October 19, 2026 03:32 pm (IST)
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Selection trial for Indian Men Bridge team underway
Kolkata, Apr 29 (IBNS) Top bridge players of the country, most of whom have represented the country in different international tournaments, are in action as they staked their claim for the top honours in the selection trial at Bengal Rowing Club from April 28 for choosing the Indian team for the World Bridge Championship for Bermuda Bowl scheduled to be held in India later this year.
Eight teams are participating in this five day trial being held for selecting the Indian men team.
Cream of Indian bridge are in the fray for the event. The particiaints included likes of Kamal Mukherjee, Pritish Kushari, R Venketaraman, Kiran Nadar, Manas Mukherjee, Sumit Mukherjee, B Prabhakar, S Sundarram and many others all of whom represented the country in international championships like Bermuda Bowl and Bridge Olympiad in the past.
Following is the list of teams with their players participating in the trial .
1.Formidables : Kiran Nadar ©, B Prabhakar, Rajeswar Tewari, Sunit Choksi, Keyzad Anklesaria, B. Satyanarayana
2. Bangur Cement : Debasish Ray©, NR Kirubakara Moorthy, S.K.Iyenger, Sukamal Das, Chandrashekhar Majumder, Manas Mukherjee
3. Indian Railway : Subir Majumder©, Rana Roy, Amarnath Banerjee, Sumit Mukherjee, Debabrata Majumder, Sandip Dutta
4. Hemant Jalan : Hemant Jalan, Ashish Malhotra, Sandeep Thakral, Kaustav. Bendre, Kaustav. Nandi, Samir Basak
5. Shree Cement : Pritish Kushari ©, Ravi Goenka, Vinay Desai, Bhabesh Saha, Arun Bapat, Ajay Bagaria
6. CV Rao: CV Rao, Pranab Bardhan©, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Shibnath De Sarkar, Avijit Chakrabarty, Satyabrata Mukherjee
7. Daya Dhaon : Daya Dhaon©, Dipak Santra, Snehasish Roy, Pinaki Prasad Khan, Kajal Das, Aniruddha Bhattacharya
8. Arun Jain : Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, S Sundarram, P Sridharan, Swarnendu Banerjee, JM Shah, Arun Jain (npc)
(Reporting by Manik Banerjee)
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