Sri Devi and Segar triumph

Sri Devi Kabaddi Club clinched the men's kabaddi title at the Selangor Tamil Bell Youth Club Council championships at Batu Caves today.

Sri Devi overcame a tentative start to romp past the Indian expatriate team of Pasum Ponn 26-7 in the final. They led 13-5 after the first half.

Earlier in the semi-finals, Sri Devi were easy winners over Kg Pandan Lions.

Pasum Ponn stunned Selayang in their semi-final match by adopting the right strategy of playing a more defensive game.

However, they were not able to repeat the same with the more experienced Sri Devi in the final. The win was a morale boost for Sri Devi, who lost in their last final appearance in Bukit Pelandok and their disqualification from the Kings of Kabaddi tournament.

Segar foiled a double for Sri Devi by winning the women's title. Segar beat Sri Devi, Sri Manjari and Brooklands in the single round robin competition.

Deputy Foreign Minister YB Kohilan Pillay gave away the prizes to the winners.

Click here for pictures from the tournament.

The Best for Bell

The Indian expatriate team of Pasum Ponn


The cream of the kabaddi teams in the country would be joined by several Indian expatriate teams at the the Selangor Tamil Youth Bell Club Council's kabaddi tournament this Sunday 29th November, 2009 in Batu Caves.

A total of 14 teams would participate in the men's competition and four in the womens competition at the tournament.

Sri Devi, Kg Pandan Lions, Selayang and the Indian expatriate team of Pasum Ponn A have been given the top billings in the men's competition.

The men's competition will see the winners taking home prize money of RM 800 while the second and third placed teams will win RM 500 and RM 300 respectively.

Of the four seeded teams, Selayang have been drawn in the toughest group, having in company Malaysia Nanban, Kg Pandan Tigers and Pasum Ponn B.

The top two teams in each group will qualify for the quarter-finals.

The women's competition would be played in a round robin format with the top placed team declared winners.

The kabaddi competition is the highlight of the Tamil Festival organised by the Selangor Tamil Youth Bell Club Council.

Apart from kabaddi, several other programs in line with Tamil culture is also being conducted.


MEN
GROUP A: Sri Devi, Sandi Veeran, Segar, PKP Saroja X
GROUP B: Kg Pandan Lions, Damansara, Brooklands
GROUP C: Selayang, Malaysia Nanban, Kg Pandan Tigers, Pasum Ponn B
GROUP D: Pasum Ponn A, Paavi Naynar, PKP Saroja S

WOMEN
GROUP X: Sri Manjari, Segar, Brooklands, Sri Devi

Click this line to view the full match schedule.

SELAMAT HARI RAYA HAJI

Wishing all our Muslim friends a Selamat Hari Raya Haji.

GALA NIGHT INDEED!

The KAKL Gala Kabaddi Night turned out to be just that in a night of award presentations and music and dance.

To add luster to the night was the Deputy Foreign Minister YB Senator Tuan Kohilan Pillay.

Guests were entertained to a night of music and dance before various awards were presented to officials and players.

Former national Technical Chairman and a founder member of the Kabaddi Association of Malaysia - V. Chandran - was presented with the Presidents Award for his contribution to the development of the game as a player and an an official.

KAKL deputy president L. Anbarasu was awarded the Merit Award for his contribution in the technical arena while former national captain and national women's coach R. Balamurugan was awarded the Merit Award for his contribution in the field of coaching.

K. Siva and L. Vishaleeny were picked as the Best Male and Female Players for the Year 2008.

Officials who passed the KAKL Level One Technical Officials Course were also given their credentials on the night.

Senator Kohilan in his speech, earlier commended the KAKL for their continuous efforts in developing the game by organising various kabaddi activities.

He also promised that he would ensure yearly grants from his Ministry to the KAKL for their activities.

He also congratulated the KAKL for their recent Runners up Award in the Sports Associations Category at the Federal Territory Sports For All Awards Ceremony.

More pictures from the Gala Night can be viewed here.

KAKL Honoured

The Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur was given a pleasant surprise when it was picked as the runner-up for Best Sports Association at the Majlis Anugerah Sukan Untuk Semua Wilayah Persekutuan last night.

The award was presented to KAKL president S.T. Arasu and Honorary Secretary R. Balamurugan during the function at the Equatorial Hotel in Kuala Lumpur by the Ketua Pegarah of the Ministry of Sports (Youth and Sports Division) Dato Haji Fathul Razi bin Haji Bakri.

The award comprised of a certificate, a trophy and RM 3,000 in cash award.



The FT Silat Association was picked as the best association while the KL Wushu Federation was adjudged as the third placed association.

KAKL president S.T. Arasu said that the award was a timely boost for the association.

"It is a vindication of the good work we have been doing to promote the sport," said Arasu.

He added that the recognition goes a long way in proving wrong the detractors of the association, who have been sabotaging the association.

"We are perhaps the only state association which has been completely ignored and victimised by the national body, but we have proven once again that good work is indeed recognised," he added.

KAKL, has perhaps the best kabaddi team in the country, having won the Sukma last year.

"We are confident of repeating the feat in Malacca next year," he said.

BELL CLUB TOURNAMENT

The Tamil Youth Bell Club Council Selangor is organising an Indian sports and cultural carnival on November 29th 2009 in Batu Caves.

They are also conducting a kabaddi tournament during the carnival. The format of the competition, either knockout or League cum knockout, would be decided on the closing date on November 22, 2009.

The competition is open to all teams and is for both men and women. Entry fees are RM 100 for men and RM 50 for women. Teams would be provided with lunch.

Prize money are RM 800, RM 500 and RM 300 for men and RM 300, RM 200, RM 100 for women.

Entry Forms are available for download here.

KAKL Dinner

Arrangements for the KAKL Gala Dinner is in full swing. Deputy Foreign Minister YB Senator Kohilan Pillay would be the guest of honour.

Also in attendance would be officials from the Majlis Sukan Wilayah Persekutuan and Jabatan Sukan Wilayah Persekutuan.

The dinner would feature performance from members as well as guest artistes. Awards for the Best players would also be presented during the dinner.

Dinner tables are available for RM 1000 (Platinum) and RM 500 (Gold)

The dinner documents are attached here and here.

Massacre in Vietnam

The Asian Indoor Games started a couple of days ago and many of us were wondering whether Malaysia was represented at the Games in Hanoi.

Well we were definitely represented at the Games by a team of six players. The Asian Indoor Games is a five a side tournament with a 80kg weight limit.

The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) does not have any selection criteria and the national association was allowed to send a team at their own cost.

While the Games itself is not a major priority for the OCM, the national association is expected to send their best team.

As KAKL is not privy to the inner workings of the Kabaddi Association of Malaysia (KAM), we are not sure of how the selection process was done. The KAM after all has never conducted a single open tournament this year to base the team selections on.

However, the KAM using their best judgements picked these six players to the tournament

1. Gabriel Johnson ,64 kg, 19 years old
2. K. Anatharaju ,78kg, 30 years old
3. V. Aritaran ,75kg, 19 years old
4. Jeevan Raman ,79kg, 25 years old
5. S. Thiagu ,58kg, 18 years old
6. Jegankumar Balamurugan ,62kg, 18 years old


The team was drawn in the same group with Bangladesh, Iran and Thailand.

The other group was made up of Sri Lanka, India, Korea and Vietnam

And how did the team do in Hanoi. This are the scores

Bangladesh beat Malaysia 75-50
Iran beat Malaysia 80-19
Thailand beat Malaysia 84-45

Iran and Bangladesh qualified for the semi-finals from the group while India and Sri Lanka qualified from the other group.

Based on these results, Malaysia would be placed dead last in the eight team competition. This is because Malaysia ended up with a -125 points disadvantage in their group while the other groups last placed team Vietnam has a -101 disdavantage.

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