TWP to sponsor Mumbai team
MUMBAI: A writing products company will sponsor the Mumbai Ranji cricket team to the tune of Rs 155.57 lakh for the next three years. the sponsorship deal from Today's Writing Products Limited (TWP Ltd), from April 1, 1999 to April 2002, was worth Rs 47 lakh for the first year. The amount will be increased by 10 per cent for the second and third years with MCA taking 80 per cent of it. All the probables for each season would be provided clothing including cricket whites, training shorts, T-shirts and track suits with the logo of the sponsors, Shetty said.India golfers remain in fifth position
CALCUTTA: India retained their fifth position (699) after the third round of the 21st Asia Pacific Junior Golf Championship at the Ngwe Thaw Dar golf course in Myanmar. Despite a good performance by both the juniors, the sub-juniors returned with indifferent scores. Thailand remained at the top (646) while Myanmar, Chinese Taipei and Korea were jointly in the secondposition with identical scores of 677.
In the boys A category, India's Shiv Kapur was tied in the fourth position while Sandeep Syal was eighth. In the boys' B category, India's Ranjit Singh dropped to 17th position. Vishur Mathur was in the 23rd place while Chakola was in the 25th position.
Jeev all set to make another cut
MUMBAI: Jeev Milkha Singh continued his impressive run in this season's European PGA Tour when he looked all set to make his fourth successive cut with an opening round of three-under 68 in the Euro Novotel Perrier French Open, which began Thursday.
At the par-71, 6,909 yard course, Jeev played a bogey-free back nine while birdying three holes to be tied at the 15th spot after the first round. Meanwhile, Jeev also became the first Indian to break into the top 100 of the World Money List. He has now earned $ 206,251 to be in 89th place in the money list released in the first week of May.
TT probables for SAF Games, Worlds
NEW DELHI: Chetan Baboor and PoulomiGhatak head the list of men's and women's probables for SAF Games and World Table Tennis Championship announced by Table Tennis Federation of India. Probables: Men: Chetan Baboor, S Raman, Arup Basak, Arjun Dutta, Subhajit Saha, Bhushan Thakur, Deepak Thukral, R Rajesh, Somydeep Rao, Subham Chowdhury. Women: Poulomi Ghatak, N R Indu, Mouma Das, Anindita Chakraborty, M S Mythili, Montu Ghosh, Arul Selvi, B Bhuvaneswari, Susmita Roy, Mallika Parekh.
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