Gera, Sardana in big standFebruary 6: A fine partnership of 131 runs for the opening wicket between O.P. Gera and Kishore Sardana helped Bank of Baroda beat Oriental Bank of Commerce by five runs in the Banfin Cricket Championship at the Shivaji College ground.Brief scores: Bank of Baroda: 225 for 6 in 35 overs (O.P. Ghera 63, Kishore 59, S.P.Mehra 44 n.o, Anil Arora 2 for 39, S.K.Sharma 2 for 42) beat Oriental Bank of Commerce: 220 for 5 in 35 overs (Ashok Thakur 61 n.o, Anurag Saxena 43, J.B.Jain 2 for 47, S.P.Mehra 2 for 57).IFCI sports meetA three day All India Golden Jubilee Sports meet, organised by the Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited, will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from February 5 to 7, 1998. Nearly 500 sports persons from all over the country will be participating. The events include athletics, badminton, carrom, table tennis etc.DPS triumphDelhi Public School (East of Kailash) `B' team defeated Chinmaya School 12-8 in theboys section of the 1st WAAS Sub Jr Inter-School Basketball Tournament at the National Stadium courts. In the girl's section, Mater Dei School defeated CJM School 22-4.Brief scores: DPS (East of Kailash) 12: (Manan 6, Pranav 2, Arjun 2, Varun 2) beat Chinmaya 8: (Tarun 2, Ajay 2, Rahul 2, Saurabh 2). Ind: Mater Dei 22 (Isha 8, Astha 4, Nandita 4, Jasmer 2, Jinny 2, Anike 2) beat CJM 4: (Sonam 2, Dayana 2).St Michael winSt Michael School (159 for 8 in 40 overs: Priyank Sahni 56, Gaurav Marwah 26, Anurag Puri 3 for 31, Ankit Kaistha 2 for 19) defeated St Columba's School (106 in 29.1 overs: Wilikins 32, Ankit Kaistha 25, Anurag Puri 16, Arjun Khanna 4 for 43, Sunny Sharma 2 for 21, Priyank Sahni 2 for 28) by 53 runs in the Bro Dunne Inter-School Cricket Tournament.Inter-Hotel CricketConnaught (175 for 8 in 3o overs: Narender 33, Zaheer 25, Devender Bhatia 3 for 36) defeated Hyatt Regency (114 in 22.4 overs: Albert 3 for 14, Narender 2 for 6) by 62 runs in the 9th Inter HotelCricket Tournament at Siri Fort.DDCA LeagueKranti Star c.c, aided by fine knocks from Devinder and Pradip Aggarwal, defeated Vipul Sarees c.c in the B division DDCA Leage match at the Kotla No 2 ground.Brief scores: Kranti Star: 304 in 39.1 overs (Devinder 72, Pradip Aggarwal 67, Ravi Gautam 3 for 31, Ramvir 3 for 29) beat Vipul Sarees c.c: 193 in 31.1 overs (Ramvir 50, Rajat Jaswal 46, Sanjeev 5 for 14).Jupiter Club winJupiter club (107 for 2 in 30.4 overs: Harmeet Sethi 40, Raju 26 n.o) defeated Alpine Club (103 in 34.5 overs: Raju Kishan 25, Rakesh Sharma 17, Rakesh 2 for 21) by eight wickets in a pool A match of the first Hari Singh Tyagi TYCA League at the Mohan Meakins ground.Uppal victoriousAnul Uppal defeated Varun Deep Singh in the Vertex Thursday Night pool Tournament organised by Vertex Club. Anuj won the finals beating Varun in a three game affair. Nitin Seth finished third while Akshay finished fourth.
