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Wednesday, Jun 07, 2006

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KBA move to improve standard of game

BANGALORE: The Karnataka Badminton Association, in a welcome move to improve the standard of the game in the State, has formed a Badminton Development Committee headed by the former National champion and coach, U. Vimal Kumar.

Announcing this here on Monday, Mr. Vivek Karan, the president of KBA, said the committee, which comprised eight members, would be backed by a corpus fund initially with Rs.5 lakhs.

"The idea of forming a Badminton Development Committee was given to us by Prakash Padukone and we have accepted his suggestion," said Mr. Karan.

Besides the BDC, the other major initiative of the KBA is to send a coach to Malaysia to study the techniques involved in training youngsters, especially school going children.

Vimal Kumar said a lot of emphasis was laid on school level badminton in Malaysia and the grassroot development of the game was done at that level. KBA also planned to conduct inter-school tournaments, the first of which would be held in Bangalore during August-September.

In another major step, KBA has decided to award `Star' rating to major tournaments in the State, depending on the prize money. The rating and rankings would depend on the quality of competition and prize money offered at the event.

KBA also plans to throw open its doors to corporates and it will conduct corporate events during November.

The exercise would also help KBA find a sponsor for the State teams, Mr. Karan said.

The KBA chief said that as in the past, KBA would conduct its clinics for umpires and also coaching camps for district players.

Unbeaten century by Sumeet

Sumeet Sharma's unbeaten 101 (174b,14x4, 1x6) powered North to 285 for two against South on the opening day of its Col. Hemu Adhikari Memorial Trophy NCA inter-academy match here at the RSI Ground.

In another match, West posted 289 for three against All India University.

The scores: North 285 for two in 90 overs (Sumeet Sharma101 n.o., Sunny Sohil 71, Uday Kaul 45) vs South.

West 289 for three in 90 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 87, H. Khadiwala 83, Sarvesh Damle 61 n.o.) vs All India University.

Big win for CRPF

S. Munda struck a brace as CRPF blanked Leo HC 7-0 in a State `C' division hockey league match at the KSHA Stadium here on Tuesday. Bengra, Loken Singh, S.P. Singh, Kadiya and Dung Dung also scored for the victor.

In another match, Ideals SC defeated Naveen HC 2-1. Naveen HC took the lead with Dhanamurthy sounding the boards in the seventh minute.

However Ideals came back in the second half through goals by Henry and Solai in the 40th and 52nd minutes.

Selection trials

The Bharat Electronics Sports Club will conduct selection trials for its football team at the Dr. Ambedkar Stadium in Bangalore on June 10. For details, contact K. Pradeep, ph: 22195369.

15-member team for Canadian Open

A 15-member team will represent India in the Canadian Open ITTF junior circuit table tennis championship at Edmonton from June 8. Karnataka's Sahana Sudhakar is part of the team.

The team: Boys: Soumyajeet Ghosh, Rajmondal, Avik Das, Nitin Thiruvengadam, Vasanth Philips, Mohit Verma, Sourav Saha and Sathyan Gnanasekaran; Girls: Shreya Ghosh, Ankita Das, Narmada Kanniyappan, Pooja Vijay, Shruthi Satish, Mallika Shrirang and Sahana Sudhakar; coaches: Indu Poori and Manjith Singh Dua; manager: Rajkumar.

Trio selected for National swimming meets

Tanvi Doddanavar of Aquarius Club and Swimmers Club in Belgaum has been selected for the 33rd junior National aquatic championship to be held in Chennai from June 28.

Meanwhile, club members Mihir Ginde and Malavika Pandit will take part in the 23rd sub-junior championship to be held in Bangalore from June 18.

According to a press release, Tanvi (Group II Girls) won the gold medal in the 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m butterfly and silver in the 100m butterfly events. Mihir (Group III Boys) won the silver in 50m backstroke, bronze in 100m backstroke and Malavika (Group III Girls) won a bronze in the 50m backstroke event at the recently concluded State sub-junior and junior aquatic championships in Mangalore.

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