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Hindustan toy with B B Stars
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New Delhi, December 4
Holders Hindustan Club handed out a crushing 4-0 defeat on Buddisht Blue Stars (BB Stars) in a Group A preliminary league match of the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA)-SAIL Open Clubs Senior Division Football League Championship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (East) ground on Wednesday. Hindustan scored two goals in each half.

In a lop-sided encounter, Hindustan Club were kept at bay by B B Stars for quite some time, as the strikers of the defending champions could not cash in on their chances.

They finally broke the ice in the 23rd minute, when mid-fielder Candid sent a nice cross from the right flank, which was placed into the goal by inside-left Clement Andy. Once they tasted blood, there was no stopping Hindustan.

Five minutes later, Hindustan scored the second goal when Clement’s header rebounded off from rival custodian R S Negi, and striker Sameer Jung made no mistake with the rebound.

In the second half, substitute Sandeep enhanced the lead to 3-0 in the 60th minute while M K Candid placed the ball in from the top of the box in the 66th minute to round off the tally.

Thursday’s fixture: City Club vs Garhwal Heroes (3 pm)—Nehru Stadium.

DDCA names 56 players for U-25 trials
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New Delhi, December 4
The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has called 56 players for the Under-25 selection trials, which began at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground on Wednesday. DDCA sports secretary said former India player Yashpal Sharma, who is the chief coach, will conduct the trials.

Following are the probables: Suhail Rauf, Sandeep Rana, Varun Kumar, Sonu Vaid, Puru Singh, Shailender Singh, Raja Sharma, Siddharth Verma, Sanjay Singh, Rakesh Raman Jha, Kuldeep Rawat, Abhishek Sharma, Dhruv Mohan, Dilip T T, Yogesh Sachdeva, Vivek Khurana, Kundan Mehra, Inderjeet Singh, Raju Sharma, Prateek Sharma, Rajesh Dua, Rohit Sharma, Samarth Jhingan, Pankaj Sharma, Tara Chand, Sushil Kumar, Salil Oberoi, Shikhar Dhawan, Deepak Sharma, Kunal Lal, Parambir Nagar, Abhinav Bali, T Anand, Vishal Sharma, Radhey Shyam Gupta, Tarun Gupta, Himanshu Mehta, Sunit Sharma, Angad Bedi, Pankaj Joshi, Toni Singh, Rohit Mehra,

Sunil Joshi, Anshul Lamba, Jitender Solanki, Kesar Chaudhary, Sandeep Chawla, Gaurav Dua, Shitij Rohtagi, Surender Kumar, Sumir Bamboli, Rakesh Joshi, Sanjeev Kumar, Rahul Puri, Manish Chawla and Suresh Tanwar.

Young Friend rout Ramjas School
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New Delhi, December 4
Young Friend trounced Ramjas School, R K Puram by nine wickets and entered the final of the second Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji Under-15 Cricket Tournament at the Guru Harkishan Public School ground, Vasant Vihar.

Scores: Ramjas School: 90 all out in 24.4 overs (Mayank 26, Nishant 24, Pritam Kumar 3 for 10, Love 2 for 13).

Young Friend: 91 for 1 in 21.2 overs (Jayant Yadav 38, Ishan Bakshi 36).

Cannon beat Econnor

Canon India defeated William Econnor by three wickets in a league match of the Eventus Cup Cricket Tournament at the Airport Authority ground.

Scores: William Econnor: 120 for 9 wickets in 25 overs (William Hooper 30 n o, Ravi Kumar 3 for 27, Roy Joseph 2 for 25).

Canon India: 121 for 7 in 19.3 overs (Rame 30 n o, Bharat 3 for 35). Rame was adjudged the Man of the Match.

Rajdhani lift title

A fine knock of 74 by Ajeet Chandela and an all-round performance by Ravi Yadav (40 and 3 for 21) helped Rajdhani Sports beat MES Patiala by 99 runs and lifted the W R Malhotra Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Karnail Singh Stadium.

The winners received a cash prize of Rs 21,000 while the runners-up pocketed Rs 11,000.

Scores: Rajdhani Sports: 241 for 7 in 35 overs (Ajit Chandela 74, Ravi Yadav 40, Joginder Singh 36 n o, Rajeev Kumar 2 for 36). MES Patiala: 142 all out in 30.1 overs (Rajesh Pantha 51, Munish Bali 32, Jatin Khanna 3 for 20, Ravi Yadav 3 for 31).

Hansraj, DAV Shalimar Bagh in final
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New Delhi, December 4
Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh beat Saviour Convent School, Paschim Vihar by eight wickets and entered the final of the second Ganga Inter-School Cricket Tournament at the Ganga School ground.

DAV Shalimar Bagh trounced hosts Ganga School by 61 runs to set up the title clash against Hansraj. Scores: Saviour Convent: 125 all out in 30 overs (Raman Gujral 56, Varun Sood 25, Virat 27, Ankur Garg 3 for 14, Puneet Anand 3 for 18, Sachin Gurav 2 for 10).

Hansraj Model School: 126 for 2 in 21.2 overs (Kartik Bhatia 61, Manu Sharma 45 n o, Vikas Chandeliya 2 for 15).

DAV School: 191 for 4 in 30 overs (Soumik Chatterjee 62, Love Sehrawat 52, Part Rana 2 for 19, Vikram 2 for 19).

Ganga School: 130 all out in 28.2 overs (Mohinder 45, Rathi 31, Hunny Garg 3 for 21, Pawan 2 for 11, Visu Tomar 2 for 29).

Inter-College Athletics

The Delhi University Inter-College Athletic Championship will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Thursday. The events will start at 10 am.

NIIT get past Teri in Phadkar Cup
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New Delhi, December 4
NIIT beat Teri by 25 runs in the sixth D G Phadkar Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Teri Oval.

Scores: NIIT: 154 for 7 wickets in 25 overs (Hitesh 58, 3x4; Sanjay 40, 3x4; P Raj 37, 4x4; Sandeep Arora 3 for 23). Teri: 129 all out in 23 overs (K P Eashwar 37, 3x4; Anurag Pandey 25, 2x4; Mahesh 20; Gagan Adalka 3 for 19, Rajesh Varshney 3 for 17). Hitesh was adjudged the Man of the Match.

SAR Group beat Standard Chartered Bank by seven wickets at the Central Secretariat ground. Standard Chartered Bank: 97 all out in 20.5 overs (Samir 24, 2x4; Varun 24, 2x4; Amresh Pradhan 4 for 19, Rajesh 2 for 20, Jitender 2 for 8). SAR Group: 100 for 3 in 14.2 overs (Rajesh 47, 5x4; Lalit 27 n o). A. Pradhan was adjudged the Man of the Match.

Rajender Bisht stars for RLA

Rajender Bisht hit a dashing century (102, 2x6, 6x4) to help Ram Lal Anand (RLA) College (Evening) beat Hansraj College by 29 runs and entered the semi-final of the Delhi University Inter-College Cricket Tournament at the Delhi University ground.

Scores: Ram Lal Anand: 208 for 6 in 40 overs (Rajender Bisht 102, Lalit Anand 41, Joginder 2 for 16). Hansraj College: 179 all out in 38 overs (Sushil Kumar 48, Chirag Pal 26, P. Sharma 23, S. Rana 21, S. Kashyap 4 for 4, Y. Sachdeva 2 for 26, Rajender Bisht 2 or 32).

Malhotra opens skating rink
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New Delhi, December 4
All-India Council of Sports (AICS) president Vijaya Kumar Malhotra, who is also a Member of Parliament from the South Delhi constituency, opened a roller skating rink in South Block, Greater Kailash-II. The Roller Skating Rink has been built by the funds provided from his MP fund.

The skating rink, built on an area of 6000 square feet, and costing about Rs 10 lakh, is open for all. Residents Welfare Association of Greater Kailash-II M. L. Sharma thanked Mr Malhotra for his generous gesture.

Sartaj shines for GHPS
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New Delhi, December 4
A splendid all-round performance by Sartaj Singh (86, 2 for 9) and deadly bowling by Kulvinder Singh (five for 16) helped Guru Harkishan Public School (GHPS), Karol Bagh beat Tyagi Cricket Coaching Centre by 109 runs in a limited-over under-17 cricket match at the DCM ground. Sartaj Singh was adjudged the Man of the Match.

Scores: GPHS: 217 all out in 34.5 overs (Sartaj Singh 86, Anuj Khanna 54, Manoj Trehan 4 for 38, Rajat Bhryan 3 for 29).

Tyagi Coaching Centre: 108 all out in 24.1 overs (Madan Arora 28, Sachin Sharma 26, Kulwant Singh 5 for 16, Satbir Singh 3 for 14, Sartaj Singh 2 for 9).