KATHMANDU, SEPT 28: IM Vijayan has come with a magic wand to Kathmandu. He waved it for 15 minutes and left Pakistan mesmerised on Sunday. Today, Vijayan must have himself been amazed by what he can do on a football field. The tall, lanky striker stunned everyone with a scintillating 12th-second goal against Bhutan here at the SAF Games. That he went on to get his hat-trick in the 3-0 win was incidental. It was his second hat-trick in two Games here, and the roar is getting louder every time he comes close to the ball.Vijayan's second came in the 7th minute on a pass from Najib, who also set up the third.the Indian camp suffered yet another injury blow, with Bruno Coutinho reduced to the sidelines. Coutinho twisted his knee during the first practice session here and may be ruled out for the tournament. Nepal beat Pakistan 3-1 in a Group A tie later in the evening.RELAY TEAM DISQUALIFIED: Controversy struck India in the pool on a day they won five out of six gold medals on offer at the BIS Complex. It would have been a case of perfect six like the opening day, but the men's 4x200m freestyle team of Hakimuddin, Martin Joseph, Elvis Hazarika and Kailash Nath was disqualified. With Bangladesh also getting disqualified, Pakistan (Mohammed Masud, Mumtaz Ahmed, Kamal Masud, Rau Hussain) took the gold. The technical committee ruled that one of the Indians had jumped early.Zeba Wadia rewrote the SAF mark in women's 100m backstroke in a time of 01.19.09 seconds. She shattered Deepika Chanmugan's mark of 01:19.92 secs. Nisha Millet took her fourth gold of the meet with a new SAF record.Nisha swam the women's 200m freestyle in 02:12.37 secs smashing the record of 02:20.1secs set by Lankan Deepika Chanmugan. Shikha Tandon won silver. India have won 15 of the 17 gold medals up for grabs so far.OTHER RESULTSMEN: 100 free: TA Sujith (Ind) 54.6s, Elvis Hazarika (Ind); 200m medley: TA Sujith (Ind) 02:18.40; WOMEN: 100 butterfly: Richa Mishra 01:07.66;ANJALI's 500: India took three gold and a silver on the opening day of the shooting competition at the BIS ranges today. Anjali Vedpathak struck gold in women's 10m air rifle logging 500 points, while Suma Dixit took silver with 494 points. Deepali Deshpande missed bronze after tying with Lanka's Pushpamali Ramanayake on 388 points.OTHER RESULTSMen free pistol: 1 India (Samresh Jung 535, Satender Kumar 520, Subhash Rana 518 Total 1573), 2 Sri Lanka 1547.Women 10m air rifle team: 1 India, 2 Sri Lanka; LIFTERS TALLY TWO: The Indian iron-men again took both the gold medals at stake winning in upto-69kg and upto-77kg categories at the Tripureshwar Indoor Hall today.Results: Men (77 kg): Satish Rai 320 (142.5 + 177.5); (69 kg): Sabdeep Kumar (Ind) 282.5 (125+157.5).
