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DDCA calls 171 players for trials
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, September 11
The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has called 171 under-15 players for trials to select the Delhi team for the coming season. The junior selection committee met under the chairmanship of DDCA sports secretary Sunil Dev to finalise the names of the players. Bikkar Bahadur and Pawan Sharma also attended the meeting.

The players will have te report to cricket manager M. P. Singh at the National Stadium on September 16 at 8 a m.

The players who have been called for the trials are: Vartik Tihara, Rushil Pillai, Virat Kohli, Karan Rai, Kumar Abhishek, Samya Azad, Mohit Chaudhary, Yogesh Nagar, Prateek Pawar, Shobit Kaushik, Saurabh Passi, Somen Trikha,

Tarun Choudhary, Aditya Aima, Bahwinder Singh, Surender Bansal, Ritesh Sinha, Tarandeep Singh, Piyush Negi, Hitesh Tyagi, Sumit Kundu, Veer Bahadur, Anmol Bhayana, Ankit Maini, Prashant Yadav, Amanjit Singh, Anvit Gupta, Hari Om Choudhary, Vijay Kumar, Tarun Astha, Mayank Aggarwal, Sahil Kher, Ayush Tanwar, Amitoj Singh, Ankush Raghav, Gaurav Upadhyay, Mayank Sami, Shrey Gupta, Aditya Gopal, Shubhankar, Chayan Kokcha, Shailej Sodhi, Rochak Sachdeva, Varun Sood, Vipin Malhotra, Sahil Chugh, Vishu Tomar, Jaladh Dua, Pawan Chauhan, Rashid Khan, Dhruv Kumar, Sudish Nair, Kaif Mohd. Raghav Kakkar, Marudhar, Pranoy

Chakarvarti, Vaibhav Rawal, Ajay Chauhan, Vidhur Sami, Varun Shokin, Naman Khanna, Amandeep Singh, Rajat Sharma, Ragav Gupta, Dixit Kathuria, Gagan Kapoor, Wasim Raja, Deep Luthra, Nishant Kumar, Shivam Sharma, Sachin Aggarwal, Ritish Joshi, Aditya Jain, Himang Arora, Dhruv Sherey, Ishan Bakshi, Dhruv Kohli, Piyush Singh, Vijit Vinod, Abhimanyu, Pradeep Sanghwan, Kunal Narang, Sameer Khurana, Saurabh Nischal, Jasdeep Singh, Akshay Sharma, Samarth

Singh, Gandharav Kumar, Rahul Gaur, Nitin Pathak, Ashish Rai, Sunny Kanojia, Surender Singh, Nitin, Pawan Wadhwa, Tejasvi Yadav, Pranay Chand, Tapis Gupta, Tanuj Gupta, Pradeep Yadav, Rahul Bhardwaj, Rahul Sharma, Eshu Mehta, Yashya Valk, Himanshu Shally, Rohan Sharma, Neeraj Tiwari, Shobhit Chandok, Mridul Badola, Abhishek Das, Nitin Saini, Arsh Arora, Naman Gupta, Mandeep Sharma, Sahil Kalve, Shankey Srivastava, Aditya Saini, Ashwin Venkatraman, S. Sabra, Rajeev Gupta, Ashish Maheshwari, Hitesh Rai, M Kumar, Harpreet Singh, Vatsal Kumar, Satyam, Deepender Bedi, Rohit Yadav, Chirag Mehta, Hemant Singh, Prateek Jamla, Tushar Kaushik, Himanshu Kaushik, Vipul Gupta, Ashish Adhikari, Kamal Sharma, Digvijay Rawat, L Chaturvedi, Gaurav Sharma, Tanu Thakran, Rohit Choudhary, Prashant Choudhary, Himanshu Sehgal, Himanshu Sharma, Manhar Das, Pawan Wadhwa, Sachin Adhikari, Varun Charvarti, Gaurav Shokeen, S Banerjee, Parikshit Gupta, Piyush Verma, Neeraj Bisht, Ankit Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Kamal Kant, Rahul Kumar, Joginder Singh, Rahul Yadav, Onant Jai Singh, Puneet

Anand, Prateek Bansal, Gaurav Jangla, Prateek Khinchi, Tarun Kumar, Nitin Kumar, Shashank Dandoria, Aditya Gulati and Manish Adhikari.

Nahar Singh Stadium gears up for ODI
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, September 11
The Nahar Singh Cricket Stadium here is gearing up to hold an important one-day international match to be played between Australia and New Zealand on October 29. The match will be a part of the triangular cricket series to be held between the host India and these teams.

The match will be the seventh one-day international to be held here so far. The stadium, which is about 15-year-old is the only place in Haryana, where one-day international and Test matches could be played. The first one-day was held in January 1988, and the last match was held here was on March 7, 2002, between host India and visiting Zimbabwe team. While no international Test match has been held here so far. Nahar Singh Stadium had been the venue of about 100 Ranji trophy matches. About 15 matches of Duleep Trophy and at least one match of Irani Trophy had been organised here till today. The Pakistan team had played a three-day match against India under-25 team here in 1987. The wicket here is grassy and could be described as good cricketing wicket.

According to Mr Sarkar Talwar, a former Ranji Trophy player and presently deputy director (cricket) here, the work of ground preparation for the forthcoming match was in full swing. He said that the wicket had grass and could help both the batsman and fast bowlers. An official of the Australian Cricket Board had visited the stadium recently and reportedly expressed satisfaction over the preparation.

Mr Venkat Sundram, chairman of the pitch (ground) committee of the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI), along with a member, Mr Daljeet Singh, had also visited the stadium to discuss the outfield and pitch conditions with Mr Talwar, Mr Vijay Yadav and Mr Dhanraj singh, who have been supervising the work.

Mr Talwal disclosed that practice pitches were being readied and the dressing room was being given a new look. The sitting capacity of the stadium is around 25,000, without chairs. The Haryana Cricket Association and the District Cricket Association (DCA) has awarded the contract of the maintenance of the ground and stadium to an independent agency.

Vanshika to meet Chitralekha in badminton final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, September 11
Vanshika defeated Mohita 11-9, 11-2 to set up a title clash against Chitralekha in the girls singles under-19 section of the J D Tytler Memorial Badminton Championship at the Indira Gandhi indoor stadium on Thursday. Chitralekha beat Akansha 11-2, 11-1 in the other semi-final.

Chitralekha is also in line for a double crown as she beat Mohita 11-7, 11-9 to enter the women’s singles final. She will take on Meenakshi, who beat Vanshika 13-11, 6-11, 13-12, in the title contest. Anchal Malhotra will clash against Peppino Behl in the final of the girls under-13 singles. Anchal disposed of Priyanka Arya 11-4, 11-0 while Peppino struggled to overpower Saloni Chopra 2-11, 11-9, 13-12.

In the boys singles under-10 semi-final, Harshvardhan defeated Hirdhyanshu 15-3, 15-11. In the girls under-10 singles semi-finals, Abhilasha Mehra beat Shambhavi Bajaj 11-5, 5-11, 11-0 while Shreya Aggarwal defeated Kritika Gupta 11-0, 11-0.

Following are the other results: Boys under-13 quarter-finals: Jatin b Gaurav Gehlawat 5-15, 17-14, 15-11; Kaustav Dass b Rashab Sharma 15-1, 15-2; Rahul Khere b Yakshap Chopra 15-0, 15-0; Bharat Bajaj b Atul Chauhan 17-14, 15-4.

Boys singles under-16 quarter-finals: Abhinav Prakash b Rahul Khere 15-8, 15-12; Parit Bhargava b Guranshu Chopra 15-6, 15-4; Vaibhav Gupta b Lakshay Manjani 15-6, 15-11; Mayank Garg b Drig Bhanu 15-3, 15-12.

Girls under-16 quarter-finals: Akansha b Nidhi 11-9, 11-2; Minakshi b Sambhavi 11-2, 11-1.

Boys under-19 quarter-finals: Himanshu Kharbanda b Amman Maliakan 15-4, 15-8; Parminder Chawla b Parit Bargava 17-16, 10-15, 15-0; Apoorv Vij b Sumit Garg 15-4, 15-6; Rajiv Bajaj b Keshav Sharma 15-7, 7-15, 15-6.

Men’s singles quarter-finals: Tanvir Gill b Satyavarat 15-7, 15-6; Manmeet Singh b Parminder 15-1, 15-2; Rudra Kaushik b Rajiv Bajaj 15-11, 9-15, 17-15; Davinder Dhillon b Himanshu Kharbanda 13-15, 15-2, 15-12.

Boys under-13 doubles quarter-finals: Atul and Rishab b Sarvan and Sunder Singh 15-1, 15-0; Yakshap and Rishab b Yajank and Akhil 15-1, 15-3.

Girls doubles under-13: Sambhavi and Nidhi b Sanskriti and Simran 15-6, 15-5; Anchal and Shrishti b Sambhavi and Nidhi 15-0, 15-1.

Boys doubles under-19 quarter-finals: Parminder and Sumit b Anki and Kamasheswar 15-0, 15-0; Keshav and Parit b Drig Bhanu and Gurshanu 15-11, 15-10; Rajiv and Amman b Ujjwal and Abhinav 7-15, 15-8, 15-11.

DAV, Shalimar Bagh sail into semis
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, September 11
DAV School, Shalimar Bagh defeated Salwan Public School, Rajender Nagar by 68 runs to enter the semi-final of the second Ramjas Inter-School Under-17 Cricket Tournament at the Ramjas Sports Complex ground.

Scores: DAV: 202 for 6 in 40 overs (Luv Sehrawat 67, Tarun Sharma 57, Sahil Chugh 34, Raman Sachdeva 3 for 35, Mohit Negi 2 for 39). Salwan Public: 136 all out in 35.3 overs (Mandeep Sharma 38, Nitin Chugh 27, Raman Sachdeva 26, Abhishek Sakuja 4 for 16, Luv Sehrawat 2 for 4).

DAV School, Dayanand Vihar defeated Vasant Vihar by one run and entered the quarter-final.

Scores: DAV, Dayanand Vihar: 95 all out in 20.3 overs (Ramandeep Singh 35, Om Prakash 3 for 30). Vasant Vihar: 94 all out in 22.2 overs (Himanshu Kumar 3 for 26). In the second match, Hansraj Model School beat DAV, Janakpuri by 110 runs and entered the semi-final. Scores: Hansraj School: 170 for 7 in 25 overs (Ankur Garg 46, Kartik Bhatia 38, Mohit Sharma 3 for 20). DAV, Janakpuri: 57 all out in 10.3 overs (Ankur Garg 3 for 10, Shekar Singh 3 for 15).

Simla Youngs down City Club

Simla Youngs defeated former champions City Club 2-1 in a Group B Super League match of the Delhi Soccer Association Senior Division Football League Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Thursday.

Hitender Singh Rawat put Simla Youngs in the lead in the second minute. City equalised through Faiz Alam in the 66th minute. Manish Kumar Negi scored the match-winner for Simla Youngs during injury time play.

Indian Air Force, New Delhi drew 1-1 with New Delhi Heroes. Palmei Pounpangal put N D Heroes in the lead in the second half. Air Force drew parity through L Danny.

Friday’s fixtures: Hindustan vs Raisina (2.25 pm); Shastri vs Tarun Sangha (4 pm)— Ambedkar Stadium.

Hunt for quickies

New Delhi
The nation-wide search for India’s fastest bowler through the “ESPN presents Scorpio Speedster with Timex” contest across 10 cities gets underway with a two-day trials at the Gargi College ground in South Delhi on September 13 and 14. Any boy above 16 years of age can enter the contest to be held under lights at the Gargi College ground, on Siri Fort road, from 4 pm to 10 pm. The winner of the Delhi contest will receive a cash award of Rs 8,000 and will become eligible to compete with winners from nine other cities in the grand national final to be held in Mumbai on November 2. Each runner-up will get a cash prize of Rs 2,000.

Delhi State TT

The 64th Delhi State Table Tennis Championship will be held at the Talkatora indoor stadium from October 3 to 6. Entries close on September 26 with Delhi Table Tennis Association oganising secretary Hukam Singh, 6/2543, Beadonpura, Karol Bagh, Delhi.

Ganga kids in judo

Kwdrat Yadav (23kg) and Mamta Lakra (40kg) of Ganga School have been selected to represent the Delhi team in the National Public Schools Judo Championship to be held in Shimla from September 18 to 22.

Monitoring committee gives clean chit to MCD
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 11
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate, who headed a monitoring committee on sanitation and hygiene, said that the overall sanitation and hygiene conditions in the Capital have improved. The work of the monitoring committee was recently reviewed by the Chief Secretary of the Delhi Government.

The spokesman of the MCD said that reports about the sanitation and hygiene condition in the first week of September indicated that 38 per cent of the dhalaos were found to be in good condition, while 53 per cent were in satisfactory condition. The SDMs visited 1,068 dhalaos during the inspections.

He said that in a report submitted to the Delhi Government in mid-August, the SDMs had commented that the MCD had failed to do its statutory duty properly. Thereafter, the SDMs were asked by the Chief Secretary to inspect garbage dumps everyday and submit a status report to the government.

The zones found in good condition were Rohini, Civil Lines and Narela, the spokesman said.

400 MCD workers to be regularised

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has accepted the long pending demand of the safai karamchari union for the regularisation of 400 karamcharis working on daily wages.

The order was placed before the union members yesterday. At least 4, 600 safai kramcharis are working on daily wages in the corporation.

The leader of the House, Mr Ram Babu Sharma, assured the secretary of the union, Mr M. S. Matiala, that 2,240 karamcharis would be regularised within four months.