SPORTS

Govind bowls Montfort Academy to victory
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Montfort School Academy: 85 for two wickets in 14 overs (Deepak Joon 47 no, 1x6, 7x4; Rajesh Sharma 19, Naveen Singh 1 for 30, Kaushal Dubey 1 for 35).

Inborn beat Hyderabad

Fine batting by Dinesh Khatri, who hit an unbeaten 48 with six fours, helped Inborn Cricketers, Delhi, beat CCF Academy, Hyderabad, by one wicket in a league match of the All-India Don Bosco Invitational Under-15 Cricket Tournament.

Scores: CCF Academy: 181 all out in 29.4 overs (Akbar 75, 10x4; Charanjit Singh 2 for 27, Vivek Mishra 2 for 24, Sandprit Singh 2 for 30).

Inborn Cricketers: 282 for 9 in 28.4 overs (Dinesh Khatri 48 no, 6x4, 30b; Charanjeet Singh 27, Upmanyu Kumar 26, Pradeep 3 for 38, Raja 3 for 42). Dinesh Khatri was given the man of the match award.

PMG beat Yorks in DDCA League

Professional Management Group (PMG) beat Yorks Club by four wickets in a DDCA League match at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground No 1.

Scores: Yorks: 190 for 8 in 40 overs (Naresh Dhamija 47, Neeraj Tyagi 39, Mahender Bisht 3 for 29). PMG: 193 for 6 in 37.3 overs (Priyank Tehlan 53, Shashi Kant 37, Mahender Bisht 30, Rajesh 2 for 27).

Young Cricketers beat Ravi Brothers by two wickets at Kotla II ground.

Scores: Ravi Brothers: 279 for 8 in 40 overs (Shalabh Gupta 107, 8x4, 4x6; Neeraj Sharma 67, Anil Jariyal 35 no, Ranchal Chaudhary 2 for 45, Vats 2 for 54, Rushil Bhaskar 2 for 60).

Young Cricketers: 280 for 8 wickets in 38.5 overs (Adil Sheikh 89 n o, 12x4, 1x6; Rahul Prasad 53, Vartik Tihara 47, Sunil Kashyap 36, Pradeep Deswal 3 for 48, Sunny Chandra 2 for 50).

Hind Club beat Universal Club by 104 runs at the Shanti Sports Complex.

Scores: Hind Club: 163 all out in 37.3 overs (Sushil Dogra 47, Sanjay Dhiman 40, John 3 for 26, Tarun 3 for 14, Hari Om 2 for 19, Vipin 2 for 21).

Universal Club: 59 all out in 20.3 overs (Mohd. Rehman 16, R S Rana 4 for 23, Manoj 3 for 18).

Ankur Garg stars for Hansraj School
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Scores: Sachdeva Public School: 95 (Sachin Choudhary 41, Ankur Garg 3 for 21, Manis 2 for 14). Hansraj Model School: 96 for no loss in 13.2 overs (Ankur Garg 46, Chirag Mehta 29).

ICICI Bank beat SC Bar Assn

ICICI Bank defeated Supreme Court Bar Association by 44 runs in a league match of the Eventus Cup Cricket Tournament at the Palam ground.

Scores: ICICI Bank: 168 for 8 in 25 overs (Sunil Gulati 60, 4x5; Saif Khan 36, Rajneesh 2 for 20, Ritesh Singh 2 for 32). Supreme Court Bar Association: 124 all out in 21.4 overs (Rajneesh 67, Saif Khan 3 for 18, Amit Sahni 3 for 25, Sunil Gulati 2 for 28). Rajneesh was adjudged the man of the match.

Girish, Muskan star in Turf Cricket

Deadly bowling of 7 for 19 by man of the match Girish Sharma and an unbeaten knock of 84 by Muskan Singh helped HDFC Bank defeat Richa Export by 164 runs in the Turf Sports Management Corporate Cup Cricket Tournament at the Guru Gobind Singh College ground.

Scores: HDFC Bank: 214 for 3 in 25 overs (Muskan Singh 84 no, Virender Bhoj 40). Richa Exports: 50 all out in 14.3 overs (Gaurav Uppal 33, Girish Sharma 7 for 19, Ashish Karmakar 3 for 2).

Shastri Club enter MS Trophy semis
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Dena Bank: 236 for 1 in 36.4 overs (Vishal Sharma 114 no, Somik Chatterjee 90 no). Vishal Sharma was adjudged the man of the match.

Eventus Cup cricket

G E Capital defeated Reckitt Benskiser by 131 runs in a league match of the second Eventus Cup Cricket Tournament at the Airport Authority ground.

Scores: G E Capital: 200 for 5 wickets in 25 overs (Kamal Aswani 57, 4x9; Ashwin K S 56, Karthik Subramaniam 2 for 35).

Reckitt Benskiser: 69 all out in 17.1 overs Shaibal Sinha 33 no, Rodney Charles 5 for 11).

Vinay Lamba appointed referee

Former Delhi captain Vinay Lamba has been appointed match referee for three Ranji Trophy one-day matches to be held in Pune by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, according to the vice-chairman of the National Cricket Academy, Mr C. K. Khanna.

Mr Khanna said Lamba will be the match referee for the ties between Maharashtra vs Mumbai on December 6, Maharashtra vs Baroda on December 7 and Maharashtra vs Saurashtra December 9.

Goswami Club lift Tej Singh cricket title
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New Delhi, November 22
Goswami Ganesh Dutt Club defeated Banaras Cricket Association by five wickets in the final to annex the Maharaja Tej Singh Memorial All-India Cricket Tournament at Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh.

An unbeaten knock of 72, studded with one six and five fours by Agnesh Surya, was the highlight of Goswami Club’s title victory. Agnesh Surya was adjudged the ‘man of the final match’. Sonu Vaid, also of Goswami Club, got the Man of the Tournament award.

Scores: Banaras Cricket Association: 177 all out in 40 overs (Khurshid Khan 84, 3x6, 9x4, 99b; Nasir Ali 10, Avdhesh 14, Abdul Ganni 23, Sonu Vaid 2 for 10, Rohit Jagota 2 for 11, Amar Sharma 2 for 30, Ankit Kalra 2 for 40). Goswami Ganesh Dutt Club: 178 for 5 in 33.1 overs (Agnesh Surya 72 no, Surinder Dayma 23 no, 3x6; Kamal Bagga 29, 3x4, Ankit Bhargava 24, Fezzal 2 for 40).

Pradeep, Swati win shotput title 
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Rohtak, November 22
Swati of class IX and Pradeep of class XI won the shotput title in the Senior Girls and Senior Boys category, respectively, on the second day of the 18th annual athletic meet of the University Campus School here today.

Swati’s distance was 7.40 ft whereas Pradeep’s distance was 12.90 ft. Dheeraj of class V won the 100m finals in the Sub Junior Boys’ category, finishing ahead of Abhijeet. Sangeeta of class V won the title in 100m Sub Junior Girls category. Surbhi, a student of class IV, finished second in this event.

Jaypee ‘golf course’ at UP Pavilion
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New Delhi, November 22
A replica of the Jaypee Greens Golf Course, created at Uttar Pradesh Pavilion, is a big draw with the visitors to the International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan. Former India captain Kapil Dev inaugurated the Jaypee Greens ‘course’.

The ‘golf course’ has been built over an area of 1200 square feet and comprises a bunker, a water body, a bridge over the water body, a putting green and two tees.

Further, original sand for the bunker and Indonesian variety of grass, evergreen grass for tees and dwarf grass for putting green, have been used to give the original touch to the course. The UP Pavilion is at Gate No 2.

ADMINISTRATION

Govt offices in private buildings despite mini-secretariat
R. D. Sapra

Sonepat, November 22
Although the state government has built a mini-secretariat here, most of the government offices are still scattered all over the city and a newcomer faces considerable difficulty in locating them.

According to a report, the distance between the judicial courts and the court of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate is about a furlong, the lawyers and the litigants have to rush from one place to another several times a day. Moreover, the offices of the Tehsildar and the Treasury officer are situated about 3 km from the mini-secretariat and this has been causing inconvenience to the general public and the lawyers.

There are scores of government offices at the district headquarters and they are housed in rented buildings. The state government has been paying thousands of rupees as rent every month. Among the offices housed in private buildings are: Excise and taxation, labour and employment, forest, education, Confed, co-operative consumer stores, animal husbandry and the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam. Almost all the buildings occupied by these offices are residential buildings and this has only aggravated the housing problems.

The shifting of the District Employment Exchange Office to Sector 14 has caused great resentment. It has created manifold problems for the educated jobless persons who have to visit the office for registration of their names and making inquiries about the renewal of their registration cards and guidance facilities in respect of self-employment schemes.

This office is located at a distance of about 4 km from the main city and no local bus service is available. The charges of autorickshaws are exorbitant and the jobless persons cannot afford to spend any amount on the conveyance, as one trip to the office costs between Rs 6 and Rs 8 per person. Hence the jobless persons are forced to visit the office on foot.

The district unit of the Haryana Non-Employed Persons Sangh has strongly criticised the decision of the authorities to shift the office to Sector 14 and described it as unwise. It also urged the state government to order a high-level probe into the complaints of the educated jobless persons and the shifting of this office to the heart of the city immediately.

Representatives of various trade unions have also resented the shifting of the office of the Deputy Labour Commissioner from here to Panipat. They demanded it to be shifted back to Sonepat immediately, as the trade union leaders and workers have to visit this office for pursuing cases of labour disputes and other matters.

They have to face great inconvenience and spend a lot of money on the conveyance between Sonepat and Panipat and vice versa. Moreover, there is allegedly no co-ordination between the District Labour Officer and the Deputy Labour Commissioner. Unnecessary delays are being caused in the cases of simple nature, allege a number of trade union leaders.

These representatives and industrial workers, it may be recalled, had organised a series of demonstrations against the shifting of the DLC’s office to Panipat but the higher authorities chose to ignore them. These representatives had charged the then Deputy Labour Commissioner for the move as he belonged to Panipat.