SPORTS

Orient Craft record exciting win, lift Sultan Cup title
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 4
An unbeaten century by Harender Rawat went in vain as Orient Craft beat PBL by one run in an exciting finish to lift the seventh Suntan Cricket Cup at the Siri Fort Sports Complex.

Harender Rawat was declared the man of the match while Manoj Sharma of Orient Craft got the man of the series award. Ravi Uniyal got the best batsman award while Neeraj was declared the bowler of the tournament.

Scores: Orient Craft: 236 for 4 in 30 overs (Majid Ali 86, Rajeev 79, Devi Singh 57 n o, Subodh Badola 3 for 34).

PBL: 235 for 4 in 30 overs (Harinder 114 n o, Ravi Uniyal 78, Neeraj 3 for 42).

HCL Technologies move up

HCL Technologies defeated Coca-Cola by 143 runs in the Luminous Cup Cricket Tournament. Coca-Cola scored 75 in 25 overs.

Scores: HCL Tech.: 218 for 9 in 25 overs (Aniruddha 36, Govind Sachan 30, Stephen Matto 2 for 47, Rohit Sharma 2 for 20).

Coca-Cola: 75 all out in 14.4 overs (Stephen Matto 20, Anshui 15, Yogesh Kumar 4 for 12, Nikhil Chaturvedi 1 for 3).

In another match, HSS-BPO defeated Polyplex by seven wickets.

Scores: 127 for 5 (Hardeep Singh 40, Sameer Sood 16, Rakesh Bhat 2 for 19).

HSS-BPO: 128 for 3 in 19.3 overs (Viram Sharma 58, K A Sriram 40, Dinesh 2 for 8).

Eventus Cricket

Reebok defeated Apollo Tyres by eight wickets in the third Eventus Cricket Tournament.

Scores: Apollo Tyres: 130 all out (Neeraj Kumar 60, Sanjay Rawat 26, Sandeep Mathur 3 for 19, Abhilash Chopra 2 for 20).

Reebok: 131 for 2 in 11 overs (Rajesh Chandra 57, Surinder Bajaj 31, Rajesh Sharma 28, Sanjay Rawat 1 for 34).

In another match, Hutch defeated Hewlett Packard by three wickets.

Scores: Hewlett Packard: 96 all out in 21.3 overs (Satish Menon 43, Vivek Dwivedi 14, Parul Jain 4 for 22, Amit Verma 2 for 15).

B L Kashyap advance

B L Kashyap defeated HDFC Bank by four wickets in the third Turf Twenty20 Cup Cricket Tournament at the Guru Gobind Singh College ground.

Scores: HDFC Bank: 129 for 6 in 20 overs (Deepak Sharma 56, Sant Ram 31, Monu Thapa 2 for 16, Naresh Kumar 2 for 26). B L Kashyap: 135 for 6 in 18.5 overs (Kanav Anand 84 n o, Virender Bhoj 2 for 17).

DPS trounce St Thomas in Schools World Cup
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 4
Hosts Delhi Public School (DPS), R K Puram trounced St. Thomas School, Howrah by 106 runs in the DPS World Cup Invitational Cricket for Schools at the Harbaksh Stadium. All-rounder Simran Sodhi earned the man of the match award.

Scores: DPS: 227 for 9 in 40 overs (Simran Sodhi 40, Jatin Bassi 38, Hemant Chug 39). St. Thomas School: 121 all out in 31.4 overs (Writam Porel 51, Simran Sodhi 2 for 18).

Sirojganj Multilateral High School, Bangladesh beat The City School Network, Pakistan by 58 runs at the Palam ground.

Scores: Sirojgonj: 172 all out in 39.1 overs (Salauddeen Sabua 48, Hasan Usaman 42, Harris Aqueel 6 for 13).

The City School: 114 all out in 34.3 overs (Harris Aqueel 33).

English Foundation School, Pakistan beat Aricha Belayet Hossain School, Bangladesh by eight wickets at the Palam B ground.

Scores: Aricha Belayet School: 84 all out in 29.1 overs (Ardan Sikdar 30, Mohammad Nadeem 4 for 14). English Foundation: 85 for 2 in 28.2 overs (Muddasar Hussain 24).

Aizer School System, Pakistan defeated Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj by five wickets at the Siri Fort ground. Aizer School scored 170 for 5 in 28.5 overs.

Scores: DPS: 166 all out in 37.3 overs (Jayant Yadav 63, Abhijit Singh 37, Zain Shah 3 for 19, Mohsin Latif 3 for 32)

Aizer School: 170 for 5 in 28.5 overs (Imran Maqsood 80, Umer Akmal 32 n o).

Parzowar Kalindi School, Bangladesh defeated Loyola School, Thiruvanathapuram by eight wickets.

Scores: Loyola School: 106 all out in 36.3 overs (Sanjeev J Santharn 29, Md Rajib 3 for 27). Parzowar: 108 for 2 in 17.1 overs (Anwar Hossain 49 n o, Alamgir Rana 32).

LIC move up in Amity Cup

A fine all-round performance by P K Soni (36 and 2 for 24) and deadly bowling by Pawan Kumar (3 for 31) enabled Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) defeat Aviva by four wickets in a league match of the second Amity Insurance Cricket Cup Tournament. LIC scored 212 for 6 in 29.2 overs.

Scores: Aviva: 209 all out in 27.3 overs (Puneet Dayal 73, Nitish Asthana 58, Pawan Kumar 3 for 31, P K Soni 2 for 24).

LIC: 212 for 6 in 29.2 overs (Raghubir Singh 52, P K Soni 36, Sunil Tonguria 22 n o, Nitish Asthana 2 for 31, Kanwaljeet Singh 2 for 32).

Shastri Club speed past DTC
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New Delhi, December 4
Lal Bahadur Shastri Club defeated Delhi Transports Corporation (DTC) by 16 runs in an A-1 Division match of the DDCA League at the RSKP ground.

Scores: Lal Bahadur Shastri Club: 138 all out in 33 overs (S. Yadav 43, Parvesh Chikara 31, Tapan Jain 29, Mahesh Sharma 7 for 21).

DTC: 122 all out in 34.4 overs (Kulvinder Singh 27, Sawan Saini 3 for 17, Parvesh Chikara 2 for 19, Sandeep Yadav 2 for 20).

Essex Farms beat K N Colts by 18 runs in an A-I Division match at the Yamuna complex ground.

Scores: Essex: 213 for 9 in 35 overs (Sanjay Kumar 68, Sareen Bansal 38, Parikshit Bhatia 34, Anand Mishra 3 for 27, Vivek Mishra 2 for 31, Saurav Srivastava 2 for 30, Rahul Bhardwaj 2 for 40).

K N Colts: 195 for 8 in 35 overs (Saurav Srivastava 78, Bharat Dhoopar 39).

Goal glut in Subroto soccer
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New Delhi, December 4
High-scoring matches were the order of the day in the Subroto Mukherjee Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Thursday. Government Higher

Secondary School, Kokrajhar (Assam) set the trend when they drubbed Vivekanand Vidyapeeth, Bustar (Chattisgarh) 5-1 in a Group VII match.

Manikant Brahama stole the spotlight, scoring three goals (no hattrick), while Ashok Basumatary and Fwjwbswrang Wary got the other two goals.

Town High School, Sundargarh (Orissa) blanked Govt. Anushuchit Janjati Awasiya High School, Katihar (Bihar) 6-0 in another Group VII match.

Sashidhar Bansingh knocked in three goals and Samara Oram, Ashok Lakra and Narayan Sorien scored one goal each.

In a Group VIII match, St. Ignatious High School, Gumla (Jharkhand) defeated Sanjay Public School, Chandigarh 4-0. Prakash Kacchap, Pascal Kujur, Asit Murmu and Sanjay Kacchap scored the goals.

In another Group VIII tie, Sports Authority of India (SAI) East, Kolkata trounced Chopasni Senior Higher Secondary School, Jodhpur 7-0. Biswanath Karmakar scored four goals (no hattrick), Pankaj Samdar struck home a brace and Hiralal Chetri accounted for the other goal.

Friday’s fixtures: Chopasni School, Jodhpur vs Sanjay School, Chandigarh (10 am); Town School vs Govt. School, Assam (2 pm); SAI, Kolkata vs St. Ignatious (3.30 pm)— Ambedkar Stadium.

Vijay Kumar eyes Asian PGA Tour card
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New Delhi, December 4
Vijay Kumar is eyeing the $ 700,000 Omega Hong Kong Open to secure his card on the Asian PGA Tour’s 2004 season. The Asian and European Tour joint sanctioned tournament began on Wednesday. Vijay Kumar, currently ranked 87th on the APGA Order of Merit, needs to climb 27 spots to finish in bracket that guarantees him a card for the new season.

The top 60 golfers on the Order of Merit for each season earn a direct entry into the events of the following season. Vijay, who won the Indian Open in March 2002, earned a two-year exemption on the Asian circuit, but his exemption runs out in March next year. This season, Vijay, in six starts, has made three cuts, all of them in November 2003. Vijay’s good form started with the Hero Honda Masters at the Delhi Golf Club in the first week of November where he finished tied 18th. Thereafter, he returned a tied 20th effort at the Volvo China Open, followed by another 20th place finish at the Acer Taiwan Open. His efforts have seen him tally $12,995 in prize money earnings on the Asian PGA Tour.

Other than Vijay, there will be the likes of Amandeep Johl, Arjun Singh and Harmeet Kahlon, completing the Indian challenge at the tournament.

Neha wins Lankan title

Promising teenager Neha Majithia mastered windy and wet conditions at the par-72 Nuwara Eliya Golf Club to win the Sri Lankan Ladies Amateur Open at Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.

Neha, a product of Delhi Golf Club, beat the top lady of Lankan women’s golf Suwaneetha Selvarathnam 10 and 9 in the 36-hole match-play final.

Kharkhauda BDPO accountant gets suspension orders
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, December 4
The accountant at the block development and panchayat office, Kharkhauda, Rajbir, has also been placed under suspension for committing irregularities in the auction of 20 shops of the block samiti on a three-year lease.

Block development and panchayat officer Virender Yadav and head clerk Hari Prakash were earlier suspended in the matter.

The shops were auctioned on October 3. As alleged by some members of the block samiti, legal and required formalities like advance publicity of the auction through new papers and public announcements were not made by the authorities concerned. The entire exercise was for benefiting some people.

The matter was raised in the meeting of the Zila Parishad by member Pritam Khokhar. After the meeting, the Additional Deputy Commissioner, mr Rajiv Ranjan, conducted a preliminary inquiry and reportedly noticed irregularities in the auction.

Meantime, five members of the block samiti also lodged a complaint with the district authorities, giving details of the alleged irregularities in the auctioning procedure and demanding action against the erring officials and members of the samiti involved in the matter.

The inquiry report of the Additional Deputy Commissioner and the complaints of the members of the samiti were sent to the government through the office of the Deputy Commissioner for further necessary action.

The suspension of three officials has created panic among other block samiti members, including the Chairman of the samiti.

However, the government has so far not taken any decision on cancellation of the auction of the shops whereas the complainants, who are members of the samiti have demanded cancellation of the auction due to which the samiti is bound to incur losses.