competition posing with teachers. maiden World Championship, size of the draw. To encourage and boost the lated the young talent for their claimed a unanimous 5-0 win Sakshi Gaidhani (81kg) and morale of young talent, the tremendous achievement. He said New Era School organises Inter-School over Ireland's Brandon Neha Yadav (+81kg) made the Association honoured the players that it is the matter of pride that McCarthy today. last-four stage to put India on Dropped from senior after many hurdles and non coop- Kattimani (52kg) defeated the medal table without erative behaviour of the Sports Poem Recitation competition Ukraine's Yurii Tomiuk 5-0 last exchanging a single blow. (PTI) team, Kuldeep to play Department officials, they man- Excelsior Correspondent school Panjtirthi stood second night and will compete against aged to win gold medal at State and the third position was shared 'Test' against Australia A Level Championship. JAMMU, Aug 22: New Era by Manvi of Alexander , Aug 22: Ankit Sharma, Vice President Environmental High School, Memorial School and of the Asociation and Prikshit FSSA honours Jammu girl Chinaman has Circular Road today organised a Udhayveer Sharma of JK Khajuria, Joint Secretary present- Poem Recitation competition of Montessori school. been included in the India A team ed vote of thanks. for the two four day 'Test' against 9 different schools under the In English Poem Recitation Smiley Tanuja Sunny Sharma (Sr. Vice aegis of Youth Talent Search (A Dikshita Thakur of JK Australia A. President), Vikas Mahajan, Sahil Kuldeep has been dropped forum of schools), here. Montessori school stool first Danish Sharma posing along with the office bearers of J&K Excelsior Sports Correspondent trainer program. She was also Gupta, Abhijeet Thakur, Rajat from the India senior team as a 36 students of 9 different whereas second position was Kurash Association before leaving for Asian Games. invited by Fitness and Sports singh, Vijay Sallan, Samnik third specialist spinner in England schools participated in the pro- shared by Rukaiyat and Mahira JAMMU, Aug 22: Fitness Sciences Association to attend 2 Bhasin,Balwinder Singh & the at this point of time. The national gramme. of Lawrence Public School and and Sports Sciences days workshop at Gurgaon parents of the players were also J&K's Danish leaves Association, New Delhi honored under the guidance of Gurnit selectors felt that it will be better if SK Jain, President,Vichar Minha Israr of Alexander Kuldeep gets game time for India present during the occasion. Kranti Manch and Parmod Jain Memorial School and the third Singh Dua, CEO of FSSA. The players of the Under-19 Tanuja is certified Booiaka A. were the judges. position was clinched by for Asian Games gold medal winning team players The students recited both in Suniksha Gupta of SD Tarapuri and Pilates trainer of Jammu and Young also got Excelsior Sports Correspondent games. included Harshit Ramotra, Abhay Hindi and English. school. Kashmir State. She is also his maiden A team call-up in days This is for the first time that format. Gupta, Mahi Kailu and Sudansh In Hindi poem recitation In the end, Prabha Jain, awarded with Best Dance and JAMMU, Aug 22: Jammu a player from Jammu and India A squad for the two four- Verma. Manya Jamwal of BH MP Principal of the school lauded Fitness trainer Award, Nirvana and Kashmir Kurash Kashmir is represeng in Kurash day games against Australia A: District Udhampur defeated school Barnai stood first where the efforts of the students and Association today accorded in such a high profile games. Academy's Young Women Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Mayank Jammu District by 3-1. as Raiyyan of Lawrence Publc the teachers. warm send off to Danish The members who were present Achievers Award 2015 and Agarwal, R Samarth, A Easwaran, Sharma, who left for Jakarta in on the occasion included Dr many more. Ankit Bawne, Shubman Gill, KS Indonesia to represent India for Sandeep Singh, President According to Smiley, work- Bharat (wicket-keeper), Shahbaz Prithvi, Vihari get maiden Test participation in Asian Games. JKKA; Saurav Choudhary, Vice out is a way to be fit and healthy. Nadeem, Kuldeep Yadav, K The Association members Chairman; Vikas Coach; Rohit Her dream is to travel the whole Gowtham, Rajneesh Gurbani, were hopeful of him getting a Gupta, Vipul Gupta and Shashi world and learn as much as she , , call-up; Vijay, Kuldeep axed medal in these prestigious Balgotra. can. To make her dream come Mohd. Siraj. (PTI) NEW DELHI, Aug 22: to be rewarded for his consistent that an extra batsman in these con- Smiley Tanuja posing with true smiley Tanuja opened Dancefit Smiley Zone at Talab When it comes to show in the first-class arena. ditions won't be of any harm. trainer Gurnit Singh Dua. Young Mumbai opener Prithvi Prithvi has scored 1418 runs in Vihari enjoys a phenomenal Maha Govt announces Rs 50 lakh Tillo, Jammu. preparation, Virat is Shaw and Andhra middle-order 14 first-class games with an aver- average of nearly 60 in 63 first- She has been involved in for ‘golden girl’ Rahi Sarnobat Jammu girl Smiley Tanuja batsman G Hanuma Vihari were class games with 5142 runs and 15 Chahar with the Certification of dance and fitness industry in similar to Tendulkar: Shastri today included in the Indian team hundreds to his credit. MUMBAI, Aug 22: list at the 2010 Delhi Functional strength trainer Jammu for over 10 years. She NOTTINGHAM, Aug 22: for the final two Test matches His game is cut out for the Commonwealth Games and had a did many dance and fitness against England. longest format with good defensive Jammu (India). Virat Kohli's passion is The government bronze in the 25m pistol pairs camp for children, youth and Veteran opener Murali Vijay technique. During the tour of UK, Smiley Tanuja is the first fit- unmatched and his game sense today announced a cash award of event at the 2014 Incheon Asian ness trainer from Jammu to especially for women communi- was axed after a disastrous show in he scored 147 in a List A game Rs 50 lakh for Rahi Sarnobat, Games. can only be compared to the qualify for functional strength ty at large. the first two Tests while chinaman against West Indies A. He also had who became the first Indian Soon after after Rahi achieved legendary , Kuldeep Yadav made way for an a half century in a four-day 'Test' woman shooter to win gold medal the rare feat after a nerve-wrack- Jadhav, Rayudu to turn up for India A, feels Indian team's head coach additional batsman as a third spin- against the same opponents. at the Asian Games. ing 25m air pistol finals, her fam- . ner is not required in the seamer- Recently, he also scored 54 and Rahi pipped her nearest rival ily members and neighbours burst Kohli has so far scored 440 friendly English conditions. 148 in the two 'Tests' against South from Thailand to lift the gold in a into celebration at Kolhapur in India B in Quadrangular series runs with two hundreds in three Vijay bagged a 'pair' against Africa A side at home. nail-biting finish. western Maharashtra, from where NEW DELHI, Aug 22: nament," a BCCI statement Tests as India made a comeback England at the Lord's and scored The fourth Test will be played "I am happy to announce that she hails. read. with a 203-run win in the Trent 20 and 6 in Birmingham. With age of 56.72 and seven centuries. at Southampton from August 30 Maharashtra Government will Rahi's cousin Aditya Sarnabot Fit-again and Siddhesh Lad and Ricky Bridge game. Shikhar Dhawan and K L Rahul He was one of the star performers while the fifth match will start at give Rs 50 lakh to the gold medal said the family's joy knew no , who cleared Bhui have been released from "He (Kohli) is very passion- putting up a much improved show, along with Vihari and Mayank the Oval in London from winners, Rs 30 lakh to silver bounds as the news of her clinch- the Yo Yo test, were today their India A and India B teams ate about the game. He loves the axe was always looming large Agarwal during India A team's September 7. medal winners and Rs 20 lakh to ing the gold came in. on the 34-year-old Tamil Nadu recent tour of the UK. The Squad (for 4th and 5th included in India A and India B to play in the ongoing Duleep batting. He loves to do the hard bronze medal winners of "A lot of friends and relatives yards. His work ethic is second opener. He scored 188 in a first-class Test): AsianGames 2018 from have been streaming in our house squads for the Quadrangular Trophy for India Red and India Also his form outside the sub- game against West Indies A in Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar series, starting tomorrow in Blue respectively, it added. to none and I have not seen any Maharashtra," Chief Minister and we celebrated her success by cricketer. I will put (Sachin) continent has been wretched for Beckenham and recently scored Dhawan, K L Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Devendra Fadnavis tweeted. distributing 'pedhas' (sweet). Rahi Alur. Jadhav will return to action Tendulkar in that bracket when sometime now even though he has 136 against South Africa A in Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya The 27-year-old held her suffered an injury over two years "Two changes were made to after nearly four months follow- a decent average of 39.33 across Bengaluru. Rahane (vice-captain), , it comes to preparation, visual- nerve to pip Thailand's ago and her comeback is good," 59 Test matches. He has scored Vihari, a member of the 2012 (wicket-keeper), the India A & India B squads for ing a successful hamstring sur- ising situations, how he goes Naphaswan Yangpaiboon in a Aditya told PTI from Kolhapur. 3933 runs with 12 hundreds. There U-19 World Cup team, has been a Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), R the Quadrangular series starting gery in June. about planning, ability to stay in heart-stopping contest after both "Rahi is expected to reach 23rd August, 2018. Ambati Rayudu, on the hand, was is a fair chance that Vijay has consistent scorer in Ashwin, , Hardik were tied at 34 points following Kolhapur on September 11 and present -- great qualities in any played his last Test at the Lord's. and has also done well for India A Pandya, Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Rayudu & Kedar Jadhav will ignored for the limited overs 10 series of five shots each, tak- there are plans to welcome her in human being," Shastri told The 18-year-old Prithvi, who in recent times. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit ing it to a shoot-off. a grand style," he said. (PTI) join the India A & India B series in England after failing to Mike Atherton during an inter- had captained India U-19 to World It is learnt that the Indian team Bumrah, , Hanuma Rahi is a double gold medal- squads respectively for the tour- pass the Yo Yo fitness test. (PTI) view for Sky Sports. (PTI) Cup triumph earlier this year, is set management and the selectors feel Vihari. (PTI)