India File

P C Pandian (SAI) would be the chief coach of the team, while Jagir Singh (Punjab) would assist him, a press release from vice-president of Volleyball Federation of India, K Murugan, said here today.

Team: Ravikanth Reddy, Thulasi Reddy, Joby Joseph (both Tamil Nadu), Surjit Singh, Ratan Lal, Roy Joseph and Amir Singh (all Punjab), Prenjith (SSCB), Venkateshwar Rao, M S Rajesh (Railways), Ashish Arora (MP) and Raj Vinod (Ker).
Manager: GBS Prasad (Andhra).

Volleyball meet

CHENNAI: Russia and Korea will clash in the inaugural match of the World Grand Prix (women) volleyball championship at the Multi Purpose Indoor Stadium here on September 4.

K Murugan, competition director and executive vice-president of the Volleyball Federation of India (VFI), told a pressconference here this morning that two matches would be held a day for three days. Olympic champions Cuba would meet Italy in the second match, he said.

Probables today

MUMBAI: Karnataka’s Javagal Srinath and Rahul Dravid are expected to be among the 20 players who will be picked here tomorrow by the national cricket selectors for the Indian training camp at Chennai scheduled from August 21 to September 4.

The camp is to be supervised by Bob Simpson, who was appointed a consultant by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in February. It would be the former Australian captain and coach’s first major assignment. Mann triumphs

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thirty-one-year old Vijay Singh Mann, a Naik Subedar of Artillery Centre, Hyderabad, stole the limelight and pocketed the Rs 1 lakh prize money when he won the fourth National Travancore marathon here today.

He covered the 42,195 metre (26 mile, 385 yards) race, starting from the University Stadium, in two hours, 34 minutes, eightseconds.Archer dead

JAMSHEDPUR: A promising young archer Raghunath Kisku died of cancer at the Tata Main hospital here today.

Kisku’s outstanding performance in the junior and sub-junior national meets helped Bihar retain the top position in archery. He was the national champion in the sub-junior category of the National archery championship held in Ajmer in 1997.