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MUMBAI, MARCH 27: New India Assurance left nothing to chance. They defeated Oriental by 24 runs to win the third All-India General Insura...

MUMBAI, MARCH 27: New India Assurance left nothing to chance. They defeated Oriental by 24 runs to win the third All-India General Insurance cricket tournament at the Parsi Gymkhana, today.

New India thus won all their matches in the five-team league. A reverse could well have resulted in a triple tie as United India beat National in the other concluding fixture at the Islam Gymkhana.

Electing to bat, New India built up a total of 258 for five in the allotted 45 overs thanks to an opening stand of 84 between Sameer Samant and Jagdish Shetty 107 off 124 balls, 13 fours.

Brief Scores

New India 258-5 Sameer Samant 41, Jagdish Shetty 107, Anand Venkatraman 48 bt Oriental 234 in 44.1 overs Ali Rashid 31, B Mohanty 36, Vinod Kini 43 n.o.; Jagdish Shetty 3-37, Kedar Hudikal 3-48, Arvind Dhuri 3-46. MoM: Jagdish Shetty.

United India 262-9 TS Ramaswamy 68, R Sivaramakrishnan 129 n.o., PA Dhayani 3-57 bt National Insurance 193 in 43.3 overs G Chatterjee 33 n.o., P Dhayani42, A Roy 38; Karunakar Kotian 4-19. MoM: R Sivaramakrishnan.

Final Positions

New India Assurance 16 pts; United India 12, Oriental 8, General Insurance 4 and National 0.

Double for Alvi, Utgikar

A Alvi Tata Chemicals and Mahesh Utgikar Tata Technologies scored a grand double in the tennis and badminton events, respectively, of the Tata Inter-Company tournaments at the PJ Hindu Gymkhana, yesterday.

Results all finals

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Tennis 8211; KAD Naoroji Cup: Tata Chemicals bt Tata Consultancy Services 2-0: A Alvi bt J Pendharkar 6-3, 6-3; Alvi amp; V Trivedi bt R Gopalkrishnan amp; J Pendharkar 6-4, 6-2. GF Lewis Trophy for Open: Men8217;s singles 8211; A Alvi bt V Trivedi 6-3, 6-0. Doubles: Alvi amp; Trivedi bt NM Deshmukh amp; H Kulkarni of Electri 6-1, 6-1.

Badminton 8211; SR Subbaraman Cup: Telco bt Tata Sons 2-1: M Desvandikar lost to Sanjay Dube 13-15, 12-15; Bhingurde amp; Sapkal bt S Dube amp; Mukund Rajan 15-4, 15-4; Bhingurde bt Mukand Rajan 15-2, 15-1. GF Lewis Trophy forOpen: Men8217;s singles: Mahesh Utgikar bt Sameer Chhatre Telecom 15-10, 15-13. Doubles: Utgikar amp; Sapkal bt Ashar amp; Kelkar TCS 15-9, 15-4.