Fourteen year old Renee Talati from St. Anne’s High School, Fort, was awarded the ‘Best Sportsperson’ (Overall Category) and ‘Best Footballer’ (Girls Category) at the recent inter-school cultural festival, Immaculata 2016, held at St. Mary’s School (ICSE), Mazagaon. Twenty four schools across Mumbai participated with 2000 children taking part in various events. Renee been playing […]
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Sports Round-up – 24 July To 30 July
CRICKET India Start Off Their Series On A Winning Note The Anil Kumble-Virat Kohli partnership has started on a positive note as India were on the top of their game against what looked like a rather weak West Indies side. Batting first the visitors notched up 566/8 (declared) in their first innings. Virat Kohli scored […]
Kudos Hoshmand!
Congratulations to eight year old Hoshmand Elavia for coming second in the JK Tyre Indikarting National Series powered by Tata Motors. The championship was held from April to July 2016 across various destinations. Hoshmand was the only candidate from Mumbai in the Pro-Cadet category (7 to 12 years). He did his training under Rayomand Banajee […]
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CRICKET Pakistan Clinch Victory At Lord’s The first Test match between England and Pakistan turned into an exciting encounter. Pakistan won the toss and made the right decision to bat first. They notched up 339 runs with skipper Misbah-ul-Haq’s top ton. In reply, the Englishmen were all out for 272 runs in 79.1 overs. Yasir […]
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CRICKET Barbados Tridents Win Caribbean Premier League After the IPL, it is now the CPL that has taken the cricketing world by storm. St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots won the toss and elected to field first. Opponents, Barbados Tridents scored 180/6 in 20 overs, thanks to De Villiers who scored 82 runs in 54 deliveries. […]
Azdeen Wins Golden Glove
Congratulations to 10-year-old Azdeen Zack for being awarded the ‘Golden Glove’ as the best goalkeeper at the recently concluded ‘Torneo Cidade Vilagarcia’- International Football Tournament held in Spain. Azdeen’s ‘Spanish Soccer School, Dubai’ won 7th place amongst forty-two teams that participated world-wide. Azdeen will soon be representing Dubai, in the ‘Under-10’ category at the ‘Gothia […]
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CRICKET England Thrashes The Lankans To Win The ODI Series The Englishmen produced top class cricket throughout the entire series. This time around too, it was no different when these two teams met at Cardiff for the fifth ODI. The Lankan lions won the toss and opted to bowl first. Roy, Vince and Root played […]
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CRICKET Jason Roy Shines As England Crushes Sri Lanka Playing their 4th ODI, England and Sri Lanka were looking to outplay each other yet again. Winning the crucial toss, the Englishmen elected to field first. The Lankan Lions put up a massive score of 305 as their top order fired some big scores. In reply, […]
SPY Football Tournament
It’s raining tournaments at Salsette! After the mega-successful TT tournament, Team SPY (Salsette Parsi Youth) conducted the Rink Football Tournament on the 25th June, 2016 at the newly available ground of Salsette Parsi Colony. Over forty enthusiasts, between the ages of ten to forty years, fought it out in the slush, amidst the heavy rains […]
XYZ Monsoon Games
An overcast sky and the lush green grounds of Sir Ness Wadia Memorial Pavillion, Rustom Baug, made for the perfect setting for the ‘XYZ Monsoon Games’ on 26th June, 2016 as hosts – ‘Jamshed’s Giants – XYZ Group of Byculla’ pepped up the environment. As buses from the other XYZ centres rolled in, the grounds […]
Cama Park Annual Athletics
In the mid-80s when Tata Housing Development Company envisaged Cama Park, one wonders whether they constructed the circular interior road of 400m (the identical distance for track events), by design or inadvertently. This track, particularly the gradient in a few places, has motivated the youth of Cama Park colony, Andheri and benefited them at excelling […]