Rajasthan win big at 5th edition of Wheelchair Rugby Nationals 2023
Pune, 10th September 2023: Rajasthan scored a 27-4 win over Tamil Nadu in a Group D match at the 5th Edition of National Wheelchair Rugby Championship 2023 which is being organised by The Indian Rugby Football Union (Rugby India), the sole governing body for the sport of Rugby in India, in association with the Wheelchair Rugby Federation of India and Mitsubishi Corporation and played at the Indoor Hall, Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex at Balewadi in Pune, Maharashtra
In a Pool A match Karnataka scored a 14-10 win over over Kerala , In Group B match Bihar outplayed Chandigarh 21-6, In another Pool A match Maharashtra scored a 20 -7 win over Kerala
Following are the results: League round:
Pool D: Rajasthan: 27(Sachin varma 8, Vimal Yogi 7, Ratan kumar 7 , Rameshwar Jajra 5) bt TamilNadu:4(Murugan Selladuri 2, Gopal Raghupati 1, Gopi Nesmani 1)
Pool A: Karnataka: 14(Manjunath 6, Srikant desai 4, Mahantesh Hangal 2, Nandish BN 2) bt Kerala: 10(Ebin J 5, Akhil R 3, Ratheesh Sadhik 2)
Pool B: Bihar: 21(Rajiv Kumar 11, Dheeraj Singh 2, Shailesh Kumar 6, Deepak Sharma 2) bt Chandigarh: 6(Vikram Singh 2, Sunil 3, Nisha Gupta 1);
Pool A: Maharashtra: 20(Somnath Jadhav 7, Agnel Francis 6, Surender Kasare 4, Anthony John 3) bt Kerala: 7(Ebin joseph 3, Akhil Reji 2, Ratheesh Sadhik 2)
