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South Asia meet from today

KOLKATA, AUG. 27. India's champion team, Bombay Gymkhana, will lead the challenge in the fresh edition of the Hutch sponsored All India and South Asia Rugby, which will get underway at the Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CCFC) here on Saturday.

The annual event, which alternates between Mumbai and Kolkata, will see the 12 best rugby teams of the country with Gymkhana, the traditional powerhouse, leading the charge in eight days of action with the final scheduled for Sept. 4. The contest has lost its sheen sans a team from Sri Lanka — the strongest rugby-playing nation in the sub-continent. Gymkhana, the runner-up last year, will now be the favourite.

In all 12 teams — including four teams from Kolkata, three from Mumbai, two from Chennai, and one each from Delhi, Orissa and the Ahmednagar Army team — will play a classification play-off on the first two days and the main action will start thereafter as the winners play for the Main Cup and the rest play for the Losers' Plate. There will be a seven-a-side meet a day before the final.

The initial play-off draw: Top half: Bombay Gymkhana vs Young Rugby, Kolkata (Aug. 28); Tamil Nadu Police vs Delhi (Aug. 29); CCFC vs Greater Mumbai Police (Aug. 29).

Bottom Half: Chennai Cheetahs vs Orissa (Aug. 29); Future Hope, Kolkata vs Army XI (Aug. 28); Maharashtra State Police vs Kolkata Police (Aug. 28). — Our Sports Reporter

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