CHANDIGARH, JULY 27 :The Punjab Cricket Association today named its team for the Moin-Ud-Dollah Gold Cup Invitation Tournament commencing on August 1 at Hyderabad. They will play their first match against Kerala on August 1 and 2.
According to PCA secretary MP Pandove Manpreet Gony, who is playing in Australia, would be directed to join the team after his return.
The team: Ravi Inder, Sunny Sohal, Ravneet Ricky, Pankaj Dharmani, Udai Kaul, Mayank Siddanah, Taruwar Kohli, Gurkirat Walia, Bharat Loomba, Harmeet Bansal, Deepak Bansal, Varun Khanna, Ankur Jund, Sarabjit Ladda and Birinder Singh.. Sandeep Singh (trainer). Dr. T.Pavan Kumar (physio).
Arun Bedi (coach).
UNDER-19 TOURNAMENT: The Punjab State Inter District Under 19 years tournament will begin on August 1 at different district head quarters. The three-day final will be played from August 13 to 15.
The teams have been divided into two pools. Pool A will comprise Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar and Zone B. Patiala, Mohali, Jalandhar and Zone A are in pool B.
Fixtures: Pool A: Aug 1 and 2: Chandigarh vs Zone B at Chandigarh. Ludhiana vs Amritsar at Ludhiana. Aug 4 and 5: Chandigarh vs Amritsar at Chandigarh. Ludhiana vs Zone B at Chandigarh.
Aug 7 and 8: Chandigarh vs Ludhiana at Chandigarh. Amritsar vs Zone B at Amritsar.
Pool B: Aug 1 and 2: Patiala vs Zone A at Patiala. Mohali vs Jalandhar at Mohali.
Aug 4 and 5: Mohali vs Zone A at Mohali. Patiala vs Jalandhar at Patiala.. Aug 7 and 8: Jalandhar vs Zone A at Jalandhar. Patiala vs Mohali at Mohali.
Semi-finals: August 10 and 11 and final from August 13 to 15.
CCA TO HONOUR PLAYERS: The Chandigarh Cricket Association, affiliated to the Punjab Cricket Association will honor its Under-16 team along with coaches on July 31. The association will also honor upcoming cricketers of Chandigarh and women cricketers of Chandigarh who represented Punjab in the National Tournament of the BCCI. National selector Bhupinder Singh Senior will be the chief guest.
CFH CRICKET TRIALS: The Cricket Federation of Haryana will now conduct selection trials on July 30 at 3 p.m. at the Sri Sri Academy in DC Model School in Sector 7at Panchkula, according to CFH president PK Ruby. The trials were scheduled for today but were postponed due to some unavoidable circumstances.
Players born on on after January 1, 1993 are eligible to take part in selection trials. Interested players must bring with them their original date of birth certificates.
The selected probables will attend a coaching camp in preparation for Haryana’s participation in the Inter-State National Under-15 Cricket Tournament to be conducted by Cricket Federation of Tamil Nadu in Chennai from August 13 to 15. The Haryana team will be finalized during the camp.