The awardees are seen with (standing from left) MDAA Hon. Secretary B. Srikanth (third from left), Sr. NIS National Athletic Coach K.L. Shive Gowda, District Minister V. Sreenivasa Prasad, MLA and MDAA Chairman Vasu, MDAA President S. Somashekar, Vice-President C.K. Muralidharan, Hon. Treasurer Gopal Khare and Vice-President T. Parashuram. [Pic. by Yadav]Mysore
The Mysore District Athletic Association (MDAA), Mysore, conferred ‘Nandi award 2014’ to the outstanding sports persons, Sports Promoter, Sports Journalist and Sports Photographer, in a grand function at Lions Hall in city yesterday.
D. Varshini (Below 14 years), S. Ashwini (Below 16 years), M. Manjula (Below 18 years) and K.R. Meghana (Below 20 years) were given ‘Nandi award 2014’ in the girls category; B. Manush (Below 14 years) and Amruth Marigowda (Below 18 years) were conferred ‘Nandi award’ in the boys category. On the occasion, MDAA also conferred ‘Distinguished Sports Promoter’ award on Mysore University DPE Director Dr. C. Krishna; ‘Distinguished Sports Journalist’ award was conferred on Girish R. Doddamani and ‘Distinguished Sports Photographer’ award on Nethra Raju.
District in-Charge Minister V. Sreenivasa Prasad honoured the awardees. MLA and MDAA Chairman Vasu, Sr. NIS National Athletic Coach K.L. Shive Gowda, MDAA President S. Somashekar, Hon. Secretary B. Srikanth and others were also present.
Speaking on the occasion, Sreenivasa Prasad, congratulated all the awardees and stressed the importance of sports activities in day to day life. He said that sports brings people together and develops National integrity and wished that our country improves in the sporting front in the international scene in the days to come.
MLA Vasu, speaking on the occasion, said that MDAA has started off with the Nandi awards this year and will continue to strive hard to promote sports in the District in the days to come. He also said that with the financial grant from the MUDA, the University’s Oval Grounds will be developed with modern facilities in the days to come
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / May 15th, 2014
Commonwealth and Asian Games medallist disabled swimmer Prasanta Karmakar is looking forward to the day when the Sports Authority of India will start a specialized SAI Training Centre (STC) for disabled athletes after receiving the Diploma in Sports coaching on Wednesday.
“I wanted to learn more about sports and that was the reason why I joined this course. And today I feel that all the elites in our country should find some time to do this course. It will surely help them to prolong their careers by few years,” said Karmakar, who landed from Mumbai just in time to receive the certificate of honour.
“I have requested the SAI director to start special courses to train para athletes. He has promised to look into the matter but I hope something positive happens,” said Karmakar echoing the sentiments of disabled athletes in the country.
Karmakar, who was the first Indian to win a medal in the Commonwealth Games for disabled and Asian para Games, is confident that the diploma will help to do well as a coach. “I’m employed by the Haryana government but I will get leave so I can go to train athletes,” he said.
Karmakar was one among the 102 students who got provisional certificates for successfully completing the 10-month course at an impressive ceremony at the National Institute of Sports, Southern Centre here. The new coaches will get their certificate and mark list on the completion of their two-month internship at the various SAI centres across the country.
The highest number of coaches passed out in athletics (24) followed by swimming (21) and kabbadi (18). Surprisingly, tennis (6) had the lowest number of coaches followed by badminton (7).
‘Appoint them as assistant coaches’
Olympian Ashwinini Nachappa, who was the guest of honour asked SAI to give the graduates more exposure by attaching them to the national camps.
“Two months of internship is not enough. They should be appointed as assistant coaches with the foreign trainers as it will help them to learn a lot,” she said.
Bangalore University vice-chancellor BN Thimme Gowda exhorted the new coaches to acquire more skills and do research in sports. “You should all try and go to the next level. Try and do the masters and take up research,” he said.
SAI director Ramachandran, head of academics Nataraj, former national champion in badminton U Vimal Kumar were also present at the graduation ceremony.
Mysore has been producing talented Chess players from time to time who have gone on to represent the country in different levels. Mysore’s IM M.S. Thejkumar, with a present rating 2460, is the highest ranked player in Karnataka. He recently took part in the National Rapid Chess Championship 2014 held at Ahmadabad from Apr. 26 to 28 and finished runner-up. He is our ‘Star This Week.’
Thejkumar, a employee with the South Western Railways, Mysore, has been consistently performing well in the National and International tournaments and has been steadily increasing his rating points and needs another 40 points to get the Grand Master title.
Representing Karnataka in National Rapid Chess Tourney in Ahmadabad, Thejkumar tied with GM Sriram Jha with 8 points from 11 rounds. As both of them tied also in their tie-break scores (70.5), they played two games in the play-off and both ended in a draw. In the final game, GM Sriram Jha triumphed and clinched the title with a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 and IM Thejkumar won Rs. 25,000 cash prize.
In the tourney, Thejkumar had wins over Raje Anil, D. Shreyansh, WGM Kulkarni Bhakti, Kulkarni Rakesh, Sharma Dinesh and Thanki Hemal Karsangi. He drew with M Dustageer Ibrahim, Matta Vinay Kumar, GM Sriram Jha and J. Ramakrishna. He had a single loss against Syed Anwar Shazuli.
An Ekalavya awardee,Thejkumar is the first Karnataka player to win the National ‘B’ Chess Championship. He has also finished fourth in the National Premier Chess Championships this year and is part of the Indian team.
Thejkumar is being sponsored by Yasasvi Shankar of Saanvi Technologies, USA and www.mysoresport.com. The Karnataka Government is also supporting him by providing him the needed help for taking part in overseas tournaments from time to time.
He will be participating in the forthcoming National ‘B’ Chess Championships at Himachal Pradesh from May 9 also and also in the International GM tournament in Mumbai.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / May 04th, 2014
City’s Vasisht (left) and Prajwal Dev who emerged winners in the Junior Boys Doubles event in the ITF Juniors Tennis Tournament held at Indore recently, are seen with the trophy.
Mysore :
City’s tennis players C. Vasisht and S.D. Prajwal Dev, on Friday, won Junior Boys Doubles title at the ITF Junior Tennis Tourney held at Indore from Apr. 21 to 26.
In the final, fourth seeded Vasisht and Prajwal Dev combined well to score a upset win over topseeds Kennosuke Nouchi of Japan and Deepak Vishvakarma of India 7-6 (5), 6-1.
In the semi-finals, the two players played well to register a 6-3, 1-6 (10-4) win over Aryan Goves & P.V. Gnana Bhaskar of India.
In the quarter-finals, the duo had beat Shrey Gupta and Yash Yadav 6-1, 4-6 (10-4) and in the pre-quarters they had beat Sai Nikhil and R. Mayukh 6-3, 6-2.’
In the Junior Boys Singles, Vasisht lost to Shrey Gupta of India in the pre-quarterfinals 6-7 (3), 7-5, 2-6.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / April 29th, 2014
Winners of various category of Ist Mysore Professional Chess Academy’s All India FIDE Rated below 1800 Rating Tournament 2014 held in city are seen with the prizes and the guests.
Mysore :
L. Vivekananda, a student of Vidya Vardhaka FGC, drew his final and tenth round match against Dhanush Bharadwaj of Karnataka and clinched the title in the open category with 9 points from ten rounds on the final day of the 1st MPCA All India Rating below 1800 Chess Championship which concluded at Chamundi Vihar Stadium here on Friday.
The winner took home a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 and a trophy. Dhanush Bhjaradwaj with 8.5 points secured the second place and won a cash prize of Rs.12,000 and a trophy.
K. Ravi Kumar (Kar), R. Parthasarathy (Kar), T.G. Rohit Ramanan (TN) and P. Venkataramana (AP) tied with 8 points each and secured placings from third to sixth in the rankings.
The third, fourth and fifth place winners secured Rs. 8,000, Rs. 6,000 and Rs.5,000 with a trophy. Cash prizes were given to the players upto the 25th place in the rankings. The first five placed winners were given watches sponsored by M/s. Srinivas, Director, V2 Soft, Bangalore. The winners of category prizes were given special prizes sponsored by M/s. Cycle Pure Agarbathis, Mysore. The trophies were sponsored by M/s. Urs Kars, Mysore.
The prizes to the winners were given away by Mysore University DPE Director Dr. C. Krishna. MDCA President Prof. S.K. Ananda Thirtha, MPCA Jt. Secretary K.R. Shivarame Gowda, MPCA Director A. Sudharshana, MDCA Secretary M. Nagendra, Bangalore’s V2Soft Director Srinivas, National-level Chess player, MPCA Treasurer M.P. Ajith and Secretary C.K. Muralidharan were present on the occasion.
Results
Dhanysh Bharadwaj (8.5) drew L. Vivekananda; R. Parthasarathy drew T.G. Rohit Ramanan (8); S. Ramkumar drew Sonkalan Bharati (7.5); Vivekraj drew S. Subba Raju (7.5); Yashaskara Jois drew Kadav Omkar (7.5); R. Muralidharan (7) lost to P. Venkataramana (8); K. Ravi Kumar (8) bt Potluri Supreetha (7).
Special Prizes
Best below 1600: Prasanta Mondal (WB-7pts); Below 1400: Suhas P. Nidoni (Kar-7pts); Below 1200: Prajwal M. Joshi (Kar-6pts); Unrated: Krishna Kumar (Kar-6 pts); Best Veteran (55 Plus): K. Prabhakaran (Kar-6.5pts); Best Female Player: Potluri Supreetha (AP-7 pts); Best Karnataka Player: Sharan Rao (Kar-7.5 pts); Best Mysore player; V.P.S. Darshan (Mys-7.5); Best Physically Challenged: Samarth J. Rao (5 pts); Best U-16 Boys: C. Vignesh (TN-6.5 pts); Best U-16 girls: Siri Sharma (Kar); Best U-14 Boys: V.G. Nishanth (TN); Best U-14 girls: J. Dhivyashree (TN); Best U-12 Boys: P. Vibhu Reddy (Kar); Best U-12 Girls: Priyanka Narayan (Kar); Best U-10 boys: Sriram Udhaykumar (Kar); Best U-10 Girls: Khushi M. Hombal (Kar); Best U-18 Boys: Karthikay C (Kar); Best U-8 girls; Bhagyashree G. Patil (Kar).
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / April 27th, 2014
Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani was today chosen as the Best Sportsperson of the Country, while football Olympians PK Banerjee and Chuni Goswami were picked for Lifetime Achievement awards by the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club for 2013-14.
Former India captain IM Vijayan will also be felicitated for oustanding contribution to football as a host of sportpersons from the state and country will be feted at the ONGC-CSJC Annual Awards Function to be held at the Rotary Sadan on Friday.
Following is the list of the awardees:
Lifetime Achievement: Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Subimal (Chuni) Goswami; Outstanding contribution to football: IM Vijayan; Best Sportsperson of the Country: Pankaj Advani (Cuesport); Best Junior Sportsperson of the Country: Rituparna Das (Badminton); Excellence in Cue Sport: Sourav Kothari.
The last time I saw him in action was during the V Sivaramakrishnan benefit match between two teams of veteran cricketers at Chepauk in April 1993. The match got off to an electrifying start with Sunil Gavaskar, by then in his mid-40s, playing some pluperfect drives off the medium-pacers. When spin was introduced and EAS Prasanna came on, the “Little Master” greeted him with more of the same.
The two maestros had turned the clock back and those fortunate to be there that morning were witness to a vintage duel between tantalising flight and dancing feet. Then came the delivery of the day, with Gavaskar forward, aiming a push to the on side, and the ball clipping the off bail. Prasanna was nearly 53 years old.
He had never been an athletic figure on a cricket field, but I believe he was as fit for his job as any top-rung cricketer of his time. In his senior years, nothing much had changed in his bounding run-up and classical side-on finish, and the ball continued to fizz after it left his hand and travelled towards the batsman in an enticing arc, even though he was tubbier than he had been in his playing days.
This was almost 15 years after I had last met him on a cricket field as an opponent – when I was playing for Hyderabad and he for Karnataka. It was one of his last Ranji Trophy matches, if not the very last one, if memory serves me right. In the course of a seven-wicket haul, he bowled splendidly, even applauding my pull to the boundary off him, and having me caught at bat-pad next ball while I was aiming an extra-cover drive.
What caught the attention of some of us during the match even more than Prasanna’s brilliant spell was his bowling in the nets. With little change in his regular offspin action, he repeatedly made the ball go the other way off the pitch, visibly enjoying the addition of a new weapon to his arsenal. This was a veritable legbreak, not the floater with which he had fooled many a batsman, including Gavaskar in the Ranji Trophy semi-final in March 1974 – a dismissal almost identical to the one I watched in the veterans match two decades later.
When one of us ventured to ask him if he had tried the variation in a match yet, he said, “No. I am not ready. I haven’t mastered it.”
In hindsight, Prasanna had stumbled upon the doosra long before Saqlain Mushtaq – and I can swear he delivered it with a perfectly straight arm – and retired without trying it in a match situation. The fact that he was still trying to grow as a bowler in his last match and yet held back a new trick (like a classical musician of the old school, averse to presenting a song on stage before practising it hundreds of times) only underlined his greatness.
Young cricketers and cricket enthusiasts often wonder if spinners of Prasanna’s vintage could survive the assault of contemporary batsmen and bats, especially as they were said to flight the ball way more than today’s bowlers. The answer would of course be that those flighted deliveries were no gentle lobs but sharply spun balls that tended to dip in front of the batsman and spit; at any rate great spinners of any era adapt to the conditions of the day, and flight is not some one-arc-for-all standard fare.
True, a Prasanna today would perhaps go for more sixes – including mishit ones – than he did in his day, but he would still fool batsmen with his deceptive loop. He never represented India in an ODI, but was very effective in the few matches he played in the Deodhar Trophy, the zonal one-day championship.
Would Prasanna have been an effective bowler in T20 cricket? I like to believe, especially after watching the successful exploits of Sunil Narine, R Ashwin and Praveen Tambe, that he would. Prasanna was perhaps the shrewdest of the quartet of spinners India produced in the 1960s, and I believe he would have adapted beautifully to the shortest form of the game. He would have offered his captain an attacking bowling option, especially against left-hand batsmen. At any rate, a more confident bowler would be hard to find.
V Ramnarayan is an author, translator and teacher. He bowled offspin for Hyderabad and South Zone in the 1970s
source: http://www.espncricinfo.com / ESPN Sports Media Ltd / Home> The Cordon / by V. Ramnarayan / April 23rd, 2014
The 1st Mysore Professional Chess Academy’s (MPCA) All India tournament 2014, held under the aegis of the United Karnataka Chess Association and the Mysore District Chess Association under the guidance of AICF and World Chess Association, began at the Chamundi Vihar Indoor Stadium here this morning.
Around 300 chess players from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Delhi, Orissa and West Bengal are taking part in the tourney.
The tournament was inaugurated by M.R. Suresh, COO, Cycle Pure Agarbathis, Mysore, K. Suresh, Asst. Director, DYES, Mysore and Prof. S.K. Anand Thirtha by lighting the lamp and moving the pawns.
Two rounds will be held today and the tournament will be held upto Apr. 25 and will have 10 rounds.
Keen completion is expected from the participants and they will compete for a total cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000 plus 35 trophies.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / April 22nd, 2014
Bukhatir sons greet the Vijay Mallya who once owned two boxes in the cricket stadium
Vijay Mallya with Khalaf and Waleed Bukhatir, sons of Abdul Rahman Bukhatir, at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. / Image Credit: COURTESY: SCC
Dubai:
It was a nostalgic moment for Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team. He returned to Sharjah Cricket Stadium, during his team’s match against Delhi Daredevils on Thursday after nearly two decades.
Mallya was a regular visitor for Sharjah’s Cricketers Benefit Fund Series (CBFS). “Mallya used to own two VIP boxes in the stadium and he made sure he enjoyed almost all the matches in the company of his friends during the eighties and nineties,” remarked Mazhar Khan, the General Manager of the Sharjah Cricket Stadium to Gulf News.
Mallya is a friend of Abdulrehman Bukhatir, who was responsible for sowing the seeds of cricket in this desert by bringing international cricketers to play in matches at Sharjah. It was also a special moment for Khalaf and Waleed Bukhatir, the two sons of Bukhatir who were very young when Mallya used to visit the stadium. Abdulrehman Bukhatir could not attend the first match as he is abroad and is expected to return in time for the third match at Sharjah.
Khan was also the chief coordinator of the CBFS and hence used to make all arrangements for the VIPs and film stars to be comfortable in their special boxes at the ground which used to have a fridge and individuals small televisions on each box.
Mallya who is one of India’s leading industrialists is an ardent sports lover and owns Force India Formula One team. He had purchased Indian star all-rounder Yuvraj Singh for a whopping Rs140 million (Dh8.52 million) in the player’s auction. After Singh’s match winning knock in Sharjah, Mallya said: “What particularly pleased me was Yuvraj Singh coming back to his old vintage self. His stroke play was magnificent.”
Before the start of the IPL’s seventh edition, Mallya gave a pep talk to his team players and said: “You can do it, you know you can do it. Just go do it and we want to take that IPL-7 trophy in our hands this year, so good luck to all of you and we have a great team, great atmosphere. Play hard and party hard too.”
source: http://www.gulfnews.com / GulfNews.com / Home> IPL2014 / by K. R. Nayar, Chief Cricket Writer / April 19th,m 2014
Tennis is a global sport and Mysore has been producing talented tennis players who have gone on to represent the country at different levels. One such player who has made her mark in the International level in the junior girls section is city Dhruthi T. Venugopal. She has represented India in the junior level and has been consistently performing well in the ITF tournaments. Recently taking part in the Asian Junior Tennis Championships which concluded in Delhi on Saturday, Dhruthi teaming up with Vasanthi Shinde finished runner-up in the junior girls doubles event. She also took part in the singles and performed well. She is our “Star This Week”.
In the junior doubles singles, Dhruthi and Vasanti Shinde lost to Kamonwan Buyan and Yijio Shao 4-6, 1-6 in the final. In the semi-finals the duo beat Indian pair of Ojasvinee Singh and Prajula M 6-3, 6-1. In the quarter-finals, Dhruthi and Vasanti beat Snehal Mane and Nandini Sharma 6-3, 6-3. Dhruthi earlier taking part in the India ITF 1-Grade 3 junior tennis tournament at Chandigarh performed well and finished runner-up in the junior girls doubles and also entered the quarter-finals in the junior girls singles event.
Dhruthi T Venugopal, is a Ist PU student at Vidaya VikasPU College, Mysore and is the daughter of Venugopal and Vanamala who encourage her to the maximum. Dhruthi trains in Pune and takes part in most of the ITF junior circuit tournaments. Dhruthi presently is ranked No. 4 in the country in the junior girls (Under-18) section and is the No.1 player in the State. Dhruthi is an attacking player and is quite consistent in her performances in the junior circuit representing the country but has to improve her skills to be able to perform at the International level.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / April 20th, 2014
![The awardees are seen with (standing from left) MDAA Hon. Secretary B. Srikanth (third from left), Sr. NIS National Athletic Coach K.L. Shive Gowda, District Minister V. Sreenivasa Prasad, MLA and MDAA Chairman Vasu, MDAA President S. Somashekar, Vice-President C.K. Muralidharan, Hon. Treasurer Gopal Khare and Vice-President T. Parashuram. [Pic. by Yadav]](http://www.bangalorefirst.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NandiAwardsBF20may2014.jpg)
