Nitin Sharma

The Chandigarh golfer sees this win as a good start to the year and is ready for the challenge ahead.

All-rounder Raman Bishnoi, who belongs to Mehrana village in Punjab, shifted base to Chandigarh in 2008; he has scored two tons and a half-century in the Ranji trophy plate group, till now.

Veerjeet Kaur, who originally hails from Rori village in Sirsa district in Haryana, becomes U-21 champion in the 49 Kg girls’ at Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati, Assam.

On Monday, Divyansh became a champion in the recurve archery event in the boys’ U-17 category with a 6-4 win over last year’s champion Paras Hooda of Haryana in the Khelo India Youth Games at Guwahati.

Taniya had made history when she became the youngest player at 13 to play for senior Punjab team in 2011. Taniya was in the probables list for the Indian team for the 2017 ODI World Cup

The 30-year-old Mohali squash player had suffered a career-threatening back injury last year, before he won the HCL SRFI Indian Tour Mumbai leg in December 2019.

The twins, who won a total of eight medals on Sunday including Vijayveer’s individual gold medal in senior as well as junior final apart from Udhayveer’s bronze in senior category and silver in junior category, also helped Chandigarh to win the senior team silver and junior team gold.

Chandigarh shooter Anjum Moudgil completes hat-trick Of National Titles.

Last year, Kochhar had finished second after an agonising play-off loss against Chikkarangappa of Bengaluru in the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational at Chandigarh Golf Course.

The 18-year-old shooter had earlier won the bronze medal in Asian Shotgun Championships in Kazakhstan.

Zeena was fourth in the qualifying round but in the final held her nerve to shoot a world class 252.2 to top the field.

Chandigarh batsman Ankit Kaushik scored his maiden first class century on Tuesday and the fact that his century came in Chandigarh colours made the knock more special for Kaushik.

Chandigarh inched closer to gaining control against Bihar in the Ranji Trophy Plate group match being played at Sector 16 Stadium on Wednesday.

Chandigarh coach VRV Singh knows that it will not be an easy task facing Bihar, a team that only lost one match in last year’s plate group, in their second Ranji Trophy match starting Tuesday.

Aman hopes to do an encore this season and go past his own mark. He is also donning the captain’s hat now so his fortunes are linked to the team’s too.

The left-arm spinner emerged as the third-highest wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy last year with a total of 45 wickets in Meghalaya colours.

Khan thus joined a select group — which includes Gundappa Vishwanath, Amol Muzumdar, Anshuman Pandey, Manpreet Juneja, Jiwanjot Singh, Abhishek Gupta and Ajay Rohera.

The opening day saw Yograj sitting in the dugout of the Chandigarh team. With match referee Chinmaya Sharma objecting, it took some persuasion by the local anti-corruption officer to pursue the former India player to move to the stands.

Two centuries and a five-wicket haul give Chandigarh team a head start over Arunachal Pradesh in four-day match.