Abid Nabi

Trying hard to impress the national selectors, Srinagar's young paceman Abid Nabi believes the ICL would give him 'good exposure' to improve his prospects for a berth in the India team.

Pacer Shadab Nazar claimed four scalps as Services thrashed Jammu and Kashmir by seven wickets in a North Zone T20 match for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

The Jammu and Kashmir State Sports Council (JKSSC) on Friday appointed footballer Mehraj-ud-Din Wadoo, cricketer Abid Nabi and gymnast Mittali Dogra as junior coaches, in recognition of their contribution in popularising their respective sports.

Gambhir led from the front with unbeaten 75 as Delhi cruised to 9-wicket win over Haryana to record their fourth straight win in Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.

Abid Nabi, who lost his 18-year-old brother Fida in police firing last month, has no intention of taking the Rs 5 lakh compensation that P Chidambaram offered on Saturday to the next of kin of the 109 killed in Kashmir.

J&K CMr Omar Abdullah expressed confidence that Parvez and Shubham would bring laurels to state through good performance in the international arena.

Haryana eased past Jammu and Kashmir by seven wickets, while Himachal Pradesh got the better of Services by 26 runs in their Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (North Zone) Twenty20 matches on Thursday.

Jammu and Kashmir’s historic Ranji Trophy triumph is a story of collective belief, long battles and delayed redemption. From Paras Dogra’s leadership to Auqib Nabi’s rise, from Abid Nabi’s unfulfilled dream to Samiullah Beigh's sweet redemption, this title reflects years of quiet toil. In the end, it was not about who claimed credit first, but about a village that won together.

Punjab defeated Himachal Pradesh by five wickets at the Gandhi Ground, Amritsar and Haryana defeated Jammu & Kashmir by five wickets at Indira Stadium, Una to move in to the knockout stage of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Friday.

Three Kashmiri youngsters - Obaid Amin, Nasir Lone and Adnan Malik - were selected for coaching at the National Cricket Academy in Chennai and Pune.

Close on the heels of Parveez Rasool's selection in the Indian team for the Zimbabwe tour, another J&K Shubham Khajuria was selected in the India U-19 squad for the tour of Sri Lanka.

Former India all-rounder Suresh Raina has praised the inclusion of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the national squad for the upcoming T20I series against Afghanistan, despite some opinions suggesting it is a backward step. Raina believes that the experience of Rohit and Kohli, who are set to make 12000 runs in T20 cricket, will be crucial in the challenging wickets at the World Cup venues in the USA and West Indies.

J&K Police on Sunday foiled what could probably have caused a repeat of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack by nabbing a man, operating on the instructions of Pakistan’s Al-Badr-Tanzeem terror outfit with an improvised explosive device weighing about 6.5 kilograms. The Al-Badr operative Sohail Bashir Shah, 21 was arrested on the intervening night of February 13 and 14.

A major terrorist plan to set off an explosion at a crowded place in Jammu on the second anniversary of the Pulwama attack was scuttled with the recovery of a powerful IED from a nursing student who was arrested along with three others, a top police officer said on Sunday. Police said six pistols and 15 small IEDs were seized from Samba district in a separate operation.