Sports News

June 21, 2008

Cricket :
TOP STORY
Former Indian Test cricketer Mumbai based Samir Dighe was reappointed as coach of Tripura Ranji team. It was decided in an Executive Body meeting of Tripura Cricket Association (TCA) here on Friday night. Samir, who served as a Ranji coach of Tripura team in previous season. The contract will be finalize after desecration with Mr. Dighe very soon.

Fitness cum coaching camp for senior cricketers was started here on Friday last. Altogether 39 cricketers were took part in this camp. Selected cricketers are, Subal Chowdhury, Rajesh Banik, Biswajit Dey, Rajib Saha, Rajib Datta Jiban Paul, Sudipta Saha, Tapan Chakraborty, Sandip Banerjee, Koushik Chowdhury, Jayanta Debnath, Rashudeb Datta, Satyajit Sutradhar, Anup Das, Bappa Das, Rakesh Saha, Abhinandan Roy, Rana Datta, Gopesh Bhowmik, Subhrajit Roy, Subhranil Saha, Anupam Dey, Sanjib Saha, Debabrata Chowdhury, Tapan Deb, Rakesh Deb Barman, Kamal Debbarma, Satyajit Debnath, Jiban Debnath, Sukanta Reang, Abhijit Dey, Soumya Banik, Ramu Das, Amit Das, Nitish Chowdhury, Kishor Muhuri, Kamal Das, Abhijit Das, Shyamal Roy Barman.

Football :
The Annul General Meeting of Tripura Football Association will be held on June 22 next.

Youth Club beat Keshab Sangha by 3-2 goals in the domestic Third Division Football Tournament today.

Domestic Second Division League Football tournament will be starts from June 28 next. Nine teams will take part in this group league cum Super league tourney.

Athletics :

State Level Athletics Championship will be held on second week of September. It was decided in an Executive Body meeting of Tripura Athletic Association (TAA).
Calendar:
August 15-September 07 : District Athletics Championship (All four district)
September 06-09 : State Level Athletics Championship (Venue not final)
January second week, 2009 : State Level Cross Country Championship (Venue not final)
The Executive Body of TAA also decided to attend some Zonal and National tournament.
July 11-15 : Second North Eastern Athletics Tournament (Guwahati)
August 20-22 : National Inter Zone Junior Athletics Tournament ( Ranchi )
October 20-24 : National Inter District Athletics Tournament ( Nasik )
November 10-14 : National Junior Athletics Tournament (Mangalor) February 08, 2009 : National Cross Country Tournament (Bhilai)

Chess :

Secretary of Tripura Chess Association Pradip Kumar Chowdhury was selected Joint Secretary of All India Chess Federation.