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Top sportspersons nominated for Hero Sports Awards
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 29
Chess master Vishwanathan Anand, cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid and tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi have been nominated for the Hero Indian Sports’ Best Sportsman of the Year Award, which will be presented at an impressive function at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday evening.

For the Best Sportswoman of the Year Award, shooter Anjali Ved Pathak, athletes Anju George and K M Beenamol and chess champ S Vijayalakshmi have been nominated.

For various other awards, a number of outstanding sportspersons and sports teams have been nominated. They include the men’s cricket, women’s hockey, kabaddi and football teams; Parthiv Patel (cricket), Harikrishna (chess), Shiv Kapur (golf) and Ronak Pandit (shooting); Sania Mirza (tennis), Koneru Humpy and Dronavali Harika (chess) and Joshna Chinnappa; Anju George, K M Beenamol.

Neelam Singh and Bahadur Singh (athletics); Aparna Popat, Abhin Shyam Gupta, P Gopichand and Chetan Anand (badminton); Vishwanathan Anand, Koneru Humpy, Sasikiran and S Vijayalakshmi (chess); Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Mithali Raj and Saurav Ganguly (cricket); Baichung Bhutia, Abhishek Yadav, Bungo Singh and I M Vijayan (football); Jyoti Randhawa, Shiv Kapoor, Jeev Milkha Singh and Arjun Atwal (golf); Geet Sethi, Ashok Sandhilya, Yasin Merchant and Dharmendra Lily (cue sports); Dhanraj Pillai, Gagan Ajit Singh, Dilip Tirkey and Mamta Kharab (hockey); B C Ramesh, Ramesh Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar and C Honappa (kabaddi); Anjali Ved Pathak, Jaspal Rana, Ronak Pandit and Abhinav Bindra (shooting); Mahesh Bhupathi, Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna (tennis); Kunjarani Devi, Sanamacha Chanu, Shailaja Pujari and Pratima Kumari (weightlifting); Mohammed Ali Qamar, S Raman, Palwinder Singh Cheema and Som Bahadur Pun (boxing).

44 women to participate in wrestling championship
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, April 29
As many as 44 women wrestlers in 22 weight categories of three different age groups have been selected for final trials to select a final wrestling squad, which will participate in 3-day Nation Women Wrestling Championship to be held at Cochin from May 23 to 25.

According to the district sports officer, V S Dalal, before the final selection, these wrestlers will attend a 3-week training camp at Ch Bharat Singh memorial Sports School, Nidani in Jind District. Following are the probables in different age groups and weight categories:

Sub-Junior Category:
38 kg: Manjit of Nidai and Babita of Dadri, 40 kg: Neetu of Hissar and Geeta of Dadri, 43 kg: Rachna of Hissar, Sumesh of Nidani 46 kg: Sudesh of Nidani, Rekha of Rohtak 49 kg: Munesh and Pinki of Nidani, 52 kg: Sunita and Sandeep of Nidani, 56 kg: Mukesh and Pinki of Nidani, 60 kg: Jaywanti and Geeta of Nidani, 70 kg: Neeru Panghal of Hissar and Meenakshi of Nidani

Junior Category:
43 kg: Swati of Hissar and Suman of Kathura, 46 kg: Nirmala of Hissar and Suman of Bhiwani, 50 kg: Sunita of Nidani and Mamta of Bhiwani, 54 kg: Sunita of Rohtak and Kavita of Bhiwani, 58 kg: Seema of Sonepat and Vijaya Laxmi of Hissar, 63 kg: Suman of Rohtak and Praveen Bisnoi of Hissar, 68 kg: Pravin Sihag of Hissar and Pramila and Seema of Nidani, 48 kg: Meenu of GRP Haryana and Sonu of Sonepat, 51 kg: Neha Rathi of Faridabad and Manju Shekhawat of Hissar, 59 kg: Krishna Hissar, 63 kg: Geetika of Hissar and Sunil of Bhiwani.

Ansul, Suresh guide Sahara to victory
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 29
Rapidfire knocks by Ansul Lamba (92) and Suresh Tanwar (79 n o) guided Air Sahara to an eight-wicket victory against Food Corporation of India and entered the quarter-final of the Shera Pandit Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Mohan Meakin ground. Ansul Lamba was named the man of the match.

Scores: FCI: 195 for 9 in 40 overs (Naveen Negi 45, Paras Dogra 38, Akash Malhotra 35, Dinesh Yadav 4 for 27, Mahender Pal Singh 3 for 35).

Air Sahara: 187 for 2 in 33.3 overs (Ansul Lamba 92 n o, Suresh Tanwar 79 n o).

Gyan Bharti lose

Ashok Malhotra Cricket Academy defeated Gyan Bharti South Delhi Academy by five runs during the latter’s tour of Kolkata.

Scores: Ashok Malhotra Academy: 273 for 10 in 39.2 overs (A Chatterjee 90, Arijeet Singh 53, Arjun Juneja 2 for 53,

Manav Sharma 2 for 53, Kushal Sthapak 2 for 29).

Gyan Bharti Academy: 268 all out in 39.3 overs (Shivam Gupta 98, Akash Aggarwal 39, Naman Khanna 31, Eklavya Divedi 30, A Pandit 4 for 42).

Standard Chartered win

Standard Chartered Bank defeated Daksh by two wickets in the Reebok Cricket Tournament.

Scores: Daksh: 154 for 5 in 25 overs (Mohit Kaushal 49, 4x7, 6x1; Adip Raj 44, 4x3, 6x1; Anupam Singhi 20, 4x4;

Sanjay Nayal 3 for 17, Vinay Menon 2 for 44).

Standard Chartered Bank: 156 for 8 in 24.2 overs (Amit Sharma 32, 4x7; Anurag Srivastava 36 n o, 4x2; Vikrant Singh 22, 4x3; Mohit Kaushal 3 for 26, Anupam Singhi 2 for 19).

Dileep stars in Shastri Club’s victory
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 29
Dileep TT played an all-round role (3 for 37 and 82 n o) and Sandeep Yadav cracked an unbeaten half century to help Lal Bahadur Shastri Club defeat Delhi Administration by nine wickets and entered the semi-final of the second Rajdhani Cup Cricket Tournament at the Najafgarh Sports Club ground. Dileep TT was declared the man of the match.

Scores: Delhi Administration: 158 for 7 in 35 overs. Lal Bahadur Shastri Club: 162 for 1 in 25 overs

Air Force advance

Indian Air Force defeated Delhi Administration by seven wickets and entered the quarter-final of the Millennium Cup Cricket Tournament at th Palam ground. Scores: Delhi Administration: 96 all out in 32 overs (Ombir Singh 26, Karmakar 3 for 23, Pankaj 2 for 11).

Indian Air Force: 100 for 3 in 27.1 overs (PMS Reddy 58, Satish Upadhaya 36 n o, Anand Singh 2 for 12).

Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan win

Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan defeated R P Academy by eight wickets in the first Prabhawati Devi World Sports Trophy Under-19 Cricket Tournament at the Bharat Nagar ground. Robin Bisth, who socred an unbeaten 66, was named the man of the match.

Scores: R P Academy: 153 all out in 34.3 overs (Kaif Mohd 33, Tarun Dutta 28, Rishi Bhardwaj 3 for 29, Anuj Sharma 3 for 14).

Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan: 156 for 2 in 32.1 overs (Robin Bisth 66 n o, Rishi Bhardwaj 45 n o, Tarun Dutta 2 for 35).

Parth to lead Delhi

Parth Wadia will lead the Delhi skating team in the National Skating Championship to be held in Kolkata from May 4 for 8.

The team: Speek skating: Ankit Wadhwa, Pratyaks, Shiladitya, Sumit, Khurana, Nilesh Bajaj, Sarthak, Yogesh and Utkarsh Rai. Under-12 skating hockey: Parth Wadia, Kshitij, Lakshay, Gaurav, Ashish Bhalla, Gaurav Kaheshwari, Parminder, Honey Khurana and Sakhlani.

Girls under-14 team: Barbie, Ravina Chauhan, Anusha, Ishita, Aman, Aanchal, Jasmet, Simrita Sahney and Purnema.

Under-14 skating team: Rajat, Gagrin, Chirag, Aman, Amitabh, Saurab, Karan, Jagmit Singh, Syed Saad, Sourab Badwar, Kunal Thukra, Su Mayank, Anjun and Munika.

ONGC to meet FCI in Sood cricket final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 29
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will take on Food Corporation of India (FCI) in the final of the 13th All-India Om Nath Sood Memorial Cricket Tournament to be played at the Khalsa College ground on Wednesday.

President of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee S Paramjit Singh will be the chief guest while guests of honour will be Dilbagh Singh and Sunil Khanna.

Teams: ONGC: Virender Sehwag, Mohd Kaif, Gagan Khoda, Amit Mishra, Ajay Ratra, Rizwan Shamshad, Manoj Mudgil, Gautam Vadera, Ravi Sehgal, Sarandeep Singh, Rahul Sanghvi, Amit Bhandari, Rajiv Rathore, Sunil Joshi, Radhey Shyam and Feroz Ghyas.

FCI: Akash Malhotra, Rajender Bisht, Damanjeet, Naveen Negi, Manu Kumar, Pankaj Thakur, Yogesh Sachdeva, Sumit Narwal, Ved Prakash, Vinay Aggarwal, K S Rana and Kuljit Singh.

University Coaching Centre record thrilling win

New Delhi, April 29
Dashing batting displays by Ujjwal Nanda (55, 8x4) and Deepak Yadav (40, 5x4) and a deadly bowling of 3 for 16 by Chayan helped University Cricket Coaching Centre record a thrilling one-run victory against Vikaspuri Coaching Centre in a league match of the second KundanLal Jain Memorial Under-17 Cricket Tournament for the Subhash Chand Trophy at the Government School ground, Vikaspuri. Scores: University Coaching Centre: 189 for 7 in 40 overs (Ujjawal Nanda 55, Deepak Yadav 40, Kishan Baswal 3 for 41, Suresh 2 for 24). Vikaspuri Coaching Centre: 188 all out in 39.1 overs (Tushar 48, 6x4; P. Tehlan 33, 4x4; Chayan 3 for 16, Vikas 2 for 14, Varun Sood 2 for 23, Kanika 2 for 38).