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It's
a unique barter conceived by Khalid Ansari, the dynamic president of the
Squash Rackets Association of Maharashtra. Under the system promoted by
Petra Foundation, Kuala Lumpur and Mid-Day, Malaysia's young cricketers
will train at the Elf-Vengsarkar Cricket Academy and play matches in
Mumbai. In return, the city's junior squash players will be hosted the
Persutan Squash Malaysia to train under their qualified coaches. The
15-member Malaysian cricket team came in December and won a few
matches.HRH Tunku Imran of Malaysia (President Emeritus of World Squash
Federation) came with the team and got VIP treatment in the city. He is no
doubt a visionary dreaming of Malaysia being part of cricket's mainstream
in 20 years’ time. Their success in squash has been more
phenomenal
having their juniors having conquered the world. The city's junior squash
players can look forward to training under reputed coach K.H.Ong at the
Lakeside Club in Subang Jaya May-June 2000. |
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HRH Tunku Imran
(President Emeritus of World
Squash Federation) with prize winners
of the
AirIndia - SRAM Junior Tournament (3rd leg) at CCI |
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Shaikh's
Camp a hit |
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Abdul Sheikh with the Professionals
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Coaches
have come and gone in the Mecca of Indian squash, Mumbai, but no one has
left such a lasting impression than Abdul Shaikh, the badminton-cum-squash
coach from Vancouver. His methods were easily understood by one and all.
The city's professionals were high on confidence after a 10-day extensive
programme under Shaikh and were awarded the Level I certificate of
coaching. Shaikh had flown down specially for the purpose. The programme,
organised jointly by the Squash Racquets Association of Maharashtra (SRAM)
and the Indian Squash Professional (ISP) and sponsored by Air-India, was
conducted at the Otters Club and the Cricket Club of India. The
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the Level I programme include:
Chandrakant Pawar (The Leela), Santosh More (Otters Club), Anant More (CCI),
Gopi Mohite (Bombay Gymkhana), Prakash Yelve (Willingdon Sports Club),
Rajesh Sonawane (Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana), Riaz Mohammed (Juhu
Centaur), Vijay N Sonawane (Andheri Recreation Centre), Yakub Shaikh (The
Club), Sunil Verma (Jindals/Vashind), Ramesh More (BombayGymkhana),
Balakrishna Ligam and Uttam Patkar (Willingdon Sports Club), Vijay
Sonawane (Otters Club), Sandeep Parab (Catholic Gymkhana), Ijaz Mohammed
(The Club). Prominent among the senior and junior players who attended the
programme were Niraj Shirgaokar, Aditya Manjrekar, Supreet Singh, Karan
Bhatti, Karan Pal Sethi, Priyanka Yadav and Rahil Shah. |
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ISP
Website gets thicker |
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are proud to announce the launching of an even more comprehensive
website than our initial one. It's called the www.ispsquash.com. The
inauguration was done by Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic).
Mr S.P.S.Yadav. The site which contains 347 main pages and 199
photographs, is a virtual encyclopedia of Indian squash will be
updated every week. Among the features of the site are information
on world federations, a census of squash courts in India, addresses
and telephone numbers of over a thousand squash players in India,
upcoming world tournaments, national winners, tips for beginners,
squash drills, draws and seeding of tournaments and world squash
news. A labour of love of ISP's founder and visionary Mahendra
Agarwal, one hopes squash fans will not only visit the site but
interact and make it a lively one. So what if India lags behind
in the world ladder of squash at least it not lagging behind in the
information side of the sport with the ISP site throwing the
gauntlet down for others to pick up and further enrich the sport in
the new millennium. |
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Mr.
S.P.S.YADAV (Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Mumbai)
inaugurating the INDIAN SQUASH PROFESSIONAL Website. His daughter
Priyanka Yadav, ISP Directors Mahendra Agarwal & Chandrakant
Pawar look on |
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