Chandigarh, January 27
GGD SD College, Sector 32, were awarded the cricket trophy on the basis of toss when they were tied with their opponents DAV College, Sector 10, in the final of the UT Inter-college Cricket Tournament for Kapil Dev Trophy played here today at Sector 10 cricket Stadium. The eventual winners were decided by Kapil Dev by spinning the coin. Kapil Dev is also the new secretary of the UT Cricket Association.
Earlier, SD College had won the toss but decided to field. The match was reduced to 15 overs due to overnight rain with the consent of both the captains. DAV College scored 89 runs for the loss of nine wickets in the stipulated overs. AP Singh was the highest scorer with 30 runs. In reply, SD College made 89 runs for seven with its players equally performing and Porus remained the highest scorer with 19 runs.
Brief scores: DAVC-10: 89 for nine (AP Singh 30, Lakshay Sharma 18, Sandeep Maur16, Amandeep Saggar 3 for 10); SDC-32: 89 for seven (Porus Chaudhary 19 n.o., Bageshwar Bisht 17, Gurinder Saini 16, Vikramjit Sodhi 15, Harish Thakur 3 for 12).
Honoured: Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, a resident of SAS Nagar who has recently won gold medal in the team event of the sport rifle shooting while representing Punjab in the National Games held at SAS Nagar, was conferred with commendation certificate yesterday by the Governor of Punjab, Lieut-Gen JFR Jacob (retd) at a state-level function held at Ropar yesterday morning.
Sports meet: Six boys and equal number of girls will take part in the kabaddi event of the three-day UT Inter- school sports tournament to be organised by the UT Sports Department here tomorrow at the Sector 42 Coaching Centre. In kho kho, a team comprising seven boys and six girls would participate which will be held at Government Model Middle School, Sector 42. The events will start at 2.30 p.m. The meet will be inaugurated by Mr G Bharti, SDM (South).
Cricket tourney: Satluj CC beat Koushour XI by 53 runs in the IInd Salzer Cup Cricket Tournament played here today at the PEC grounds today. Satluj CC made 225 runs for four with Jai Kapil and Nitin scoring 51 and 50 runs, respectively. In reply, Koushour XI were all out for 172 runs.
Sports journalists XI win: Sports Journalists XI outscored Chandigarh Photo
Journalist XI by nine runs in an exhibition match played here yesterday at Barwala, near here. Brief scores: SJ XI: 170 runs for five (Subhash Rajta 46 n.o., Vikrant 40, Pawan Singh 3 for 15, Gaurav 2 for 28); PJ XI : 161 for nine (Ganges Paul 31 n.o., Vikrant 2 for 20, Lalit 2 for 25).
