TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2017 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU J&K to enjoy slight edge over Chhattisgarh Kohli named captain of year in Vijay Hazare Trophy today Excelsior Sports Correspondent ported by military medium at ESPNcricinfo Awards Manzoor Dar, besides having NEW DELHI, Feb 27: his 6 for 27 against South Africa in of the Year award for her match- KOLKATA, Feb 27: the services of experienced off- the Tri-Nation series in Guyana. winning 66 off 45 balls perform- Formidable Jammu and Kashmir spinner and skipper Parvez India Test skipper Virat Kohli Carlos Brathwaite received the ance in the World T20 final against will be enjoying a slight edge over Rasool, Chhattisgarh, though has been named T20 Batting Performance of the three-time champions Australia. Mohd Kaif led Chhattisgarh in their have a good number of talented as the 'Captain Year award for his 34 not out Leigh Kasperek, the talented second outing of the Group-D bowlers in their kitty, but it is yet of the Year' at against England in the World T20 New Zealand offspinner, took the the 10th annual final in Kolkata, in which he hit Bowling Performance of the Year match of the ongoing Vijay Hazare to be seen as to how they per- ESPNcricinfo four consecutive sixes off the last award for her 3 for 13 spell, Trophy, being hosted by Cricket form at the higher levels. Awards. over to win West Indies the match. defeating Australia in the teams' Association of Bengal (CAB), The surfaces in Kolkata, Kohli led Bangladesh left-arm fast World T20 group match. under the aegis of Board of Control whether it is Eden Gardens, Kalyani India to nine bowler Mustafizur Rahman took Speaking about the awards, for Cricket in India (BCCI), here or any other ground, are believed to wins out of 12 away the T20 Bowling Sambit Bal, Editor-in-chief of tomorrow. be batting friendly in this season of Tests in the year goneby. Performance of the Year award for ESPNcricinfo and ESPN South While Chhattisgarh, which is the year and it will be interesting to Englishman Ben Stokes won his 5 for 22 during the World T20 Asia said, "The ESPNcricinfo playing in their debut season in see bowlers hitting good areas on the Test Batting Performance of against New Zealand in Kolkata. Awards are about meaning and Vijay Hazare Trophy, suffered a better batting wickets. the Year for his incredible counter- Mehedi Hasan Miraz, one of context, so we are chuffed a ten- Footballers posing for a group photograph alongwith dignitaries during opening ceremony of heavy thrashing against Mahendra However, cricket being the attacking innings of 258 runs off the brightest young stars of ball innings sits beside a score of SSB organized Football Tournament at Parade Ground in Jammu. Singh Dhoni led Jharkhand in game of glorious uncertainties, 198 balls against South Africa in Bangladesh's national team, was 258 in the list of winners. There is their first match on the other day, noting can be predicted, until the Cape Town. declared Debutant of the Year for delight and irony in the fact that Kehli Mandi Samba, Young Rovers script wins Jammu and Kashmir on the other last ball is bowled. So, come Stokes team-mate Stuart his 19 wickets in the two Test these two performances belong to hand suffered a narrow defeat in tomorrow and see the result. Broad's 6 for 17 in the third Test matches against England, one of Carlos Brathwaite and Ben Stokes, Lal Singh declares open SSB an evenly contested first match of SQUADS: ensured a series victory for those being possibly their finest whose names will be forever the season against strong S. Jammu & Kashmir : Parvez England and fetched him the Test Test win ever. entwined for those dramatic four Badrinath led Hyderabad. Rasool (Captain), Ian Dev Singh Bowling Performance of the Year This year ESPNcricinfo intro- balls in the World T20 final. Jammu and Kashmir have a (Vice Captain), Ramdayal Punia, award - for the second year run- duced awards for women's cricket "The tenth year has seen some ning. across all three international for- inspirational talent come to the organized Football Tourney good number of in form batsmen Umar Nazir, Shubham Khajuria, Winners were selected by an mats. fore, we are pleased to introduce Excelsior Sports Correspondent Later the minister congratulat- Jamwal CO 66 Bn SSB, S B in Shubham Khajuria, Parvez Zahoor Sofi, Ahmed Banday, ed SSB for undertaking such ini- Chand 2ic SSB, Barjeet Singh independent jury including former West Indian Hayley Williams winners from women and Rasool, Ian Dev Singh and Amir Aziz, Manik Gupta, Puneet cricket greats, ESPNcricinfo's sen- received the Batting Performance Associates cricket this year." (PTI) JAMMU, Feb 27: Minister tiative for the youth of J&K. DC, Jeet Lal DC, Raj Ranjan DC, Ahmed Banday to support their Bisht (WK), Manzoor Dar, Mohd for Forest Environment and First phase of tournament was Kasturi Lal DC, Jitender Meena ior editors, writers and global cor- cause, the debutant team of Muddasir, Mehjoor Ali, Aditya respondents, comprising Ian Ecology, Chodhury Lal Singh played at district level in Jammu, AC, Dr Mrinalini Singh AC Chhattisgarh will heavily be Pratap Singh, Pranav Gupta, Chappell, Mahela Jayawardene, today said that 'team spirit' is Samba, Kathua, Udhampur, (med), Surinder Singh Bunty, banking on their skipper Mohd Vishwajeet Singh, Owais Shah Ramiz Raja, Isa Guha, Sambit Bal, important for bringing positive Ramban & Doda from 19th to 24th Vice president JKFA and Mohan Kaif and wicketkeeper batsman and Anshuman Singh. Courtney Walsh, Mark Butcher developments both in the game as February 2017. Young rovers & Lal from JKFA were also present Manoj Singh in the batting Chhattisgarh: Mohd Kaif and Simon Taufel among others. well into the governance. Param FC from Jammu, Thapa FC the occasion. department. J&K also have the (Captain), Pankaj Kumar Rao, Quinton de Kock's 178 against The Minister while speaking from Udhampur, Kehli Mandi FC In the matches played today, likes of explosive Manzoor Dar Shubham Aggarwal, Ashutosh Australia in Centurion was the at the Inter-district football tour- from Samba, United FC from Kehli Mandi FC Samba crushed and wicketkeeper Puneet Bisht in Singh, Vivek Borker, Abhimanyu second-highest individual score by nament, organized by Sashatra kathua & Ramban FC have quali- Ramban Football Club by a big their ranks. Chauhan, Avnish Daliwal, Manoj a South African player, and it was Seema Bal, said that forces have fied for the inter district football margin of 14 goals (14-0), while On the bowling front, Singh (WK), Amandeep Khare, voted the ODI Batting played a vital role in country's tournament. Inter-District Football Young Rovers Jammu defeated Jammu and Kashmir possess Shourab Khairwal, Omkar Performance of the Year. development and security. He matches will be played from 27th Thapa Football Club Udhampur quality medium pacers in Verma, Sumit, Suresh Rao Mystery spinner Sunil Narine said that the sacrifices laid down Feb to 02nd March 2017. in a close contest by two goals to was awarded the ODI Bowling Ramdayal Punia, Mohd Ruikar, Shahnawaz Hussain and Players in action during competition held under Khelo India by the forces shouldn't go waste. Sashastra Seema Bal has one (2-1). Mudhasir and Umar Nazir, sup- Shubham Thakur. Performance of the Year award for "Forces as an institution have taken this initiative to provide a Scheme at Pulwama. shown a remarkable growth from platform to the young football last many years," he said. "Not players of J&K to display their ZCC Nishat outplays SCC in 800 sportspersons participate in different only serving the nation but they sporting skills and techniques. It are into many things, including will also encourage other football Chief Minister’s Cricket Cup games under ‘Khelo India Scheme’ Sports activities now," he said. lovers to explore their potential in Excelsior Sports Correspondent to the total respectively. For The Minister declared the the game. This venture by Excelsior Sports Correspondent ferent disciplines of sports SCC Akhnoor, Sameer Khajuria including Kabaddi, Volleyball inter-district football tournament Sashastra Seema Bal will help to JAMMU, Feb 27: Zabarwan and Sunny took 3 wickets each, open at Parade Ground Jammu in spread the message of gaining fit- PULWAMA, Feb 27: Block and Wushu on Day-1. Cricket Club (ZCC) Nishat defeat- while Sunil took 2 and level competitions for Khelo It is pertinent to mention the presence of Shri Ravinder ness by outdoor gaming, incul- ed Singh Cricket Club (SCC) Rajkumar claimed one. Raina, MLA Nowshera and cate team spirit in the players & India have started in Lassipora here that J&K State Sports Akhnoor by a narrow margin of 17 In reply, SCC Akhnoor could and Shadimarg blocks of district Council has organized largest Swami Paramanand Saraswati. promote healthy competition runs in the 1st State Level 50- manage to score 222 in 48 overs, Manavendra Negi, DIG SSB among the youth of our state. Pulwama. ever sports festival in the history Overs Cricket Tournament for losing all their wickets, thus lost According to the in-charge of state where 120000 players Jammu welcomed the chief guest Joginder Singh DIG CRPF, Chief Minister’s Cup, being the match by a narrow margin of in the opening ceremony. Harinder Kr CO CRPF, Vijay S. Stadium Pulwama, more than are participating across 22 dis- organized by Jammu and Kashmir 17 runs. Nadeem and Saleem 800 aspiring sportspersons are tricts of J&K. Selected State Body Builders posing for a group photograph State Sports Council in collabora- scored 53 and 51 runs respec- participating in the competitions Competitions under the Sports week concludes before leaving for Haryana in Jammu on Monday. tion with Country Cricket tively, while Sameer Khajuria under ‘Khelo India’ Scheme. scheme will be organized in all Academy at Gharota, near here. contributed 33 runs to the total. He further added that the districts of the state, informed Bhalla flags-off 13-member State team for The Tournament is being For Zabarwan Club, Irshad players will be competing in dif- the sports council official. at Navyug HSS held in the memory of former scalped 3 important wickets, Excelsior Sports Correspondent and Spoon Race, Banana race, Chief Minister, Late Mufti while Sajjad and Rauf bagged 2 Bursting of Balloons, Bun race Sr National Body Building C'ship Mohammad Sayeed, under the wickets each. Hisham Saleem, Players show promise on Day-3 JAMMU, Feb 27: Sports and Tug of War. Excelsior Sports Correspondent Secretary of Body Building supervision of Vikrant Sharma, Jimmy and Nayeem claimed one week organized by Navyug About 400 students partici- Association of Jammu and Director Country Cricket wicket each. of State Football C’ship Higher Secondary School con- pated in this week-long event Academy. The match was officiated by JAMMU, Feb 27: Former Kashmir as manager and Feroz Excelsior Sports Correspondent breaker. cluded in an impressive ceremo- and tried their best to prove their Earlier, winning the toss and Sadiq Hussain Malik and Shiv Minister and Chief Patron Body Shah as coach. In the third match, Jammu ny, here today. worth. Games and sports com- batting first, Zabarwan Cricket Kumar Sharma as umpires, Building Association of J&K, Track suits and sports kits JAMMU, Feb 27: Players United defeated Param FC via Managing Director of the petitions were held in two batch- Club, Nishat scored 239 runs in while Lakshya was the scorer. Raman Bhalla flagged off 13- were distributed among the showed composure and promise tie-breaker by six goals to five 50 overs. Waseem top scored In tomorrow’s fixture, member State team to partici- players on the occasion. on third day of the State Football (6-5), while in 4th match, Sainik with 60 runs, while Mudasir, United Cricket Club Udhampur pate in the Senior National Body On the occasion, Mr Bhalla Championship, being organized Colony, Jammu defeated DFA Nayeem, Sajjad and Irfan con- will take on Border Cricket Club Building Championship 'Mr also felicitated Dhananjay Singh by Jammu and Kashmir Football Kathua via tie-breaker again by tributed 34, 26, 23 and 21 runs Arnia at 9 am. India 2017' being held at Charak and Gulshan Sethi, who Association (JKFA) at GGM six goals to five (6-5). Gurugram in Haryana from brought laurels to the State by Science College Ground, here. In the 5th match played March 2 to March 4, 2017. winning medals in the Junior Earlier, Shaheen Sports today, DFA Ganderbal defeated The team included Dr Gunit, National Body Building defeated Young Sports Jammu DFA Kupwara by one goal to nil Vikas Thappar, Dhananjay Championship held at Indore by one goal to nil (1-0), while in (1-0), while in the last match, Singh Charak, Vimal Jit, recently. the second match DFA Kargil Musa Football Club, Jammu Sidharth Sathoo, Javed Bhatti, Prominent among others thrashed NGR Club, Jammu by drubbed Engineers Club Jammu Sachin Gupta, Shramik who attended the flag-off cere- three goals to nil (3-0) via tie- via tie- breaker by (5-3) goals. Mahajan, Sanjeev Singh, Kulbir mony were S. Bhupinder Singh Choudhary, Ajit Singh, Mohsin Tirthi, Vice president BBAJK, and Monika Gupta. Nand Kishore, Vice President Sprawling Buds, Apple Kids International Students of Navyug HSS posing for a group photograph dur- The team is being accompa- and Puneet Khurmi, member ing concluding ceremony of Sports Week. nied by Rajesh Dutta, General Executive Committee. Pre-school celebrate Annual Day school, Hardev Singh Jamwal es-Junior wing, comprising of Students of UP HSS posing for a group photograph alongwith Excelsior Correspondent in which students beautifully was the chief guest on the con- the playway section of the YS & Sports finalizes dignitaries after receiving mementoes and trophies. represented the culture, tradi- cluding function. School and Senior wing which JAMMU, Feb 27: Sprawling tions and dances of different Various games and sports comprised of classes from Calendar of Actitivies UP HSS celebrates annual Buds and Apple Kids states. were organized during the week Primary wing to Class 7th. International Pre-School, Earlier, coordinator of the Excelsior Sports Correspondent activities for current year with and the main attractions of the Medals and trophies were dis- Bantalab celebrated its Annual School, Vedhina Mahajan pre- the motive that every student is day function sented welcome events were Chess, Shooting, tributed to the prize winners. JAMMU, Feb 27: The given a chance to be associated Excelsior Correspondent secretary of the school administra- address. Badminton, Sack Race, Lemon In the concluding function, Department of Youth Services at least with one of the sports Managing Director of the insti- tion namely Sarika Sharma. Addressing the gath- Roshi Sharma, D/o Lt. Madan and Sports finalized its State disciplines. Shiekh Fayaz direct- ering, Mr Gupta appreci- Lal Sharma and tute, Mr. Jamwal congratulated Level Annual Calendar of ed all the District Officers to fol- JAMMU, Feb 27: United Zorawar Singh, speaking on the winners and runners- up of Public Higher Secondary School, the occasion, said that school is ated the efforts of the Ram Piyari, R/o Activities for the year 2017-18, low the approved calendar in let- school in providing Sunderbani, different events played during here today. ter and spirit. Channi Himmat, Jammu today delivering best and manufactured sports week and applauded the celebrated annual day function quality products. He also appreci- quality education and Rajouri, who has The Calendar was finalized Director Youth Services and moulding the kids into been declared efforts of the sports teacher and during a meeting of the Sports also took stock of the proj- here in school premises. ated the school work in promoting other staff members who partic- The function was attended by Dogri language. He also spoke on all round characters at qualified for the Department, under the chair- ects under which playfields in dif- the tender age. ipated actively for the conduct manship of Director Youth ferent educational institutions of the dignitaries which including drugs which he said is menace to award of the Degree of Master Prominent among of sporting events. Services & Sports, Shiekh Fayaz the state are being developed. He MLA Ganderbal, Sheikh Ashfaq society. of Philosophy (M.Phil) in others present in the func- Principal, Preetika Jamwal Ahmed. directed the officials for taking Jabar, Raman Bhalla, senior MLA Ganderbal also spoke on Botany by the University of tion were special guests, in his brief speech once again All the District Youth utmost interest in implementing Congress leader and Ex Minister, menace of drugs and cautions Jammu, Jammu. She worked Sanjit Khajuria, Deputy congratulated the winners and Services & Sports Officers of various sports schemes for the Sham Lal Bhagat, MLC youth of its harmful effects. He on the topic, “Morpho-taxo- Director, Doordarshan, nomic Studies on Some Wild urged that each student should the State attended the meeting, benefit of Youth in general and Congress, Mohd Syed Akhoon, asked parents to look after their Children presenting skit while cele- participate in these competi- wherein threadbare discussions school children in particular. senior NC leader and Ex MLA, wards and watch their activities. brating Annual Day on Monday. Ram Khajuria, Secretary, Fleshy Fungi of District Indian Mountaineering Jammu (J&K),” under the tions. were held on proposed calendar Joint Director, Youth Rakesh Wazir of Katra, senior Raman Bhalla, JP Singh, She also said that more of activities. Services & Sports Kashmir, Congress leader and president Rakesh Wazir and Mohd Akhoon Day ‘’Incredible India” with Foundation North Zone supervision of Prof and Head pomp and show at General Committee, New Delhi, Sukhdev Yash Pal Sharma, Department games and sports will be includ- It was informed that maxi- Bashir Ahmad, JD Jammu hotel association, JP Singh IGP, also spoke on the occasion. ed in the school curriculum. mum sports disciplines have Madan Lal, Deputy Director Zorawar Singh, Secretary Press Earlier, children presented an Zorawar Singh Auditorium Singh, Sarpanch, Subhash Bhagat, of Botany, University of Complex, University of Jammu, Ex Municipal Corporator and Jammu. been included in the calendar of Central Haji Mirza Hussain, Club Jammu and Balram Saini, impressive cultural programme Accounts Officer Ab Rehman head Punjab Kesari, Jammu. which was witnessed and appreci- here today. Sanjay Mehra, chief coordinator, Shigan and other senior officers Rajni Sharma, in her inaugural ated by all present on the occasion. Kavinder Gupta, Speaker, Apple Kids, J&K. of the Department attended the address welcomed all the digni- At the conclusion, leaders dis- J&K Legislative Assembly Vote of thanks was presented meeting. taries and said that the school is tributed prizes among the merito- was chief guest, who along by Heena Nayyar, coordinator of Ganderbal Badminton providing quality education to the rious students of the school which with guest of honour, Ashok the school. students. was followed by the lunch for the Koul, General Secretary ‘Ascension’ league concludes She also eulogized the role of students. Organization, BJP J&K and Parveen Sharma, Managing distributes blankets Excelsior Sports Correspondent Ankur Mittal bags silver after Director, SR College of Competitions, distributed prizes among poor SRINAGAR, Feb 27: among the achievers in Ganderbal Badminton League that mixed team's super show Academic, Sports and cultural Excelsior Correspondent was organized by the Army ended activities held during the year. NEW DELHI, Feb 27: points in the final. As per the JAMMU, Feb 27: today with a participation of more The tiny tots of School pre- than hundred girls in the event. new rules, the 50-shots double Ascension-A Step Towards sented a colorful cultural pro- The Army spokesperson said Fireworks followed two trap event has been stretched to Humanity, an NGO today dis- gramme which enthralled a large more than 100 girls from the days of lull with Ankur Mittal a staggering 80 shots where tributed blankets among the gathering. adjoining areas displayed their clinching the silver medal in a elimination starts after the 30th destitute residing in the slum The function started with shuttling expertise in the event, “In marathon double trap final after shot in the six-man final. areas and on the footpaths of Ganesh Vandana and lighting of the league cum knockout tourna- the duo of Jitu Rai and Heena 15-year-old Shapath Jammu City. ceremonial lamp by the chief ment the matches were played in Sidhu claimed the top prize in Bhardwaj, in his maiden Team Ascension after sur- guest, guests of honour and other singles as well as in doubles cate- 10m air pistol mixed event at International Shooting Sport veying different areas of the dignitaries. gory. On Sunday, the finals were the ISSF World Cup, here Federation World Cup with the City, found poor people sleep- Then the little toddlers from played between well deserving today. senior team, could not make the ing at footpaths in a miserable participants”, he said. Play group presented an eye The 24-year-old Mittal fin- cut that was made at 137, but condition and took the step to He said Sara Quadri clinched catching fancy dress item in ished second on the podium nevertheless finished a cred- provide them blankets for the singles trophy whereas the which they represented different after he tallied 74, one behind itable 10th with a score of 132 in their comfort. doubles trophy was taken home by states by wearing different attires, gold medal winner James Willett the qualification stage. Anu Chowdhary, the duo of Ms Azra and Shareaza. which was followed by Yoga of Australia. Great Britain's While shotgun coach Chairperson Ascension said He further said it was truly an Aasans and Martial Art skills by Steven Scott was third on the Marcelo Dradi called that team Ascension is deter- enthralling culmination to an the young students which thrilled standings with 56. Bhardwaj's performance the best mined to work continuously eventful competition, which the audience. Fellow team-mate, Sangram of the day, he rated Mittal as one for the benefit of the unprivi- spread a sense of joy to not only The function was based on the participants but also to their Dahiya also featured in the top of the world's best in this event leged and deprived section o the theme ‘’Incredible India” parents. six but could manage only 24 alongside Willett. (PTI) the society.