The Cusrow Baug United Sports and Welfare League (CBUSWL) held its annual ‘CB Sports Day’ on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017, at its football lawns. 220 participants, right from ages ranging from 2 to 82 years, enthusiastically took part in over 33 different races – including the Under-5 Cycle Race to the Over-60 Power Walk – as over 300 onlookers cheered […]
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Panthaki Baug’s Senior Citizen Sports Day
Over thirty vibrant seniors participated in various different events in Panthaki Baug’s Senior Citizens Sports Day, which was held on 23rd April, 2017. Resident of the Baug, Vispy Elavia sponsored the prizes. The delightful and fun evening, which was ably organised by the dynamic ladies – Mani Elavia, Zarin Jesia and Freny Singanporia, concluded with […]
Budding Sports Prodigy – Parzan Nariman
11-year-old, Parzan Nariman, a class VI student of Maneckji Cooper Education Trust School, Mumbai, continues to excel on the athletics circuit at the city, district and state levels over the past six years, with a medals count totaling over a hundred, including sixty gold medals, under the guidance of his coach Dayanand Shetty. Parzan won […]
Parsee Gymkhana Crowned T10 Cricket Champs!
The Late Maneck Golvala T10 Cricket Tournament organized by the Vice President and Cricket Secretary of Parsee Gymkhana (PG), Khodadad Yazdegardi, from 14th to 16th April, 2017, at the PG grounds, commenced with Chief Guest for the opening ceremony, ex-Indian cricketer, Aavishkar Salvi, encouraging the teams to play hard and fair while competing. The eight […]
Nowroze Baug’s Tourneys
Nowroze Baug started the summer vacations by organizing ‘The All Parsis Throwball, Direct and Indirect Volleyball Tournaments’, under the joint auspices of Nowroze Baug Play Centre and NN Wadia Welfare League, at the Nowroze Baug grounds, from 6th to 15th April, 2017. With over 32 teams participating in Volleyball and Throwball events, the finals of […]
Box Cricket Weekend At Tata Housing Society
Tata Housing Sports Club organized their box cricket tournament, ‘TPL 3 BOX CRICKET 2017’, on 8th and 9th April, 2017 at their THSC grounds. The tournament consisted of 8 owners, each having a team of 7 players, with one lady player compulsory. Making it mandatory for every team to bowl, Team, ‘Pistalis’ owned by Rozan […]
Sports Roundup – 15th April 2017
CRICKET Mumbai Indians Beat Sunrisers Hyderabad: Excellent batting performances from Parthiv Patel (39), Nitish Rana (45) and Krunal Pandya (37) helped Mumbai Indians win by 4 wickets against rivals SRH. SRH notched up 158-8 in 20 overs. Skipper David Warner top scored with 49 while opening partner Shikhar Dhawan managed 48. Strike bowler for team MI, […]
Raw Muscle Power At Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championship
The fifth Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championship, affiliated with and conducted by The Greater Bombay Powerlifting Association, in collaboration with the Naryman Dubash Foundation, was held at the Dadar Parsee Colony Gymkhana Grounds on Saturday, 8th April, 2017. Sponsored by Zarine and Yazdi Daruvala Trust, The WZO Trust, Late Ervad Hormusji Antia and Dinamai Antia Trust, Shapoorji […]
Parsis Shine At NMA Championships
The 37th National Masters Athletics championships 2017, held at Meenatai Stadium, Nasik from 24th to 26th March, 2017, saw numerous Parsis making their mark as representatives of Maharashtra. Over 1300 athletes from 24 states across India participated in the Championship. Mehernosh Bamboat from Navroze Baug won gold medals in 100m and 200m run, while Fareez Vesunia […]
Sports Roundup – 1st April 2017
CRICKET India Win Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Dharamsala hosted India’s victory in the final Test Match by 8 wickets, as also the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2-1. Opting to bat first, Australia amassed 300 in 88.3 overs as Steven Smith scored 111. Debutant Kuldeep Yadav grabbed 4-68 in 23 overs. India scored 332 in 118.1 overs as KL Rahul, […]
Salsette Holds First Box Cricket Tourney
On 4th and 5th March, 2017, Team SPY (Salsette Parsi Youth) organized its first All Parsees Box Cricket Tournament at the Salsette Parsi Colony at its newly created ground, with the participation of 20 teams in this 6-a-side, 5-over-an-innings contest. Teams were divided into six groups where the top two teams per group moved to […]