Simla Youngs beat Heroes
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New Delhi, November 5
Simla Youngs beat Garhwal Heroes 6-5 via tie-breaker in a close match of the Lt Governor’s Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday.

The teams were locked one-all at the end of the regulation time and the sudden death tie-breaker rule had to be enforced to break the deadlock.

Inside-left Manish put Simla Youngs ahead. In the second half, defender Parveen Kumar sent a long-ranger into the net to equalise for Heroes. In the tie-breaker Anil Rawat, Manish, Budhraj, Kuldeep Sigh and Manoj Choudhary found the mark for Simla Youngs while Raj Kumar, Satish Kumar, Chiranjiv Lal and Amarjit were the marksmen of Heroes.

Shahdara beat former DSA League champions Moghuls 3-0 to enter the quarter-final. Neeraj Chaudhary opened the account for Shahdara. Bhupinder Thakur and Rajesh Sinha accounted for the other two goals.

Wednesday’s fixtures: Air Force, Palam vs Indian Nationals (12.45 p m); City Club vs Moonlight (3 pm)—Ambedkar Stadium.

DAV Pushpanjali lift volleyball title
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DAV Public School, Pushpanjali Enclave, which won the CBSE Cluster XI Volleyball Tournament, with former Asian Games wrestling gold medallist Satpal.

Nitin Kumar stars
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New Delhi, November 5
A strokeful 62, studded with ten fours and one six, by Nitin Kumar and a hattrick by medium pacer Pradeep Banerjee, who claimed four wickets for 14 runs, were the highlights of Pradeep Banerjee XI’s seven-wicket victory against Himmat Saini XI in the annual cricket match of DDCA Staff Members played at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground on Monday.

Nitin Kumar was adjudged the best all rounder while Pradeep Banerjee got the best bowler award. Himmat Saini was adjudged the best batsman.

Scores: Himmat Saini XI: 142 all out in 26 overs (Himmat Saini 39, 2x4, 56b; Jeevan Singh 43, 3x6, 3x4, 36b, Pradeep Banerjee 4 for 14, Om Prakash 3 for 22, Nitin 1 for 17, Ravi Shanker 1 for 37). Himmat Saini and Jeevan put on 72 runs for the first wicket in 13.4 overs after the Saini XI struggled at nine for 48.

Pradeep Banerjee XI: 143 for 3 in 15.3 overs (Nitin Kumar 62 n o, 10x4, 1x6, 40b; Om Prakash 31, 4x4, 1x6, 31b, CK Bhardwaj 1 for 9, Santosh 1 for 42).

Rajiv Gandhi Cricket

Twentyeight top teams, divided into four pools, will participate in the first Rajiv Gandhi Memorial North Delhi Cricket League Tournament, to be held at different grounds in Delhi from November 10. The inaugural match will be played at the Guru Gobind Singh College ground, Pitampura.

Leading clubs like Malviya, K N Colts, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Scindia India, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Montfort School, Ravindra Public School, Delhi Police Cricket team, West Delhi Cricket Academy, S P Cricket Academy, Delhi Colts, DDCA Employees Club, S B Youth, LIC, MCD, Aiport Authority of India, Pelicans, Young Friends and Pahari Dhiraj Gymkhana have confirmed their participation.

Entries close with North Delhi Cricketers Association secretary Himmat Saini or treasurer Vijay Bahadur Mishra at phone 3623934.

Ram Babu Gupta co-ordinator

Former Test umpire and treasurer of the Delhi and District Cricket Association, Dr Ram Babu Gupta, has been appointed co-ordinator of the Indian team for the one-day series for the TVS Cup against West Indies, starting on Wednesday. According to Mr C K Khanna, vice-chairman of the National Cricket Academy, Ram Babu Gupta was also the co-ordinator of the Indian team for the just-concluded Test series.

Jindal Steel lift Baroda Cup
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The Jindal Power and Steel team, which won the Pizza Hut Baroda Cup polo title, with the trophy at the Jaipur Polo ground.