Air-India beaten in thriller

MoM: Vijay Dahiya (Indian Airlines), Abhijit Kale (BPCL), MS Dhoni (Coal India), Rajesh Pawar (Indian Oil) and Gautam Vadelira (ONGC A).

Easy for Hindu Gym

PJ Hindu Gymkhana beat Parsee Gymkhana by 272 runs in a first-round match of the Young Comrade Shield Cricket Tournament, conducted by MIG Cricket Club, on Saturday.

Brief scores: PJ Hindu Gymkhana 442 (Ashok Kadam 64, Milind Tamhane 31, Saket Adhikari 61, N Surve 76, N Sawant 47, Atiq Syyed 44 n.o., V Tawade 40; Pravin Tambe 3-134) bt Parsee Gymkhana 170 in 37.2 overs (Sharom Murkak 34, Pravin Tambe 38, S Nakhare 32; Nitin Sawant 4-46). lGamdevi Cricketers 95 in 37 overs (Ajay Joshi 5-35, Iqbal Thakur 5-36) lost to Islam Gymkhana 98-3 in 17 overs (Shahbaz Khan 41 n.o.) by seven wickets. Khar Gymkhana 296 (A Narkar 44, R Randive 67, S Khan 40; Sandesh Bandiwadekar 5-60, Mangesh Govekar 3-17) bt United Cricketers 50 (Avishkar Salvi 3-9). Khandala Cricket Club 130 (Ramesh Powar 6-25) lost to Victory CC 133-5 (Maroof Khan 49). Jolly Cricketers 182 (Samir Hindalekar 39, Shravan Tawde 55 n.o.) lost to MB Union 188-4 (Sanjay Patil 30, Jayraj Chitnis 59, Milind Korgaonkar 42 n.o.; Akash Sarawal 3-34). Young Comrade 172 (Naresh Kambli 54; Janak Mistry 4-40, Vinay Dandekar 4-60) lost to New Hind SC192-2 (Rubesh Kumar 101 n.o., Vinay Dandekar 74).

Marinagar rally

Marinagar Sports Club, who were trailing 1-2 at the breather, rallied to hold Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) 3-3 in a Bombay Hockey Association Division II match at the Mahindra Stadium, Churchgate, on Saturday.

RS Bhandari (2) and Rajneesh Kumar scored for BARC. C Mascarenhas (2) and H Khan levelled terms for Marinagar.

Oratory, Fr Agnel win

Don Bosco Oratory (Goa) beat reigning champions Sainath and Fr Agnel (Vashi) defeated Kirol Boys, both by 1-0 margins, in the semi-finals of the Don Bosco Challenge Cup, organised by the Don Bosco Youth Centre, at the St Joseph’s Technical ground, Kurla, on Saturday.

Good goalkeeping by Agnel Furtado enabled the Goans to triumph. They scored the match-winner in the 23rd minute through Nicolau Borges.

Tolomen D’Silva netted the winner for Fr Agnel against Kirol Boys.

Allwyn advances

Allwyn D’Souza beat Vijay Marpelli 25-21, 21-23, 23-9 in an open singles second-round game of the fifth Mayor’s Cup Carrom Tournament at the BMC Gymkhana, Azad Maidan, on Saturday.

Other results (2nd round): Victor Paul bt Ankit Mithani 15-17, 22-19, 21-0; Louis Evans bt Vasudeo Katha 25-7, 25-9; Nityanand Dontulla bt Navin Baria 25-10, 8-20, 23-8; Ramdas Sawardekar bt Shanker Rohekar 19-22, 25-12, 20-8; Sanjay Nagaonkar bt Ganesh Nirgun 18-15, 25-0; Shashikant Pilgaokar bt Anil Chorge 25-5, 25-8; Vithal Gaikwad bt Vijay Shelar 25-1, 16-15; Manu Baria bt Sunil Kairamkonda 25-8, 25-12; Sadanand Tambe bt Dinkar Gadhade 8-18, 25-15, 19-7; Vikas Pol bt Sangam Wasave 25-9, 8-20, 23-8.

Balsara prevails

Omar Balsara (+20) ousted Seby D’Cruz (+50) 119-64, 45-102, 119-50 in a fourth-round game of the Anthony D’Cruz Open Handicap Snooker Tournament at the Catholic Gymkhana, on Saturday.

Other results (4th round): Cyrus Kyani (+40) bt R Rajagopalam (+50) 89-81, 97-73; Kunal Choksi (+40) bt Abhay Haralkar (+50) 86-87, 101-67, 95-83; Kunal Solanki (+45) bt Vishal T (+50) 114-64, 114-51; Sameer Karia (+40) bt HT Lahe (+50) 104-68, 104-67; Mahadev Bhogle (+50) bt Jagdish (+45) 92-72, 78-92, 116-89; Nikhil Ootam (+25) bt Ram R (+50) 105-72, 96-65; LS Mhatre (+45) bt V Jaisingh (+45) 112-69, 116-72.