SQUASH
Senthilkumar, Abhay energy into QSF 3 squash quarters in Doha
Velavan Senthilkumar and Abhay Singh have powered into the quarterfinals of the celebrated USD 53,500 QSF 3 squash – a PSA World Tour Bronze occasion – in Doha with gorgeous second-round wins over seeded opponents.
Reigning Nationwide champion Senthilkumar defeated Egyptian seventh seed Omar Mosaad, a former world No 3, 13-11, 11-3, 9-3 retd in half-hour, whereas Asian Video games medallist Abhay beat sixth-seeded Frenchman Auguste Dussourd 11-7, 5-11, 10-12, 11-5, 9-3 retd in 59 minutes on Thursday.
World No 55 Senthilkumar will meet Egyptian high seed and world No 8 Tarek Momen subsequent, whereas Abhay, ranked 67 on the planet, will tackle Malaysian third seed and world No 15 Eain Yow Ng.
-Crew Sportstar
HOCKEY
Indian junior males’s hockey staff loses 4-5 towards Dutch native membership
The Indian junior males’s hockey staff fought arduous after a sluggish begin however couldn’t stop a 4-5 loss to native Dutch facet Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push in its third match of the continued tour of Europe right here.
After a slender 2-2 (4-2) penalty shootout victory, India had slumped to a 2-3 loss to the Belgium junior facet of their earlier match.
Captain Rohit (18th minute), Sourabh Anand Khushwaha (twenty fourth), Ankit Pal (thirty second), and Arshdeep Singh (58th) sounded the board for India, however the facet was unable to overturn the five-goal deficit on Thursday.
Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push started the sport aggressively, incomes a penalty nook and scoring from it in simply over a minute.
Within the very subsequent minute, the native facet overpowered the Indian defence to attain one other penalty nook purpose.
The Indian colts resisted the preliminary stress and tried to attain however fell quick as Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push held agency and completed the primary quarter with a 2-0 lead.
Decided to realize a foothold within the sport, India earned a penalty stroke because the second quarter started and captain Rohit stepped as much as rating from the spot.
The respite was short-lived as Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push bounced again to earn one other penalty nook and breached India’s purpose once more.
Sourabh Anand Khushwaha scored via a penalty nook to scale back the deficit to a purpose heading into the second half.
A splendid comeback appeared on the playing cards as Ankit Pal scored a discipline purpose two minutes into the third quarter however Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push took management of the sport and went on to revive their lead within the forty second minute and finish the quarter 4-3 of their favour.
The depth stepped up a notch within the remaining quarter as India continued to search for a chink in Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push’s defence. Arshdeep Singh breached the online within the 58th minute to make it 4-4. However Bredase Hockey Vereniging Push refused to surrender and scored within the final minute to win the match 5-4.
The Indian junior males’s staff will play its subsequent match towards Germany in Mönchengladbach on Could 28.
-PTI
CRICKET
Renovation of Moin-ul-Haq Stadium set to begin in September
Bihar Cricket Affiliation (BCA) president Mr Rakesh Tiwari has confirmed that the reconstruction work of Moin Ul Haq stadium will start in September this 12 months. The principle purpose of BCA will probably be to make it a top-notch stadium.
In March 2024, the BCA secured the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium from the Bihar authorities on a long-term lease. The stadium presently serves as the house floor for the Bihar cricket staff and has been the location of 9 worldwide matches since its institution in 1969.
Following the elections, the settlement papers / MOU will probably be signed paving the best way for the cricket advanced premises which shall embody primarily two cricket grounds of normal measurement. First shall be the principle Stadium and the opposite one to facilitate Board matches and different matches.
The BCA president additionally knowledgeable that completion of the reconstruction work of the Moin Ul Haq stadium will take round 1.5 years to recover from.
-Crew Sportstar
GOLF
Atwal, Jeev open with 69s, lie T-19 at Seniors PGA Championship
Indian golfers Arjun Atwal and Jeev Milkha Singh opened with similar rounds of 2-under 69 every and had been Tied-Nineteenth on the finish of the primary spherical on the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, one of many Majors for the Seniors, on the Champions Tour right here.
Because the Indian duo started strongly, main the sphere within the USD 3.5 million seniors’ occasion (over-50s), had been Australian Richard Inexperienced and Englishman Richard Bland, who shot 7-under 64 every at Harbor Shores.
Inexperienced hit all 13 fairways and 17 of the 18 greens in regulation en path to the 64.
Inexperienced shared the lead with Englishman Richard Bland, enjoying his first over-50s occasion. Bland confirmed nice general type and didn’t miss a fairway till the eighth gap, which was his seventeenth of the day. He was bogey free on his debut on the PGA TOUR Champions.
Defending champion Steve Stricker opened with a 5-under 66 and was amongst 5 gamers with 66.
Jeev, enjoying from the primary alongside Italian Emanuele Canonica (69) and Jeff Schmid (66), opened on the primary with three pars after which had a terrific run. He birdied the fourth after which had three in a row from seventh to ninth to show in a powerful 4-under.
On the again, he missed a few birdie probabilities however was hit by a double bogey on Par-4 twelfth and no extra birdies or bogeys to complete with 69.
Atwal, the one Indian to have received on the principle PGA TOUR, started on the tenth with a birdie and added a second on the twelfth. He dropped three pictures in a row from sixteenth to 18th and turned in 1-over.
On the again 9, Atwal birdied the primary, third and the ninth and bogeyed Par-4 sixth to complete in 69, whereas his enjoying companions Jake Reeves (89) and Kirk Triplett (75) struggled via the day.
Presidents Cup Worldwide staff captain Mike Weir combined six birdies with one bogey to open in 5-under 66 and was T-4. He performed alongside Darren Clarke (67) and Ernie Els (70).
-PTI