Rhinos overrun Centaur

The match-winner came in the 62nd minute. A flag-kick by Sachin Garate to the far side of the goal saw Rakesh Devlekar beat goalkeeper Moraes with a tap from close.

In Division III-A, Worli Sports Club defeated Friends 2-0. Timothy Fernandes and Robert Rodrigues were the goal-getters.

Zindani, Saldanha to lead

Karim Zindani and Rohan Saldanha will lead the Mumbai A and B teams during the under-14 State-level Samna Trophy cricket tournament commencing from October 30 here.

The teams released by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) are: Mumbai A: Karim Zindani (capt., wk), Manish Rawre, Hiken Shah, Bravesh Shetty,Kiran Mayekar, Devraj Raut, Sanil Rane, Siddesh Kamat, Parag Madkaikar, Siddarth Sharma, Markesh Bhatt, Vishal Prasad, Tanmay Joshi and Santosh Gupta. Stand-bye: Manoj Giri.

Mumbai B: Rohan Saldanha (capt.), Swapnuj Thakur, Shravan Chhabria, Sunny Rathod, Sudanshu Mishra, Parag Tendulkar, Sushant Marathe, Girish Vaswani, Pratik Vaid, Ashish Gupta, Rohan Amladi, Shahid Shaikh, Akshay Girap and Devendra Mansoor. Standbye: Pushkar Kalyankar.

Seven additional players have been selected for the Shatkar Trophy tournament. They are: Sumiran Mehta, Sachin Anmane (both Vengsarkar XI), Ashish Upasani, Aditya Tavsalkar (both of Vishwanath XI), Sanjeev Verma (w-k) (Solkar XI), Sandesh Bharankar and Nishad Jail (both Gavaskar XI). The above players are requested to contact the MCA office.

Harris Shield from today

The Mumbai Schools Sports Association’s Inter-School Harris Shield Cricket Tournament gets under way simultaneously at the Azad Maidan and Cross Maidan respectively on Tuesday.

As many as108 schools would be competing in the the tourney which would be played on a knock-out format.

While the Harris Shield would feature players below 16 years of age, the Giles Shield which will is slated to commence from November 18, is eligible for players below 14 years.

Gymnastics camp

Eleven boys and nine girls have been selected by the Maharashtra Amateur Gymnastics Association to undergo optional exercise to be held tomorrow at the Andheri Sports Complex.

Boys: Akshay Lokhande (Thane), Saurabh Dashrathe, Umesh Shete, Vishal Kadoo (Aurangabad), Akhil Kabra, Tushar Suvarna, Gaurav Ratnaparkhi, Shashank Wagh (Mumbai); Vivek Sharma, Sampat Shirsat, Saurabh Kokate (Pune).

Girls: Gauri Jog, Pooja Marathe (Pune); Asmita Chitale, Apurva Gadgil, Kirti Wadalikar, Neha Chavan (Thane), Shruti Sarvate (Aurangabad), Prajakta Suratkar, Vandita Rawal (both Mumbai).

Condolence meet

The Indian Cultural League (ICL) will be holding a condolence meeting in rememberance of footballerNinan Thomas, who passed away last month.

The meeting will be held at the PD Hall of the Wankhede Stadium on October 31 (Saturday), informs an ICL release.

Nathani on top

Recently crowned National champion Junaid Nathani, has taken a massive lead in the boys under-16 category of the Head Indian squash rankings. Nathani is the only player to have won all the three events since the inception of Head Indian rankings in August this year.

The three events taken into consideration were Dewan Housing Classic, Junior Nationals and the WMI Cranes Little Masters Indian junior Open.

Rankings: Men’s: Manish Chotrani 1400. Boys under-19: Ritwik Bhattacharya 4300. U-16: Junaid Nathani 5700. U-14: Mihir Sheth 4225. U-12: Imran Khan 4000.

Women’s: Mekhla Subedar 1400. Girls U-19: Akansksha Hazari 4000. U-14: Joshna Chinappa 4158.

Professionals: Santosh More 1400.