Rohan to lead Bengal

Rohan Gavaskar will lead Bengal in the Ranji Trophy this season. The selectors shortlisted the 24-member probables at a meeting on Sunday. The 14-member squad for Bengal?s first Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka from November 7 will be chosen on Wednesday.

THE PROBABLES

Rohan Gavaskar (captain), Devang Gandhi, Deep Dasgupta, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Nikhil Haldipur, Arindam Das, Amitava Chakraborty, Subhamoy Das, Sanjib Sanyal, Shib Shankar Paul, Ranadeb Bose, Sourasish Lahiri, Sabir Ali, Shib Sagar Singh, Anirban Chatterjee, Murtaza Lodhgar, Ritam Kundu, Manoj Tewari, Anustup Majumdar, Sourav Sarkar, Wriddhiman Saha, Rakesh Krishnan, Avik Chowdhury, Dilip Yadav.

Seeds lose

Third seed Mamta Prabhu (RSPB) and fourth seed N.R. Indu of PSPB lost in the first round of the national ranking (east zone) table tennis meet at the SAI on Sunday. Mamta was beaten by LIC employee Abanti Sinha. Madhulika Patkar defeated Indu. Other seeded players made it to the second round.

Merchants? Cup

J. Thomas beat ITC 2-0 in the second match of the day after losing the first one 0-2 against CESC A in the IBP Merchants? Cup tennis meet at the Calcutta South Club.

RESULTS

IBP bt CESC C 2-0 (Saurav Panja bt S.I. Haque 6-0, 6-1; Tejbir Singh Bhandari & Saurav Panja bt P.P. Majumder & Sandip Majumder 6-0, 6-0); CESC A bt J. Thomas 2-0 (Ashis Sen bt Kavi Seth 6-4, 6-4; Ashis Sen & B. Nag Chowdhury bt Joy Bhowmick & K. Ashok 6-1, 6-2); M.N. Dastur bt CESC C 2-0 (K.P. Mogrelia bt S.I. Haque 6-4, 6-2; Somnath RoyChowdhury & Nikhil Ranjan Chatterjee bt P.P. Majumder & Sandip Majumder 6-1, 6-0); CESC B bt ICLC 2-0 (Partha Chakraborty bt Gopal Krishna Mukerjea 6-2, 6-0; Partha Chakraborty & Deb Kumar Basu bt Gopal Krishna Mukerjea & Brenda Chowdhury 6-2, 6-1); J. Thomas bt ITC 2-0 (Kavi Seth bt Rahul Choudhuri 7-6 (7-1), 6-3; Joy Bhowmick & K. Ashok bt Buddhadev Ghosh & Ranjeet Banerjee 6-0, 6-1); CESC A bt Assam Co. Limited 2-0 (Ashis Sen bt Abhay Choudhury 6-3, 6-2; Ashis Sen & B. Nag Chowdhury bt Sunil Kumar & K.N. Nowrojee 6-1, 6-1).

TODAY IN SPORT

CRICKET: Vinoo Mankad Trophy U-19 zonal matches ? Bengal vs Assam (JU ground); Orissa vs Tripura (Kalyani); Bihar vs Sikkim (Rajdanga). Matches from 9.30 am.

SNOOKER: Open handicap meet at the YMCA Wellington Branch.

TABLE TENNIS: National ranking (east zone) meet at the SAI from 9 am.

TENNIS: IBP Merchants Cup meet at the Calcutta South Club courts from 6.30 pm.