Southern Spartans wins carroms championship
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 21: IDAK-KDD sports championship kick started after a delay, of almost one and half years due to COVID-19 pandemic with the carroms event in the beautiful indoor court at Indian Central School, Jleeb Al Shouykh on Oct 8, 2021.
Dr. Rajesh Alexander, IDAK President, inaugurated the event with the pulling of the ribbon. Southern Spartans team jersey (red) were distributed to the team Men’s Captain Dr Bobby Joseph and Women’s team Captain Dr Prashanthy, and Northern Ninjas jersey (blue) Men’s Captain Dr. Roy Francis and Women’s Captain Dr Anjana C. Nair by the Sports Committee Chairman Dr. Ashwin Sudhesh along with the IDAK President and Dr. Jacob Lonappan IDAK Secretary respectively.
The match was officiated by the match referee Dr Kannam Shyam, Physical Education Teacher, ICSK, Kuwait.
During the final round, in a closely contested first match Manoj Kumar of Southern Spartans beat Dr Karthik of Northern Ninjas and took the lead. In the Second Doubles match Dr Ranjitha and Dr Renjith representing the Northern Ninjas leveled the score by winning against Dr. Ashwin and Dr Manoj Idiculla. In the final match Nithin of Southern Spartans defeated Aneef of Northern Ninjas in a keenly contested thriller and won the first KDD-IDAK Caroms Championship for Southern Spartans. Final match Score (Southern Spartans 2 – Northern Ninjas 1)
IDAK past President Dr. Johnjoy gave the runners-up trophy to the
Northern Ninjas while Dr Jithendra Ariga, Director SOHP distributed the champions trophy to the team Southern Spartans. Dr Roy Francis IDAK past president gave the best player trophy in Carroms to Dr Ranjitha.
The IDAK Event Management Committee headed by Dr Vinod Varughese Sam rendered all the help needed for the smooth conduct of the event. Dr. Rahul Puthalath guided the IDAK sports committee headed by Dr Ashwin Sudhesh, who organized the event flawlessly. Our sincere thanks to the exclusive event sponsor KDD.
Photo courtesy to Dr Shaheer Malik Immediate Past President IDAK, for the wonderful snaps covering the whole event.