MOTORSPORT
52 entries for forty seventh MMSC South India Rally
The 47 th MMSC South India Rally, to be run in Chennai from March 15 to 17, has attracted 52 entries.
The three-day occasion, organized by the Madras Motor Sports activities Membership, and promoted by Blueband Sports activities, doubles up as the primary spherical of AVT Gold Cup FIA APRC South India Rally – Asia Cup which has acquired 10 entries, all from India, and the Blueband fmsci Indian Nationwide Rally Championship (52 entries, together with the ten APRC contenders) to be contested over 137 Kms of 13 Particular Levels and masking an total distance of about 446 Kms.
The Asia Cup entry listing is headlined by Mangalorean Aroor Arjun Rao (co-driver Satish Rajagopal), the 2023 Total Nationwide champion, driving a Maruti Suzuki Baleno and representing Mandovi Racing. Rao additionally heads the INRC area which incorporates Delhi’s Harkrishan Wadia (co-driver Kunal Kashyap), the 2023 INRC 2 champion, and Chandigarh-based Jahaan Singh Gill (Suraj Keshav Prasad) of SNAP Racing who has moved as much as INRC 2 after capturing the INRC 3 and JINRC titles final season.
A notable absentee is a number of APRC and INRC champion Gaurav Gill who had initially entered, however withdrew on the final minute resulting from delay in getting his Ford Fiesta shipped from Dubai in time for this weekend’s occasion.
The seven-round INRC includes varied lessons that embrace Total (INRC), INRC 2, INRC 3, Junior INRC (under 26 years of age) and Girls, moreover the FMSCI Problem Cup, a non-championship class for Maruti Gypsy autos.
– Crew Sportstar
CRICKET
Blind Cricket: India take unassailable sequence lead with seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in third T20
India defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets within the third T20 to take an unassailable 3-0 lead within the five-match Samarth Championship for Blind Cricket in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Chandana Deshapriya (76) scored a fifty to assist Sri Lanka publish 162/3 after being invited to bat first on the Karnail Singh Stadium.
Dinesh Rathva, Naresh Tumda, Lokesh and Pankaj Bhue, who was adjudged the Participant of the Match, then contributed with the bat as India chased down the goal with 27 balls to spare.
India thus claimed the bilateral sequence with two extra matches to go.
India defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets within the third T20.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
India defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets within the third T20.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Sri Lanka obtained off to a good begin however misplaced two wickets inside the ability play. In a must-win match, Deshapriya and skipper Damith Sandaruwan then began rebuilding the innings.
Whereas Deshapriya scored 76 runs in 63 balls, Sandaruwan struck 46 in 47 balls.
For India, Bhue picked a wicket.
Chasing 163, India began off nicely scoring 75 runs within the first eight overs. Pankaj and Dinesh laid the platform for the chase because the Males In Blue seemed all set to say the sequence.
India misplaced Dinesh within the eighth over an Pankaj in twelfth however that didn’t derail the chase.
Naresh Tumda and Lokesha ensured India obtained over the road within the sixteenth over, asserting their dominance over the visiting facet within the sequence. India made 164/3 in 15.3 overs.
– PTI
TENNIS
$25,000 ITF girls’s event: Shrivalli Bhamidipaty beats Romania’s Maria Bara, advances second spherical
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty discovered her rhythm and outclassed the highest seed Irina Maria Bara of Romania 6-3, 6-0 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis event on the Indore Tennis Membership on Wednesday.
The 486th ranked Shrivalli will play Viktoria Morvayova of Sllovakia who beat Vaidehi Chaudhari in three units.
Sahaja Yamalapalli performed an equally sturdy recreation to ease previous Zeel Desai for the lack of 4 video games. Sahaja will play fourth seed Mananchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand within the pre-quarterfinals.
Qualifier Vaishnavi Adkar fought nicely for 2 hours and 44 minutes, however obtained overwhelmed 3-6, 7-6(3), 7-5 by Thasaporn Naklo of Thailand.
The Thai served huge and didn’t drop a degree in profitable the final two video games at 5-5 within the decider, firing two of her 9 aces within the course of. From being down 0-4, and 2-5 within the third set, Vaishnavi performed her greatest to make a combat of it.
In doubles, high seeds Ankita Raina and Rutuja Bhosale had been overwhelmed 6-3, 5-7, [10-7] by the Japanese, Akiko Omae and Mei Yamaguchi.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Irina Maria Bara (Rou) 6-3, 6-0; Viktoria Morvayova (Svk) bt Vaidehi Chaudhari 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Ekaterina Yashina bt Michika Ozeki (Jpn) 6-1, 6-3; Yeonwoo Ku (Kor) bt Aanya Choubey (USA) 6-1, 6-0; Polina Iatcenko bt Akanksha Nitture 6-0, 6-3; Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Rinon Okuwaki (Jpn) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; Jacqueline Cabaj Awad ((Sswe) bt Daria Kudashova 6-3, 6-3; Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Zeel Desai 6-3, 6-1; Mananchaya Ssawangkaew (Tha) bt Rutuja Bhosale 6-2, 6-0; Thasaporn Naklo (Tha) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 3-6, 7-6(3), 7-5; Mei Yamaguchi (Jpn) bt Akiko Omae (Jpn) 6-2, 6-1; Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt Ayumi Koshishi (Jpn) 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Akiko Omae & Mei Yamaguchi (Jpn) bt Rutuja Bhosale & Ankita Raina 6-2, 5-7, [10-7]; Riya Bhatia & Michika Ozeki (Jpn) bt Sharmada Balu & Rinon Okuwaki (Jpn) 6-1, 2-1 (retired); Ya-Hsuan Llee (Tpe) & Sohyun Park (Kor) bt Akanksha Nitture & Soha Sadiq 6-0, 6-3; Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (Swe) & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Dayeon Again (Kor) & Gyeong Search engine marketing Lee (Kor) 7-5, 4-6, [10-5].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
$15,000 ITF girls’s event: Prathyusha Rachapudi loses in first spherical
Laura Dilekova of Slovakia beat Prathyusha Rachapudi 6-2, 6-2 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Wednesday.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF girls, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Singles (first spherical): Laura Dilekova (Svk) bt Prathyusha Rachapudi 6-2, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Hitaashee takes 10-shot lead in sixth leg of Hero WPGT
Hitaashee Bakshi maintained the tempo as she added an outstanding 6-under 66 to her first-round 64 to run away with a 10-shot lead on the midway mark of the sixth leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour right here.
Hitaashee, who equalled the DLF Golf and Nation Membership course report of 64, had eight birdies in opposition to two bogeys on the second day.
As she raced to 3-under 141 for 2 rounds, Amandeep Drall, the winner final week, blazed the entrance facet of the course with seven birdies on the way in which to a spherical of 69 that was broken by three bogeys and a double bogey during the last 5 holes.
Taking part in alongside Hitaashee and Amandeep within the lead group was Vani Kapoor, who shot 4-under with 5 birdies in opposition to one bogey for a spherical of 68.
Whereas Hitaashee was 14-under 130, Vani was at 4-under 140 and Amandeep was 3-under 141.
Beginner Zara Anand (71) and Gaurika Bishnoi (72) had been tied for fourth at 1-over 145. Yet one more novice Vidhatri Urs (70) was mendacity sixth, whereas Astha Madan (72) and Riya Yadav (68) occupied seventh and eighth locations.
Khushi Khanijau (70) and Jasmine Shekar (74) had been tied for ninth to spherical off the highest 10.
Curiously, 4 of the six amateurs of which three — Zara, Vidhatri and Heena Kang, who will play on the Queen Sirikit Cup in New Zealand, made the minimize.
The minimize got here at 161 and 29 gamers will play the ultimate two rounds.
-PTI
POLO
Northern India Championship
Three objectives every by Padmanabh Singh and Juan Cruz helped Rajasthan Polo Membership to a 9-6 victory over Vimal Arion Achievers in a league match of the Northern India polo championship on the Jaipur Polo floor right here on Wednesday.
The outcomes (league): Rajasthan Polo Membership 9 (Padmanabh Singh 3, Juan Cruz 3, Salvador Jauretche 2, Jaisal Singh) bt Vimal Arion Achievers 6 (Chris Mackenzie 3, Daniel Otamendi, Dhruvpal Godara, Vishwarupe Bajaj).
-Kamesh Srinivasan