HVPN drub MSEB for men team title

Earlier, HVPN had drubbed Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board 3-0 and MSEB had prevailed 3-2 over UPSEB in the two semifinals.

Punjab State Electricity Board, who had made it to the semifinal, were disqualified as they were playing with `contract employees’.

Results
Final: HVPN bt MSEB 3-0 (Virender bt Pankaj 15-4, 15-2; Surender bt Santosh 15-5, 15-0; Virender and Surender bt Pankaj and Santosh 15-5, 15-2). Semifinals: HVPN bt MPSEB 3-0 (Surender bt N Subhramanium 15-2, 15-4; Virender bt N V Nathan 15-3, 15-2; Surender and Virender bt R Bhoyar and Gaikwad 15-4, 15-1). MSEB bt UPSEB 3-2 (Pankaj bt Sanjay 15-7, 15-4; Srikant lost to Rajesh 11-15, 15-12; S Raghuvanshi and Pankajn lost to Sanjay and Rajesh 7-15, 15-2, 6-15; Santosh bt Anjum 15-8, 15-7; Niranjan and Srikant bt Anil and Ashraf 15-8, 15-10).

PGI win
Thanks to Raman Sharma’s fine allround performance, PGI Club beat the Chandigarh Press Club by 59 runs in an exhibition match at the Police Lines ground, Sector 26 today.

Raman was declared the man of the match, Ajay Banerjee best batsman and N K Jha was the best bowler. Scores: PGI: 176 for 5 (Raman Sharma 47, Raman Abrol 31, Vikas Bhardwaj 23, Rajinder 20; Narinder Kwatra 2-25) beat Press Club: 117 (Ajay Banerjeee 40, Ajay Sharda 18; Raman Sharma 3-15, N K Jha 2-28, V K Bhardwaj 2-10).