City round-up

That was the beginning of a disappointing day for Gavaskar XI as they were first bowled out for a mere 167 in their first innings,lasting a mere 37.3 overs,before being reduced to 50/4 second time around. It took pacer Javed Khan’s cameo towards the end,an aggressive 61 that included eight sixes and two fours,for Gavaskar XI to even avoid a major embarrassment and cross the 150-run mark. Brief Scores: Dilip Vengsarkar XI 371 in 84.5 overs (Kaustubh Pawar 148,Siddesh Lad 61,Sanket Jadhav 41,Kaustubh Kolamkar 50; Jay Nayak 4/109,A Ghorpade 3/71) vs Sunil Gavaskar 167 in 37.3 overs (Javed Khan 61; Pratik Dabholkar 3/15,Amit Rao 3/52) and 50 for 4 in 19 overs; Sachin Tendulkar XI 131 in 36 overs and 96 for 3 in 27 overs (Shalabh Agarwal 47 n.o.,Suryakumar Yadav 40) vs Ravi Shastri XI 196 in 73.4 overs (Jaideep Pardeshi 57,Gandhar Bhatawdekar 36,Badre Alam 5/43).

MSP enhance Super title hopes

Maharashtra State Police (MSP) scored their fourth successive victory when they overcame G.M. East Indians 2-1 in a engrossing Super Division play-off encounter of the Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) League and played at the St. Xavier’s ground,Parel on Tuesday.

With the three points earned from this win,MSP have enhanced their chances of winning the Super Division title. They presently occupy the pole position with 12 points from four matches in the six-team play-off and have a match in hand against lowly Bank of India on June 5.

Hard-working midfielder Farhaz Shaikh and Azhar Shaikh scored a goal each for the state cops,while Nigerian striker netted the lone goal for the losers.

In another match,Companeroes SC registered an identical 2-1 win over Dena Bank. Companeroes got their goals through the efforts of Nixon Rodrigues and Reed Santos, both scoring one each and Dena Bank managed to pull one back through Mario Rodrigues.

Results: Super Div play-off: Maharashtra State Police 2 (Farhaz Shaikh,Azhar Shaikh) bt GM East Indians 1 (Michael Idewele). Companeroes SC 2 (Nixon Rodrigues,Reed Santos) bt Dena Bank 1 (Mario Rodrigues).

Pooja slams four for Steadfast SC

Individual brilliance of Pooja Morey helped Steadfast SC blank Bombay Gymkhana 5-0 in a Pool-A match of the MDFA organized Bombay Gymkhana-Women’s Football League (WFL),at the Bombay Gym ground on Tuesday.

The enterprising striker,Pooja,exhibited excellent finishing touches as she scored four goals in the team’s emphatic victory. Hiba Haquiah got the other goal to complete the rout.

In a Pool-B encounter,Titan SC got the better of Forerunners SC by a 2-1 margin.

Results : Steadfast SC 5 (Pooja Morey 4,Hiba Haquiah) bt Bombay Gymkhana 0. Group-B:Titan SC 2 (Jessica Waghela,ApoorvaTharwal) bt Forerunners SC 1 (Erica Fds).

State player hounoured

At the media conference to announce the competition,BSAM felicitated top Maharashtra cueists for their recent achievements. BSAM president and former world amateur billiards champion Michael Ferreira and Billiards & Snooker Federation of India vice-president Rajan Khinvasara did the honours while presenting citations and cheques to India senior men’s snooker No. 1 Aditya Mehta,former Asian billiards champion Devendra Joshi,rising star Arantxa Sanchis,India women’s billiards No. 2 Meenal Thakur and Maharashtra’s top junior Jaiveer Dhingra. Mehta was honoured for winning the Asian Snooker Championship and the national crown,Joshi for a bronze in the Asian Billiards Championship,Arantxa Sanchis for emerging as the new national women’s champion and Meenal Thakur for being India No. 2,Jaiveer Dhingra for emerging as India’s sub junior No. 2 and Maharashtra junior No. 1 and Ishpreet Singh Chadha for emerging as India sub junior No. 3.

All-Mumbai ranking TT at MCF

The top state players from the city and suburbs are likely to be in action in the season’s opener MCF-All Mumbai Ranking Table Tennis tournament,to be hosted by Borivali’s Mandpeshwar Civic Federation from June 20-24. For further information MSDTTA’s Official Gurucharan Singh (918809001857),MCF Controller R.P. Mallya (28923624/28940940) or tournament organising secretaries Messrs Bindesh Chitalia (9821010570) and Jitendra Roy (9322255911) may be contacted. Entries will be accepted at the Reception of the MCF as well as can be sent online to msdtta@gmail.com up to 6.00 p.m. on June 14 and the draws will be held on the following day at the venue and will be displayed on the MCF’s Notice Board by June 18.