New Delhi: Taking a serious view of skeet shooters' continuous poor showings, the National Rifle Association of India took a tough stance on Monday by not choosing a men's team to represent the country at the upcoming World Shotgun Shooting Championships to be held in Cyprus.
The NRAI announced a six-member men's team comprising only trap and double trap marksmen, besides a woman skeet shooter following the selection trials at the Karni Singh ranges at Tughlaqabad.
World Champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu, national champion Mansher Singh and Zorawar Singh would represent the trap team while Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Ronjan Singh Sondhi and Vikram Chopra constituted the double trap side for the September 1-10 championships.
NRAI General Secretary Baljeet Singh Sethi said the skeet shooters returned with very poor scores at the selection trials because of which the entire committee felt they need not go to Cyprus.
"Their average score was 114-115 (out of 125) with which they would be around somewhere 100 place in the World Championships. These are very very poor scores, if you ask me," said Sethi, who had already threatened to crack the whip after their below-par scores in the ISSF World Cups earlier
this year.
"The entire committee was of the view that they should not go and we could let them train at home only," he added.
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