Short Corner — Delhi

Ashmeet, Lakshay in final
Ashmeet Arneja and Lakshay Manjani entered the final of the under-10 boys singles category of the 10th Pt. Tirath Ram memorial badminton tournament at New Era Public School. The other winners include Himanshu Kharbanda, Ujjawal Kharbanda (u-13 boys); Manik Sehgal, Mubashir Khan (u-16); Manik Sehgal, Tanveer Gill (u-19); Meenakshi, Nimisha (u-10 girls); Isha Gupta, Chitra (u-13); Deepti Ranjan, Renu Aswal (under-16); Kanika Kambo, Diva Arora (u-19).

Madras enter final
Rajender Singh Dara’s 86 and fine spell by Satish Salwan (5 for 27) helped Madras Club beat LG Electronics XI by 21 runs in the semi-finals of the Goswami Girdhari Lal memorial tournament at Ramjas Sports complex.
Brief scores: Madras Club: 181 (Rajender Singh Dara 86, Sanjay Kumar 48, Ashish Malhotra 3 for 19, Oneil Wilson 2 for 24, Sunil Joshi 2 for 33) bt LG Electronics: 160 (Varun Kumar 34, Shafiq Khan 39, Sumit Tomar 32, Satish Salwan 5 for 27, Tejender Singh 2 for 31).

Susheel Kumar shines
Stroke-filled 87 by Susheel Kumar and Virat Bhola’s 4 for 23 enabled Winsom crush Ghaziabad DCA by 112 runs in the Alpine (under-14) tournament at Yamuna Sports complex.
Brief scores: Winsom: 215 for 5 (Susheel Kumar 87, Rachit Khanna 31, Abhishek Sharma 27, Narender Singh 26 not out, Aditya Tomar 25 not out) bt GDCA: 113 (Ranchal 57 not out, Virat Bhola 4 for 23, Abhishek Sharma 3 for 12, Rachit Khanna 2 for 22).

Aakash Chopra excels
Delhi Ranji player Aakash Chopra’s 86 and all-round display by Suhail Sharma (32 and 3 for 13) powered Sonnet Club to a 137-run win over Nirankari XI and enter the final of the Baba Gurbachan Singh memorial tournament at Nirankari Samagam ground.
Brief scores: Sonnet: 223 for 7 (Aaskah Chopra 86, Suhail Sharma 32, Dhruv Mohan 32, Tilak Raj 4 for 47, Sanjay Soni 2 for 25) bt Nirankari XI: 86 (Rajender Singh 35 not out, Suhail Sharma 3 for 13, Dhruv Mohan 2 for 6).