Mumbai District teams bag carrom double
The Mumbai District teams claimed a fantastic grand double crowns, winning the Men’s and Women’s Team Championship finals in the LIC and Indian Oil sponsored 54th Maharashtra State and Inter-District Carrom Championship 2018-2019, organized by the Suryavanshi Kshatriya Dnyati Samaj, under the auspices of the Maharashtra Carrom Association and the Mumbai District Carrom Association and played at the Suryavanshi Kshatriiya Sabhgruha Hall, Veer Savarkar Marg, Dadar (West).
In the women’s final, the Mumbai players dominated against their rivals Ratnagiri District and scored a comfortable 3-0 win to emerge champions.
The Mumbai men also proved too strong for their final opponents Pune District and registered an identical 30 win to run away with the top honours.
Mumbai’s Kajal Kumari, provided them with the perfect start defeating Ratnagiri’s Maitreyee Gogate 25-2, 21-7 in the first match.
Later, Aisha Mohd. Sajid gave Mumbai an unassailable 2-0 lead when she easily prevailed over Anushka Kadam 23-10, 24-8 in the second tie before the Mumbai doubles pairing of Shilpa Palniitkar and Anupama Kedar managed to overcome a stiff challenge from Apoorva Nachankar and Manali Lingayat before pulling off a 25-7, 0-22, 18-4 win in the third match to complete a clean sweep.
In the men’s final, Mohammed Ghufran won the opening singles tie beating Anil Mundhe 24-19, 20-11 to give Mumbai a 1-0 lead before Riyaz Akbarali won the second singles match against Rahim Khan 25-10, 25-5 to put Mumbai in a strong winning position 2-0.