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ONGC felicitates Sehwag, Kaif
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New Delhi, October 28
The Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) felicitated India players Virender Sehwag and Mohd. Kaif an impressive function held at the India Habitat Centre in the Capital.

The function was attended by all the cricketers who are on the rolls of the ONGC, including Sehwag and Kaif, national cricket selector Kirti Azad, chairman and managing director of ONGC Subir Raha, Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) president Arun Jaitley and officer-in-charge of cricket, ONGC, Sunil Khanna.

Virender Sehwag, who seems to have cemented his place as a Test opener with his electrifying batting performances, has been given out of turn promotion while Mohd Kaif, who has consolidated his batting slot in the Indian one-day team, was given a cash award of Rs 1 lakh.

Mr Arun Jaitley presented mementoes to the players. All the ONGC top brass, including Mr Jauhari Lal, director (Human Resources) were also present.

Cricket Samrat celebrates golden jubilee
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New Delhi, October 28
Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) president Arun Jaitley said the Indian cricket team were strong contenders to win the World Cup Cricket Tournament to be held in South Africa early next year.

Mr Jaitley, a former Union Law Minister, said the Indian cricket team was shaping up well and have the right credentials to win the cup for the second time. Kapil's Devils had first lifted the World Cup in 1983, defeating the mighty West Indies in the final. Mr Jaitley said this while giving away mementoes to well-known cricketers and cricket officials at the silver jubilee function of leading Hindi cricket magazine "Cricket Samrat".

"The performance of the Indian team, especially during the past couple of months, has lifted the spirits of the players and boosted India's chances to win the cup", Mr Jaitley said.

Among those honoured were cricketers Virendra Sehwag, Mohammad Kaif, Ajay Ratra, Ajay Jadeja, Vijay Dahiya, Vijay Yadav and Vivek Razdan.

Sapient beat Hudco in Eventus Cup
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New Delhi, October 28
Sapient Corporation defeated Hudco by 86 runs in a league match of the second Eventus Cup Cricket Tournament played at the Harbaksh Singh Stadium.

Scores: Sapient Corporation: 193 for 4 wickets in 25 overs (Rajat Mathur 47, Manoj Nand Kishore 83,74b, 4x3; Ranjeesh Saxena 2 for 30). Hudco: 107 all out in 24.4 overs (Mukesh Kumar 24, Neelesh Walwatikar 3 for 25, Neeraj Jain 2 for 19, Akash Tayal 2 for 10). Manoj Nandkishore was declared the man of the match. Hewlett Packard defeated IBM India by 11 runs at the Palam ground. Scores: Sanjeev Sharma 41, Satish Menon 23, Rajeev Chopra 3 for 28, Javed Nizami 3 for 14).

IBM India: 111 all out in 23.1 overs (Sunil Kapoor 22, Aju Sabastian 24 n o, Sanjeev Sharma 2 for 12, Rakesh Choudhary 2 for 19). Hughes Software Systems beat Churchill India by 75 runs. Scores: Hughes Software Systems: 201 all out in 24.4 overs (Praveen Kumar 68, 4x9; Vidhur Krishan 36, Subroto Ghosh 2 for 17, Udit Bhatia 2 for 35).

Churchill India: 126 for 7 in 24 overs (Nitin Suri 54 n.o, 4x6; Pankaj Vashist 2 for 7).

Essex Farms beat Hudco by two wickets with just one ball to spare. Scores: Hudco: 131 all out in 22.4 overs (Ramesh Negi 62 n o, Rajneesh Saxena 24, Paras Anand 2 for 6). Essex Farms: 132 for 8 in 24.5 overs (Sandeep Goyal 38, Rajan Manchanda 16 n.o, Ramesh Negi 2 for 17, Rajneesh Saxena 2 for 16, V K Shukla 2 for 21).

CRPF derail NR

CRPF 'A' dethroned Northern Railway 25-17,25-20, 16-25, 25-23 to lift the third DDA Volleyball Tournament played at the Hari Nagar Sports Complex. Vikas Tomar, T M Manojan and T Bashiojit Singh excelled for CRPF in their title-victory. Kaptain Singh, Shakeel Ahmed and Sandeep Kumar gave an all-round performance for Northern Railway, but their efforts went in vain.

Collegians drub Youngmen
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New Delhi, October 28
Collegians trounced Youngmen 3-0 in an A Division Super League match of the Delhi Soccer Association-SAIL Open Clubs Football League Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday. Collegians have completed their engagements, logging ten points from five matches, to qualify for the Senior Division League. Youngmen collected four points from five matches. Inside-left Aftab Ashraf opened the account in the 11th minute while defender Ali Asgar slotted in the second goal in the 25th minute following a solo run. Inside-right Parveen scored the third goal in the 37th minute.

Raisina Sporting Union will take on Indian Air Force (Palam) in a crucial Super League match at 3 p.m. Raisina have seven points while Air Force have collected eight points from four matches. Shastri Club have already qualified for the Senior Division League with nine points from five matches.

The two top teams of DSA-SAIL A Division League will play in the inaugural Lt. Governor's Cup Football Tournament to be held at the Ambedkar Stadium from November 1 to 10. Fourteen Senior Division Clubs will participate in the Governor's Cup.

MRF Karting

Preetham Muniappa of Bangalore upset local favourite Rajeev Patel to win the third leg of the Indian National Karting Championship held at the Awesome Speedway in Baroda. The third leg of the MRF-MAI Formule Mondiale Karting Championship got off to a rousing start in the presence of a large number of racing fans. In the senior event, Digvijay Kathiwala of Mumbai led from his pole position till the very end of the 24-lap race. Such was his dominance that by the fourth lap, he had built up an unbeatable lead.

160 take part in 'Race of Champions'
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New Delhi, October 28
Over 160 racing enthusiasts took part in the 'Race of Champions', a close circuit racing event, organised by a group of youngsters called 'HiPerformance Motorsports' at the Budh Singh Stadium in Faridabad on October 26 and 27. The competition, sponsored by Valvoline Cummins, had events in upto 800cc, 1000cc, 1300cc, 1600cc, SUV segment and above 1600cc. The cars on view were Marutis, Scorpios, Hondas, Sonatas etc.

The winners were decided according to the minimum amount of time taken to complete the track. It was essentially a test of skilled driving where a person's ability to manoeuvre the car was put to test.

The winners were Dharampal, Mohinder Jubbal and Vikas Saluja (800cc), Mohinder Jubbal, Sandeep Sharma and Pradeep Sharma (1000cc), Balinder Sanga and Nikhil Taneja (1300cc), Sandeep Sharma and Balinder Sanga (1600cc), Balinder Sanga and Sandeep Sharma (above 1600cc), Sunny Sidhu and Sandeep Sharma (SUV segment). Dr Maninder Sharma and Sarika emerged winners in the female section.

Birsamunda edge past Pandara Road school

New Delhi, October 28
Birsamunda Vidyapitha, Rourkela (Orissa) edged past Government Senior Secondary School, Pandara Road (New Delhi) 1-0 in the 31st Nehru Junior Boys Hockey Tournament at the Shivaji Stadium on Monday. Ajit Kerketta struck the match-winner in the 59th minute of second half. Bipin Bihari Inter-College, Jhansi downed CRZ Senior Secondary School, Sonepat (Haryana) 3-0. Sunil Rayakwar, Ropendra Kumar and Asif Khan were the goal-scorers for Jhansi. Yogesh Hooda scored the consolation goal for Haryana.

Boys Sports Coy. BRC, Danapur downed Shivalik Public School, Chandigarh 3-2. Anmol Kindo, Ujjwal Dungdung and Sudhir Bhengra scored the goals for Rourkela while Jatinder Singh and Kewal Preet Singh struck home the goals for Shivalik.

Tuesday's fixtures: NCC, Ropar (Punjab) vs Birsa Munda Vidyapitha (12 noon); Boys Sports Coy. vs Govt School, Pandara Road (2 p m); NCC, Bangalore vs St. Soldier Divine Public, Jalandhar (3.30 p.m)--Shivaji Stadium. OSR

Ganga School beat Sant Giri
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New Delhi, October 28
A fine all-round performance by Virender Kumar (30 and 3 for 19) and a strokeful half century by Mohit Joon (52,9x4) helped Ganga International School, Hiran Kudna beat Sant Giri School, Rohini by 47 runs in a triangular cricket series played at the Ganga School ground.

The tournament was inaugurated by Dronacharya award-winning cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar. Achrekar, who is the coach of Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli, offered to organise a cricket camp at the Ganga School ground. Ganga school chairman Sushil Gupta, vice-chairman P K Chandla, Principal H Sraw and coach Kulvinder Singh and director of sports D S Jaggi were also present.

Scores: Ganga International School: 154 for 6 in 30 overs (Mohit Joon 52, Virender Kumar 30, Mohit 2 for 11). Sant Giri School: 117 all out in 29.4 overs (Mohit 44, Virender Kumar 3 for 19).

HDFC Bank record big victory

New Delhi, October 28
HDFC Bank handed out a crushing nine-wicket defeat on Adidas in the sixth Phadkar Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Central Secretariat ground.

Scores: Adidas: 77 all out in 23.2 overs (Mukesh 37, 2x4; Girish Sharma 4 for 7, Jatin 3 for 16, Virender 2 for 15). HDFC Bank: 78 for 1 in 11 overs (Rahul 44 n o, 6x4, 1x6; Vinay 21 n o, 3x4). Girish Sharma was adjudged the man of the match.

Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL) beat Standard Chartered Bank by 62 runs.

Scores: GAIL: 168 for 8 in 25 overs (Akash Bhavan 30, 1x4; Arshad 27, 2x4; Prakash 24, 4x4; Kumar 3 for 35, Rao

2 for 29, Varun Agnish 2 for 44). Standard Chartered Bank: 106 all out in 21 overs (Sameer 38, 5x4; Arshad 4 for 24, Vimal 3 for 15). Arshad was adjudged the man of the match.

J K Tyre National Karting

Young karting enthusiasts of Mumbai put on display their driving skills when they set the tracks on blaze in the Mumbai finals of the JK Tyre National Karting Championship, which concluded at the Hakone go-karting venue, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai.

Jigar Muni and Ashok Jadhav have qualified to represent Mumbai in the grand finale of the championship to be held on December 15. Mumbai had won the title during the last two editions of the championship. The JK Tyre National Karting Championship, now into its third year, has earned the credit of being a prestigious motorsport event. OSR