Indian sports activities news wrap, June 1

Jun 01, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Indian sports activities news wrap, June 1
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Six Indian players are part of the 13th Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia camp being held at the New York University campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from Friday.

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Six Indian gamers are a part of the thirteenth Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia camp being held on the New York University campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from Friday.
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REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Six Indian gamers are a part of the thirteenth Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia camp being held on the New York University campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from Friday.
| Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES

Basketball

Six Indian gamers Aanaya Bhavsar, Komalpreet Kaur, Muskan Singh, Nadar Kaur Dhillon, Sahira Balyan and Mohammad Ishan are a part of the thirteenth Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia camp being held on the New York University campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from Friday.

The four-day camp, with a bunch of present and former NBA gamers and coaches offering steerage, will characteristic 40 boys and 40 women from 20 international locations within the area.

Saddiq Bey, Monte Morris, Taj Gibson, Rodney McGrruder will likely be a number of the present NBA coaches in motion.

The campers could have a wide range of actions together with motion effectivity drills, offensive and defensive ability stations, three-point contests, 5-on-5 video games aside from life abilities and management improvement classes.

There will likely be a bunch of awards for the perfect campers in numerous sections.

The mixed effort of NBA and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has to date helped 3,900 gamers from 134 international locations. 106 of these gamers have superior to the NBA or WNBA. There have been 66 BWB camps in 43 cities in 31 international locations all over the world to date, since 2001.

Capitalising on the camp, the organisers may even host 40 under-15 gamers concurrently, drafted from the Junior NBA scheme of Abu Dhabi league.

-Team Sportstar

CROSSMINTON

Indian Open Crossminton C’ship: Delhi to subject 13-member workforce

Delhi will subject a 13-member workforce in numerous age teams within the fifth Indian Open Crossminton championship to be staged on the Gaurs International School, Greater Noida, from June 2 to 4.

The event will characteristic under-10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 age teams aside from open and over-40 occasions.

Crossminton combines parts of badminton, squash and tennis, however is performed with out a web.

The workforce: Kashif Ali, Bilal Ahmad, Mohammad Rashid, Namit Agarwal, Divyansh Sharma, Dhawal Patel, Shubham Saxena, Aaban Jamal, M Udai, Nazneen Jamal, Sabiha Akhter, Afreen Jamal and Zoya Sikandar.

-Team Sportstar

GOLF

Diksha Dagar, who lastly discovered some kind after an extended hole, will likely be seeking to construct on final week’s outcome as she will get prepared for the Helsingborg Open at Allerum Golf Club right here on Friday.

This is the primary of two weeks of motion in Sweden.

Along with Diksha, there will likely be 4 different Indians — 2022 Hero Women’s Indian Open runner-up Amandeep Drall, Vani Kapoor, Seher Atwal and Tvesa Malik.

It has been a modest season for a lot of the Indian girls, although Aditi Ashok is main the LET’s Race to Costa Del Sol. Aditi has been dividing her time between LET and the LPGA.

Aditi, who has gained as soon as, completed second as soon as and third as soon as in 4 LET begins in 2023, is taking part in on the LPGA this week. This yr, she has additionally been within the Top-5 in LPGA twice.

Diksha, one of many solely two Indians to have gained on the LET, emerged winner in 2019 and since then has been looking for a second title although she was a part of the successful workforce on the Aramco Series London a few years again.

Diksha was tied sixth, after being second after 36 holes on the Belgian Ladies Open final week.

– PTI