The second All India T20 cricket tournament will be organised from March 8 to 17 at Srimanta Madhavrao Scindia District Sports Complex, Shivpuri. The tournament is organized by the Department of Sports and Youth Welfare, the winning team will be awarded one lakh rupees and the runner-up team will be awarded with an honor fund of 75 thousand rupees. In addition, "Man of the Match" and "Man of the Series" awards will also be awarded. The All India T20 Cricket Tournament will begin on International Women's Day. There will be a T20 Cricket Friendship match between the women players of Indore and Gwalior divisions at the inauguration. State Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Man. Prizes will be distributed to the winners, runners-up of the Friendship match held in the main hospitality of Yashodhara Raje Scindia. Divisional Sports and Youth Welfare Officer M.K. Dhaulpuri told that in the All India T20 cricket tournament teams from Delhi, Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Madhya Pradesh. Cricket Academy, Uttarakhand, Jaipur (Rajasthan), Nagpur (Maharashtra) Jammu and Kashmir, and GDCA Teams are participating. He said that the tournament is expected to be played by well-known players who have played in Ranji Trophy and IPL. Meanwhile, in the first National Para Shooting Championship held from March 1 to 5 in Faridabad (Haryana), Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy player Rubina Francis won the gold medal in the women's 10m Air Pistol event by best performance. Rubina earned the medal with 557 points. Uttar Pradesh player Sonia Sharma scored 550 and Delhi's Pooja Aggarwal secured 549 points to finish second and third respectively. Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia congratulated Rubina for the brilliant performance of promising Para player Rubina Francis of Shooting Academy, who won the gold medal for Madhya Pradesh in the National Para Shooting Championship. He said that the sportspersons daughters are enhancing the pride of Madhya Pradesh with their outstanding talent. Rubina Francis, who has been training in shooting sports since the year 2015 at Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy, represented the Indian team in eight international para shooting competitions. She earned a gold medal for the country by setting a junior world record in the 10-meter air pistol women's team event of the World Shooting Para Sports Championship held in Bangkok in 2017. In the year 2019, Rubina Francis gave the country a bronze medal in the World Shooting Para Sports World Cup held in Croatia. She has given nine gold and two silver medals to Madhya Pradesh in national para shooting competitions. Rubina Francis is learning the nuances of the shooting game from Shooting Academy chief instructor Jaspal Rana, instructors Oshin Tawani and Jayawardhan Singh.

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