India file

Cup probables
MUMBAI: Mohammed Kaif UP and Reetinder Singh Sodhi Punjab, who were part of the India A squad that toured West Indies, are among 25 probables chosen by the National junior selectors for the under-19 World Cup cricket in Sri Lanka from January 11-28.
Probables: Mohammed Kaif UP, Reetinder Singh Sodhi Punjab, Yuvraj Singh Punjab, Sailab Shrivastava UP, Ajay Ratra Haryana, Venugopal Rao Andhra, Niraj Patel Gujarat, Amit Suman Delhi, M Tripathi UP, Pallav Vora Gujarat, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan TN, Rakesh Dhruv Saurashtra, RR Das Orissa, Amir Hasmi Bihar, Pradeep Chawla Delhi, Manish Sharma Punjab, Amit Deshpande Vidharbha, Anup Dave Rajasthan, Manish Mishra MP, CM Shyam Kerala, Gautam Gambhir Delhi, Sushant Manjrekar Mumbai, Subhamoy Das Bengal, G Chitra Karnataka and Mihir Diwakar Bihar.

Bangalore Test
MUMBAI: The second and final Test in the forthcoming home series against South Africa would be held at Bangalore between March 2-6 and not from March 1-5, it was clarified by the cricket Board.
Feb 19-21: vs President8217;s XI at Mumbai, Feb 24-28: First Test at Mumbai, March 2-6: Second Test at Bangalore. March 9, 11,14, 17, 20: One-day Internationals.

Gupta to lead
MUMBAI: Delhi8217;s Rajan Gupta will lead the Rest of India under-19 team against Cooch Behar Trophy cricket champions Punjab in the four-day MA Chidambaram Trophy in Punjab from January 7-10.
Team: Rajan Gupta Delhi, captain, Uday Karvadara Saurashtra, vice-capt, Aniket Srivastava MP, wk, MS Dhoni, Ratan Kumar both Bihar, Ashok Sharma MP, Sujay Mohanty Orissa, Mohd Faque Andhra, Suhail Sharma Delhi, Vipul Patel Gujarat, Vishal Kudwala TN, Ashu Sharma, Alok Pandey both UP, Chetan Sharma and Dhruv Mohan both Delhi.

Basketball academy
INDORE: The National Basketball Academy NBA here will start functioning from June 1 instead of January 1.

The last date of receiving applications for admission into NBA from eligible players boys only in the 13-22 years age group will now be February 25 next year.

Sangli chess
SANGLI: The All-India Chess Federation AICF has allotted the next edition of the Commonwealth chess tournament to Sangli, which will be hosted by the Nutan Buddhibal Mandal from February 21 to March 3, 2000. PT Umer Koya, secretary, AICF, in his recent visit to the city, finalised the dates.

Premjit tops
PATIALA: Railwayman Premjit Singh won the 20-km race in the track championship and collected 39 points while Raminder Singh 34 of Punjab Police and Zorawar Singh 18 of SSCB were second and third respectively.

Jeeta Ram Railways won the men8217;s 4000 metres individual pursuit clocking 05:27.01 secs. Sarabjit Singh Punjab and Pradeep Singh Sandhu Punjab Police with timings of 05:30.07 and 05:26.40 were second and third respectively.

Manisha advances
LUCKNOW: Manisha Malhotra opened her campaign in the ITF women8217;s Futures tennis championship with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Tara Kanbargimath.

Results
Singles: M Malhotra Ind bt Tara Kanbargimath Ind 6-4 6-2; Autonia M Cro bt Masav Slo 6-4 5-3 conceded; R Chakravorty Ind bt S Thakur Ind 6-3 6-2; Geeta Marwhar Ind bt Harisimran Kaur Ind 6-3 6-1; Tong Ka Po HK bt S Mossaikova Rus 6-1 6-1; U Vesenjak Slo bt S Stutti Ind 6-2 6-0; Archana Venkatraman Ind bt R Tulpule Ind; 6-3 6-2; A Nefredova Rus bt T Grover Ind 6-0 6-0.

8212; ENS and Agencies