Good start!

Hosts Assam beat Manipur by 17 points in the inaugural match of the boys' category of the first East Zone Junior Kho-Kho Championship at Sarusajai sports complex in Guwahati on Sunday. In other matches, Jharkhand beat Madhya Pradesh, Assam defeated Bihar and Bengal edged past Jharkhand. In the girls' category, Bengal defeated Sikkim, Jharkhand beat Madhya Pradesh, Assam got the better of Bihar, while Madhya Pradesh beat Nagaland. Text by our correspondent; picture by UB Photos