Here are the highest developments in Indian sport on Sunday, December 4.
BASKETBALL
Punjab dethrones Tamil Nadu for males’s title
Punjab dethroned defending champion Tamil Nadu 94-80 within the males’s remaining of the 72nd National basketball championship on the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indoor Hall on Sunday.
Amritpal Singh and Gurbaz Singh Sandhu took the match away from Tamil Nadu’s grasp by scoring 63 factors between them.
Punjab led 44-39 at half-time and Tamil Nadu got here again strongly within the third quarter by scoring 32 factors, however Punjab managed the competition to emerge champion.
In the ladies’s remaining, Railways outplayed Kerala 110-64 after main 48-22 at half time. The final quarter was most entertianing because the groups scored 59 factors, however Railways had finished sufficient to sail to the trophy.
The Railways staff after profitable the nationwide basketball ladies’s championship.
| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Gurbaz of Punjab and and M. Pushpa of Railways have been adjudged the “most valuable players” of the championship.
THE RESULTS
Men (remaining): Punjab 94 (Amritpal Singh 32, Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 31, Amjot Singh 14) bt Tamil Nadu 80 (A Aravind 21, Jeevanathan 20, Munin Bek 11).
Third place: Railways 88 (Sahil 32, Palpreet Singh 18, Rakesh Singh 10, Ratan Singh 10) bt Rajasthan 71 (Lokendra Singh 16, Deepak Choudhary 13, Piyush Meena 12).
Women (remaining): Railways 110 (Dharshini 19, M Pushpa 15, Madhu Kumari 11) bt Kerala 64 (Jayalakshmi 17, Anu Maria 13).
Third place: Delhi 74 (Raspreet Sidhu 27, Garima Gosain 18, Kritika 15) bt Karnataka 53 (Pavani Sangwan 15, Roshni John 12, Lopamudra 10).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Durganshi wins ITF juniors women title
Durganshi Kumar beat compatriot Sreenidhi Balaji 6-4, 7-6(0) within the women remaining of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis match in Pokhara, Nepal.
Both the doubles titles have been swept by Indian groups of Sagar Kumar & Swastik Sharma and Sreenidhi and Laxmisiri Dandu.
THE RESULTS
Boys (semifinals): Ke Hau Hung (Tpe) bt Smit Patel 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles (remaining): Sagar Kumar & Swastik Sharma w.o. Euom Dong Hyeon (Kor_ & Ok Karunagaren (Mas).
Girls (remaining): Durganshi Kumar bt Sreenidhi balaji 6-4, 7-6(0).
Doubles (remaining): Sreenidhi & Laxmisiri Dandu bt Kkaira Chetnani & Durganshi 6-2, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Railways beats SAI in Nehru ladies’s match
Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) scored a 6-0 victory over Sports Authority of India (SAI) within the Nehru ladies’s hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium on Sunday.
THE RESULTS (LEAGUE)
CRPF (Parimala Soreng) drew with Maharaja Ranjit Singh Academy, Amritsar (Jaspreet Kaur) 1-1.
Railway Sports Promotion Board (Gagandeep Kaur, Anupa Barla, Preeti Dubey, Devika Sen, Amrinder Kaur, Upasana Singh) bt Sports Authority of India, Delhi 6-0.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
I-League: Mumbai Kenkre holds Gokulam Kerala to a draw
Mumbai’s Kenkre FC performed out a 1-1 draw with Gokulam Kerala FC in its fifth-round fixture on the I-League on Sunday.
An early first-half tap-in aim by Lalhmangaihsanga Ralte was cancelled out by a second-half strike from Shijin Thadhayouse because the host held the two-time champion to a draw on the Cooperage Stadium.
Gokulam Kerala is now fifth within the league desk with eight factors from 5 video games, whereas Mumbai Kenkre now has 5 factors from as many matches and sits in ninth place.
Kenkre FC had a dream begin because it shot into the lead simply three minutes into the sport.
In an try to dam a cross from Al Azhar Delhiwala, Gokulam’s Rahul Raju dealt with the ball, giving a free kick to Kenkre. The Gokulam defence did not clear Azfar Noorani’s free-kick, which discovered its technique to Ralte within the six-yard field, who tapped into an open aim.
Building from the again, the defending champion slowly grew into the sport. Midway by way of the primary half, Gokulam began placing stress on the house defence. However, Kenkre, which tailored to a counter-attacking recreation, remained efficient in its technique.
In the twenty fourth minute, Mumbai Kenkre caught the customer on the counter. Aravindraj Rajan gained the ball within the midfield and fed it to Aman Gaikwad on the best wing.
Gaikwad crossed the ball again to Rajan, who continued his run into the field. With solely the goalkeeper Shibinraj Kunniyil to beat, Rajan took a low shot, which was saved by Kunniyil.
On the opposite finish, Gokulam striker Auguste Somlaga discovered himself on the sting of the penalty space however his shot went vast. Ten minutes from halftime, Gokulam virtually equalised.
Farshad Noor took a left-footed shot from the sting of the field, aiming for the underside nook, but it surely was tipped away for a nook by the Kenkre custodian Tenzin Samdup. Gokulam obtained back-to-back set items however couldn’t make any use of them.
Gokulam Kerala’s Cameroonian head coach Richard Towa made three adjustments on the half-time.
One of the substitutes, Arjun Jayaraj, almost equalised for the customer two minutes into the second half. Fellow substitute Noufal PN handed the ball into Jayaraj’s method contained in the field, who unleashed a robust shot but it surely was simply over the bar.
Jayaraj was once more within the thick of issues as he crossed the ball into the field and after a sequence of blocked photographs and missed clearances, the ball fell for Shijin Thadhayouse, who equalised for the Malabarians within the 54th minute as Kenkre goalkeeper Samdup did not cease a reasonably weak effort.
At the hour mark, Kenkre’s Aman Gaikwad put a teasing ball in for Raju within the field, however the striker couldn’t join his header. Nine minutes later, Kynsailang Khongsit performed a fast one-to-one with Raju and, because the fullback, took a shot on aim but it surely was saved by Kunniyil.
– PTI
BADMINTON
Unnati, Anish win silver at Asia Junior Championships
Indian shuttlers Unnati Hooda and Anish Thoppani signed off with silver medals at Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships 2022 in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Sunday.
Men’s doubles pair of Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat additionally completed second greatest because the Indian contingent completed the celebrated occasion with three silver and two bronze medals.
Odisha Open champion Unnati, who’s the primary Indian woman to succeed in the U-17 remaining of the continental championship, went down 18-21, 21-9, 14-21 towards Sarunrak Vitidsarn of Thailand.
Anish misplaced 8-21, 24-22, 19-21 to Chung-Hsiang Yih within the U-15 boys’ singles remaining.
Arsh and Sanskar fell quick 13-21, 21-19, 22-24 to Chinese Taipei’s Lai Po-Yu and Yi-Hao Lin within the summit conflict.
All three Indian finalists have been a recreation down, gained second recreation, however did not convert the third.
After dropping the primary recreation, Unnati dominated the following recreation. The decider was neck-to-neck until 14-14 earlier than the Thai raced to victory.
Anish was little off-beat firstly and his opponent from Chinese Taipei took full benefit of that to win the primary recreation with out a lot ado.
The Indian regrouped within the second recreation to pressure a decider. He was seen calming himself regardless of tense conditions and that yielded outcomes as he pocketed the more durable second recreation 24-22.
The decider was a detailed affair however errors on essential factors damage the Indian’s possibilities as he went down in a intently contested remaining recreation.
Earlier, Gnana Dattu in boys’ singles and doubles pair of Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas P V had secured bronze medals within the U-15 class.
– PTI