TAMIL NADU ROUND-UP
Indian freestyle wrestlers failed to get a single quota place in the Asian Olympic Games quali er in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday.
Aman Sehrawat (57kg), last year’s Asian champion, was the only Indian to get closer to a quota place. Aman beat Kazakhstan’s Yerassyl Mukhtaruly 10-0 and South Korea’s Sunggwon Kim 11-1 to reach the semi nals.
However, the Indian was outsmarted by Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev in the last four bout.
Jaideep (74kg) lost to home favourite Orozobek Toktomambetov 2-2 on criteria in the quarter nals. Deepak Nehra (97kg) was ousted 10-0 by Japan’s Arash Yoshida. Sumit (125kg) was beaten 10-0 by Mongolia’s Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur.
Sujeet Kalkal (65kg) and Olympian Deepak Punia (86kg), who were stranded in Dubai due to ¦ooding, could not reach Bishkek in time for the weigh-in owing to ¦ight delay.
Senthilkumar’s eort goes in vain
SIVAKASI: Senthilkumar’s all-round eort (64 and
ve for 39) went in vain as Bharath lost to Sivakasi Town by three wickets in the Virudhunagar DCA
rst division league.
The scores:
I div.: Bharath 175 in 36.4 overs (Senthilkumar 64, Gunakaran 31, Vairaprakash 3/21, Rohith Pranav 3/27) lost to Sivakasi Town 177/7 in 31.5 overs (Vairaprakash 55, Mohammed Riyas 51 n.o., Senthilkumar 5/39).
Redrose 257 in 37 overs (Lingarajan 66, G. Sivaraj 56,
Senthilkumar (Bharath, 64 & 5/39), and Mugesh (Mepco Schlenk EC, 5/35).
Durgaiyandi 32 n.o., E. Suriya 3/49) bt Kalasalingam Academy 149 in 29.1 overs (A.K. Mohan Krishna 64, Gaddam Abhishek Reddy 34).
II div.: War Horses 104/5 in 25 overs lost to Leo Sports 106/7 in
20.5 overs (M. Manikandan 3/16).
New Star 168 in 24.2 overs (Marimuthu Kumar 35, S. Mugesh 5/35) bt Mepco Schlenk EC 139/8 in 25 overs (S. Mugesh 32, Ranjith Kumar 3/20).
Nature 179/8 in 25 overs (Gokul 41, M. Suresh 40, S. Muthurajan 30, Muthu Krishnan 4/22, Marudhu Pandian 3/18) bt VRDCA XI 145/8 in 25 overs (M. Praveen Kumar 49, Naveen 46, G. Suresh 3/18).
Yazhini 130 in 24.3 overs (Balamurugan 31, Arun Sundar 4/24, Ramar 3/21) lost to United XI 131/7 in 17.4 overs (Mani Sundaram 47, Vinayaka Moorthy 41, Solairaja 4/20).