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CRICKET

India beat England

India won 5 matches

one-day series by 5-0

by defeating England

in 5th and final match

played in Kolkata on

26 October 2011.

India scored a

challenging 271 for

eight and stopped England at 176 in 37

overs in the day-night match at theEden Gardens. Ravindra Jadeja

grabbed 4-33 and off-spinner

Ravichandran Ashwin claimed 3-28.

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja of

team India was declared Man of the

Match , while Indian captain

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was awarded

with Man of the Seri es . India

achieved a 5-0 verdict in a bilateral

One Day International series only 3

times. The two earlier instances were

against England (2008-09) and New

Zealand (2010-11).:

@ India won 1st ODI by 126-run in

Hyderabad on 15 October 2011.

@ India beat England by eight

wickets in 2nd ODI. The match

was played at Feroz Shah Kotla

stadium, Delhi on 17 October

2011.

@ India defeated England to won

3rd ODI of 5 matches series by

5 wickets (with 4 balls

remaining). Match was played at

Mohali stadium, Chandigarh on

20 October 2011.

@ India won 4th ODI by 6 wickets

(with 59 balls remaining). 4th

ODI between India and England

was played at Wankhede

Stadium, Mumbai on 23 October

2011.

Cricketers Imprisoned for Spot-

fixing Scandals

Three Pakistan cricketers and anagent were sentenced imprisonment in

Britain for their involvement in one of

the biggest fixing scandals. Former

captain Salman Butt received two and

a half years, the longest term of the

three players and was called the

“orchastrator” of the entire event.

Mohammad Asif was sentenced to 1

year, while 19-year-old Mohammad

Amir will serve six months. Agent

Mazhar Majeed was sentenced to 2

years, 8 months. All four may be

released for good behavior after

serving half their terms.Butt, Asif and

Majeed are expected to begin their

sentences at Wandsworth prison in

south London, Amir is due to be sent

to Feltham young offenders’ institute

in west London.

The players were found guilty of

conspiring with Majeed to bowldeliberate no-balls as part of a betting

scam during the test match against

England at Lord’s in August 2010.

The conspiracy was exposed following

a sting by undercover reportersworking for the News of the World,

who filmed Majeed accepting

£150000.The scandal is being

described as the biggest fixing scandal

in cricket since South Africa captain

Hansie Cronje was banned for life in

2000 for taking bribes from

bookmakers.

Bedi’s Biography Released

Divinity ordained that he be blessed

with a “nice, clean bowling action”.

Divinity that “coincided with Tiger

Pataudi’s leadership” ensured that

Bishan Singh Bedi would play for

India and end up as one of its finest

spin bowlers of all time.That was how

the man himself described his classic

bowling action and his Test baptism in

Calcutta, under Pataudi, back in 1966-

67against the West Indies, as he

released his biography, written by

jour na list Sur esh Menon, at the

Kovalam Literary Festival at the India

International Centre here on

Thursday.In ‘Bishan, Portrait of a

Cricketer”, Menon brings to life one

of the most colourful personalities of

Indian cricket, but Bedi described the

attempt as “bringing out an Egyptian

mummy alive”.

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Some Changes in the Rules

Two of International Cricket Council’s

(ICC) important amendments to the

playing conditions pertaining to ODI

cricket, which have come into effect

from October 1, have the potential to

change the dynamics of the game.

The use of two white balls, to be

employed in alternate overs of an

innings, for the ODIs will impact a

contest differently in different parts of

the cricketing world.In countries such

as Australia and South Africa, the

batsmen might have to cope with

greater seam movement and bounce

for a considerable part of the innings.In England, the ball would swing

conventionally for longer periods.

Venkatagiri Cup

Central Zone lifted the Venkatagiri

Cup for the ACA inter-zonal (Ranji

selection) tournament by garnering

eight points at Ongole. North and South

took the second and third slots with

five points and one point respectively.The final league match between

Central and South ended in a

draw.Chasing 131 for victory, Central

made 118 for two in 21 oves when bad

light stopped play.

TENNIS

Shanghai Masters

Andy Murray retained his ShanghaiMasters title by defeating David

Ferrer 7-5 6-4 in the final. His victory

moved him to number three in the

ATP rankings. He moved to the top

three for the first time since March

2010. Murray who was as high as No

2 in August 2009.The win in China

was Murray’s third title in as many

weeks, following victories in Bangkok

and Tokyo, where he beat Rafael

Nadal in the final. He claimed the

biggest tournaments in Thailand,

Japan and finally the Shanghai

Masters in China. He won 25 of his

last 26 matches showing remarkable

consistency. Roger Federer dropped

out of the top three in the ATP

rankings for the first time since June

2003. Roger Federer had won the firstof his 16 Grand Slam titles in July

2003.

Stockholm Open

India’s Rohan

Bopanna and

Pakistan’s Aisam-

ul-Haq Qureshi

won the Stockholm

Open men’sdoubles title by

defeating Brazilians

Marcelo Melo and

Bruno Soares 6-1, 6-3 on 23 October

2011. the Stockholm Open was top-

seeded India-Pakistan pair’s second

ATP World Tour title of 2011. They

had earlier won on grass at the Gerry

Weber Open in Halle in June 2011.

The victory got them their third title as

a team. They had also sealed victory

as a team in Johannesburg in

2010.Bopanna and Qureshi who are

ranked seventh in the ATP doubles

team rankings, added 250 points after

their win.

WTA Championships in Istanbul

Czech tennis

player Petra

K v i t o v a

d e f e a t e d

Victoria Azarenka 7-5 4-6 6-3 to win

the WTA Championships on 30

October 2011 in Istanbul. Kvitova took

home $1.75 million and Azarenka

collected $775000.The 21-year-old

Czech had shot to fame by winning

Wimbledon 2011. She remained

undefeated at the year-ending event

that featured the world’s top eightplayers. Victory also confirmed

Kvitova at a career-high second in the

WTA rankings after ending 2010 in

34th spot.She is the first Czech to win

the WTA Championships since Jana

Novotna in 1997.

Kvitova had also defeated Azarenka

in the Wimbledon semifinals on her

way to winning her first Grand Slam

title in 2011.Kvitova has won six titles

in 2011, the same number as No. 1

Caroline Wozniacki and twice as many

as Azarenka.

Austrian Open

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga became the first

Frenchman to win the Austrian Open

with a 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Juan

Martin del Petro. It was the seventh

career title for Tsonga. Juan del Potro

had won all three of the pair’s

previous meetings.Tsonga’s victory

sent him past American Mardy Fish

into provisional seventh place for the

ATP World Tour Finals in London

scheduled to take place on 20-27

November 2011.

FOOTBALL

FIFA Rankings

France dropped

three places in

the latest FIFA

r a n k i n g s

published on

Wednesday despite qualifying for

Euro 2012, while Spain continues to

top the list ahead of the Netherlands,Germany and Uruguay. Sweden rose

to 14th spot from 25th after qualifying

for the Euros while fellow qualifier

Denmark is up seven places in the

standings based on results over the last

four years.

Leading FIFA rankings: 1. Spain, 2.

the Netherlands, 3. Germany, 4.

Uruguay, 5. Brazil, 6. Italy, 7. England,

8. Greece and Portugal, 10. Argentina

and Denmark, 12. Croatia, 13. Russia,

14. Sweden, 15. France.





Euro 2012 Qualifier

Denmark, France and Russia booked

their places at Euro 2012, while

Portugal was consigned to the play-

offs after a tense conclusion to

qualifying on Tuesday. Denmark,

European champion in 1992, stunned

the Portuguese with a 2-1 win in

Copenhagen to leapfrog the visitor and

top Group H, consigning the Euro

2004 finalist to the play-offs.

Durand Cup 2011

The 2011 Durand Cup, the 124th

edition of the Durand Cup which is the

third oldest association football

competition in the world was won by

the Churchill Brothers. Churchill

Brothers won the 2011 Durand Cup at

the Ambedkar Stadium with a 5-4 tie-

break win over Prayag United.

Churchill Brothers won the Durand

Cup 2011 defeating Prayag United in

the finals 5-4 on Penalties after the

both team failed to score after full

time. In the tie-breaker, ChurchillBrothers scored through Lalrindika

Ralte, M.P. Zakeer, Bineesh Balan,

Matthew Kouacic and Denzil Franco.

Kayne Vincent, Mohammad Rafique,

Belo Razaq and Maksawn Tluanga

scored for Prayag.

MOTOR RACING/FORMULA

ONE

Force India-Sahara Deal

Force India will now be known as

Sahara Force India. Making the

announcement here on Wednesday,

Subrata Roy and Vijay Mallya hoped

the new partnership would be good for

the sport in the country.Sahara

decided to invest $100million in Force

India after visiting its factory. Roy and

Mallya will have stakes worth 42.5 percent each with the Michiel Mol family

holding the remaining 15 per cent. Roy

takes over as Chairman of the Board

of Directors, while will Mallya

continue as the Managing Director and

Team Principal. Welcoming the move,

Mallya said, “F1 is taking root in India.

It is a sport next to Olympics and

FIFA World Cup with a viewership in

millions. I was a proud Indian to have

a team. I am prouder today at having

an Indian partner.”

Indian Grand Prix

The Indian Grand Prix, sometimes

referred to as the Grand Prix of India)

is a race in the calendar of the FIA

Formula One World Championship. It

is currently held at the Buddh

International Circuit in Greater Noida,

Uttar Pradesh, India. The first event

took place on 30 October 2011 as the

17th race of the 2011 Formula One

season, The new race track was

officially homologated on 1 September

2011 by Charlie Whiting.

Season-2011: 28-30 October 2011: On

30 October 2011, the first F1 Grand

Prix was held at the circuit. Sebastian

Vettel won the event, his 11th of the

season. He also had the fastest lap of the race on his last lap although his

team was telling him to “just bring it

home”. Sachin Tendulkar waved the

chequered flag to welcome Sebastian

Vettel. Redbull won the Constructors

Trophy. The only Indian F1 driver

Narain Karthikeyan of HRT F1

finished 17th position.The only Indian

F1 Team Sahara Force India driver

Adrian Sutil finished at 9th position.

Some important facts of the event:-

Race Date - 30 Oct 2011

Circuit Name - Buddh

International Circuit

Number of Laps - 60

Circuit Length - 5.125 km

Race Distance - 307.249 km

Winner - Sebastian Vettel

Winner Team - Redbull

Lap Record - 1:27.249 (S. Vettel)

Korean Grand Prix

Red Bull sealed the constructors’ title

at the Korean Grand Prix. Red Bull

sealed the 2011 season with 558

points. McLaren with 418 points was

second and ferrari with 310 points wasthird. Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull who

won the world championship at the

Suzuka in Japan notched up his 10th

victory of the 2011 season.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was

second while another Red Bull driver

Mark Webber finished third. Vettel,

who started from second on the grid,

passed pole-sitter Hamilton on the first

lap and dominated the 55-lap race

before crossing the finish line in 1hour, 38 minutes, 01.994 seconds, 12

seconds ahead of the McLaren

driver.McLaren’s Jenson Button and

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso

finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Japanese Grand Prix

McLaren’s Jenson Button won the

Japanese Grand Prix in his adopted

homeland, Japan on 9 October 2011.Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel who stood

third in the Formula 1 race became

the youngest double world champion

with four races to spare. In seven

years as a Honda driver, Button had

only once managed to win the race at

the Honda-owned circuit. In winning,

Button denied Vettel his third

successive Japanese Grand Prix win.

Button’s victory cut Vettel’s overall

lead over the Briton to 114 points, aninsurmountable advantage with a total

of 100 left to be won.





Fernando Alonso stood second. Mark

Webber was fourth for Red Bull

ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton

and Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher,

who was sixth. Red Bull’s Sebastian

Vettel made his way to the record

books as Formula One’s youngestdouble world champion after finishing

third in a Japanese Grand Prix. Vettel

had needed only a point at Suzuka to

clinch his second successive crown.

He was only the ninth driver to take

back-to-back championships and on

the podium for the 14th time in 15

races in 2011.Ferrari’s Fernando Alons

had become the previous youngest

double world champion when he had

won for Renault aged 25 in 2006.

Himalaya Motor Rally

Austrian Helmut Frauwallner and

India’s Suresh Rana won the extreme

two-wheeler and extreme-four

wheeler categories in the 13th Raid de

Himalaya motor rally which

concluded.Rana and his navigator

Ashwin Naik driving a Maruti Gypsy

were followed by Harpreet Bawa withnavigator Virender Kashyap in second

place, while Shakti Bajaj and navigator

Prakash finished third. Of the 42 cars

and 32 motorbikes which set out from

Shimla in the extreme category, only

26 cars and 16 bikes made it to the

finishing line, while others withdrew or

had vehicle breakdown. The

adventure trial had begun from Shimla

via Dalhousie, Srinagar and Zanskar

before finishing at Srinagar.The annualrally which is an off-road racing

spectacle in the rugged, inhospitable

Himalayan terrain had begun on 9

October 2011 from Shimla before

ending at the Royal Springs Golf

Course on the banks of the Dal lake.

The rallyists went via Manali-Leh-

Rangdum (Zanskar), which comprises

of one of the world’s most dangerous

roads. The results are subject to

change if any motorist or biker lodges

a protest and is proven right in the

scrutiny.

SHOOTING

Asian Airgun

Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra

won the air rifle silver behind Asian

Games champion Zhu Qinan of China

in the fourth Asian airgun shooting

championship in Kuwait.Bindra, who

had reduced Zhu Qinan to tears in the

Beijing Olympic Games by grabbing

the gold, shot 594 in qualification and

103.6 in the final. He was 2.6 points

behind the Chinese who shot 598 in

qualification.While Satyendra Singh

jumped up to grab the br onze,

following 593 in qualification and the

best score in the final (103.7), Gagan

Narang took the seventh spot at 694.5

following a preliminary score of 592.

In women’s air rifle, Indian shooters

were below par, as none of them made

the final. Anjali Bhagwat missed outon a berth in the final following a

shoot-off for two places among three.

She shot 50.4, while the other two

from Chinese Taipei and Singapore

came up with 51.0 and 51.3

respectively. Iran sprang a surprise

with Narjes Emamgholinejad Andvari

coming up with a strong fare in the

final — an imposing 104.2 — to pip

the reigning World champion Yi Siling

of China by 0.1 point for the gold,

despite a 2-point deficit before the

final.The results: Air rifle: Men: 1. Zhu

Qinan (Chn) 700.2 (598); 2. Abhinav

Bindra 697.6 (594); 3. SatyendraSingh 696.7 (593); 7. Gagan Narang

694.5 (592). Women: Narjes

Emamgholinejad Andvari (IRI) 51.2

(397); 2. Yi Siling (Chn) 501.1 (399);

Wan Xiangyan (Chn) 501.0 (398); 9.

Anjali Bhagwat 396; 12. Priya

Agarwal 395; 20; Suma Shirur 392 .

World Cup

Asian Games gold medallist Ronjan

Sodhi wound up the season in style as

he defended the double trap gold





medal in the World Cup Finals in Al

Ain, United Arab Emirates, on

Tuesday.Going into the final two points

behind the Beijing Olympic bronze

medallist, Hu Binyuan of China, the

31-year-old Indian asserted his class

by not only faring better than the

Chinese but also eventually winning

the shoot-off for the gold 2-1 after the

two tied at 187.Ronjan shot 45 in the

final after 142 in the qualification

series following a sequence of 48, 49

and 45. The Chinese had followed his

144 with a 43 in the final. Quite

interestingly, it was the sixth silver in

the World Cup Finals for Hu Binyuan

who had never won a gold in the

competition for the top-10 shooters of

the season.

The former world champion and

World Cup Finals gold medallist Vitaly

Fokeev of Russia was reduced to the

bronze medal, two points behind at

185. The Russian shot the best in the

final with a score of 47, but had made

only 138 in the qualification. It was the

fifth successive appearance in the

World Cup Finals for Ronjan andsecond successive gold for him

following the one won in Izrmir,

Turkey, last year. The results: Double

trap: 1. Ronjan Sodhi 187 (2) 142; 2.

Hu Binyuan (Chn) 187 (1) 144; 3.

Vitaly Fokeev (Rus) 185 (138) .

GOLF

Woods Falls Out of Top 50

Tiger Woods is out of the top 50 in the

world rankings for the first time in

nearly 15 years. Woods, who hasn’t

won in nearly two years, was assured

of dropping from the top 50 when

Louis Oosthuizen finished in a three-

way tie for fifth in the Dunhill Links

Championship. That ends a streak of

778 consecutive weeks inside the top

50, dating to when Woods was No. 61

on Oct. 13, 1996.Woods, who has not

played since missing the cut at the

PGA Championship, returns to

competition this week at the Frys.com

Open at CordeValle in northern

California.

BILT Open Golf Championship

Anirban Lahiri became the first Indian

golfer to shoot a spectacular round of

12-under 60 on home soil when he

took a three-stroke lead on the second

day of the Rs. one-crore BILT Open

golf championship at the Jaypee

Greens golf course.The defending

champion, Lahiri has a two-round

aggregate of 13-under 131 that saw

him jump to the top of the leaderboard.

Lahiri smashed Jyoti Randhawa’s

previous course record of 64, recorded

in the 2008 edition of the

championship. Lahiri also matched the

score recorded in the country by

China’s Liang Wen-Chong during the

2008 Indian Open in New Delhi

.Lahiri is the 2009 Rolex Rankings

champion.

DLF Masters

Himmat Singh Rai gave a patient and

steady performance to walk away as

the winner in the fifth edition of the

DLF Masters at the DLF Golf and

Country Club.When tough course

conditions made life difficult for almost

everyone, Rai, who recently won his

maiden Asian Tour title, showed a lot

of maturity to seal victory by one

stroke. He carded an even-par final

round for a tally of four-under 284 —

the highest ever winning score in the

tournament. The 24-year-old pocketeda cheque of Rs. 15,35,675 for his

second win on the Professional Golf

Tour of India (PGTI).Even as windy

conditions continued to wreak havoc,

rookie Rashid Khan emerged

unscathed and carded the lone under-

par score (68) of the day. The Delhi-

based golfer jumped from the 13th

spot to finish second with an

aggregate of 285.Sanjay Kumar (third,

286) and Gaurav Pratap Singh (fourth,

287) were the other players who

returned sub-par totals for the

tournament.

CHESS

JCI Rapid Chess Tournament

P.V.V. Seshu with 4.5 points from five

rounds won the JCI rapid chess

tournament, organised by Junior

Chamber International (SecunderabadChapter).In the final round, Seshu

drew with P. Satyanarayana (3.5). For

second position, there was a two-way

tie between P. Praveen Prasad and R.

Sri Ram, with both scoring four points

each. However, with better

progressive score (tie break) Sri Ram

took the second spot.Final placings

(top five):

Open Category: 1. P.V.V. Seshu, 2. R.

Sri Ram, 3. P. Praveen Prasad, 4. P.

Satyanayana, 5. Krishna Bhushan.

Final Masters Chess

Championship

After a mixed outing in the Brazil leg

of the fourth Final Masters chess

championship, World champion

Viswanathan Anand would be hoping

for an improved finish in the Spain

phase which re-commences at

Bilbao.Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine





won it while Hikaru Nakamura of

USA finished second. Anand, who

started the event as a firm favourite

along with Norwegian World No. 1

Magnus Carlsen, began with a couple

of draws but then a shattering loss to

Ivanchuk left the Indian with a lot of

ground to cover in this category-22

super tournament being played under

the soccer scoring system.Anand

recovered fast enough to beat

Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain in the

fourth game but another draw has

now left him with a shared third place

in the six-player double round-robin

tournament.Standings after fifth round:

1. V. Ivanchuk (Ukr, 10); 2. H.

Nakamura (USA, 7); 3-5. V. Anand

(Ind), M. Carlsen (Nor), L. Aronian

(Arm) 6 each; 6. F. Vallejo Pons (Esp,

3) .

VARIOUS

Halloween Throws Meet

Commonwealth Games gold-medallist

Krishna Poonia produced animpressive season’s best effort of

62.25m to win gold at Halloween

Throws Meet at Portland, United

States on 17 October 2011. In the

process, she also crossed the A

qualifying standard for the London

Olympics (62m).

Poonia had already qualified for the

2012 Games by attaining the B

qualification standard of 59.50m when

she won gold at the Fling Throw Meetat Portland with a throw of 61.12m.

Poonia has been training at the

Throws Centre at Concordia

University at Oregon, Portland since

July 2011 and went all out and crossed

the magical mark of 62m in her last

attempt. She had two fouls and two

other 60 plus efforts in the process.

Her last effort was though below her

personal best of 63.69m recorded in

April in 2010 at Chula Vista in

California, United States.

Asia Pacific Merdeka Cup

Indians won two silver medals and a

bronze in the sixth Asia Pacific

Merdeka Cup lawn bowls

championship held in Kuala Lumpur.

Altogether 12 teams, including top

sides like Australia and New Zealand,

participated in the championship. The

medal winners: Silver: Sunil Bahadur

(men’s singles); Krishna Xalxo and

Lovely Choubey (mixed pairs);

Bronze: Sunil Bahadur, Krishna Xalxo

and Lovely Choubey (mixed triples) .

Asian Canoe Sprint

Championship

Betty Joseph and Bincymol Babychan

combined to win the Canoe (C-2)

500m gold in the 14th Asian Canoe

Sprint Championship in Tehran.In

addition, the Indians won two silver

and two bronze medals in the

championship that saw teams from 20

countries participate.The athletes

were trained at Bhopal by the Sports

Authority of India.

National Wrestling

Championships

Vinod Kumar of RSPB (Railway

Sports Promotion Board) won the 55

kg freestyle gold medal in the 56th

Senior National wrestling

championships at Nandininagar, Uttar

Pradesh. Anil won the gold medal in

60 kg Greco Roman category.Pradeep Kumar captured RSPB’s

second gold in 66kg freestyle division.

7th Asian Age Group Swimming

Championship

Indian swimmers won eight gold

medals on the first day (10 October

2011) of the 7th Asian age group

swimming championship at Jakarta

Indonesia. Olympian Sandeep Sejwaland Arjuna awardee Virdhaval Khade

opened with a gold each in the 7th

Asian Age Group Swimming

Championship in Indonesia. Sejwal

who had won a silver in the last edition

of the championship, clinched the gold

in 50m breaststroke with a timing of

28.36 secs. Khade swept 100m

butterfly with a timing of 54.86. Khade

later combined with Aaron D Souza,

Anshul Kothari and Rehan Poncha to

fetch another gold in 4x100 free style

relay.Karnataka’s Rehan Poncha won

the bronze in the 200m backstroke

with a timing of 02:07:76secs. Saurabh

Sangvekar, too, bagged the bronze in

the 200m freestyle boys group with

01:52:77 secs. Saurabh also won a

silver medal in 800m free style,

clocking 08.18.40.Surabhi Tipre was

the only Indian women with a podium

finish. Tipre won a bronze in 400m

Free Style with a timing of 04:26.07

secs. Tipre bagged another bronze

after she along with Talasha Prabhu,

Kshipra Mahajan and Richa Mishra

won the 4x100 free style relay with a

timing of 04.01:18.

12th Senior Women’s NationalBoxing Championships

Five-time world champion MC Mary

Kom won gold in the 51kg category

by defeating Pinki Jangra in the

summit clash on the final day of the

12th Senior Women’s National Boxing

Championships in Bhopal.In the

feather weight division, bronze

medallist at the Women’s Youth World

Championship, Pwilao Basumatary of

Assam settled settle for a silver medal

after losing to Mandakini Chann of

AIP who won gold.In the light weight





category, Neetu Chahal of Haryana

clinched gold after beating Preeti

Beniwal of the IABF team. Neetu

won 12-5.

Kavita Goyat of Delhi defended her

title taking the gold in the middle

weight division. She defeated Pooja of

Haryana 16:11.Haryana bagged the

overall title with three gold medals,

two silver and two bronze. Manipur

came second with two gold medals, a

silver and a bronze while Railways

finished third with two gold and three

bronze medals.

Come and Play Scheme

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

on 9 October 2011 launched thenationwide Come and Play scheme in

New Delhi. Through this scheme, the

ministry aims at opening SAI’s sporting

infrastructure for the youth across

India. The scheme is targeted at the

8-17 age group. The main objective of

the scheme is to provide coaching

primarily to sportspersons of young

age. Under the Come and Pla y

Scheme, competitions related to

various age categories would be

conducted twice a year and the top

three position holders in the relevantage group would be permitted for

admission to boarding scheme in SAI

(Sports Authority of India) training

centres.

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