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Indian junior riders excelNEW DELHI: India's Simran Singh Shergil and Yogeshwar Singh were adjudged best international rider and team pl...

Indian junior riders excel

NEW DELHI: India’s Simran Singh Shergil and Yogeshwar Singh were adjudged best international rider and team player’ and best international player’ respectively for their good show at the Junior International Tournament organised by Federation International de Polo III at Bagota, Colombia last week. The duo received the award for their good horsemanship, stick work and excellent team spirit in the event held from August 4 to 8, an Indian Polo Association release said here today.

Bhutia salutes SAI

GANGTOK: Baichung Bhutia said he will be happy to play for country in future but is “totally focussed” on the English league for the time being. Bhutia, set to sign a three-year contract with the English club Bury FC based in greater Manchester, refused to say anything else on his engagements abroad. Bhutia, who had earned a Sports Authority of India (SAI) scholarship at the age of 11, said a player should not forget his base and he was grateful to the SAI for whathe became today.

Nat Basketball

CHANDIGARH: Punjab will host the 26th Sub-Junior Nationals at Rupnagar from Oct 29-Nov 4, the Sub-Junior Nationals in Nov and the Federation Cup from Oct 4-8.

Parnita on top

CHENNAI: Holder Parnita Garewal shared the top spot with Sri Lankan Tuhasini Selvatranam, both returning even par cards, on the opening day of the AVT South India Ladies Amateur Open and Handicap Golf Championship at the Cosmo links, here, on Wednesday.

The Leaders (gross)

Parnita Garewal, Tuhasini Selvaratnam 72; Pragya Misra 75, Lalitha Balasubramanian 76, Anjali Chopra, Shruti Khanna, Shalini Malik 77, Priyanka Dey 79, Renuka Philips 80, Urvashi Sethi Sodhi 80.