Chandigarh: Centre-half Sandeep Singh of Punjab and Sind Bank will lead the Indian squad in the five-nation Akhbar El Yom International Hockey Tournament to be held in Cairo from February 2 to 12.

The Team
Goalkeepers: Sandeep Kumar (AI), AP Girish (Mumbai); Defenders: Rajinder Singh (PSB), Cheops D'Costa (Mumbai), Anurag Rajuwansi (AI Academy); Halves: Radha Krishnan (Chennai), Sandeep Singh (PSB, captain), Navsher Singh (Rlys), Anwar Khan (Rlys); DEUTSCHE PRESSE AGENTEURForwards: Senthil (TN), Mukesh Kumar (CRPF), Harbhajan Singh (BSF, vice-captain), Ajinder Pal Singh (Rlys), Tanvir Jamal (CRPF), Brojen Singh (IA) and Bipin Fernandes (Mumbai); Standbys: Murali Krishnan, Dinesh Naik (TN), Baljit Singh Chandi (PSB), Deepak Sharma (BPCL) and Bimal Lakra (Centre of Excellence, Bangalore); Chief coach: Rajinder Singh. Coach: Satinder Singh.

Bhaskar cruises

NEW DELHI: Second seed B Bhaskar (Karnataka) crushedRupesh Shah (Gujarat) 576-292 to move into the pre-quarterfinals of the National billiards championship today. On a day of low-scoring matches, Bhaskar scored a single century break of 116 on his 3rd visit, while his other big breaks were of 58 and 88 only.

Veteran Arvind Savoor (Karnataka) scored a narrow 567-519 win over AB Ashok Kumar (TN) in a tense Group `H' match. Maharashtra's Arun Aggarwal outplayed Aditya Goneka (Rajasthan) 538-391.

Kerala in semis

PERINTHALMANNA: For Minnows Pondicherry, it was an unforgettable evening. A spectacular display of close-to-net onslaughts by their Keralite duo T Raja and J Ramesh, helped them outplay holders Karnataka to make their maiden entry into the boys semi-finals of the National Junior Volleyball Chammpionship today. They will meet hosts Kerala in the semifinals.

Kerala girls also reached the semi-finals, beating Tamil Nadu 25-21 25-22 25-17. In the first semifinals, Kerala will meet West Bengal while AP will take on UP in the other.

Seuli'streble

BANGALORE: Seuli Sadhukan of West Bengal had her sights set firmly on the National record. She got two of them in the 0.22 open sight standard rifle three position 50 metres event for women and junior women categories as the National shooting championships (national) concluded here today. Seuli finished with an individual haul of three gold and one silver.

Baba Saheb Dhal, Mangesh Maney and Ranjith Goud made it 1-2-3 for Maharashtra in sub-junior boys open sight air rifle 10 metres, while Prachi Dahisarkar and Vaishali Sathe were 1-2 in girls.

Maharashtra teams win

SURAT: Maharashtra boys and girls defeated Chandigarh and Haryana respectively in the 15th National Youth basketball championship today.

Favourites Kerala girls started their campaign by thrashing Delhi 33-9.

RESULTS

(Boys): Maharashtra 70 (Apoorv Sontakke 24, Daniel Kamble 13, Tejas Golhar 10) bt Chandigarh 42 (Harminder Singh 17, Aman Deep 11); (Girls): Maharashtra 71 (Anita Krishnan 11) bt Haryana5.

German riders

CHENNAI: Gudio Eultgem, the 1998 overall winner in the German 250cc championship and Marty Nutt, the '98 Irish champion have confirmed participation in the MRF Grand Prix races at Sriperambudur on Jan 31 and Feb 7.