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Dhruv, Sabeena up the ante

Bengaluru: Defending champions Dhruv Sarda and Sabeena Athica took a firm step towards asserting their dominance in the National tenpin bowling championships at the Blu O, here on Saturday.

With the battle lines being drawn going into the penultimate day of the championship, Delhi’s Dhruv was in red-hot form after an opening game of 215 before finishing his round for a total pinfall of 1773 points.

Dhruv’s fifth day performance took his tally to 6683 points at an average of 208.84 with Shabbir Dhankot of Tamil Nadu hot on his heels notching up 1595 points for a total of 6532 (204.22 avg), 148 pins behind the leader.

Following his opening game effort, Dhruv kept the momentum going with scores of 181, 258, 238, 235, 177, 227 and 242 to throw down the gauntlet to overnight leader Dhankot, who responded with 200, 192, 207, 187, 167, 238, 201 before rounding off with 203.

In women, Tamil Nadu’s Sabeena kept her pole position with a fluent show racking up a total of 1512 pins for an average of 189 and a total tally of 3835 points, a good 370 points ahead of Karnataka’s Pooja Hegde. Pooja, who started off poorly in Game 1 with 149 points as opposed to Sabeena’s 209-effort, gained in confidence before finishing with a total pinfall of 2163 points and overall tally of 3465 points.

On the final day, the top four bowlers in men’s and women’s category will play a knockout round (stepladder format) for the title. Results: Men: Dhruv Sarda (Del) 6683 (208.84); Shabir Dhankot (TN) 6535 (204.22); Akaash Ashok Kumar 6303 (196.97); Girish Gaba (Kar) 6176 (193); Dinesh Kumar (TN) 6099 (190.59); Vijay Punjabi (Kar) 6083 (190.09); Huned Khokhar (Kar) 6065 (189.53); Senthil Kumar (TN) 6049 (189.03); Liyakat Ali (Mah) 6049 (189.03); Parvez Ahmed (Kar) 6023 (188,22) Women: Sabeena Athica (TN) 3835 (191.75); Pooja Hegde (Kar) 3465 (173.25); Judy Alban (Kar) 3388 (169.40); Sugandha Sharma (Del) 3362 (168.10); Anukriti Bishnoi (Har) 3351 (167.55); Radhika Kathayat (Kar) 3198 (159.9); Anuradha Sarda (Del) 3101 (155.05); Kashmira Prashant (Mah) 2972 (148.6)

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