Narrow win for Navy

The first quarter was fast-paced in which the supremely fit and fast Navy forwards revelled. They launched a series of counter-attacks in which a double strike by S N Khan put them ahead 4-3. They consolidated their position in the next two quarters with S D Kumar scoring two brilliant goals and led 8-5 at the end of the third quarter.

But the final quarter belonged to the resurgent Maharashtra team. Skipper Sunil Jaiswal lifted the spirits of the young lads when he scored with a classic long range lob shot to reduce the margin. He combined with theplayer of the match Ranjit Shrotriya who scored two goals in the final quarter to lead a spirited fightback.

Results: Indian Navy 9 S D Kumar 2, S N Khan 2, R Kanan, C Thomas, R Raghu, P Saha, C S A Kumar bt Rest of Maharashtra 8 Ranjit Shrotriya 3, Sunil Jaiswal 3, Sunil Garde, Pratap Shrotriya.

Bengal A 10 Achintya Majumdar 3, Sandeep Datta 3, Taraknath Shaw, Tarun Sarkar, Sanjay Das, Chandan Ghosh bt Bengal B 9 Dilip Ghosh 3, Nanigopal Ghosh 2, Netai Das, Dipes Bairagi, Saibal Das, Sandip Bose.P M Hindu Bath 15 Ajit Singh 4, Nitin Malhotra 3, Rajiv Thakkar 2, Parag Vora 2, Hiren Rajda, Harshal Dekate, Kiran Talekar, Samir Shukla bt Gujarat 0.