The Hindu : Sport : National rowing championship inaugurated

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Wednesday, Feb 15, 2006

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National rowing championship inaugurated

HYDERABAD : The 26th National open rowing championship was formally inaugurated at Hussain Sagar Lake here on Monday with 18 State Associations including the Police teams taking part in the practice sessions.

The actual competition starts from February 16 and some of the big names who will be in action include Arjuna Awardee Janil Krishnan, Elbi Son, Sajiv Thomas and Mastan in men's section and Pravasini, Mamata and Swathi in the women's category.

Races will be held in four lanes in 500m and 1000m events. Preliminary heats are scheduled on February 16 and 17 morning and the finals the same evening.

Easy win for

Ivy Comptech

Ivy Comptech scored a 10-wicket win against Agrotech in the The Hindu-Eyantra Corporate league cricket championship here.

The scores:

HDFC Bank 179 for three (Madhu 58, Vishwajeet 42, Prahlad 42) bt Combined Corpo XI 51; Agrotech 98 lost to Ivy Comptech 102 for no loss (Ashley 47 not out); Civil Services 97 for nine lost to CSC 98 for two (Ajaat 41 not out); GE-CFS 137 (John 58) lost to Swift Response 140 for three (Phillip 79 not out); Navionics 73 (Durga Prasad five for 10) lost to Capital IQ 79 for three (Venkat 41); Infosys 119 (Goverdhan four for 23) lost to HDFC Ltd 123 for eight (Srikanth 42); Deloitte 161 for eight (M.Karthik 49, Sandeep 53) lost to Dr.Reddy's 162 for nine (Balveer 59); HSBC `A' 200 for six (Nitesh 41) bt Megasoft 129 for five (Vinu 69); Genpact Uppal, 243 for eight (Bernard 87) bt Google 118 (Somajit 40).Hellosoft 72 lost to Vertex 73 for five; Manugistics 119 lost to Times Group 121 for one (Hari 55); Civil Services 147 for six (Raghupathi 78 not out) lost to Mentor Graphics 151 for five (Devraj 42, Madhu 40); Sloka 160 for nine (Nirdosh 90 not out) lost to Customer Service 162 for three (Anirudh 75, Jude 57).

Talwar Hyundai wins

Talwar Hyundai 171 for seven (Jignish 52, Rohit Gupta 44) beat Pharma Blues 155 for eight; Polaris 81 (Karthik five for 26) lost to Guzzlers 83 for one.

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