Man Singh in shotgun team for World Cup

Angad Vir Singh Bajwa also in squad

Former Asian champion Man Singh will compete in the shotgun World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico, from March 19 to 26.

Young Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, who was in the race to make the final in the World Cup and had won the mixed skeet bronze with Halley Dunn of the US in a high quality field, also stays in the squad.

Amrinder Singh Cheema got back his assured berth for having vacated his spot in the Delhi World Cup, leaving the coach a chance to revive the hopes of Man Singh who had placed tenth in the World Championship in Granada in 2014.

Such a right for coach has been restricted only to skeet, and thus there will be no change in the men’s trap and double trap teams. Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Kynan Chenai and Birendeep Sandhu will make the team, while none of the women trap shooters have been found eligible to compete as they had not achieved the Minimum Travel Score (MTS) of 67.

Thus Manavjit Singh Sandhu continues to cool his heels. In double trap, Ankur Mittal, who won the silver in the World Cup recently, will compete along with the 14-year-old Shapath Bharadwaj. Skeeet shooter Rashmee Rathore will be the only woman in the squad of nine, as Saniya Sheikh had been rested.

The team: Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Kynan Chenai, Birendeep Sodhi (trap), Ankur Mittal, Shapath Bharadwaj (double trap), Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Amrinder Singh Cheema, Man Singh (skeet), Rashmee Rathore (women’s skeet).