Indian Sports Wrap, September 23: Dineh Karthik called India Captain at Hong Kong Super Sixes; Esha, Rana Top Shooting Trials

Cricket

Dinesh Karthik appointed Team India Captain for the Hong Kong Sixes 2025

Cricket Hong Kong, China, announced on Tuesday that veteran -Indian cricket player Dineshik Team India will lead in the upcoming prestigious Hong Kong Sixes 2025, planned from 7 to 9 to 9 to 9 to 9 2025.

«It is an absolute honor -managest team India in the Hong Kong Sixes, a tournament with such a rich history and global recognition,» said Karthik.

The Hong Kong Sixes Tournament contains teams of six players who each participate in six-over matches. The side of Team India in 2024 contained names, including Robin Uthappa, Manoj Tiwari, Shahbaz Nadeem and Stuart Binny.

«I look forward to leading a group of players who have such incredible records to their credit, and together we will try to bring the fans joy and play cricket that is both fearless and entertaining,» Karthik added.

During the 2025 edition, the Wicketkeeper-Batter will be accompanied by Ravichandran Ashwin, who confirmed his participation in the tournament earlier this month.

– Team Sportstar

MP broadens lead against Himachal in DR (Capt.) K. Thimmappiah Memorial Tournament

Madhya Pradesh promoted the misery of Himachal Pradesh and extended his lead to a gigantic 454 runs through stumps on the third day of the semi -final of DR (Capt.) K. Thimmappiah Memorial Tournament in the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Tuesday.

After Kumar Kartikeya’s six-wicket Trek (six to 54) helped Himachal to dismiss in the first innings before 204, MP 233 made one in the second essay, with hard Gawli unbeaten on 121 (208b, 10×4, 2×6).

In the last four collision, the XI of KSCA secretary organized a deserving comeback, which reduced Goa to 168 before he had admitted a lead of the first innings of 62. Abhishek Ahlawat scaled four Wickets (four to 63) and helped to limit Goa’s lead to 230 with a day of a day.

The scores (semi -finals): Goa 338 in 94.4 Overs & 168/8 in 73 Overs (ABHISHEK AHLAWAT 4/63) VS. KSCA Secretary XI 276 in 97.1 Overs (Lochan S. Gowda 88, Kruthik Krishna 95)

Madhya Pradesh 425 in 141.2 Overs & 233/1 in 66 overs (Harsh Gawli 121 Batting, Yash Dubey 76) vs. Himachal Pradesh 204 in 57.2 Overs (Siddhant Purohit 43, Akash Vashisht 49, Kumar Kartikeya 6/54).

– Team Sportstar

Shooting

Esha Singh, Samrat Rana Ace in 10m Air gun at National Sheet Selection Tests

World Cup gold medal winner Esha Singh defeated Sainyam with 1.7 points to Top 10m Air gun in the National Sheet Selection Tricks closed on Tuesday at the Madhya Pradesh Academy.

Anjali Shekhawat achieved third place for Sakshi Suryavanshi, Muskan, Pranjali Dhumal, qualifying topper Neeraj Kaur (580) and Noveditha Nair.

Samrat Rana won the air gun for men and defeated Ujjawal Malik with 0.4 points. Olympic medal winner Sarabjot Singh finished third.

Qualification topper Sharvan Kumar, who had shot 593, a short of the world record score of Jin Jongoh from Korea who has remained unbroken since 2009, finished eighth.

Subhash Sihag, Prakash Mitharval, Parmod and Ajendra Singh Chauhan were the others to reach the final.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

FOOTBALL

Amenity Public School, Farook Higer Secondary School Get for Subroto Cup U-17 Final Confrontation

The semi-final of the 64th Subroto Cup International Football Tournament Junior Boys (U-17) produced two moving encounters.

Amenity Public School (CBSE) from the ASC Center, Army Boys Company 1-0, while Farook Higher Secondary School (Kerala) got the RMSA School (Mizoram) better with the same margin.

Raziio’s decisive attack for provision in the 67th minute sealed his passage to the final.

The second semifinal, defined by tight defensive and fast counterattacks, the goal of Asmil in the 61st minute turned out to be enough to book the place of the Kerala-based side in the title collision.

The two finalists will now try each other in the Summit Clash on Thursday 25 September.

-Team Sportstar

Tennis

Riya beats Gao Xinyu; Ankita, Rutuja enters double semi -finals of 2025 Jingshan Tennis

Qualification Riya Bhatia hit the fifth seed GAO Xinyu on Tuesday with a score of 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 in the first round of the Jingshan Tennis in 2025 in Jingshan, China, on Tuesday.

Riya, who has already insured 22 WTA points, including seven for qualifying, plays Jia-Jing Lu of China in the pre-quarterfinals.

Karman Thandi, back to the professional circuit after a dismissal of injuries, went to Anastasia Kulikova from Finland in the first round in the second set of Tie-Break.

Karman progressed to the double quarter -finals in collaboration with Valeria Savinykh. Rutuja Bhosale and Ankita Raina also sailed into the quarterfinals of the doubles with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over a Korean-Chinese combination.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

$ 15,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament: Paavanii Paathak beats Pooja Ingale; Prathyusha rachapudi tries aditi rawwat

Paavanii Paathak stroked on Tuesday with intensity to expel Pooja Ingale 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the $ 15,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament in the tennis project, Baliawas, on Tuesday.

After playing such a sparkling game against Paola Lopez in the second round last week, this was a damper for Pooja who had the game to name the shots.

Paavanii, however, played with conviction and wore a better degree of focus to prevail in a baseline struggle.

Paavanii will meet the winner of the game between third seed Elena Jamshidi and Sofia Suslova.

In another competition, Prathyusha Rachapudi has been in the location at the location at the location in recent days to defeat the talented left -handed Aditi Rawwat in straight sets.

Prathyusha will then meet the winner of the match between Saumya Vig and Eva Desvignes.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Motorsport

Atiqa Mir narrowly misses on the stage finish in Slovakia

India’s racenensation Atiqa Mir ended up an impressive fourth after he was in the race for a famous victory for the most of the action-packed race in the Champions of the Future Academy (COFTA) Karting series here.

Atiqa showed an exemplary racing vessel to place itself in a winning position before she just missed a stage finish in round 4.1 from COFTA, a series that is sharply followed by the top brass of the F1 Academy. The 10-year-old, who won earlier this month in the DAMC series in Dubai, is the first Indian supported by Formula 1 and is part of the F1 Academy DYD program.

Atiqa finished only 0.32 seconds behind the racing winner in the mini category, as a result of the very competitive character of a schedule dominated by men in Slovakia Karting Center.

It was the first time that an Indian driver managed a top four in the championship history and was the highest finish by a woman in the current season. In the second race of the weekend, Atiqa ran in a comfortable third place until she was hit from behind by another competitor in round seven, forcing them from the track and as a result they lost several places to finish 11th.

Thinking about her weekend, the Akcel GP driver said: «I was so close to the victory and the stage, but at the same time happy with my progress and performance against this best European grid. It’s nice to see all the hard work and training pay.»

«It was an incredible ride of Atiqa against this quality of drivers. Her hard work is now starting to bear fruit. Together with her team of coaches, trainers and mechanic worked incredibly hard to achieve this result. Atiqa is probably the least experienced on the grid and is still able to give such performances with his daughter, said Axif van Nazir on, said Asif van Nzir, said Nzir’s Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir Mir, from Nazir van Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir, from Nazir Mir. Races of the world.

Atiqa had written history in this championship last year by becoming the first Indian to get a stage of the mini under 10 category on round 6 in Abu Dhabi

-Pti

BADMINTON

Meghana Reddy in the head of Korean Open

The Indian shuttler Meghana Reddy came into the main table of the Korea Open Super 500 Badminton Tournament after registering Straight game victories in the qualifications on Tuesday.

The 21-year-old defeated Pei Chu Chen from Chinese Taipei with 21-6, 21-18 in the first round, before he defeated the Japanese Ririna Hiramoto 21-19, 22-20 in the second to secure her place in the main drawing of the USD 475,000 event.

She goes against Tonrug Saeheng from Thailand in the first round.

All other Indians who participated in the qualifications could not continue to the main event.

In Heren Singles lost Shivansh 12-21, 21-17, 12-21 against Lu Wei Hsuan from Chinese Taipei.

The pair of Nitin Kumar and Harsh Rana was defeated 11-21, 17-21 by Bao x da gu la and Yu Hsang Chou of the Chinese Taipei, while Shivansh and Pranave Chandel 15-21, 6-21 lost to Hung Bing Fu and Fu Syuan Liu in the Men’s qualifiers.

-Pti

Published on September 23, 2025