Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Punjab beat Jharkhand

Surat: Skipper Mandeep Singh top-scored with an unbeaten 81 as Punjab thrashed Jharkhand by 109 runs in their opening Super League match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament. Brief scores: Punjab: 199/4 (Mandeep Singh 81*; Abhishek Sharma 72; Shahbaz Nadeem 2/27); Jharkhand: 90 all out (Utkarsh Singh 24, Virat Singh 15; Mayank Markande 3/13)

Gwangju (South Korea)

Srikanth, Sameer out of Korea Masters

Shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma crashed out of the Korea Masters after suffering straight-game defeats in the second round. Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama defeated the sixth-seeded Srikanth 21-14 21-19. Verma lost to South Korea’s Kim Donghun 21-19 21-12.

Weybridge (England)

Ghosal in quarters of PSA world tour gold event

Saurav Ghosal moved into the quarterfinals of the Channel VAS Championship, a PSA world tour gold event, after beating Tom Richards of England 11-3 11-5 11-5. The seventh seed will face top seed Mohamed El Shorbagy of Egypt next. 

Kolkata

Bhuvi back for T20Is, ODIs vs WI, skipper Kohli also back

A fit-again Bhuvneshwar Kumar made a comeback to the Indian teams for the upcoming ODI and T20I series against the West Indies, while captain Virat Kohli returned after skipping the T20Is against Bangladesh. All-rounder Shivam Dube earned his maiden ODI call-up weeks after making his T20I debut against Bangladesh. 

T20I squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (WK), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

ODI squad: Kohli (capt), Rohit, Dhawan, Rahul, Iyer, Pandey, Pant (WK), Dube, Kedar Jadhav, Jadeja, Chahal, Yadav, Chahar, Shami, Bhuvneshwar

New Delhi

Jungsher joins Kynan at top as men’s trap finals beckon

Young Jungsher Virk joined Olympian Kynan Chenai at the top on the second day of qualification in the 63rd National Shooting Championship for shotgun events. Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Prithviraj Tondaiman and Zoravar Singh Sandhu were also in contention to make the finals. National Rifle Association of India president Raninder Singh has a two-day score of 93. 

Tarragona (Spain)

Chawrasia fights his way back to European Tour

Indian golfer SSP Chawrasia today won back his European Tour card with a sterling performance over 108 holes to finish fourth at the six-round Q-School event played at two courses here. Chawrasia, a four-time winner on the Tour, will be the third player alongside Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar on the European Tour in 2020.

Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)

Rashid Khan best Indian at tied-fifth

Rashid Khan carded a 4-under 67 to emerge as the best Indian after the first round of the $300,000 Sabah Masters today. Three other Indians — Aman Raj, Udayan Mane and Khalin Joshi — carded 3-under 68s to be inside the top-10. The lead was shared by four players, led by Thai Phachara Khongwatmai, at 4-under. agencies