SPORTS

Temirbaev beats Laxman to share lead
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, March 16
Grandmaster Serik Temirbaev of Kazakhstan joined overnight leaders Pavel Kotsur and Saidali Iuldachev in the lead on 7.5 points after beating triple IM norm holder RR Laxman in the ninth round of the second Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra at Panchkuian Road in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The three leaders are followed by a pack of eight players, including Koneru Humpy, former Commonwealth champion Dibyendu Barua, R. B. Ramesh and Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Two more rounds remain in this Rs 4 lakh prize money tournament.

The day witnessed a flurry of International Master norms being made after Laxman achieved it, even though he lost his game. The big gainer of the day was Md Javed of Bangladesh, who, despite his mediocre ELO rating of 2150, made his maiden international norm, after an impressive performance. Javed took a quick draw with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary, who is awaiting confirmation of his IM title.

Aarthie Ramaswamy also achieved her IM norm as she took a cue from Javed and followed suit against IM DK Sharma. Manthan Chokshi, an unassuming young man from Gujarat, also cashed in on his norm opportunity and defeated IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra, who played white.

Top-seeded Kotsur took a safe route for the third round in succession and settled for truce with GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan. Iuldachev also settled for a quick draw against defending champion R B Ramesh.

Amongst the Indian GMs in the fray, national champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly scored a clinical victory over GM norm holder D. V. Prasad. Prasad fell under pressure in the middle game, and could not recover thereafter.

Barua was lucky to score over young IM Deepan Chakravarthy, who missed his chances, while Humpy defeated IM P Konguvel. Sandipan Chanda shared points with S Satyapragyan.

Aakash Ahluwalia, Sameer Khurana help B P Academy to victory
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New Delhi, March 16
A half century by Aakash Ahluwalia and all-round performance by Sameer Khurana helped Bhai Parmanand Cricket Academy defeat Abhay Ram Gymkhana by 90 runs in a league match of the first Mahender Kaushik Memorial Under-15 Cricket Tournament at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Aakash was declared the man of the match.

Scores: B P Academy: 205 all out in 40 overs (Akash Ahluwalia 50, Abhishek Sehgal 34, Sameer Khurana 31, Chiragjeet Singh 3 for 29, Ajay Choudhary 3 for 35).

A R Gymkhana: 115 all out in 32.3 overs (Surender Singh 36, Swetank Ghosh 29, Arjun Tyagi 28, Sameer Khurana 3 for 30).

External Affairs win

Ministry of External Affairs defeated World Bank XI by seven wickets in the third Raymond Commonwealth High Commission Cricket Tournament.

Scores: World Bank XI: 78 in 17.4 overs (M S Bisht 4 for 16, Sanjeev 2 for 12, SPS Rawat 2 for 22, Shambhu 2 for 24).

Ministry of External Affairs: 79 for 3 in 10.5 overs (Sanjay 26 n o, Puran Singh 3 for 32).

Daksh defeat GAIL

Daksh defeated Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) by 83 runs in the 11th Teri Cup Cricket Tournament at the Central Secretariat ground. Daksh scored 218 for 6 in 25 overs.

Scores: Daksh: 218 for 6 in 25 overs (Ankit Bhargav 95 n o, Mohit Kaushal 50, Mayur Bora 28, Shiv 3 for 30).

GAIL: 135 in 18.3 overs (Satish Kumar 33, Gautam 19, Ankit Bhargav 3 for 10, Chandan Singh 2 for 24, Puru Singh 2 for 24). Ankit was named the man of the match.

Cricket coaching camp

Mount Abu Public School at Sector 5, Rohini will organise a cricket camp for boys in the age group of 8 to 18 from March 27.

Entries close at the school reception on phones 9899143360, 27041516.

Bright Club shine over Indian Airlines
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New Delhi, March 16
Bright Club defeated Indian Airlines by four wickets in a Super A Division match of the DDCA League at the RSC ground.

Scores: Indian Airlines: 165 for 9 in 40 overs (Shankar Saini 52, Dinesh Yadav 2 for 29, Kuldeep Singh 2 for 31).

Bright Club: 169 for 6 in 33.5 overs (Nischal Gaur 76, Sumit Narwal 25 n o, Arun Panday 3 for 32, Harender Chaudhary 2 for 34).

Youngsters Club beat Indian Air Force by four wickets in a Super A Division match at Palam I ground.

Scores: Air Force: 185 for 9 in 40 overs (PMS Reddy 45, Imran Khan 45, Amit Choudhary 3 for 22, Jitender Solanki 2 for 35).

Youngsters Club: 189 for 6 in 37.4 overs (Jitender Gulia 61 n o, Jitender Solani 47, Suneet Sharma 34, Jai Kishan 2 for 11).

National Stadium Coaching Centre defeated Subhania Club by 168 runs in a Super A Division match at the Mohan Meakins ground.

Scores: National Stadium: 317 for 4 in 36 overs (Manindra Singh 137 n o, Randeep Singh 82, Rameez Niyamat 50, Amit Kumar 2 for 54).

Subhania: 149 all out in 31 overs (Azim Khan 55, Dinesh Khatra 29 n o, Nitin Sahni 4 for 18).

Rohtak Road Gymkhana defeated Chand Khanna Club by five wickets in a Super A Division match at the University ground.

Scores: Chand Khanna: 231 for 9 in 35 overs (Varun Kumar 71, Piyush Sharma 47, Vivek Khurana 2 for 45, Abhishek Sharma 2 for 58).

R R Gymkhana: 232 for 5 in 33.3 overs (Agnesh Surya 76 n o, Pradeep Chawla 59, Manoj Kumar 36, P P Singh 33, Ravi Sengar 2 for 41).

GE Capital advance in Reebok tourney
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New Delhi, March 16
GE Capital defeated RebusIS by 136 runs in the Reebok Cricket tournament.

Scores: GE Capital: 199 for 7 in 25 overs (Rodney Charles 62, Ashish Lal 48, Ajay Sharma 30, Sushil Sharma 2 for 23, Wajid Khan 2 for 28).

RebusIS: 63 all out in 14.3 overs (Nitin Jain 16, Bhupesh Kumar 11, Rodney Charles 3 for 4, Kartik M 3 for 23).

Abhay Ram Cricket

The fifth Abhay Ram Gymkhana Cricket Tournament will be held from April 3 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

Sixteen teams will participate in the tournament. Entries close with Yogesh Choudhary on phones 9810374661, 202136747 on March 25.

Pankaj Jain Cricket from March 20

The second Pankaj Jain Under-14 Inter-School Cricket Tournament will be held at the Bal Bharati School ground at Pitampura from March 20. Twentythree school teams will participate in the tournament.