SPORTS

Sonnet grab five points in under-13 cricket
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New Delhi, December 16
A half century by Ankush Panwar and a fiery spell of 5 for 46 by left-arm spinner Manan Sharma helped Sonnet Club earn five points from their drawn match against Bharat National Academy in the Aviva Young Achiever Under-13 Cricket Tournament. Bharat received three points.

Scores: Sonnet Club (1st innings): 122 for 9 in 39.2 overs (Ankush Panwar 55, Mohit Vanjani 19, Karandeep Singh 5 for 46, Sourabh Nischal 3 for 35). Sonnet (2nd innings): 39 for 2 in 12 overs (Dushyant Singh 2 for 10). Bharat Academy: 88 for 7 in 25 overs (Karandeep Singh 20, Anuj Khurana 25, Manan Sharma 5 for 46, Karan Khurana 2 for 12).

Salwan move into final

An unbeaten knock of 79, studded with ten fours, by Anshul Gupta and an all-round display by Yogesh Nagar (60 and 3 for 25) helped Salwan Boys defeat Rohtak Road Gymkhana by 59 runs to enter the final of the Kehar Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Vikaspuri ground.

Scores: Salwan Boys: 189 for 1 in 35 overs (Anshul Gupta 79 n o, Yogesh Nagar 60, Shobhit Kaushik 24 n o).

R R Gymkhana: 130 all out in 31.1 overs (Mohit Sharma 55, Yogesh Nagar 3 for 25, Dixit Kathuria 3 for 21, Darshan Kajania 3 for 23).

Anish Aggarwal stars in G G Dutt’s victory
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New Delhi, December 16
A fine all-round performance by Anish Aggarwal (47 and 4 for 48) helped Goswami Ganesh Dutt Club defeat Young Cricketers by 39 runs in an A-I Division match of the DDCA League at the Yamuna Sports Complex ground.

Scores: GG Dutt: 225 for 7 in 40 overs (Anish Aggarwal 47, Amit Sharma 40 n o, Ankit Bhargav 32, Sunny Thakur 2 for 45, Vishu Tomar 2 for 37).

Young Cricketers: 186 all out in 32 overs (Abhishek Chaudhary 50, Sunny Thakur 35, Anish Aggarwal 4 for 48, Ravi Kumar 3 for 22).

York Club defeated Ministry of Information and Broadcasting by 26 runs in an A-II Division match at the RSKP ground.

Scores: York Club: 115 all out in 24.4 overs (Rajesh Deswal 33, Sushil Kumar 3 for 43, Baljeet Singh 2 for 10, Sanjeev Soni 2 for 23).

Ministry of I and B: 89 all out in 29.3 overs (V Grover 20, Narender Taneja 3 for 17, Rajesh Deswal 2 for 17).

Chandni Chowk Gymkhana defeated Malik Sports by 71 runs in an A-II Division match at the YSC II ground.

Scores: Chandni Chowk Gymkhana: 226 for 9 in 35 overs (Rajeev Puri 86, Ravinder Panwar 30, Meetesh Singh 3 for 45).

Malik Sports: 155 all out in 34.5 overs (Mohd Shabad 37, Rajeev Puri 4 for 21, Man Mohan 2 for 25).

Phadkar Cricket

G E Capital defeated Gas Authority of India Ltd by five wickets in the seventh DG Phadkar Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Teri Oval.

Scores: GAIL: 118 all out in 23.5 overs (Satish Kumar 25, Prakash Basu 23, Gaurav 2 for 23, Joginder 3 for 20, Rivesh 3 for 16).

GE Capital: 120 for 5 in 22.5 overs (Arijeet 41 n o, Kartik 20 n o).

Rain hits Subroto soccer matches
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New Delhi, December 16
Heavy rains on Tuesday morning made the Ambedkar Stadium unfit to hold the Subroto Mukhrejee Cup Football matches, forcing the organising committee to reschedule some of the matches on other grounds like the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

The rescheduled fixtures are: December 17: Under-14 quarter-finals: Kamlakar Choubey High School vs BKSP, Bangladesh (9 am); North Bongaigaon School vs Govt Model School, Chandigarh (10.30 a m). Under-17 semi-finals: Oxford School, Aizawl vs Town High School, Sundergarh (1.30 pm); Govt High School, Tamaloo vs Kabiraj Tilla School, Agartala (3 pm). December 18: Under-14 semi-finals: 1.30 pm and 3 pm respectively.

The under-14 final is scheduled to be held at the Ambedkar Stadium on December 20 at 2.15 pm while the under-17 final will be held on December 21 at 1.30 pm.

AAI record thrilling victory
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New Delhi, December 16
Airports Authority of India (AAI) scored a four-run thrilling victory against NTPC in the Luminous Cup Cricket Tournament at the Vinay Marg ground.

Scores: AAI: 153 for 5 in 25 overs (Deepak 32, Mahesh 28, V S Chauhan 22 n o, Pritam Singh 17, Satinder 2 for 20, V Laddi 1 for 25). NTPC: 149 in 23.4 overs (Satinder 32, Sanjay 28, Pritam Singh 3 for 10, Mohinder 2 for 9).

Flying Sixers Cricket

A Flying Sixers 6s Cricket Tournament, organised by the Malaysia Airlines, will be held from January 3 to 11, 2004. Sixty-three teams with six players each side will play matches comprising five-over innings. Entries close with Jitender at 9810978769 or email at jitucrick@rediffmail.com.

Bharat Academy lift cricket title
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New Delhi, December 16
Bharat National Academy defeated Ramfal Academy by five wickets to annex the SPM Under-13 Cricket Tournament at the SPM College ground.

SPM College principal Dr S K Jolly gave away the prizes. Anuj Tyagi was adjudged the best all-rounder, Manik Tandon the best batsman and Rahul Pandey the best bowler of the tournament.

Scores: Ramfal Academy: 148 for 8 in 35 overs (Vibhav Rawal 48, Mukul Dangar 31, Sameer Gupta 40, Rahul Panday 3 for 21).

Bharat National Academy: 149 for 5 in 28 overs (Samarth 48, Abhishek 39, Sameer Gupta 4 for 18).

Turf Sports Juniors lose to Melbourne School

New Delhi, December 16
Turf Sports Juniors lost to Melbourne High School by 40 runs during their tour of Australia.

Scores: Melbourne School: 205 for 6 in 40 overs (A Fernando 50 n o, A Michener 25, Abhinav Sharma 2 for 21, Sahib Karan 1 for 8, Raunak Gupta 1 for 20). Turf Sports Juniors: 165 all out in 40 overs (Rites Gupta 51 n o, Karan Khanna 22, C Cooray 3 for 42, U Sheikh 2 for 20).

KLM beat Sikka

KLM defeated Sikka by 155 runs in the ACCD Cricket Tournament at the Venkateswara College ground.

Scores: KLM: 214 for 8 in 25 overs (Kapil 52, Amit Tandon 39, S Rawat 3 for 32). Sikka: 59 all out in 20 overs (Harminder 23, Amit Tandon 4 for 7, Kapil 2 for 6, Mahesh 2 for 13, Anil 2 for 13). OSR

Milkha Singh to play in pro-am golf
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New Delhi, December 16
‘Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh will be the star attraction in the pro-am event of the Tata Open to be held in Jamshedpur. B Muthuraman, managing director of Tata Stell, will inaugurate the Rs 15 lakh prize money tournament.

Amongst the pros, apart from Mukesh Kumar, the country’s top golfers, including the likes of SSP Chowrasia, who is fresh from victory at the NGC Open, rookie Gurbaaz Mann, Rohtas Singh and Ali Sher will participate in the tournament.

The pro-am will be played on a stableford format and the scoring will be done on the basis of the two best scores out of four scores. Special prizes will be given to the individual winners in the amateur and professional categories.

The winner will pocket Rs 7000 while the runner-up will be richer by Rs 5,000.

Special Focus on Gurgaon
Gurgaon could be a happening place for adventure sports
Ravi S. Singh
Tribune News Service

Gurgaon, December 16
If things go according to plan Gurgaon would soon be one of the happening places for organising adventure sports in the future. Pioneering efforts have been done in this field in the Golden Greens Golf Course and Country Club, located about 10 km from here.

The Golden Greens Golf Club, claimed to be Asia’s first 18-hole links golf course, nestled in the foothills of Aravallis Hills, organised a spectrum of adventure sports recently. According to a senior functionary of the club, sports events were organised as an experiment to study the feasibility of formally holding them here.

To give a calendar importance to Sunday’s event, the management authorities of the club timed it with the institute’s celebration of the festive season round the corner. The entire event was packaged as “the adventure mania” with its dominant component being the “Adventure Cup”. The sports events in the agenda were an 18-hole golf tournament and an array of activities like parasailing, hot air ballooning, dirt biking and adventure rolling.

In fact, some of the activities like ballooning and parasailing were organised as competitive events for the first time in Gurgaon. The management authorities of the club roped in retired pilots from the Air Force to ensure smooth conduct of the parasailing event.

The participants in Sunday’s event included the Ambassadors of Argentina and Spain in India, respectively, Mr G. Biritos and Mrs R. Conde, and a number of senior diplomats, corporate heads, technocrats and professionals from other walks of life based in Delhi and Gurgaon.

The club authorities say that if things work according to plan the institute would organise adventure sports periodically and on a larger scale. According to them, the USP of the site of the Golf and Country Club is its scenic locale which is ideally suited for adventure sports.