SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, 8: IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad cricket, football and hockey squads have been announced for the All India-inter IIT championship to be held at IIT Roorkee from December 14.
DN Acharya sports officer of IIT ISM said that this year events of the inter-IIT sports championship are being organised at two places: IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi.
Moreover, some outdoor events would be held at Roorkee and some events at Delhi. Teams of IIT ISM would leave for both places on December 12.
He said strong contingents have been made into cricket, football and hockey after the proper selection of the players on basis of their outstanding performance in the trial.
In the Inter- IIT national championship teams of IIT Mumbai and IIT Delhi, IIT Madras are considered strong but this time IIT ISM Dhanbad has also made special preparation to challenge them.
Cricket team- Sawan Kumar, Eswar Teja, Yesh Murarka, Durga Prasad Sahoo, Subhajit Sarkar, Ravi Aditha Hitesh Kumawat, Manohar Munipala, Rahul, Manoranjan Kumar Mahato, Harsh Raj, Sonu Maurya, Pulluri Vamshi Rao, Sarvendra Vikram Singh, Asharam Meena, Swami Amit Gangadhar.
Football- Prem Kumar Basumatary, Aashay Harshit, Prabhat Kumar Sahu, Pronobesh Roy, Piyush P Taunk, Ayush Diwakar, Sooraj Sukesan, Sudhanshu Sai Painkra, Arpith Kumar O P, Victor Kandir, Gyamar Punung, Lamnganba Phuritshabam, Joseph Francis, Muhammed Roshan N, Nikhil Pagadia, Satyam Tiwari.
Hockey- Vishnu Jat, Madhu Sudan Yadav, Saurav Ranjan Sahay, Kapil Yadav, Ashutosh Singh, Shubham, Ayush Kumar Singh, Aseem Pratap Singh, Aman Krishna, Amrish Kumar, Bhuneshwar J Sandeep naik, Ratnendra Kumar, Rajpuri, Balkishan Singh, Ritik Sharma and Shikhar Pandey.
Volleyball Men’s– Kunwar Gaurav Singh, Dipti Ranjan Khatua, Gaurav Pratap Singh, Adhendu, Mayoor Vora Paliwal, Ashutosh Kumar, Praveen Mali, Aman Rawat, Deepak Patel, Krishan Meel, Nitin and Nikhil Kumar.
Volleyball Women’s- Khushboo, Vankudoth Yamuna, Anuradha Kumari, Keshar Lahare, Suman Saini,Nenavath Shilpa, Palarpa Gowthami, Kilari Venkata Sai Harshita, Neha Obilisetty, Dolma Lozes, Anwesha Saikia, Gurra harika Reddy.
The IIT sports official said Rishabh Pandey ( cricket), Kaushik Bhowmik ( football), Rajesh Choudhary ( Hockey) Bikram K Singh (volleyball) had been made coaches of the teams.