Golden Hawks beat Darling

NEW DELHI, MARCH 14: Golden Hawks defeated Darling Coub by 26 runs in the Division A-II match at the Kotla here today. Hawks, electing to bat, made 171 but Darling failed to overhaul their total and folded making 145. In other matches, Rani Bag downed Ekta by 40 runs, Pahari Dhiraj beat Century by six wickets and Little Masters triumphed over Rajinder Nagar Colts by five wickets.

Brief scores: Golden Hawks (171: Vishal Sharma 42, Sandeep Rawat 38, Sanjay Sehgal 3 for 29, Manoj Dutt 3 for 30) bt Darling (145: Sarvesh 76 not out, Shantanu Raja 5 for 32). Rani Bagh (181 for 8: Jagjit Singh 52, Sanjay 45, Devinder 3 for 28) btg Ekta (141: Bhuvan Rawat 26, Deepak 4 for 28). Century (124: Rakesh Singh 41, Gajender Saini 7 for 17) lost to Pahari Dhiraj (127 for 4: Vikrant Saini 51 not out, Rakesh Singh 2 for 18). Rajinder Nagar Colts (225 for 8: Sanjiv Saini 51, P. Dayal 48, Umesh 2 for 33) lost to Little Masters (226 for 5: Deepak Bhatnagar 62, Umesh Singh 46 not out, Krishan Soni 2 for 32).