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20 players for N Z Academy
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New Delhi, April 3
Twenty promising cricketers have been selected for the Zonal Cricket Academy (North Zone) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India,(BCCCI) starting at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi on April 15.

The selected probables will have to report at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground by April 14 evening.

The players were picked at the Junior Zonal Selection Committee Meeting held at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground, which was attended by the chairman Anurag Thakur (Himachal Pradesh), Convenor Sunil Dev (DDCA), Arun Sharma (Punjab) and Ashwani Kumar (Haryana). Former Indian captain Dilip Vengsarkar also attended the meeting.

Following are the trainees: Kunal Lal, Kuleep Rawat, Abhishek Sharma, Vivek Khurana, Abhinav Bali, Salil Oberoi, Rohit Sharma (all DDCA), Ishan Malhotra, VRB Singh, Rajesh Sharma, Amit Behl, Gaurav Gupta and Gaurav Sharma (all Punjab), Nitin Aggarwal, Imran Khan, Saurav Virmani,

Manvinder Bisla and Pradeep Sahu (all Haryana), Paras Dogra and Vikramjit Malik (both Himachal Pradesh).

Standbyes: Deepak Soni and Barun Sharma (both Himachal), Manik Kohli (Punjab), Shammi Salaria (J and K), Kailash Sen (Haryana) and Rajesh Kumar (DDCA).

Inter-city schools cricket tournament
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New Delhi, April 3
The second edition of the Inter-City Cricket Tournament for the Parle Champions Trophy will be played among six champion schools of the country. They are the winners of the Parle-G Cup Boys Under-16 Tournament, held in Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Punjab, Mumbai and Bangalore. The Parle Champions Trophy will be held from April 15 to 20 at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali.

The following teams will compete in the tournament: Don Bosco Higher Secondary School as Parle-G (Chennai), Salwan Boys School as Hide and Seek (Delhi), DAV School, Chandigarh as Krack Jack (Punjab), Boys Town School as Marie Choice (Hyderabad), St. Joseph’s Boys High School as

Fun Centre (Bangalore) and Spring Field Rizvi High School as Monaco (Mumbai).

Awards will be given to the best partnership, man of the match, best bowler, best batsman, best catch, maximum sixers and best fielder, bowler of the series, batsman of the series, partnership of the series and man of the series.

The participating teams will be given free travel, boarding and lodging, cash awards of Rs 22,500 to the winners and Rs 15,000 to the runners-up and other attractive gifts.

The teams have been divided into two groups. Group A comprises Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai while Group B will have Hyderabad, Punjab and Bangalore.

Delhi will take on Mumbai and Punjab will clash against Hyderad on the opening day on April 15.

Karun scores points double on F3 debut
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New Delhi, April 3
Karun Chandhok, the 18-year-old racing prodigy of JK Tyre, proved his credentials by finishing sixth and fifth respectively on his debut in the opening races of the British Formula-3 2002. Karun brilliantly negotiated the sloping corners, scoring 14 valuable points, according to information reaching Delhi.

Karun made his first appearance in the Scholarship class of British Formula 3 Championship with “T-Sport the Junior Carlin Team”. Karun’s performance is especially remarkable considering that he has not even tested at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit, considered one of the most difficult racing circuits in the world. Earlier, Karun had qualified seventh and fifth in the two qualifying sessions held after the three-hour test session on Friday. Karun made a significant improvement over the weekend, ending Friday’s test session with a respectable time of 1:21.73 secs. He improved to a 1:12.23 after the first qualifying and dropped to 1:20.53 at the end of the second qualifying session.

At the start of the first race, Karun lost two places after having to avoid a stalled car ahead of him. He then kept the pressure on Italian Diego Romanini for the rest of the race but could not find a way past. While others collided or crashed around him, Karun finished the race on Romanini’s tail to score a top six finish on his F3 debut.

Delhi Blues beat DVB
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New Delhi, April 3
Delhi Blues beat Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) by seven wickets in an A-I Division match of the DDCA League at the Kotla I ground.

Scores: DVB: 152 all out in 37.5 overs (Ajit Chaudhary 30, Harpreet Singh 28, Vaibhav Rastogi 3 for 13, Tarun Gupta 2 for 33). Delhi Blues: 153 for 3 in 36 overs (Tarun Gupta 44 n.o, Amjad Vohra 35).

Super Star Club beat Canara Bank by eight wickets in a B division match.

Scores: Canara Bank: 198 for 8 in 40 overs (Arun Jain 49, Jai Singh 43, Piyush Sharma 3 for 19). Super Star Club: 201 for 2 in 35.2 overs (Manas Malhotra 93 n.o, Prateek Sharma 53, Vijay Sharma 37 n.o). TN Colts beat Pioneer Club by eight wickets in an A-II Division at the University ground.

Scores: Pioneer: 114 all out in 28.1 overs (Umesh Sharma 20, Gurjit Singh 4 for 17, Girish Sharma 3/16).

TN Colts: 118 for 2 in 15.3 overs (Mahesh Sharma 31, Vikas Ranadey 27 n.o, Gurjeet Obrai 27 n.o, Narender 2 for 30).

Indo Club beat Punjab National Bank by six wickets in a B division match at Kotla II.

Scores: PNB: 221 for 9 in 40 overs (Anil Kumar 81,

Sukhvinder 59, Rohit Kumar 5 for 32, Dalbir Singh 3 for 26). Indo Club: 225 for 4 in 32.1 overs (Parul Kumar 71, Rohit Kumar 50, Prahlad 47, Ramesh Kumar 2 for 26).

Delhi trounce Himachal 8-0
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New Delhi, April 3
Delhi trounced Himachal Pradesh 8-0 in their first match of the National Under-21 Football Championship at Jammu. The highlight of the match was four goals, including a hattrick, by Delhi striker Sunil Chetri, who accounted for the second, third, fourth and sixth goals.

Inside-right Naveen Parmar drew first blood in the 10th minute while the other three goals in the first half were scored by Chetri.

In the second half, Amit Sharma made it 5-0, while Sunil Chetri, Irafan Khan and Mingma Sherpa scored the other goals in that order.

Delhi were to play their next match against Chandigarh, but since Chandigarh seemed to have played truant from the tournament, Delhi will next meet Punjab on April 5.

Columbus sail into semis
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New Delhi, April 3
St. Columbus School beat Cambridge Foundation, Rajouri Garden by eight wickets in a Group B quarter-final match to enter the semi-final of the Jivanjor Cricket Tournament at the Bal Bharti School ground, Pitampura in the Capital on Wednesday.

Cambridge Foundation, batting first, made 155 runs all out in 34.1 overs. In reply, St Columbus made 156 runs for two wickets in 28.2 overs. Udit Tandon of St. Columbus, who made 57 runs, was named the man of the match.

Scores: Cambridge Foundation: 155 in 34.1 overs (Saurav Sehgal 44, Tarun 27, Satyam 4 for 16).

St. Columbus: 156 for 2 in 28.2 overs (Udit Tandon 57, Sudhanshu Raj 37, Mayank 1 for 18, Ankur 1 for 25).

Paras, Manoj shine with bat
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New Delhi, April 3
Stroke-filled batting performances by Paras Prajapati (64) and Manoj Yadav (50) helped DSI beat Young Friends Club by 43 runs to enter the quarter-final of the third Sheetal Prasad Jain Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Mohan Meakin ground.

Scores: DSI: 170 all out in 36.5 overs (Paras Prajapati 64, Manoj Yadav 50, Rakshit Pant 3 for 34, Akash Mehra 3 for 40).

Young Friends: 127 all out in 36.5 overs (Tarun Dutta 3, Ankit Bhargava 3 for 29, Paras Prajapati 2 for 25).

Shastri down Rajdhani in Sood Cricket

New Delhi, April 3
A brilliant all-round performance by Rajan Gupta (38 and 3 for 37) and a quickfire 66 (4x4, 66b) by Dalip T helped Lal Bahadur Shastri Club beat Rajdhani Sports by 24 runs to enter the pre-quarter-final of the 12th All-India Om Nath Sood Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Khalsa College ground. Rajan Gupta was adjudged the man of the match.

Scores: Lal Bahadur Shastri: 210 for 9 in 40 overs (Dalip T 66, Sumit Rana 39, Rajan Gupta 38, Ravi Yadav 2 for 35). Rajdhani Sports: 186 in 38.1 overs (Lalit Anand 43, Damanjit Singh 42, Gaurav Mehta 30, Rajan Gupta 3 for 37, Sumit Rana 2 for 39). Thursday’s fixture: Subhania vs Inborn Club. OSR

Kashyap enter Teri Cup final
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New Delhi, April 3
B.L.Kashyap beat NIIT by 42 runs to enter the final of the ninth Teri Cup Cricket Tournament at the Teri Oval.

Scores: B L Kashyap: 157 for 8 wickets in 25 overs (Puneet

Kashyap 28, 3x4; Kannav 19, 2x4; Naresh Kumar 18, 3x4; Rajesh Varshney 2 for 11). NIIT: 115 all out in 19.3 overs (Rajesh Varshney 43, 6x4, 3x6; Rajinder Krishali 3 for 25, Kannav 1 for 34).