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Chadha clinch national junior billiards crown title
Kolkata: Ishpreet Chadha today clinched his second title junior crown at the National Billiards & Snooker Championship at the Bengal Rowing Club and he got his first sub-junior snooker title yesterday.
In the finals of the junior billiards, after the round robin encounters of the top four cueists which were carried over from Tuesday, Chadha, S.Shrikrishna and B Jagadesh each won two of their three matches, triggering a three-way tie.
In the score aggregate Chadha came out on top and relegated Tamil Nadu’s Shrikrishna , Jagadesh Karanataka’s Nikhil Pise to second, third and fourth place respectively.
In the quarter-finals, Ishpreet beat Arjun Mehta of Karnataka (415-204) with breaks at 42, 67 and 53, while Nikhil Pise went past Avinash Sharma of Delhi (429-246). Jagadesh with a break of 61 beat Hritik Jain of Madhya Pradesh (358-284) and Shrikrishna beat M.L. Laxman of Karnataka (476-359).
Sub-Junior Snooker – Boys (Best of five frames) Round two results:
Arpit Shah – MH bt Sharad Chawla – HR (34-64, 59-16, 70-29, 45-52, 45-68); Arafat Mondal – WB bt Param Brahma Subodi – OR (78-17, 52-24, 61-24); Rakshit Chaudhary – UKD bt Rishabh Panchamia – MH (59-28, 56-32, 72-35); Kreishh Gurbaxani – MH bt Krishna P. Naik – OR (49-30, 52-14,79-10); Imran Gomes – WB bt Abhinav Dhiman – HR (35-47, 67-39, 46-33, 54-40); Saran Raj – TN bt Bhavin Sanaiya – PB (76-34, 72-44, 34-48); Anubhav Shukla – UP bt Taaha Khan – MH (49-27, 68-11, 39-63, 58-39); Rohan Sahni – MH bt Shobhit Sethi – DL (49-50, 52-60, 69(42)-20, 58-32, 69-62; Md. Shoaib – WB bt Siddhant Bastia – DL (48-24, 76-23, 57-14); Sundar Raj – TN bt K. Karthik – TLGN (64-21, 83-00, 23-56, 68-16); Sachin Parihar – MP bt Irshaad Ali – WB (57-02, 62-17, 64-35); Karthik Dhingra – DL bt Akil Rajani – GJ (55-20, 70-34, 55-24); Arjun Mehta – KTK bt Shobhit Chandra – UP (53-19, 20-62, 65-32, 27-58, 67-37); Kaavya Bharath – TN bt Ayush Namchu – WB (45-17, 71-31, 40-25); Jagjot Singh – JKD bt Sahil Arora – OR (54-48, 29-84, 49-54, 63-17, 63-34); Raghav Agarwal – GJ bt M.A. Sumair – TLGN (57-45, 63-55, 72-37); Harmehr Mago – MH bt Rishabh Gulati – DL (64-15, 62-52, 71-43); Avinash Kumar – DL bt Rajwardhan Joshi – MH (50-36, 49-42, 69-20); Rishabh Jain – DL, Suraj Rathi – MH, Vidit Jain – AP, Mehardeep Singh – PB and Arnab Ghoshal – WB got walk-overs to proceed to the third round.
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.