Railways pair lead

Maharashtra8217;s Sunil Machhar and Prakash Dalvi who had a carry over of 1.6 scored 88 VPs in the five rounds for a 89.6 VPs aggregate. This pair, so far, has an unbeaten record thoughtheir margins of victory have not been so big. They got 21, 16, 18, 17 and 16 VPs.

J Prathihari and A Rout, the Orissa pair who were given a 9-21 VP drubbing by Machhar-Dalvi in their opening match, were unfazed and steadied themselves to collect 72 VPs from the next four outings and their 5.8 carry over put them in the third spot. Clustered together and in the 4th, 5th and 6th positions were Andhra8217;s A Balaram and K Suryanarayana 86.1 VPs 5.1 c/o, Karnataka8217;s N Rajachandra and R Venkatesh with 85.9 VPs 1.9 c/o and defending champions, R Shreedharan and R Tolani with 81.4 VPs 0.4 c/o.

Bengal8217;s pair, Kamal Mukherjee and Subrata, who topped the second elimination round, could not maintain their momentum and mustered only 72 VPs. They were occupying the sixth spot after losing three matches.