Chandrodaya and Annu to lead UP teams
Ace Indian throwers Chandrodaya Narayan Singh of Allahabad and Annu Rani of Meerut would be leading men and women teams of Uttar Pradesh at the 55th National Inter-State Seniors Athletics Championships, starting July 10-13 at the JL Nehru Stadium in Chennai.
Chairman of the UP Athletics Association’s selection committee Neeraj Kumar informed that athletes were selected on the basis of their performance in the 23rd UP State Open Athletics Championships.
“Some athletes, who are in the national camps but have qualified the minimum standards of participation fixed by Athletics Federation of India would also be representing the state at the nationals,” UPAA’s secretary PK Srivastava said.
A camp of the state athletes has already started at the Madam Mohan Malviya Stadium in Allahabad on Thursday, and it would continue till July 8.
TEAM
Men: Rahul Kumar, Gaurav Kumar, Manish Kumar, Bunty Chaudhary, Yugant Shekhar Singh, Ranjeet Kumar, Narayan Saroj, Parveen Kumar, Charanjit Singh, Ajay Kumar Saroj, Suresh Kumar Patel, Umesh Kumar, Mahendra Singh, Arun Kumar, Indrajeet Patel, Vasudev Nishad, Arjun Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Arvind Kumar Patel, Mahendra Pal, Ashok Kumar, Neeraj Kumar Maurya, Kunwar Gyanendra Singh, Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Prince Upadhyay, Ujaid, Anshu Rai, Chiranjiv Narayan Singh, Dharamraj Yadav, Chandrodaya Narayan Singh, Janisar Akhtar, Kaushlendra Kumar, Krishnanand
Tripathi, Rajesh Kumar Bind, Rajan Bhatia, Yogendra Singh.
Women: Stuti Singh, Chavi Sahrawat, Praveena Tiwari, Sugandha, Ankita Patel, Rashmi Singh, Reeta, Priyanka Panwar, Vijay Laxmi, Shiva Shakya, Nandini Gupta, Dimple Singh, Parul Chaudhary, Suman Devi, Monika Yadav, Rani Yadav, Sumedha Yadav, Sudha Singh, Neha Singh, Himani, Ritu Dhiman, Komal , Anamika Das, Annu Rani, Priyanka, Neha and Anamika.
CRICKET TOURNEY Lucknow Cricketer’s Club would be organising 2nd Arya Cup in memory of Baba Deep Singh from July 8 here. The tournament will be played on league-cum-knock-out basis and teams affiliated to Cricket Association Lucknow are eligible to participate. DEVENDRA EXCELS Devendra Yadav slammed 63-ball 65, which contained six fours, as Jaipuria Cricket Academy (JCA) cr ushed Champion Cricket League (CCL) by 130 runs to make it to the final of the Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta Summer Cricket League, at the Northern Railway Stadium here on Thursday.
BRIEF SCORES
JCA 222 for 7 in 30 overs (Devendra Yadav 65, Sundar Yadav 44, Ankit Yadav 39*, Piyush Kusumwal 2 for 45, Prateek Tiwari 2 for 46) beat
CCL 92 in 22 overs (Rajat Kusumwal 45*, Chandresh Kumar 3 for 21, Ankit Yadav 2 for 11, Udit Madan 2 for 11). CRICKET CAMP The Multi Activity Cricket Academy is going to conduct its annual cricket camp from July 6 here. Coach Yogendra Yadav informed that boys up to 16 years of age can take part in the camp.
THRILLING WIN Unity Cricket Academy (UCA) scored a thrilling four-run win against Multi Activity Cricket Academy (MACA) to collect full points in the Awadh Premier League Twenty 2 0 Tourn-ament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari Stadium here on Thursday.