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This is an archive article published on January 20, 1999
IOC make clean sweep
PUNE, Jan 19: Hosts Indian Oil Corporation made a clean sweep of all the six titles, the claiming the team championship, the singles and ...
PUNE, Jan 19: Hosts Indian Oil Corporation made a clean sweep of all the six titles, the claiming the team championship, the singles and doubles titles in both men8217;s and women8217;s categories in the VIth PSCB Inter Unit Carrom tournament which concluded at the Padale Palace Hall today.
Top seed M Nataraj retained the men8217;s title defeating teammate Simon Issac 25-11, 22-25, 25-0 in the finals and later made it a grand double, pairing up with K Ramesh Babu to overwhelm Balu Kanukale and V Venkataswamy of BPCL 25-13, 25-1 to retain the doubles title as well.
Varsha Narayanan of IOC retained the women8217;s singles title for a record sixth year in succession. She made short work of Surekha Nagwekar of ONGC 25-4, 25-0. Varsha later figured in the doubles final alongwith Madhuri Taishetye to win the title against Surekha NAgwekar and Pronita Das 25-13, 25-18.
Infosys reign supreme
Infosys Technologies Ltd. defeated Querisoft by a huge margin of 10 wickets in the Inter-Information Technology cricket championship here today.
Querisoft batsmen caved in for 58 runs while facing the Infosys duo of Vineet Patwardhan 3/6 and Sandeep Lele 3/14. Infosys won without loosing any wickets. Sashi excelled with an unbeaten 33.
Frontier Software went down to ICIL by three-wickets. Batting first, Frontier Software rattled up 157 runs, aided by a 51 from skipper Manav. Mahesh 29 and Nadeem 28 lent him excellent support. Suresh 3/16 restricted the Frontier onslaught. ICIL scraped through by three wickets thanks to Altaf Shaikh 32, Vinay 24 and Sai 20.
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