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CK Suresh to lead Railway Board
CK Suresh will lead the Railway Board team in the 46th All India Railway Cricket Championship to be held at Mumbai. Team: CK Suresh captain, VP Gill vice-captain, Manoj Tuteja, Pawan Goray, Shivam Asthana, Brahma Bhatnagar, Ravinder Pandey, Ravinder Mann, Atul Sharma, Pratap Rawat, CJ Diwan, Pardeep Vedi, Bhagat Singh, Sanjay Singh, Mohan Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Wasim Khan and VS Rajoura.

Digvijay elected NRAI president
The National Rifle Association of India elected Digvijay Singh as its president in a general body meeting of the association yesterday. He succeeds his father Kumar Surendra Singh, who passed away recently. Surendra Singh held the post since 1985.

Urban Affairs move up in carrom
Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment rallied over Department of Science and Technology 3-0 in the men8217;s team category of inter-ministry carrom championship quarter-final game at TT Hall, Nirman Bhawan.In other quarter-finals, Min. of Power beat Min. of Communications 2-1; Min. of Health prevailed over Min. of Home 3-0 while Min. of Defence overcome Min. of Agriculture.

OBC and SBOP in semis
Oriental Bank of Commerce and State Bank of Patiala entered the semi-finals of the sixth inter-bank tournament at Jamia Milia.

Brief scores: Canara Bank: 165 Arun Jain 32, Roop Kishore 32, KK Sodhi 3 for 20, Anil Arora 2 for 36 lost to Oriental Bank of Commerce: SK Sharma 49, Kishore Kumar 29, Shiv Kumar 3 for 25. State Bank of Patiala: 339 for 3 Pankaj Dharmani 99, Piyush Rana 73, Rakesh Rehani 43, Manish Bali 77 bt Bank of India: 103 Suresh Ahuja 21, Bharat Bhushan 3 for 27, Tanpreet Singh 3 for 10, Gurpreet Singh 2 for 22.

Shafiq excels for Indian Airlines
An unbeaten knock of 97 by Shafiq Khan and fine spell by Sonu Sharma 4 for 21 helped Indian Airlines triumph over MCD by 86 runs in the A-I division encounter of DDCA league. In other matches, Delhi Blues outplayed Delhi Audit by eight wickets in the same division. Rajnigandha overwhelmed Youngsters by 57 runs in the A-I division, Young Association thrashed Delhi Gymkhana by 48 runs while Bara Hindu Rao beat LB Shastri Coachin Centre by 75 runs in C division match.

Brief scores: IA: 217 for 6 Shafiq Khan 97 not out, Ishan Ganda 43, Ashok Singh 23, Ajay Tiwari 2/40, Dharamveer Beniwal 2/43 bt MCD: 131: Sonu Sharma 4 for 21, RP Singh 3 for 19. Delhi Blues: 153 for 2 Sumeet Dogra 55 not out, Rohit Ralhan 55 not out bt Delhi Audit: 152 Kunwar Singh Rana 48 not out, Sanjeev Dahiya 39, V Arvind 3 for 15, Maninder Bola 3 for 47, Mark Ingry 2 for 18. Rajnigandha: 250 for 7 Sarvesh Gupta 69, Ashish Sharma 43, Jitender Solanki 40, Harish Kumar 36, Rajiv Rathore 27 not out, Manish 3 for 37 bt Youngsters: 193 for 9 Avtar Singh 70, Naresh Kumar 47, Sunil Rawat 26, Rajiv Rathore 3 for 24, Sarvesh Gupta 3 for 34. Young Association: 223 for 9 Saurabh Dhawan 51, Amit Sharma 37, Daman Mishra 36, Rahul Bansal 20, Dharmender 20, VS Rawat 3 for 54, Shivnarain 2 for 21, Maneet 2 for 25, Dilbagh Singh 2 for 41 bt Delhi Gym: 175 for 7 Maneet Jauhar 54, VS Rawat 34, Rahul Bansal 3 for 28, Gurjinder 2 for 24, Sanjeev Berry 2 for 29. Bara Hindu Rao: 296 for 9 Gautam 73,Ankur Khanna 50, Tapan 40, Sobers 2 for 2, Baljit Joban 2 for 45, Rakesh Khari 2 for 55 bt LB Shastri: 221 Praveen Sharma 62, Rakesh Khari 73, Parul Jain 39, Tapan 4 for 30, TM Furqun 3 for 41, Yashpal 2 for 45.