Air-India enter quarters

MARCH 21: Hosts Air-India made the quarter-finals of the 18th All-India Public Sector Millennium Cup Cricket Championship, on Tuesday. They beat ONGC `B’ by 10 wickets to top Group B. The second team to qualify was Bharat Petroleum, who scored a comfortable six-wicket victory over Coal India.

Brief scores: Group A: New India Assurance: 223-7 (Sameer Samant 55, Anant Venkatraman 34, Kedar Hudliker 45) bt Central Warehousing Corporation: 222-9 (Lalit Yadav 57, Amrish Gautam 42; Kedar Hudliker 3-48). MoM: Kedar Hudliker. Group B: ONGC `B’: 56 (Sandesh Kawle 5-24) lost to Air-India: 60-0 (Sandesh Kawle 33 n.o.). MoM: Sandesh Kawle. Coal India: 167-4 (MS Dhoni 64, Hussain 43 n.o.) lost to BPCL 168-4 (Abhijit Kale 63, Rajinder Singh 50 n.o.). MoM: Abhijit Kale. Group C: Indian Oil: 395-5 (Amit Dani 106, Abbas ali 124, Wasim Jaffer 76, Hemant Kiniker 37) bt Neyveli Lignite Corporation: 66 (Shiv Kumar 35; Amit Dani 32-3). MoM: Amit Dani. Group D: ONGC `A’: 346-3 (Gautam Vadhera 73, Rizwan Shamshad 135 n.o., V Sehwag 115 n.o.) bt Oriental Insurance: 256 (Vidyanand 41, V Kini 83) MoM: Rizwan Shamshad.