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Khurasia, Kanitkar in century stand MUMBAI, Nov 18 — Left-handers Amay Khurasia and skipper Hrishikesh Kanitkar struck half centuries and also featured in a century stand to rescue Board President’s XI from a poor start on the opening day of their three-day match against the visiting West Indies "A" team here today. McGrath keen to renew rivalry BRISBANE, Nov 18 — Australia are eager to call England’s bluff over opener Michael Atherton in the first test starting at the fast bowler-friendly Gabba Ground here on Friday. |
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Khurasia, Kanitkar in century stand MUMBAI, Nov 18 (PTI) — Left-handers Amay Khurasia and skipper Hrishikesh Kanitkar struck half centuries and also featured in a century stand to rescue Board President’s XI from a poor start on the opening day of their three-day match against the visiting West Indies "A" team here today. Khurasia made a strokeful 65, off 83 balls and studded with 7 fours and a six while Kanitkar, the more sedate partner in their 112-run fourth-wicket stand, scored 68 with eight fours. The duo batted well to pull the team out from a difficult 61 for three soon after lunch. The home team, who won the toss, ended the day at 252 for seven wickets off 90 overs with all their recognised batsmen gone. Harbhajan Singh, surprisingly in a belligerent mood while making a quickfire 27 with five fours, and Rahul Sanghvi (9) were at the crease at stumps. Earlier, the West Indians
got rid off openers Jitender Singh (7) and Nikhil
Haldipur (29) after the duo had stood determinedly
against the pace attack of Reon King and left-arm Pedro
Collins to put on 31 runs for the first wicket. A post-lunch slump, when four batsmen (including Khurasia and Kanitkar) departed in the space of 21 overs, was followed by the unbroken eighth-wicket stand between Harbhajan and Sanghvi which took the total past the 250 mark. Khurasia and Kanitkar had held the visiting bowlers at bay for the major part of the post-lunch period, both were, however, not able to dominate the pace bowlers though they got on top of the spin attack with drives and pulls. Khurasia, the Madhya Pradesh player, was the more attractive of the two as he drove the spinners fluently to bring up his half century off only 56 balls. He also Smote McGarrell for a six over long on earlier. For the visitors, the early breakthroughs were provided by speedsters Collins (1 for 51) and Keith Semple (1 for 25) after a fiery opening spell by Reon King (0 for 22). Later leg spinner Rawl Lewis (3 for 70) and left-arm spinner Neil McGarrell (2 for 72) sliced through the middle-order in the post-tea session. Both King and Collins worked up good pace off the slow track to trouble all the batsmen. Collins was adept at bowling at the blockhole besides moving the ball both ways. Scoreboard |
McGrath keen to renew rivalry BRISBANE, Nov 18 (AFP) — Australia are eager to call England’s bluff over opener Michael Atherton in the first test starting at the fast bowler-friendly Gabba Ground here on Friday. The former England captain, who had an injection to his lower back yesterday, was included in the 12-man squad for the Ashes opener. But the gamble could backfire when he faces an Australian pace attack led by Glenn McGrath, who dismissed Atherton seven times in six Tests in England last year. Seven of the nine times McGrath has taken Atherton’s wicket have been to bouncers and Atherton’s bad back restricts foot movement, which leaves him a sitting duck. McGrath said he was looking forward to finding out exactly how restricted Atherton was. "I’ll probably loosen him up with a few short ones," McGrath said ominously. "If he’s got a bit of a dodgy back then he’s probably not getting under (short balls) as well as he would like to do," McGrath added after today’s nets. "I’ve quite a bit of success against Athers, last time he was captain as well as probably one of the linchpins in the team. If we can knock him over early it sets us up and puts us in a better position," he said. Such is England’s concern for its top order, seven specialist batsmen were named for the Ashes opener on a pitch with a healthy grass coverage likely to suit fast bowlers. And with Mark Butcher making only nine runs from five first class innings on tour, England had little option but to go with Atherton. John Crawley was also included in the squad despite being assaulted in Cairns last Sunday night. He suffered cuts and bruises to his face but was one of the seven batsmen named by England for the Test which will face battery of Australian fast bowlers. With no Shane Warne to bamboozle England’s batsman, Australia have gone for pace to take advantage of the Brisbane and Perth wickets in the first two tests. McGrath and the resurrected Jason Gillespie hope to emulate Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson who terrorised England 23 years ago. Gillespie, who got help from Lillee to remodel his action which had caused stress fractures to his lower back, looks like getting the nod over Michael Kasprowicz for the third fast bowler’s spot behind McGrath and Damien Fleming. Captain Mark Taylor, who will be playing his 100th Test on Friday, is known to favour Gillespie’s raw pace and aggression and Kasprowicz said after today’s nets he would not be surprised to be carrying the drinks on Friday. Gillespie claimed a career-best 7-37 at Headingley last year to set Australia up with a 2-1 series lead. England also chose a three-pronged pace attack headed by Darren Gough with support from Alan Mullally and seamer Angus Fraser while off-spinner Robert Croft got the nod over Peter such. Former England great Ian
Bothom warned Australia not to underestimate
Atherton’s fighting qualities. "He’s a
world class player and not many sides have got players of
that sort of quality," said Botham, who will
commentate on the series. |
India defeat Maldives, enter final COLOMBO, Nov 18 (UNI) — India moved into the final of the four-nation Bristol Freedom Cup Football Tournament defeating the Maldives 2-1 in their second league match here yesterday. India, playing with a second string team in the absence of senior players who are with the national camp for the Bangkok Asian Games, led 2-0 at half-time with Karinkar Raj and striker Abbas Ali Rizvi hitting the target in style in the 20th and 22nd minutes. India could have celebrated a tennis score win had their captain C.V. Pappachan and Mohammad Shefeeq not muffed sitters one after another. The Maldives, who drew 2-2 with Sri Lanka earlier, scored their consolation goal through Mohammed Nazim in the last minute. India had put up a spirited performance to demolish Malaysia 3-1 in the opening match on Sunday despite training 0-1 at half-time. Fighting back in the second half India levelled the score through Pappachan. Stopper back A.S. Firosh gave India the much-needed lead 30 minutes later through a dipping header and Rizvi completed the tally in the last minutes with a dazzling solo run. Noel Wilson of India was declared the ‘man of the match’. Malaysia, hosts Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India are taking part in the Asian Football Confederation Tournament organised to mark the golden jubilee celebrations of Sri Lanka’s independence. The tournament carries a
cash prize of $ 10,000 and a gold cup. |
Good start by Amritinder CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 — It was Amritinder Singh all the way. This 26-year-old local lad set the Chandigarh golf course greens afire when he shot a superb five under card of 67 to take a grand lead on the opening day of the Hero Golf Chandigarh Open here today. An Omega Asian PGA tour regular, Amritinder could not have asked for a better homecoming. His nearest rival was Shiv Prakash, current leader of the Order of Merit, who had a three under card of 69. Barring those under par cards, it was a bad day for the pros. Chiranjeev Milkha Singh, Calcutta's Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia, Sanjay Kumar and Bunty Randhawa finished joint third with a one-over card of 73. Veteran Rohtas Singh of Delhi and Lucknow's Jamman were in joint seventh spot at two-over 74. Back after a good week at the Thailand Open, where he played three consecutive three-under 69s during the last three rounds to finish ninth, Amritinder hit six birdies and conceded a single bogey when he had to chip out safely after his drive got plugged in a small hole in the right of the fairway on the fifth hole. This sole bogey came after he had scored a hat-trick of birdies in the second, third and fourth holes. Amritinder even came near to making the 16th hole putt into an eagle, but missed. Besides the hat-trick of birdies in the first nine, Amritinder shot birdies on the 10th, 16th and 18th holes. He could have made it seven birdies, but then he missed his chipputt from the left of the green on the 13th hole. This five-par hole proved unlucky for him. Amritinder later attributed his new-found form to the virtues of being patient. "I have been playing well this season, but one bad round always undid all the good work I did on the other three days. I used to get frustrated with bad shots. Now, I have become very patient. Even today, after making three successive birdies and following it up with a bad bogey on the fifth hole, I stayed calm. Also, I missed a certain birdie on the par-5 13th, but even that didn't get me excited and I was finally rewarded with birdies on the 16th and 18th," he said after the round. Shiv Parkash, winner of the Wills Southern Open and the McDowell's Centenary Cup this year, made a brilliant eagle on the ninth hole, when he hit a perfect second shot from 140 yards and the ball roller into the hold. After playing par on the first seven holes and making a bogey on the eight, where he three-putted from 20 yards, the eagle was just the right kind of motivation he was seeking. He then shot birdies on the 11th 13th and 14th, but missed a chip-putt from the edge of the green to finish with a bogey on the 18th hole. "I am quite happy with my performance as I did not have a practice round yesterday after arriving here late last night. I played cautiously today," he said later. The star attraction, Jeev Milkha Singh, had to take some medical attention after pulling a lower back muscle before he could start the round. But he refused to blame the injury for the poor score. "I was not at all focussed today. I made some silly mistakes, including missing some very small birdie putts," said Jeev who made four bogies and three birdies. Last season's ‘player of the Year’ and winner of Mercedes Benz Open here, Vijay Kumar failed to come to terms with the tricky greens and finished three-over 75. Also finishing three-over 75 was the current Indian Open champion Feroz Ali, who has just returned to India after participating in the prestigious two-million dollar Gene Sarenzen Invitational in Atlanta, USA. Chandigarh's Amandeep Johl, who won a Lexus luxury car for hitting a hole-in-one during the Thailand Open last week, shot 75 after arriving for the tournament just moments before his tee-off time. Manav Das lead the amateur's field with a four-over 76 card. He was followed by Delhi's Jaideep Singh who was with a six-over 78, while Saurav Bahuguna was one stroke behind Jaiveer at third. Ex-cricketer and world record holder for maximum number of wickets in Test cricket, Kapil Dev, was in 10th position at 12-over 84. Scores (after 18 holes):
Amritinder Singh-67, Shiv Parkash-69, Jeev Milkha Singh,
Sanjay Kumar, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia, Bunty
Randhawa-73, Rohtas Singh, Lumman-74, Feroz Ali, Vijay
Kumar, Toran Shahi, Devendra Patel, Amandeep Johl, Chini
Ali 73 Amateurs, Manav Das-76, Jaiveer Singh 78, Saurabh
Bahuguna 79, HS Kang, Vikramjeet Singh, Savraj S
Dhillon-80. |
Hat trick hero Hurst knighted LONDON, Nov 18 (AFP) — England’s 1966 World Cup final hattrick hero Geoff Hurst was knighted by the queen yesterday. Sir Geoff, 56, said the ceremony at Buckingham Palace had made a greater impact on him than scoring three goals in England’s 4-2 win over West Germany at Wimbley. "Now that I am older I probably can’t cope with pressure so much any more," he said. "I didn’t expect to be nervous, but when the day came I was, whereas 32 years ago, playing at Wimbley came like second nature to me." Sir Geoff, who was accompanied by his wife, Judith, and two of his daughters, Claire, 33, and Charlotte, 21, is the only footballer to score a hattrick in a World Cup final. "Receiving the
knighthood is a wonderful thing to happen and it was
almost like full circle today because it was the Queen
who presented the England team with the trophy at Wimbley
in 1966," he said. |
Punjab boys, girls reign supreme CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 — Punjab boys romped home with the basketball gold while Punjab girls annexed the handball gold on the penultimate day of the XLIVth National School Games being played here today. The other two gold were shared by Gujarat in handball (boys) and Madhya Pradesh in basketball (girls). In hockey for boys, Chandigarh boys will meet Uttar Pradesh in the final whereas Haryana will take on Chandigarh in the tomorrow's girls final. The basketball final between Punjab and Delhi was a thrilling affair with both the sides playing on even terms. Prabhjot Singh (captain) of Punjab, the spirited lad frightened the Delhi boys with agility on the ground and there were very few attempts when he failed and his overall points were 25, the highest. Dharminder Singh too contributed 20 for the winning side. Harsimran Singh of the Punjab was quite swift at every move and on many occasions he covered. The entire ground individually and basketed from outside the 'D'. He contributed a valuable 10 points. At half time both the sides were level at 29-25. In the last 10 minutes excitement mounted as coaches of both the teams counselled their players. At that time the score was 57-49 in favour of Punjab but Ajmal of Delhi quickly netted three precious points. But the Punjab's captain Prabhjot gave momentum to his side by scoring another three points. Finally Punjab won by 64-56. In the girls section Madhya Pradesh were in command from the beginning and in the first half gained an early lead of 35-16, but in the second half Maharashtra girls improved their game and managed to net a few points. At this time Poonam Singh of MP, the 15-year-old Bhilai Steel Plant school student, gave her side the maximum points (42) and MP won the title by 66-34. The other girls who scored points include Seema (8), Alankita Sethi (8) and Anju Lakra (6). Anamika Jain of the winning side was able to defend many points with superb defence. Rajesh Patel the coach said all the five girls who played today were from Bhilai Steel Plant school. Captain Poonam Singh was also the first standby in the Asiad team this year. Punjab girls logged the handball title defeating to Chandigarh by 17-4 while Gujarat boys got the gold by getting the better of Chandigarh by 21-13. In hockey, Chandigarh boys drubbed Punjab 6-1 with Inderjeet Singh scoring three goals, and Uttar Pradesh subdued Madhya Pradesh by 2-1. In the girls section Chandigarh trounced Himachal Pradesh 3-1 with Mamta, Jyoti and Eram scoring one goal each for the winners while Meena scored the lone goal for HP. In the other semifinal, holders Haryana defeated Punjab girls by 2-1. Results: Basketball (boys) final: Punjab b Delhi 64-56. Third place - MP b Chandigarh 60-56. Girls: MP b Mahrashtra 66-34. Third place - Karnataka b Kerala 46-37. Handball - Boys: Gujarat b Chandigarh, 21-13, Girls - Punjab b Chandigarh, 17-4. Third place - Assam b Haryana 17-10. Hockey - semifinal: Boys -
Chandigarh b Punjab 6-1. UP b MP 2-1. Girls - Chandigarh
b HP 3-1. Haryana b Punjab 2-1. |
Nonita forges ahead NEW DELHI, Nov 18 — Bringing into play her vast experience, nine-time national champion Nonita Lal Qureshi jumped to the leaderboard on the second day of the 31st Ladies Northern India Open Amateur Golf Championship at the Delhi Golf Club (DGC) course here today. Nonita displayed her steadiness in her strokes and fired a level par score of 72. This gave her an aggregate of 147. Chandigarh’s Parnita Garewal, who was a stroke ahead of Nonita yesterday, could fire five over 77 (aggregate 151) and slipped to four strokes behind the leader. Shruti Khanna also shot five over 77 to have an aggregate of 153, two strokes behind Parnita and six behind the leader. Nonita was out in 36 and also in 36. She had three birdies as also three bogeys. She began badly bogeying on the 3rd and the 4th. But she soon recovered and get birdies on the next two to even out the score. In the back nine, she had a birdie on the 13th but ran into trouble on the next. This nullified her advantage. But she carded the best score of level par 72 to get into the driver’s seat. With one bogey on the sixth, Parnita finished first nine one over 37. But in back nine, she dropped a stroke on the 13th. Then she lost her luck and got a triple bogey on the 15th. Despite this setback, she got a par score on the next three to get four over 40 and an aggregate of five over 77. Her two days total was 151. Both Nonita Qureshi and Parnita were not exactly happy with their overall display. They were both heard saying that they were capable of playing much better round than they did. Shruti, who had a stint of training in the USA, shot 77 to get into the third spot with an aggregate of 153. Scores: 147 Nonita Qureshi 75, 72: 151 Parnita Garewal 74,77: 153 Shruti Khanna 76,77: 154 Anjali Chopra 79,75 and Urvashi Sodhi 75,79: 155 Lalita Balasubramaniam 76,79: 159 Ayesha Kapoor 77, 82 and Vandana Agarwal 81, 78.
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UT under-19 football league from
today CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 — The under-19 Chandigarh Junior Football League for the Deepak Kampania Memorial Trophy will kick off at the Sector 17 football stadium here tomorrow. The league being sponsored Sanjay Public School under the aegis of the Chandigarh Football Association will feature eight teams drawn from local schools. The teams have been divided into two groups. According to Mr A.S. Bains, president of the Chandigarh Football Association, the league is being organised in the memory of Deepak Kampania, a promising footballer who met a tragic end in a road accident recently. The CFA has been organising knockout tournaments in under-12, under-14, under-16, under-19 and under-21 categories. According to Mr Bains, it is now proposed to hold regular league tournaments in all these categories featuring eight teams after the knockout rounds. Meanwhile a coaching camp to prepare the Chandigarh team for the under-21 nationals is in progress at the sector 23 Government Model Senior Secondary School grounds under the guidance of former football star Harjinder Singh, who is a coach in the Chandigarh Sports Department. The nationals are scheduled to begin in Varanasi on December 6. According to Mr Rakesh
Bakshi, secretary of the CFA, the officials being deputed
for the under-19 league beginning tomorrow will not
charge any fee as a mark of respect to Deepak Kampania in
whose memory the trophy has been instituted. |
WR, SER in final LUDHIANA, Nov 18 — Western Railway, Mumbai, scraped past North Eastern Railway, Gorakhpur, 1-0 and South Eastern Railway, Calcutta, prevailed over Punjab State Electricity Board, Patiala, 2-0 to set up a title clash on the penultimate day of the third All-India Mohinder Partap Singh Grewal Memorial Women's Hockey Tournament at the Punjab Agricultural University grounds here today. The first semifinal between Western Railway, Mumbai, and NER, Gorakhpur, began on a fast note with the ball moving from one end to another in which WR, Mumbai, had a marginal edge and earned three penalty corners in quick succession but each time full-back S. Toppo missed the target. The WR inner trio consisting of F. Bilung, S. Chanu and A. Keketta exhibited better understanding among themselves and repeatedly raided the NER territory but deep defenders of Gorakhpur gave much improved display today and gave no chance to the trio to click. WR women wasted another
penalty corner in the 24th minute when S. Toppo's shot
went inches wide. After the first barren half, WR played
with added vigour and their efforts bore fruit in the
52nd minute when outside left B.M. Geeta scored the
all-important goal. Trailing by one goal, NER eves went
all out to score the equaliser but their efforts were
thwarted by an agile WR goalkeeper Seema Lakra. |
Maharashtra beat Gujarat by innings PUNE, Nov 18 (PTI) — Hosts Maharashtra posted an innings and 115-run victory over Gujarat in the West-Zone Ranji Trophy league encounter that concluded on the penultimate day of the four-day match at the Poona Club ground here today. Maharashtra declared their first innings on their overnight score of 391 for 9 in 124.2 overs. The hosts took a first innings lead of 270 runs. Gujarat collapsed for 155 runs in 66 overs in their second innings. In the first innings, the visitors were bundled out for a paltry 121 in 48.4 overs. Off-spinner Satyen Lande captured four for 35 and wrecked the batting of the visitors. Seamers Milind Kulkarni (3/26) and Iqbal Siddique (2/37) were the other wicket takers for Maharashtra. Skipper Mukund Parmar (49), Nilesh Modi (35), Kirat Damani (27) and Hiren Patel (10) were the main run getters for Gujarat, while their other batsmen fell cheaply against the bowling attack of the hosts bowlers. Maharashtra collected eight points from outright win from their first match while Gujarat is yet to open the account. Brief scores: |
Prasad fashions Karnataka win BANGALORE, Nov 18 (PTI) — Medium pacer Venkatesh Prasad ripped through the Hyderabad batting order, scalping five wickets for a match haul of 9/92 as Karnataka scored an innings and three runs victory in their Ranji Trophy league match here today. Replying to Karnataka’s first innings score of 458, Hyderabad, overnight 81 for three after being forced to follow on, were bundled out for 206 in their second innings, shortly after lunch on the final day of the four-day match. Prasad, who played a major part in Hyderabad’s dismissal for 249 in their first innings, was well supported by Dodda Ganesh (2/52) and Sunil Joshi (3/60) as the visitors could do little in the face of the high-class Karnataka attack. N.P. Singh waged a lone battle top scoring with 42 (43b 7x4, 1x6) and brought Hyderbad close to wiping out their first innings deficit, in the process adding 57 valuable runs for the ninth wicket with skipper Venkatapathy Raju (17 n.o). First innings hero Vishnuvardhan failed to click as he was sent back to pavilion for a poor 12 by Ganesh. N.P. Singh, dropped by Arun Kumar when on 27, was finally dismissed 11 minutes after lunch by Prasad. Brief scores: |
Innings defeat for Himachal ROHTAK, Nov 18 — Himachal Pradesh suffered the ignominy of an innings defeat at the hands of Haryana in their Cooch Behar encounter which ended at Vishwakarma Stadium here today. The match concluded in the pre-lunch session itself as the spin duo of Ishan Ganda and Deepak Sain dismissed Himachal's remaining three batsmen for an addition of 25 runs only. Ishan accounted for the dismissal of overnight not out batsman Deepak Sharma (11) to finish with 4 for 47. Left arm spinner Deepak Sain who had spelled disaster for the visitors in the first innings by claiming 5 for 22 dismissed Ayub Khan and Ajay Partap Singh in his 22nd over to fold Himachal's second innings at 124. In the process Deepak returned with an impressive bowling analysis of 21.4-12-20-5. He took the tally of wickets from this match itself to double figures. The youngster was playing only his second match this season. For Himachal, defeat looked inevitable from the commencement of the third day's play today. After conceding a lead of 126 runs, Himachal batsmen never recovered. When play began today Himachal needed another 28 runs to avoid an innings defeat with 3 wickets in hand. Haryana gained eight points from this match. They now have 22 points from four matches. This season they have taken three points each against Punjab and Delhi and eight points each against Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir. Brief scores: Himachal 102
and 124, Haryana: 228. |
PU boxing title for GC
Hoshiarpur CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 — Government College, Hoshiarpur have won the Panjab University Boxing Championship for the session 1998-99 with 27 points, while DAV College, Chandigarh, DAV College, Hoshiarpur and GGD SD College, Chandigarh secured second third and fourth positions with 16 and 15.5 points each respectively. The following are the results. Light fly weight: Anand Kumar (DAV, Chd) 1, Pawan Kumar (GC, Hsp) 2. Fly weight: Love Kumar (GC Hsp) 1, Vishal Chopra (Arya, Ludhiana) 2. Bantam weight: Rustam (GC, Hsp) 1, Sanjeev (DAV, Hsp) 2. Feather weight: Rajesh Kumar 1, Deepak Sharma (GNN, Doraha) 2. Light weight: Surinder (GGD SD, Chd) 1, Varinder Kumar (GC, Hsp) 2. Light Welter weight: Rajat
(Arya, Ldh) 1, Sanjeev Sharma (DAV, Hsp) 2 Welter weight:
(AS College, Khanna) 1. Heavy weight: Baljit Singh
(GC, Hsp) 1, Sunil Kumar (DAV, Chd) 2. Super Heavy
weight: Aman Awasthi (DAV, Chd) 1, Jodhvir Singh
(PU, Campus) 2. |
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Kangra, Shimla boys in final KANGRA, Nov 18 (FOC) — DAV College, Kangra today entered the final of the HP University Inter-College Basketball Championship defeating Post Graduate College, Bilaspur, 75-42 in the semifinals here today. Earlier, Post Graduate College, Bilaspur, defeated SVSD College, Bhatoli in the quarterfinal by 61-38 and entered the semifinal. DAV College defeated Government College, Sarkaghat, 92-50, Post Graduate College, Dharamsala defeated Post Graduate College, Mandi, 47-26 and Post Graduate Centre, Shimla defeated Government College, Shimla by 68-49. Post Graduate Centre, Shimla, also entered the finals this evening defeating Post Graduate College, Dharamsala, 47-38 in a well contested semifinal. Harikrishan Kali Punjab skipper PATIALA, Nov 18 (FOSR) — Harikrishan Kali of Patiala will skipper the Punjab (under-16) team which is slated to play in the All India North Zone Vijay Merchant Cricket Tournament at different venues from November 20, according to Mr M.P. Pandove, hony secretary, PCA. The other members of the team are: Binwant Singh, Amit Chopra, Bikramjit Singh Sodhi, Rajan Singh, Chandan Madan, Gaurav Mehta, Aman Sood, Bikramjit Singh, Rajeev Jolly, Varun Mishra, Harish Puri, Rajesh Sharma, Ranjit Singh, Varun Gupta and Amit Behl. Former Ranji Trophy cricketer Sunil Saggi of PSEB will be the manager of the squad. Punjab play their first match against Jammu and Kashmir at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium here from November 20 to 22. Kamal, Rajinder help DAVC win trophy CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 (TNS) — In a one-sided final, DAV College, Sector 10, routed Panjab University Campus by 105 runs in the National Panasonic Inter-College Cricket tournament for the Kapil Dev Trophy at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here today. Batting first, the DAV College team was propped up by useful contributions from Kamal Walia (53), Vikram Minhas (47)and Yuvraj Singh (39). In the later stages of the innings Vinod Thakur scored a hurricane 33 off 27 balls, including one six and five fours. DAV College scored 240 runs in the allotted 40 overs. Chasing this total Panjab University Campus were wrecked by Rajinder Chaudhry (3 for 29) and Vinod Thakur (2 for 30) who combined well to reduce the campus team to a meagre 32 off 10 overs. The team could not survive the full quota of overs and was bundled out for a paltry 135 runs. T D Singh top-scored for the university team with 44. The following were declared the best players in the tournament — Amit Dehra (all rounder); Prabhjot Singh (batsman) and Sandeep Arora (bowler). Test star Kapil Dev was the chief guest and gave away the prizes. Brief scores : DAV College: 240 for 9 in 40 overs (Kamal Walia 53, Vikram Minhas 47, Yuvraj Singh 39, Vinod Thakur 33, Parvesh Monty 2 for 40, Nitin Gupta 2 for 51). P.U. Campus : 135 all out in 37.4 overs (TD Singh 44, Jasminder Singh 20, Vikram Bhardwaj 18, Rajinder Chaudhary 3 for 29, Vinod Thakur 2 for 30. Kamal, Rajinder help DAVC win trophy CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 (TNS) — In a one-sided final, DAV College, Sector 10, routed Panjab University Campus by 105 runs in the National Panasonic Inter-College Cricket tournament for the Kapil Dev Trophy at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here today. Batting first, the DAV College team was propped up by useful contributions from Kamal Walia (53), Vikram Minhas (47)and Yuvraj Singh (39). In the later stages of the innings Vinod Thakur scored a hurricane 33 off 27 balls, including one six and five fours. DAV College scored 240 runs in the allotted 40 overs. Chasing this total Panjab University Campus were wrecked by Rajinder Chaudhry (3 for 29) and Vinod Thakur (2 for 30) who combined well to reduce the campus team to a meagre 32 off 10 overs. The team could not survive the full quota of overs and was bundled out for a paltry 135 runs. T D Singh top-scored for the university team with 44. The following were declared the best players in the tournament — Amit Dehra (all rounder); Prabhjot Singh (batsman) and Sandeep Arora (bowler). Test star Kapil Dev was the chief guest and gave away the prizes. Brief scores : DAV College: 240 for 9 in 40 overs (Kamal Walia 53, Vikram Minhas 47, Yuvraj Singh 39, Vinod Thakur 33, Parvesh Monty 2 for 40, Nitin Gupta 2 for 51). P.U. Campus : 135 all out in 37.4 overs (TD Singh 44, Jasminder Singh 20, Vikram Bhardwaj 18, Rajinder Chaudhary 3 for 29, Vinod Thakur 2 for 30. GMSSS-35 upset DAVSS-8 in final CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 (TNS) — In the UT Inter-School Cricket Championship final GMSSS, Sector 35-D, upset DAVSS, Sector 8 champions for the last three decades here yesterday. Rajat Bhandari and Vikramjeet Sodhi both batted and bowled well and contributed to Sector 35 school's victory. Scores: GMSSS Sector 35D: 141 for 8 in 25 overs. Rajat Bhandari 26, Dharamvir 20, Vikramjeet Sodhi 22, Anurag Chopra 19, Amit Verma 18. Porus 2-25, Ashish 2-27. DAV Sr Sec School, Sector 8: 128 for 9 in 25 overs (Avinash 29, Lakshaya 19, Vikramjit Sodhi 5-22, Rajat Bhandari 2-25, Arvind 2 for 18). Emphatic win for DAV-8 CHANDIGARH, Nov 18 (TNS) — DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, scored an emphatic 139-run victory over Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27, in the UT Inter-School Cricket Tournament (under 16) here today. DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8-C, piled up 206 runs losing two wickets in 25 overs. Ruban Verma was the highest scorer who made 92 runs, Shikhir Saini made 38 and Rahul Arora remained not out on 55 runs. For Bhavan Vidyalaya Shashank took 2 wickets and gave away 39 runs. In reply, Bhavan Vidyalaya were bundled out for 67 runs in 18.2 overs. Kanav Chopra made 13 runs. For DAV Shikhir Saini took 3 wickets for 1 run, Vipul Sharma 3 wickets for 9 runs and Shekher took 2 wickets for 16 runs. PSEB spikers win tournament PATIALA, Nov 18 (FOSR) — PSEB spikers gave a brilliant display to win the All India Ramesh Chander Memorial Volleyball Tournament which concluded at Kathua (J and K) yesterday, according to information received here today. In the four team round Robin league format, PSEB downed BSF (Kashmir Frontier) 15-11, 15-13, 15-10 in the first match. In the second match PSEB thrashed BSF (Jammu Frontier) 15-11. 15-13, 15-8 while in its last league match PSEB beat Amritsar Volleyball Club 15-8, 15-11, 15-12. Gurjant Singh of PSEB was declared the best spiker of the tournament. Cricket tourney PATIALA, Nov 18 (FOSR) — The "Khalsa 300 years cricket tournament", to be organised by the Beghumpura Sports Club, will be held at the Punjabi University cricket ground from November 20 to 26. Top cricket teams will participate, according to Mr M.P. Singh, organising secretary of the tournament. GMC cagers win PATIALA, Nov 18 (FOSR) — Government Mohindra College clinched the men's Punjabi University inter-college title after their cagers beat Rajendra College, Patiala, and SBSC, Kotkapura, in the four-team semifinal league which concluded here yesterday. Chandigarh taekwondo CHANDIGARH (BOSR): The
seventh (Chandigarh State Taekwondo (ITF) Championship
will be held at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8,
here on November 22, a press note of the Taekwondo
Association of Chandigarh has said. |
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Nov 18 — It was Amritinder
Singh all the way. This 26-year-old local lad set
the Chandigarh golf course greens afire when he
shot a superb five under card of 67 to take a
grand lead on the opening day of the Hero Golf
Chandigarh Open here today.
