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Sahara Airlines claim titleAll-round performance by Anoop Rana (2 for 26 and 35 not out) and Mohinder Pal's 3 for 17 helped Sahara Airlin...

Sahara Airlines claim title
All-round performance by Anoop Rana (2 for 26 and 35 not out) and Mohinder Pal’s 3 for 17 helped Sahara Airlines to win the Sports Sun cricket tournament beating KN Colts by four wickets at Paschim Vihar sports complex.

Anoop Rana, Amar Singh and Jagjit Singh were the batting heroes for Sahara Airlines while Anand Mishra (3 for23) was the most successful bowler for KN Colts. Anoop Rana was adjudged man of the match’ while Jagat Singh and Anand Mishra (both KN Colts) were declared best batsman and best bowler, respectively. Vikas Chandan (Sahara Airlines) clinched man of the tournament’ award.

Brief scores: Sahara Airlines: 134 for 6 (Anoop Rana 35 not out, Amar Singh 30, Jagjit Singh 27 not out, Anand Mishra 3 for 23) bt KN Colts: 132 (Jagat Singh 38, Amit Mishra 34, Devashish 26, Mohinder Pal 3 for 17, Anoop Rana 2 for 26).

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Bhupinder shines
A fine 42 by Bhupinder Chadha and an excellent display by Amit Verma (27 and 2 for 21) enabled Citizen Clun XI outplay Tilak Nagar Colts by 36 runs in a limited overs match at Paschim Vihar.

Brief scores: Citizen Club XI: 206 for 9 (Bhupender Chadha 42, Roby 31, Amit Verma 27, Dinesh 25, Ravinder Sunny 22, Girish 3 for 20, Deepak 3 for 34) bt Tilak Nagar Colts: 170 (NP Singh 40, Dinesh 2 for 17, Roby 2 for 25, Amit Verma 2 for 21).

Goel advances
Vijay Goel entered the quarter-final of Meharban Singh Dhupia memorial billiard and snooker tournament defeating Amit Kapoor 83-6, 30-44, 36-49, 68-14, 62-11 at Chelmsford Club.

In other matches, Rajat Taneja bt Darmeet Manik 97-17, 90-31, 66-30 while Atul Aggarwal bt Sanjay Maini 62-17, 51-35, 68-45. Rajesh Belhl prevailed over Dimple Arora 47-25, 39-50, 53-23, 24-58, 53-41.

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GE Capital win
An unbeaten 78 by Rahul Dixit helped GE Capital to clinch the sixth Teri Cup tournament title outplaying Teri by six wickets at Harbaksh stadium.KP Eashwar (36) and T Ramesh (35) were the top scorers for the losers while Rahul Dixit (78 not out) and Mitesh Sharma (27) were the principal contributors for the winners.

Following players were awarded for their performance during the tournament: Rahul Dixit (best batsman, GE Capital); RK Pachauri (best bowler, Teri); Dharmendar Rawat (best fielder, Teri); Rakesh Chopra (best wicketkeeper, GE Capital); KP Eashwar (man of the series, Teri).

Agarsen tourney
The fourth Maharaja Agarsen Cup cricket tournament will be organised from March 15 at Mont Fort School, Ashok Vihar. The winners will receive Rs 21,000 while runners-up will get Rs 15,000. Entries close with Organising Secretary, D-15/253, Sector 3, Rohini, phones 7163321, 7164347 on March 12.

Pradeep excels
A quickfire 60 by Pradeep Bisht and equally fine spell by Sushil Kumar (3 for 19) powered Alpine to a two-wicket win over Ganga Agro Seeds in the second Hari Singh Tyagi TYCA league.

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Sushil Kumar and Sudhanshu Sharma claimed three wickets each giving 19 runs each while Zaheer’s 4 for the loss of 20 went in vain for the losers.

Brief scores: Alpine: 114 for 8 (Pradeep Bisth 60, Rajeev Kumar 25 not out, Zaheer 4 for 20, Davender 2 for 30) bt Ganga Agro Seeds: 113 (Jitender Tokas 33, Zaheer 26 not out, Sushil 3 for 19, Sudhanshu Sharma 3 for 19, Rajeev Kumar 2 for 13, Pankaj Madan 2 for 24).