Capital Briefs

NEGI IN SOLE LEAD
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi once again moved to the sole lead in the REC National Premier Chess Championship after defeating overnight joint leader International Master M R Lalith Babu of Andhra Pradesh in the eleventh round on Monday. Negi displayed solid attacking game and sacrificed his bishop on the twenty ninth move to good effect to secure full point after ten more moves.

GANGA SCHOOL WINS
An all round display by Man of the Match Hemant Pratap Singh (65 runs and 3 for 7) helped Ganga International School,Hiran Kudna beat Alcon Public School,Mayur Vhar by 144 run and enter the quarter final of the 10th Ganga Inter School U-17 cricket tournament at Ganga school. Economic bowling spells by Sachin Solanki 4/21 and Vishal Kalkal 3/11 proved crucial for Ganga School to restrict Alcon to 83 runs. Brief scores: GANGA SCHOOL 227 for 4 in 35 overs (Hemant Pratap singh 65,Rahul Rana 35) ALCON SCHOOL 83 all out in 23 overs. (Antriksh 35 Sachin Solanki 4/21 Hemant Pratap Singh 3/3 Vishal Kalkal 3/11)

Delhi in U-16 QUARTERS
Tushar Sharma’s bowling spell during which he scalped three wickets,helped Delhi beat Kerala by 7 wickets in the U-16 Vinoo Mankad Trophy. He got ample contribution at the other end from Vikas Dixit who also took three wickets (3/13) Brief scores: Kerala 97 all out in 22 Overs (Tushar Sharma 3/7,Vikas Dixit 3/13 Vaibhav Gulati 2/12 Delhi 99 for 3 in 20 overs (Kartik Sehrawat 32 no,Vikas Dixit 30 no)