da betcris： A cricket academy to be run by the Chandigarh Cricket Associationunder the aegis of the Punjab Cricket Association will startfunctioning from July 15 at the DAV Senior Secondary School,Chandigarh
Staff and Agencies09-Jul-2001* Cricket Academy in Chandigarh from July 15A cricket academy to be run by the Chandigarh Cricket Associationunder the aegis of the Punjab Cricket Association will startfunctioning from July 15 at the DAV Senior Secondary School,Chandigarh. It will be equipped with all modern facilities. Twentyplayers in the age group of 14 to 16 have been shortlisted for theacademy. The PCA will provide cricket balls, nets and power-drivengrass-cutting machines to the academy, said Mohinder Singh, secretaryof the CCA.Ravinder Talwar, principal of the school, said their school hadalready produced renowned cricketers such as Kapil Dev, Ashok Malhotraand Chetan Sharma along with many national-level cricketers. It wastheir aim to continue to produce cricketers of similar stature and hesaid this was a step in that direction taken by the CCA and the PCA.He said the Sports Authority of India cricket coach Sukhinder Bawa,posted at the DAVCC, had given good results and Test star Yuvraj Singhand national player Gaurav Gupta were some examples.The players selected are Sunny Kassal, Uday Kaul, Sidharth Vishal,Abhishek, Amanjeet Singh, Gaurav, Samarjit Singh, Narinder, GauravChopra, Gurkirat Singh, Sumit, Prashant, Karanveer, Sukhjinder, Vijay,Aseem Gupta, Varun Khanna, Naresh and Saurav Singh.* Chemplast regain YSCA TrophyDiwakar Vasu and Ganesh Kumar shone as Chemplast won the YSCA Trophylimited overs cricket tournament defeating holders India Cements atthe MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Sunday. Chemplast regainedthe title after ten years.Batting first, Chemplast scored 134 for eight in 30 overs. GaneshKumar top scored with 34 while Vasu chipped in a valuable 23. KeralaRanji player Sunil Oasis was the most successful bowler taking forfour 32. In reply, India Cements, in their 30 overs could not gobeyond 121 for eight. Tamil Nadu Ranji player S Sharath top scoredwith 30 while Oasis (20) and George John (21) chipped in. But theirefforts went in vain against the combined efforts of Ganesh Kumar (2for 20), Vasu (2 for 37) and Satish (2 for 19).Former Indian wicketkeeper Bharath Reddy distributed the prizes. Thefollowing were given special prizes: Best batsman: Vikram Kumar(Chemplast), Best bowler: D Vasu (Chemplast). Man of the match: SRGanesh Kumar (Chemplast). Player of the tournament: S Suresh (IndiaCements).* Muthiah and Kumbhat re-electedAC Muthiah and Ashok Kumbhat were re-elected president and secretaryof the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association at the annual general meeting ofthe association in Chennai on Sunday. While Muthiah was electedunopposed, Kumbhat won re-election for a seventh term by defeating hisnearest rival AS Venkateswaran by a margin of 95 votes. While Kumbhatpolled 132 votes, Venkateswaran tallied 37 votes.SE Sankar Rao was re-elected joint secretary. He defeated S Kesavan by160 votes to 23. CR Vijayaraghavan was re-elected treasurer defeatingG Srinivasan by 128 votes to 54. KC Sampath Kumar won another term asassistant secretary unopposed.The following were other office bearers elected: Vice presidents: AVellayan, KM Mammen, N Venkatramani and VA Parthasarathy. Executivecommittee: KS Viswanathan, G Natarajan, Victor Fernandez, LSivaramakrishnan, D Sivanandam. K Murali, PP Swathy, VP Narasimhan andGC Dangi.* Hyderabad Umpires Association office bearersThe Association of Cricket Umpires of Hyderabad held its AnnualGeneral Meeting in the city on Saturday and elected the followingoffice bearers and council members for 2001-2003.President: VS Rajan. Vice President: O Krishna. Secretary: NTSeshadri. Jt. Secretary: C Shamshuddin Treasurer: R Parthasarathy.Council Members: Amresh C Roy, Syed Saleem, R Kameshwara Rao, R VijayKumar and P Chandra Sekhar.