CHANDIGARH, MARCH 5: Northern Region outclassed Rajasthan by a huge margin of 130 runs in a cricket match of the sixth All-India Orient Bank of Commerce Inter-State Sports meet at the Gurusagar Stadium here today. The highlight of the match was a brilliant knock of 98 runs by K K Gandhi and fine bowling by Jaswinder who claimed three wickets for 14 runs.Northern Region batting first and were all out for 240 and skittled out Rajasthan for 110 runs.At the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium, Delhi routed West Bengal by nine wickets. West Bengal were dismissed for a paltry total of 56 runs while Delhi made 59 without loss in just 6.1 overs.At the DAV College ground, Maharashtra prevailed over Madhya Pradesh by three wickets and at Punjab Engineering College ground, Uttar Pradesh beat Gujarat by 39 runs. Uttar Pradesh scored 170 runs and dismissed Gujarat by 131 runs.Brief scores: Northern Region : 240 (K K Gandhi 98, Gurmit Singh 65 not out, Kulbir Pasricha 33, Harish Malik 2 for 27) bt Rajasthan: 110 (Kulbir Pasricha 33, Harish Malik 31, Jaswinder 3 for 14, Surjit 2 for 25) by 130 runs.West Bengal: 56 for no loss (Raja Malik 20) lost to Delhi: 59 (Anurag 35 not out) by 10 wickets.North Zone and Delhi entered the final of the table tennis competitions. In quarter-finals matches, North Zone routed Eastern Region 3-0 and Delhi also recorded an identical 3-0 win over Madhya Pradesh.Results: Semi-finals: North Zone (Vijay Yadav bt Bishwas 21-11, 21-19, J Bhandari bt S Dass 21-10, 21-5, B Yadav and J Bhandari bt B Vishwas and S Dass 21-13, 21-13) 3-0.Delhi (V Kumar b S Nikhav 21-23, 21-15, 21-11, V N Kochar bt Miland 21-17, 21-12, V Kumar and V N Kochar bt S Nikhar and M Majumdar 21-8, 21-12) 3-0.Q-finals: North bt Maharashtra 3-0 (Vijay Yadav bt R N Kukerikar 21-10, 21-8, Jawahar Bhandari bt Jagtar 21-6, 21-10, Vijay Yadav and Jawahar b J Parhar and N Atma Ram 21-10, 21-9).Eastern Region bt Southern Region 3-1 (Sumitra Dass lost to Dilip Gupta 14-21, 15-21, Vishwajit b Victor A 21-13, 21-11, S Dass and B Bishwas bt Dilip Gupta and A Victor 16-21, 21-16, 21-16, B Bishwas bt Dalip Gupta 21-13, 21-14).MP bt Rajasthan 3-1 (Sanjivan Nikhar bt Sc Purohit 21-10, 22-20, M Jamadar bt AK Saxena 21-6, 21-12, S Nikhar and B M Dube lost to SC Purohit and N K Mehta 21-11, 16-21, 12-21, S Nikhar bt AK Saxena 21-5, 21-7).Delhi bt UP 3-1 (V Kumar bt Ajay Mehrotra 21-14, 21-14, K Singh bt Ajit Singh 21-19, 21-11, v Kumar and K Singh lost to Ajay and Ajit 10-21, 20-22, V Kumar bt Ajit Singh 21-6, 21-9). Madhya Pradesh beat Rajasthan by 3-1; Northern Region blanked Maharashtra by 3-0 and Southern Region bt Eastern Region by 3-1.Earlier, Managing Director of Oriental Bank of Commerce Dalbir Singh inaugurated the meet. More than 200 employees of the bank are taking part in cricket, table tennis, carrom and chess.
