Chandigarh, October 21
St Peter’s School, St John’s School (pool A), St Stephen’s School, Mount Carmel (pool B), Shivalik Public, St Soldier’s International (pool C) and hosts St Kabir School and Ryan International (pool D) qualified for the quarter-final knockout stage on the completion of the league phase of the St Kabir Under-12 Football Trophy being organised by the Chandigarh Football Association at St Kabir School grounds here today.

St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, scored another big win in their pool B programme. They handed out a 6-0 drubbing to St Xavier’s, Sector 44. The highlight of the match was a brilliant display by Waris Rashid, who scored three goals. He scored in the first, seventh and eighth minute.

St Stephen’s School got their other goals through Karan, Sonu and Jaideep.

The quarter-final line-up is: St Peter’s vs Mount Carmel; St Stephen’s vs St John’s; St Soldier’s International vs St Kabir and Shivalik Public School vs Ryan International.

St Kabir School, Sector 26, and Ryan International, Sector 49, performed well in their last group D fixture. St Kabir just managed to eke out a solitary goal win. The all-important goal was scored by Manraj.

St Kabir with two wins topped their pool. Ryan, with one win and one defeat, finished runners-up. Both teams qualified for quarter-finals.

St Peter’s finished their group A league programme with two wins. Today they defeated St John’s School, Sector 26, by a solitary goal scored by Ayush Ganjoo in the 36th minute. St John’s with three points from two outings finished the group as runners-up.

It was a do-or-die battle for St Soldier’s International, Sector 28, and Little Flowers in the pool C. The match ended in a goalless draw which paved the way for St Soldier’s to sneak into the quarter-final on the basis of better goal average.

Both teams had one point each at the end of their league programme. Shivalik School, with both wins in Pool C, topped with six points.

Chandigarh, October 21
Keeping in view the public demand, the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) has decided to open the sale of general block tickets for the one-day international match between India and Sri Lanka, to be played at the PCA Stadium at Mohali on October 28, from tomorrow onwards instead of October 23 as originally planned, according to Mr G.S.Walia, Chairman, Media Committee, PCA.

He further said the PCA had nominated HDFC Bank as its official bankers for the match. The bank will also be selling the tickets for the match in its branches at Sector 37 and Sector 46 in Chandigarh and Phase-7 in Mohali in addition to the PCA counter at the stadium itself. The tickets will be sold from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.