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Green Delta league from tomorrow

Sports Reporter
The Green Della First Division hockey league begins tomorrow at the Dhaka Hockey Stadium Defending champion* Aba-hani Krira Chakra will lake on newcomers Bangladesh Sporting In the opening encounter.
The IB-team league will be formally Inaugurated by Nasir Ahmed Chowdhury. Managing Director of Green Delia Insurance Company, the sponsors of the meet, at 2:45 pm tomorrow. .
The team* taking part In this year » league, organised by thf Bangladesh Hockey Federation. are Abahanl Krira Chakra. Mohammedan Sporting Club, Ajax Sports Club. Mariners Young Club. Sonali Bank, Sudharan Blma, Bachelor* Sporting Club. Bangladesh Railway, Azad Sporting Club. Dhaka Wanderer* Club. Bangladesh Ansar*. Bangladesh PoHex-. Wart Club, Usha Krira Chakra. Bangladesh Sporting and Vk torla Sporting Club. Of these. Bangladesh Sporlng will be making their First Division debut, having topped, the Second Division league in 1989-90. PWD, the winners of the 1990-91 Second Division league which ended only last month,' will have to wait until the next league to make (heir First Division appearance.
According lo the by law* of the competition, the first straight k-ague will be followed by a super league with the lop six teams. Every participating side can register a maximum of three foreign players, all of whom can lake the field on the same dty.
The matches will be of 70 minutes duration with two equal sessions of 35 minutes.
Except on the opening day, there will be two matches played everyday with the starts being Scheduled for 1:46 and 3:15 pm.
Among the sixteen teams in the fray, only five have won the championship honours since its Inception in 1973-74.
Reigning champions Aba-hani Krira Chakra have the moat distinguished track recurd In the cocnpcUUon, have annexed the title on as many a. eight cmcmsIohs Their arch-rivals Mohammedan Sporting Club have won four times while Ajax Sports Club became champions twice— in 1986^87 and 1987-88. Sudharan Blma. another side which has always mounted serious title challenges in the league, won the honours In 1983-84. On two other occasions they finished runners-up, behind Abahani. in 1982-83 and in 1984-85.
In the seventeen years of the First Division k-ague. competition was not held in 1976-77 and again In 1986-86.
Green Delta insurance Company has sponsored the league since 1987-88. this being the fourth year that the tournaments has carried their name. Tier company will continue Us sponsorship for Ma sources.
Addressing a press conference yesterday at the Green Deka Insurance head office in Dilkusha. Managing Director Nasir Ahmed Chowdhury said that since the company was facing some resource constraints it would switch its sponsorship — which they claimed coal them around Taka five lukhs annually — to lomc leas expensive programme. such as Junior table tennis leagues for boys and Kiris.