The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

15 polio cases confirmed in Haryana
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, December 12
The Director, Health Services, Haryana, Mr B. S. Dahiya, today revealed that so for 15 wild virus polio cases had been confirmed in the state this year. Six of these cases had been reported from Faridabad, four in Gurgaon, two in Sonepat and one each in Ambala and Hisar districts.

He said as per the national strategy for polio eradication for the year 2002-03 two national intensified pulse polio rounds would be conducted throughout the country on January 5 and February 9 next year. In Haryana, children in the 0-5 years age group will be given oral polio vaccine at pulse polio booths on these dates. “This will be followed by house-to-house search to immunise children who do not turn up at the booths”, he told newspersons.

He said in Rohtak district 590 polio booths would be set up. These would be manned by 2,304 vaccinators. For difficult to reach areas, like brick kilns, isolated hutments and clusters of migratory population mobile teams would be pressed into service, Dr Dahiya told.

SPORTS

Northern Rly lift Dhyan Chand Trophy
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 12
The Northern Railway have lifted the coveted DDA Dhyan Chand Trophy by defeating FCI (NZ) by 6-4 in the tiebreaker. In the regulation period, the teams were locked in a 1-1 draw. FCI (NZ) took the lead in the ninth minute of the game when Vipul scored through a penalty corner. Northern Railway equalised in the 49th minute through a field goal by Rajesh of a pass from Raju. In the tiebreaker, Sandeep, Jagbir, Raju, Navsher and Bikramjeet Singh scored for the Northern Railways team while only Prabhakar, Sonu and Harish could net the ball for the FCI (NZ).

Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vijai Kapoor gave away the prizes and cash award of Rs 41,000 and Rs 21,000 to winners and runner-up teams respectively. The Lieutenant-Governor announced plans to enhance the total prize money of the tournament to Rs 1.5 lakh.

New Astro truf: The Lieutenant-Governor also announced plans to lay a new astro turf at DDA’s Major Dhyan Chand Sports Complex, Ashok Vihar. With this, the number of turfs in Delhi would rise to four. DDA Vice-Chairman Subhash Sharma, Member Finance Ajit Patnaik and Director (Sports) were also present on the occasion.

Allwyn-Hindustan, IAF go through in DSA league
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 12
Defending champions, Allwyn-Hindustan F.C. and former league champions, Indian Air Force (New Delhi) struggled hard to beat their respective rivals in group-A and B preliminary matches of the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA)-SAIL Annual Open Clubs Senior Division Football League Championship, being played at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (East) ground here today.

In group A, Allwyn-Hindustan Club prevailed over spirited Tarun Sangha by a solitary goal to earn three full points. Hindustan recorded their third straight win to secure 9 points from three matches while Tarun Sangha have yet to score a point from two matches.

Despite defeat, Tarun Sangha lads won the hearts of the spectators with their fine display of short-passes, to thwart their strong opponents from taking any advantage in their territorial area.

Tarun Sangha would have been up by two- three goals had their striker Dipen Thapa not wasted easy goal scoring

chances from close. Both teams levelled goalless at the end of the 1st half proceedings. Hindustan's M.K. Candid and

Nigerian recruit C. Auddy received caution cards from FIFA referee Krishan Avtar following infringements.

The all-important goal came in the 55th minute when Tarun Sangha's defender Raju Soren handled the ball inside the box. Match referee awarded a penalty-kick on which Hindustan's striker Sameer Jung made no mistake, to take his team one up.

Earlier, in a close-contested encounter, Indian Air Force (New Delhi) were lucky to manage a 1-0 win over former league champions, Moonlight Club. Both teams were goalless in the initial half proceedings.

It was Moonlight Club who dominated the game through their young and experienced lads against Airmen. However, in the run of play, Air Force scored the winning goal in 68th minute following a silly mistake by Moonlight's Ajay.

Air Force have six points from 2 games while Moonlight have one point from two matches.

Tomorrow's Fixtures: Delhi police V/s B B Stars-1.30 p.m., Nivia-Mughals V/s N D Heroes--3.00 p.m.

Dena Bank beat Chand Khanna in DDCA league
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 12
Dena Bank beat Chand Khanna Club by 55 runs in the DDCA senior A division at Air Port A Ground. Scores: Dena Bank: 186 for 7 in 35 overs (Aditya Jain 73 n o, Pradeep Gupta 24, Suhail Rauf 4/32).

Scores: Chand Khanna: 131 all out in 31 overs (Siddarth Verma 55, Tony Singu 25, Vikas Vij 5/17).

Vipul Sarees win: Vipul Sarees beat Maulana Azad by 6 wickets in `B' division at YSC II ground.

Scores: Maulana Azad: 122 all out in 26.5 overs (Mohd Rehan 27, Pritam Singh 4/29). Vipul Sarees Club: 123 for 4 in 22 overs (Ayush Mohan 25, Akash Kumar 22, Mohd Saqib 2/31).

Lion Kanishka up: Lion Kanishka beat LIC by 9 wickets in `B' division at Kotla No 2 ground.

Scores: LIC: 217 all out in 39.5 overs (Gajender Singh 46, Vikas Kapoor 52, P K Soni 35, Anoop Rana 4/43, Aman Jeet 3/25). Lion Kanishka: 220 for 1 in 26 overs (Raman Ghai 136 n o (10x6, 11x4), Amanjeet Singh 53).

Alpine Club defeated: Canara Bank beat Alpine CC by 25 runs in `B' division match at YSC No-I ground.

Scores: Canara Bank: 200 all out 34.4 overs (Jai Singh Bisht 59, Ashok Arora 25, Ajay Singh 2/30). Alpine Club: 175 all out in 37 overs: Gagan Sharma 45, Nitin Sahni 75 n o, Jai Singh 2/25, Shiv Kumar 2/35, O M Prakash 2/29).

Luminous Cup: NTPC defeated Royal Sundaram by 181 runs in a league match of the 1st Luminous Cup Cricket Tournament played at CSG-II.

Scores: NTPC: 218 for 2 in 25 overs (Ram Pal 117 n o (70 balls) (4x19), Sanjay Doedhar 66 (66 b; 4x8), Sangram Rawat 5-0-25-1).

Royal Sundaram: 37 all out in 10.3 overs (Saurabh Bhargawa 18 (22 balls), Dinesh Gulati 5-0-18-5, Prahlad Ramrakhiani 5-0-16-4).

Ram Pal of NTPC was adjudged Man of the Match.

Rajdhani win: Quick-fire 98 runs by Gaurav Mehta and unbeaten 67 runs by Ashish Sharma helped Rajdhani Sports beat AIIMS by 6 wickets and enter into the semifinal of the All India Gymkhana Cricket Tournament.

Scores: AIIMS: 222 for 8 in 30 overs (Agnesh Surya 40, Sanjay Verma 30, Raja Gurmeet 29 n o, Ravi Yadav 2/29, Jitender Solanki 2/27).

Rajdhani Sports: 224 for 4 in 27.2 overs (Gaurav Mehta 98, Ashish Sharma 61 n o, Naveen Verma 25, Farman Ahmad 2/54).

Eventus Cup: An all-round performance of Vishnu Bhagat helped Reebok defeat ICICI Bank by 26 runs in the eighth pre-quarter final match of 2nd Eventus Cup Cricket Torunament 2002 played at Palam ground. Sonu and Pankaj gave Reebok a start of 55 runs in the first 8 overs. It was capitalised to the maximum by Vishnu Bhagat who scored a quick-fire 40 runs in just 24 balls at the end of the innings with the help of 5 boundaries and 1 six to score 62 runs in the last six overs.

Saif and Sanjeev started the run chase with 8 runs per over and going on smoothly at 42 after 5 overs. Introduction of spin at both ends paid rich dividends for Reebok as ICICI lost 3 wickets in 2 overs. But when Vishnu

Bhagat claimed the prize wicket of Vikas Prashad, the writing was on the wall for ICICI Bank. Sandeep Mathur, who claimed 4 wickets to restrict ICICI to 156, gave the finishing touches.

Vishnu Bhagat was adjudged Man of the Match.

Scores: Reebok India: 182 for 7 wickets in 25 overs (Sonu Mahna 45 (51 balls), Vishnu Bhagat 40 (24 balls), Vivek Thappar 5-0-26-2, Sunil

Gulati 5-0-35-2, Amit Sahni 5-049-2).

ICICI Bank: 156 all out in 24.1 overs (Sunil Gulati 34 (49 balls), Saif Ali Khan-22 (21 balls), Sandeep Mathur 5-0-40-4, Vishnu Bhagat 5-0-28-2).