
Warne adjudged best
Shane Warne is the BPL Player of the Week for the period June 18 to 24. This week saw only one but all-important game, the World Cup cricket final between Australia and Pakistan at Lord8217;s.
Times Shield cricket
Entries are invited from Office cricket clubs for the Times Shield cricket tournament 1999-2000.
Application forms are available at the Times Shield Office on the first floor of the Times of India building between 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m. on all working days. The last date for submission of entries is Thursday, July 15.
Etambe, Parimi top-seeded
Nagsen Etambe and Parimi Nirmala have been given the pride of place in the open and women8217;s singles, respectively, of the Kshatriya Union Club Open District Ranking carrom tournament, jointly sponsored by Union Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, Colgate Palmolive, Indian Oil, Philips and LIC, which will be held at the Vanmali Hall, Dadar, from July 30.
Seedings:
Open singles608 entries: 1 Nagsen Etambe, 2 Mahendra Tambe, 3 Narsingrao Sakari, 4 Chakor Salve.
Women8217;s singles 56 entries: 1 Parimi Nirmala, 2 Anupama Kedar, 3 Monaz Tanttra, 4 Sangeeta Chandorkar.
Sub-junior boys singles 32 entries: 1 Pankaj Pawar, 2 Deepak Gohil, 3 Roshan Kajrolkar, 4 Nitin Kompelli.