SPORT

91-run win for Godrej Club
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, March 6 — Godrej Cricket Club beat Defence Cricket Club by 91 runs, while Industrial Cricket Club beat the Life Insurance Corporation of India by nine wickets yesterday in the first Jaspal Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament being played here.

Brief scores: GCC — 178 runs for eight wickets in 25 overs (Vinod Binta 40 n.o., Amit Bhardwaj 39, Gurinder Saini 34, Harit Sharma 30, Kulwinder 3 for 21); Defence CC — 87 all out (Gurpreet Pintoo 27, Dinesh 21, Vinod Binta 3 for 16, Madan Lal 2 for 10, Vijay Pal 2 for 17).

Second match: LIC XI — 124 runs all out (Prabhjot 24, Lalit 23, Umesh 19, Surinder Latha 3 for 17, Satnam Singh 2 for 22, Vikram Khajuria 2 for 26); ICC XI — 125 runs for one wicket (Satnam Singh 60, Jagjit Saini 37 n.o.). The final between the winners will be played on March 12.

Videocon XI win: Videocon XI reached the semi-finals in the MM Lal Jain Memorial Cricket Tournament after defeating Excel XI by 46 runs here yesterday. In another match, Mcdowell XI beat Tari XI by three wickets to enter the quarterfinals.

Brief scores: Videocon XI — 213 all out in 24.2 overs (Ritesh Manchanda 71, Vaneet Khosla 67, Kamalpreet 23, Davinder 3 for 34, Ajay Bakshi 3 for 30); Excel XI — 167 runs all out in 22 overs (Vinod 42, Vikram Verma 34, Gursewak 19, Vaneet Khosla 2 for 18, R.P. Singh 2 for 24, Surinder Singh 2 for 18).

Second match: Tari XI — 167 runs for seven in 25 overs (Sandeep 50, Sanjay Mishra 52, Baljeet Rana 20, Mandeep Sodhi 4 for 26, Harpreet Singh 2 for 20); Mcdowell XI — 169 runs for seven in 23.5 overs (Bharat 31, Sameer Bhalla 33, Sanjay Goel 24 n.o., Bhupinder Singh 22, Sumit 18, Baljeet 2 for 27, Madan Lal 2 for 15).

Cricket tourney: Reliance Cricket Club defeated Eleven Star Cricket Club by 57 runs in a match played here today at the CRPF Grounds yesterday. Reliance CC made 178 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 25 overs, whereas, Eleven Star Club were all out for 121 runs. Virat Singh was the most successful player for the winners who scored 54 runs and took three wickets for 27 runs.

Cycle polo trials: The Chandigarh Cycle Polo Association will hold trials to select the UT sub-junior and senior teams on March 12 at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, at 4 p.m., according to Mr Jagbir Singh, President of the association.

The selected teams will attend a week-long coaching camp prior to their participation in the 16th National Sub-Junior and 22nd Senior Cycle Polo Championships to be held at Dundlod in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan from March 22 to 29. The manager and coaches of the teams will be announced later.

Mala Rawat: Mala Rawat of Chandigarh won a gold medal at the recently concluded 45th National School Games at Patiala in rhythmic gymnastics with ball and a bronze medal in the hoop event. Another city girl, Nanki Singh, won a bronze medal in the ball event.

Gagan helps MES win
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, March 6 — A superb knock of 23 runs in 17 deliveries by Gagan Grewal helped MES XI, Patiala, beat Karnal Coaching Centre by a wicket to win the First Sardar Karaj Memorial Tournament at Sewan, near Patiala, yesterday.

Karnal Coaching Centre won the toss and elected to bat first. The second wicket partnership between Netrapal and Prabhdyal added 80 runs. At one stage, the Karnal team was 80 runs for the loss of two wickets. However, the remaining batsmen succumbed to the onslaught of the MES bowlers and were all out for 120 runs.

MES began their innings on a sound note and scored 85 runs in 15 overs by losing two wickets only. Later, after the departure of Ravinder and Gopal, the MES team lost six wickets quickly.

The MES, however, won the match on the last ball of the match. The MES team received a cash prize of Rs 10,000, while the Karnal team got Rs 7,100.

Brief scores: KCC — 120 all out in 25 overs (Netrapal 50, Prabhdyal 28, Sukhbir 13, Babloo Kumar 4 for 7, Veeru 3 for 23); MES XI, Patiala — 86 for nine (Ravinder Kumar 36, Gopal 36, Gagan Grewal 23, Rakesh 2 for 20, Sumit 2 for 21).

ADMINISTRATION

Bypass to take more time
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, March 6 — The Balongi bypass, which provides an alternative link to this township from the Chandigarh-Ludhiana highway, is likely to take more time before it becomes operational. It was scheduled to be completed before the monsoon this year. It will also serve as a direct link between Zirakpur-Patiala and Chandigarh-Ludhiana highways and will provide a link to the proposed railway station near Kambala village.

Sources in the PUDA said work on the stretch, 1.04 km long and 100 feet wide, to near the local cremation ground was in progress but work on the a bridge on Patiala Ki Rao, estimated to cost about Rs 1.88 crore, was yet to start. Tenders for the proposed 116 m, seven-span bridge were invited recently.

The stretch of road on other side of the proposed bridge towards Balongi has also not been completed. A visit to the site revealed that only earth filling had been done.

SAS Nagar civic poll may be delayed
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, March 6 — Elections to the SAS Nagar municipal council are likely to be delayed owing to a delay in finalising the delimitation of wards of the council.

In a recent notification, the Punjab Government had omitted the name of the local municipal council from the list of the civic bodies' general elections to be held on May 28. The term of the local municipal council had expired two months back along with the municipal councils of Nangal, Dharamkot and Amloh.

Sources in the Local Government Department said that in a notification of delimitation of wards issued by the department, certain unforeseen problems had surfaced. Almost all political parties, independent groups of municipal councillors and representatives of other local organisations had objected to the way in which the wards had been delimited.

The demarcation of wards has been done in a confusing manner. For example, they have been earmarked on the basis of identification of certain houses instead of the house numbers. Certain councillors had sought that the wards reserved for women candidates should be rotated. Some residents had objected to the reservation of certain wards for SC and BC candidates and others to the population figures given by the government.

The notification of the delimitation of wards was done after a board constituted by the Local Government Department to delimit the wards had sent its decisions to the higher authorities. The last date to file objections to the notification was December 17 last. But nothing has been heard from the government after it. Once the delimitation of wards is cleared, the government would write to the State Election Commissioner to take the steps for holding the elections under the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911.

The Principal Secretary, Local Government Department, Mr N. K. Arora, said the elections to the SAS Nagar municipal council could not be notified along with those to the other councils as some rectification in the delimitation of wards was required. He said efforts were being made to complete the exercise of delimitation so that the elections could be held along with that of the other councils.