India File

Laghate to lead

PUNE: Kapil Laghate has been named captain of the Maharashtra team which will take on Mumbai in it’s Cooch Behar Trophy (U-19) cricket tournament opener at Wankhede Stadium from October 23 to 25.

THE TEAM

Kapil Laghate (C), Virag Awate, Amit Dhawale (WK), Saeed Khot, Charu Kulkarni, Hrishikesh Shinde, Narendra Jadhav, Ranjeet Kamtekar, Chetan Bhuimbar, Amit Misal, Kashinath Khadkikar, Agrani Bhosale, Nitin Dhatrak andSagar Tilak.

Saini named coach

NEW DELHI: Veteran Joginder Singh Saini was today renamed chief national senior athletic coach in place of Bahadur Singh. AAFI secretary Lalit Bhanot said here today that Saini’s recall was necessitated owing to Bahadur Singh’s ill-health. Bhanot said as Bahadur Singh who has undergone an open heart surgery is not in a position to resume his duties till he is fully recovered the AAFI decided to nominate JS Bhatia as chief coach. However, Bhatia expressed his inability to take over the charge as the chief coach and the AAFI was left with a little choice but to bring back Saini.

Bhanot said Saini will continue in this position till Bahadur Singh is in a position to resume his duties.

AIFF camp

CALCUTTA: The All India Football Federation has selected 26 players for the training camp organised for the Indian team before they take part in the Asian Cup at Abu Dhabi. AIFF secretary KN Mour said in a statement here today that all the players had been directed toreport to the national team coach Sukhvinder Singh at NIS, Patiala by October 26.

Following are the selected players: Goalkeepers: Virender Singh Kalyan Chobey (both Wifa), Prashanta Dora, Sangram Mukherjee (both Ifa); Defenders: Dhanesh KV, Mahesh Gawli (both Kerala), Deepak Mondal, Daljit Singh (both Punjab), Robetto Fernandes (Goa), Rias-ul-Mustafa, Ratan Singh, Falguni Datta (all Ifa); Mid-fielders: Jules Alberto (Goa), Ranjan Dey, Basudev Mondal, Renedy Singh (all IFA), Hardip Sangha (Punjab), Rocque Barreto, M Venkatesh (both Goa), Joe Paul Anchery (Kerala). Forwards: IM Vijayan (Kerala), Mohd Najib (Wifa), Sabir Pasha (TN), Deependu Biswas, Bijen Singh (both IFA), Alvito D’Cunha (Goa)

Mumbai lose

MARGAO: Hosts Goa varsity thrashed Devi Ahilya 5-0 to keep their hopes alive for the title in the West Zone qualifying league match at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, here today.

In another match played at Navelim, Laxmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE) got the better of MumbaiUniversity by 2-0 goals to head the table with four points from two matches.