Services hand Punjab shocking defeat

Delhi men, who had lost to Services yesterday, suffered their second successive defeat this morning, 53-78 to Maharashtra in Pool B. Unsettled in the first session, Maharashtra lads came into their element in the second session and pressed hard with occasional fast breaks. Later, in the evening, Maharashtra lost to Punjab 60-82.

Maharashtra eves, runner-up last year, suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Madhya Pradesh.

Results

Men

Pool A: Rlys 90 (Ram Kumar 18, Sudhir Huda 14, Vishal Kumar 9) bt West Bengal 65 (Amlendu 21, Vikas 11); Bihar 65 (Nishant Kumar 25, Jaldeep Dhaliwal 12, M Islauddin 11, C Miranda 9) btTamil Nadu 54 (Sridharan 12, Sarvanan 8, Jaishankar 15).

Pool B: Services 74 (Phool Singh 26, Sufeto Francis 19, AP Singh 17) bt Punjab 71 (Parminder Singh Sr 23, Gursharanjeet Singh 12, SN Singh 11, Gagnesh Kumar 10); Maharashtra 78 (Mahesh Naidu 26, Clarence Menezes 21, Shibu George 17) bt Delhi 71 (Dalbir 21, Udaivir 11, Sandeep 10); Punjab 82 (Parminder Singh Sr 37, Gagnesh Kumar 15, S N Singh 12, Vipin Kumar 9) bt Maharashtra 60 (Pankaj 14, Vijayan Gandhe 11, Shibbu George 12, Vinod Kumar 8); Karnataka 73 (Murli Mohan 23, V S Gautam 26, Austin 10) bt Delhi 53 (Satish 16, Dalbir 12, Yudhveer 11).

Pool C: UP 76 (Sandeep 14, Abhinav Singh 10, Rajender 10) bt Pondicherry 48 (Palami 14, Senthil 13); Haryana 58 (Rajesh 26, Krishan 13, Manoj 15) bt HP 40 (Brij Mohan 12, Praveen 8).

Pool D: Rajasthan 83 (Mahipal 17, Mangi Lal 14) bt J&K 24 (Amit Bharti 9, Bhanu Pratap 8); Orissa 50 (Amrish 13, Prakash 13) bt Goa 34 (Sandeep 9, R Upadhyay 9).

Pool E: MP 71 (Virender Joshi 28, STThomas 18, Riazuddin 14) bt Kerala 67 (SJ Shinoi 23, M Ranjeet 18, I Verghese 11); Gujarat 61 (Hitender Singh 25, Vipin Singh 12, Devender Joshi 12) bt Chandigarh 33 (P Aman 8, H Vinu 8); Madhya Pradesh 85 (Riazuddin 17, Rajendra Singh 17, V Pandey 14, Virendra Joshi 5) bt Chandigarh 58 (S Venu 16, Pradeep 10, Sunil 8, Dinesh 6).

Women

Pool A: Railways 61 (Meena 14, Jeo Jose 13) bt Kerala 25 (Sandhya 9, Mary CR 6); Railways 87 (Jeo Jose 17, Deepali P Shah 10, B S Shyla 8) bt Karnataka 29 (Chitra 8); Kerala 64 (Binu Cherian 34, Simithalian 14, P B Sandhya 7) bt Punjab 45 (Anu Randhawa 12, Kiran 10, Rina 8)

Pool B: MP 52 (Savita 23, Neelam 13) bt Maharashtra 39 (Arnika Gujar 14, Manisha Khaprekar 12); Maharashtra 81 (Pradnya Mane 24, Arnika Gujar 20, Manisha Khaprekar 16, Lincy Joseph 13) bt AP 54 (NA Sisily 21, Yamuna 18).

Pool C: Chandigarh 30 (Jaspreet 10) bt HP 10 (Sunita 10).

Pool E: Assam 31 (Manjri Bohra 11, Salima 9) bt Rajasthan 22 (Bhavna Sharma 9); Tamil Nadu 52(Shyamla 12, Vidhya 11) bt Gujarat 4 (Deepali 4).