FOOTBALL Premier League Results: On 9th December, West Ham United beat Chelsea 1-0, Burnley outplayed Watford 1-0 while Crystal Palace and AFC Bournemouth were involved in a 2-2 draw. Huddersfield Town outplayed Brighton and Hove Albion 2-0 while Swansea City won 1-0 V/s West Bromwich Albion. Tottenham Hotspur on the other hand thrashed Stoke City…
CRICKET India Wins Series 1-0, As 3rd Test Match Ends In Draw A dominant overall performance saw the hosts yet again clinch a 1-0 series victory against the Lankan lions at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi as the third game ended in a draw. Splendid batting performances from skipper Virat Kohli (243), Murali Vijay (155)…
Mumbai based Mehernosh Bamboat was recently felicitated as the ‘Best Outstanding Athlete’ by Central PF Commissioner, VP Joy, in Bhopal on 30th November, 2017. Honoured for representing India at the International Athletics Championship, held in China in September this year, Mehernosh was also recognised for securing a Gold in 100m and 400m run at the…
CRICKET India Wins Second Test Against Sri Lanka: Stellar batting performances from Virat Kohli (213), Cheteshwar Pujara (143), Murali Vijay (128) and Rohit Sharma (102*) with great bowling from Ashwin and Jadeja, helped India win the second test by 239 runs against Sri Lanka at Nagpur. Batting first, Sri Lanka notched up 205 in 79.1….
At the recently concluded Parsee Gymkhana (Marine Lines) All-Parsee TT tournament, on 25 and 26 November, 2017, Parsee Gymkhana (PG) won three of the five titles. Percy Mehta prevented a clean sweep by winning the Veterans Singles. Zubin Taraporewalla and Frenaz Chipia (just back from the Belgium Open) reached the Open Singles finals, and combed to win the…
Vadodara’s 13-year-old, Tinaz Mistry bagged a ‘Bronze’ medal at the National School Games Chess Championship held at Warangal, Telangana, on 14th November, 2017. Representing Gujarat in the Under-14 category with her team at the 63rd School Games Federation of India (SGFI) competition, Tinaz also bagged a ‘Silver’ medal for the board prize for her individual…
The Nowroze Baug Play Centre organized the 19th All Parsis Floodlit Rink Football Tournament and 6th All Parsis Penalty Shootout Tournament from 11th to 18th November, 2017. Numerous teams battled it out across various categories to clinch the trophy and the prize money worth Rs. 30,000 sponsored by Viraf Mehta, in memory of his grandfather,…
Parsee Gymkhana (PG) conducted its second ‘All Zoroastrian Men and Women Arm Wrestling Competition’, registered and recorded under the Maharashtra Arm Wrestling Association Nagpur, at the gymkhana grounds in Mumbai on 18th November, 2017. Organized by Rustom Jasoomoney, Minoo Khan, Khodadad Yazdegardi and Vivek Chaphekar, and sponsored by Veldon Coats, Wibbs Bakery, Zoroastrian Cooperative Bank,…
. FOOTBALL Peru Qualify For FIFA World Cup: Goals from Jefferson Farfan and Christain Ramos helped Peru defeat New Zealand 2-0, thus sealing berth in the World Cup after 35 years. Peru was in complete control of the game from the very beginning as Jefferson smashed the ball into the net from the edge of…
CRICKET India Wins 3rd T20 Against New Zealand And Clinch Series: Splendid bowling performances from Jasprit Bumrah (2-9), Kuldeep Yadav (1-10), and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1-18) along with Yuzvendra Chahal who gave away just 8 runs in his 2 overs spell helped India win a thriller by 6 runs in a match that was reduced to…
The FOZAWAC All Parsees Snooker and Billiards competition 2017 was held from 2nd to 5th November, 2017, at the Dadar Parsee Gymkhana. With over 40 entries in billiards, 56 entries in snooker and 5 entries in the team Championship, the billiards format included a game of 200 in quarters and semi-finals with the finals being…