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Walsh’s basketball clinic

CHENNAI: A two-day clinic by J.D. Walsh, U.S. basketball coach and Founder-Director of the JD Walsh Basketball School, commenced at JJ Indoor Stadium here on Wednesday.

Co-sponsored by the Tamil Nadu Basketball Association, the workshop has been arranged by the Consulate General of the United States of America for its Access Programme Students (English language micro scholarship programme sponsored by the U.S. State Department).

“It is good to be back in Chennai. This is my fifth visit to India. It’s been great experience whenever I have visited the country,” said Walsh, who taught the game’s basics to 30 boys and girls of Anjuman-e-Himayath-e-Islam MHSS, on Wednesday.

“It’s nice to develop the game in different cities of India,” he added.

Walsh, who will train the Home for Poor boys at the Madrasa-I-Azam Mosque Complex on Thursday, said he was keen to inculcate the values of team-work, perseverance, hard-work and communication through basketball.

The 35-year-old American will next visit Kolkata, his fifth and last stop in India.

Easy for TE-IPL CA

TE-IPL CA recorded a thumping seven-wicket win over FSCA in the Kedar’s Pearls Trophy under-11 cricket tournament here on Wednesday.

The scores:

FSCA 114 for four in 25 overs (S. Aravindha 28 n.o., P. Patigunda 33) lost to TE-IPL CA 118 for three in 21.1 overs (Varun Vamsi 58 n.o., S. Srinivasan 25 n.o.).

Kedar CA ‘C’ 56 in 25 overs (R. Viswajith 25, S. Shravan three for 12, Rahul Raj three for 10) lost to Abdul Jabbar CA 57 for no loss in 6.5 overs (S. Gopinath 27 n.o.).

Egmore TC in final

Egmore TC will meet MCC ‘A’ in the final of the Sanmar-TNTA veteran’s city Club tennis league to be held here.

The results:

Semifinals:

Egmore TC bt Madras Gymkhana Club 2-1 (Karthik Kailesh & K.G. Naraya Bhat bt Anand Mohan & A.G. Krishnan 7-6(4), 6-3; M.S. Venkatachalam & Jayakumar bt Kiran Raj & Murali Padmanabhan 6-3, 6-3; T.V. Subramaniam & Muthukumaraswamy lost to Verghese Kuruvilla & Murali w/o).

MCC ‘A’ bt Anna Nagar 3-0 (Jasper Cornelius & Mukund Subramanian bt C. Radhakrishnan & R. Rajendran 6-1, 6-2; Vivek Reddy & R.S. Rajasekharan bt K.K. Arvind & C. Vinod 6-2, 6-2; Hiten Joshi & N. Ramji bt Suresh Chabria & G.K. Prasad 6-1, 6-3).

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