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Thursday, January 21, 1999

Pablo, Manupal strike in ITC Maurya win

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE  
NEW DELHI, January 20: The season's most prestigious polo tournament -- Chivas Regal Polo Championship Northern India Open -- today witnessed another exciting match between ITC Maurya and Army. ITC Maurya beat the Army team 9-5 in the first match in Pool B. With this win, ITC Maurya team has earned two points.

ITC Maurya took an early lead of 3-0 in the first chukker. But the Army team was quick to catch up in the second chukker with two quick goals to make the score 3-2. However, by the end of this chukker, ITC Maurya had increased their lead to 5-2. Accurate penalties taken by Pinka Virka helped the Army team decrease the lead, but ITC Maurya dominated the game for most of the time.

As the players rode on to the field for the fifth chukker, the score was 8-4 in favour of ITC Maurya. Manupal Godara from ITC Maurya and Navjit Sand from Army scored a goal each in this chukker to end the game at the final score of 9-4 in favour of ITC Maurya.

Pablo Jauracha, Manupal Godera and Samir Suhag scored three goals each for ITC Maurya while Pirka Virk and Atul Gupta scored two goals each while Navjit Sandhu struck once for the Army.

ITC Maurya, a 16-goal handicap team, had players of the calibre of Manupal Godara, Samir Suhag, Naveen Jindal and Pale Jauretche. Army, the only team in this championship that does not have any foreign professional player, had players like J.S. Virk, Navjit Sandhu, Tarun Sirchi and Atul Gupta.

The teams in Chivas Regal Polo Championship have been divided into two pools. In pool A, the teams (Oberoi Blues and Kashmir Jodhpur) will play a series of two matches and the winner will play the finals. In pool B, the teams (Araval Polo, Army the ITC Maurya) will play round-robin league and the winner will play the finals.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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