Snooker: Shaikh beats Badekar

Sameer Shaikh recovered from a frame down to beat Pramod Badekar 23-64,52-36,58-22,62-40 in the first round of the PYC-Green Baize snooker tournament on Tuesday.

Results: first round: Rajesh Agarwal bt Jay Desai 49-26,52-37,25-50,31-56,57-31; Anupam Zha bt Kamaludin Shaikh 51-25,28-50,34-44,57-30,78-27; Mohan Jagtap bt Rutwik Chirmude 30-56,62-18,74-13,62-42; Sagar Banode bt Dhiraj Vani 22-49,61-09,54-11,43-4; Vikas Duva bt Rana Kadolkar 70-48,53-27,90-22: Sameer Shaikh bt Pramod Badekar 23-64,52-36,58-22,62-40.

Football:Syntel beat TCS

Pravin Kanojiya slammedthree goals within the space of eight minutes to give Syntel a 4-1 win over TCS in the Maharashtra Krida inter-IT football tournament on Tuesday. Results: Syntel 4 (Netra Saha 30′,Pravin Kanojiya 33′,35′,41′) bt TCS 1 (Kunal Chakraborti 45′); SOS India 2 (Chinmay Kotnis 14′,Anupam Samuel 46′) bt iGATE Patni 1 (Hiren Shah 35′); IBM 3 (Hari Ramesh 15′,Afzal Beg 34′,Sanjeev Gadgil 42′) bt 3DPLM Geometric 0; Cybage 1 (Riyaz Shaikh 21′) bt SAS 0; L&T Infotech 3 (Azhar Shaikh 17′,Vikram Singh 23′,Yagya Mehra 23′) bt MindTree 0; KPIT Cummins Infosystems 0 drew with Zensar 0; ADP 1 (Shriniwas Iyer 48′) bt Cognizant 0; Honeywell 1 (Swapnil Joshi 43′) bt Amdocs 0.

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