Indian sports activities information wrap, August 21

GOLF

Lahiri finishes third in Newcastle

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri shot a high-quality 3-under 68 within the ultimate spherical however failed to seek out as many birdies as he deserved to complete third on the Worldwide Collection England.

The 36-year-old had earlier completed second on the Worldwide Collection in Vietnam.

Lahiri, who carded 70-69-69 in his first three rounds, completed at 8-under 276 and was third behind winner, Andy Ogletree (64) at 15-under and Ian Poulter (64) at 9-under 275.

Among the many different Indians, Ajeetesh Sandhu (71-72-71-72) was T-31 whereas Gaganjeet Bhullar (76-67-75-76) at 10-over 294 was T-65 and Jyoti Randhawa (74-71-81-74) was T-74.

Lahiri, who completed runner up on the final LIV Collection occasion, has been enjoying properly. In 5 begins previous to this, he has been second or T-2 thrice and T-12 as soon as.

He has good leads to the LIV Collection, which haven’t been counted for World Rating factors.

Lahiri was “very, more than happy” together with his efficiency.

“I believe that was most likely the top-three ball-striking rounds of the 12 months for me, I believe I’d charge this spherical higher than my Saturday at Bedminster (on LIV) and higher than Adelaide (LIV).

“I used to be very, very proud of how I swung it. My management of the ball within the air, my distance management every thing was spot on. I drove it phenomenally,” he added.

Ogletree stamped his authority as soon as once more on the Asian Tour by claiming the USD 2 million Worldwide Collection England after a shocking seven-stroke victory – with a runaway 16-under event complete.

The American was unstoppable, taking pictures a final-round seven-under-par 64 – the joint lowest spherical of the week.

That is Ogletree’s third convincing Worldwide Collection victory – he triumphed in Qatar by three this 12 months, and by 4 in Egypt final season – and it consolidated his lead on each the Asian Tour and Worldwide Collection Order of Deserves. He received USD 360,000.

– PTI

Geoffrey Emmanuel
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Particular Association

Double podium for Chennai’s Geoffrey Emmanuel in Malaysian Superbike Championship

Geoffrey Emmanuel from Chennai did India proud by clinching a double podium throughout his debut season within the Malaysian Superbike Championship at Kuala Lumpur’s Sepang Worldwide Circuit (SIC) final weekend.

Driving a Honda CBR 250cc, the 18-year-old, representing Gusto Racing India, completed third general within the 250cc class (A Class) of the championship. It was a commendable efficiency by the teenager given the restricted seat and monitor time on the SIC. Ranging from P3, Geoffrey missed the second spot by lower than a tenth of a second in Race 1.

“It was a really difficult weekend for me. We had barely three days to arrange the inventory CBR250 bike, aside from studying the monitor. Racing on the SIC was an enormous alternative for me and one other step in direction of reaching my aim of creating it to the MotoGP,” mentioned Geoffrey, who additionally takes half within the FIM World Junior Championship.

“The race itself was very aggressive, however I managed to carry my place until the end and am completely delighted that I made the rostrum in each races. I want to thank my workforce for its help and the work the boys put in to remodel the inventory bike right into a race-spec machine in such a brief span of time. The rostrum finishes have motivated me to work even more durable to appreciate my racing desires,” he added.

The championship includes six races to be held over three rounds on the similar venue. The second spherical is scheduled for September 8, adopted by the ultimate spherical on December 15.

-Rayan Rozario

FOOTBALL

Former nationwide footballer and now head coach of Telangana under-17 workforce, Sheikh Abdul Rahman, monitoring the choices for the State
workforce at Gymkhana Floor in Hyderabad on Monday.
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V V SUBRAHMANYAM

File turn-out at Telangana U-17 squad choice

The beaming faces mentioned all of it at Gymkhana Floor in Secunderabad!

A document turn-out of about 300 younger footballers turning up for the State under-17 squad choice at Gymkhana Floor was not simply the type of response the Telangana Soccer Affiliation (TFA) officers have been anticipating.

With Sheikh Khaleel Rahman, who represented the united Andhra Pradesh seven occasions within the Santosh Trophy, being the pinnacle coach, TFA secretary G. Palguna is hoping for the much-awaited turn-around in his workforce’s dream to place in place high quality footballers within the subsequent couple of years.

“Actually, all these boys are solely from the dual cities. We’ve got the choices for the district boys quickly. On the finish of all of it, we shall be pruning the genuinely proficient to about 40 to 50 and provides them long-term teaching with the primary goal being the Junior nationals in Sambalpur (MP) subsequent month,” Rahman knowledgeable ‘Sportstar’.

“Many of the boys are impressed by the success story of Hyderabad FC within the ISL and likewise the truth that the Metropolis now boasts about 20 academies,” mentioned Rahman, taking day off a busy schedule for the final three days.

“These boys have been cut up into groups figuring out every of them position-wise and making them play matches to check their abilities. There isn’t any doubt in regards to the abundance of expertise. They solely lack match observe,” mentioned Rahman, the Deputy Supervisor in SBI.

“Precisely because of this, TFA is now roping within the Soccer Academies to begin under-15 and 17 leagues quickly to organize groups for the Nationwide leagues. This, we really feel, will guarantee an meeting line of high quality gamers if they’re given the type of desired publicity,” the previous midfielder mentioned.

The choice panel of P. Acharjee, Zakir Hussain, Vincent Paul, Noorul Ahmed (all AFC license holders) and Akbar Abedi monitoring the choices below the supervision of Rahman and the TAF high officers, there may be hope of real expertise being given the possibility to dream large.

-V. V. SUBRAHMANYAM

CHESS

Affected person Sethuraman takes lead; Guha holds Puranik in Nationwide chess championship

S. P. Sethuraman took his time to transform his likelihood right into a well-crafted 94-move victory over fellow Grandmaster Deep Sengupta to emerge because the chief with six factors after as many rounds of the Nationwide chess championship right here on Monday.

With eighth seed Mithrabha Guha holding second seed Abhimanyu Puranik to a 43-move draw on the highest board, Sethuraman knew a victory would give him a half-point lead and encashed on his two-pawn benefit.