Penang look to Logan, Keevan

21/10/2002

THE Penang Razak Cup team lost one set of brothers, but the other set is
equally good to take them into the final.
Penang Razak Cup assistant team manager S. Sanjilatheeban said yesterday
that since Kuala Lumpur have managed to draw the cream of Malaysian
hockey, Penang will be playing for the silver medal.
"We have secured the services of K. Logan Raj and his brother Keevan,
but M. Jiwa Mohan and his brother Jiva will be playing for other states
eventhough they grew up and made a name by playing with us," said
Sanjilatheeban.
Jiwa Mohan was seen attending trials with Kuala Lumpur, who received
such a tremendous response from the national players that they have
decided only to name their squad today.
Among the notable names, who just saw action in the Busan Asian Games,
seen at the Kuala Lumpur trials were Chua Boon Huat, AMin Rahim,
goalkeepers Roslan Jamaluddin and S. Kumar, Azlan Misron, Madzli Ikmar and
Norazlan Rahim.
Former players Nor Zaiful Zaini and M. Kaliswaran also attended KL
trials and so did Tajol Rosli and Nor Azlan Bakar who took a year's break
from national duty to concentrate on studies.
The Razak Cup begins on Wednesday, which means there will be a mad
scramble among states, except for Penang, to secure some of the Kuala
Lumpur discards as the managers meeting to finalise the team list is
tomorrow.
"Jiva Mohan has been named in the national juniors so we lost out on
another of our home grown talent. But we have named a balanced side which
is capable of lifting the Razak Cup silver," said Sanjilatheeban.
National striker Rodhanizam Radzi is the other notable name secured by
Penang: "We do not have stars in our team but all of them have seen action
at the international and the junior league level.
"The Penang team has enough match experience to go the distance
eventhough we have not been training as a team for long as most of the
players either had study or national duty commitments," said
Sanjilatheeban.
Penang will be coached by Harjit Singh while the manager is Prakash
Singh.
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