Kamal to lead CWG TT challenge

The country’s top paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulomi Ghatak would lead India’s charge in table tennis at the Melbourne Com...

The country’s top paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulomi Ghatak would lead India’s charge in table tennis at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games next month.

Somyadeep Roy, Shubajit Saha and Shibaji Dutta are the other men in the nine-member team. Beside Poulomi, the women’s team includes Mouma Das, K Shamini, Kasturi Chakroborty and Nandita Saha.

India brought home two medals from the last Commonwealth Games in Manchester with Chetan Baboor claiming the singles bronze as well as one in doubles teaming up with S Raman.

Table Tennis Federation of India secretary M C Chowhan sounded confident that the team will put up a much better performance this time.

The team would leave for Melbourne on March 4 .

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