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Virender smashes 115
A classy unbeaten 115 by India junior World Cupper Virender Sehwag topped by Abdul Qayoom and Onkar Singh’s three wicket haul took Indian Airlines Corporation to a 6-wicket win in the Lala Raghubir Singh memorial tourney at the Modern School grounds. With this win, Indian Airlines have qualified for the Super League which gets underway on Wednesday.
Brief Scores: Sahara Airlines: 211 for 8 in 40 overs (Vikas Tandon 48, Jagjit Singh 60, Brijesh Roy 59, Abdul Qayoom 3 for 32, Vineet Jain 2 for 27, Onkar Singh 3 for 44); IAC: 216 for 4 in 37.2 (Virender Sehwag 115 n.o, Safiq Khan 37, Sunil Sharma 2 for 24).
Kundan scalps six
Rajan Gupta (72 and 2 for 18) and Sandeep (61) impressed in LB Academy’s 6 – wicket win against LRS Academy in the SAIL Playmakers inter-school tournamnet at Bharat Nagar ground.
In another match, Govt School Vikaspuri defeated Shanti Academy by 9 wickets.
Brief Scores: LRS Academy: 182 all out in 37.4 overs (Man Mohan 68, Akshay 31, Siddharth Dhir 24, Sahil Khullar 3 for 42, Rajan Gupta 2 for 18, Chirag 2 for 24); L B Shastry Academy: 184 for 4 in 30.5 (Rajan Gupta 72, Sandeep 61, Prabhakar Jha 32 n.o).
Shanti Academy: 135 all out in 39.2 (Aditya Gadia 28, Rahul Prasad 25, Kundan Mehra 6 for 31, Sanjay Rawat 3 for 21); Govt Boys Sec School, Vikaspuri: 139 for 1 in 18.2 (Suresh Tanwar 56 n.o, Sanjay Rawat 36, Kundan Mehra 28 n.o).
Delhi Police triumph
Delhi Police (Communication Centre) defeated Air Force (Palam) by 25 runs in the opening match of P S Sabharwal Memorial Challenge Cup at West Patel Nagar.
Delhi Police: 168 (Satyavardhan 42, Surinder 29, Harish 22, Om Prakash 22, Manish 5 for 43); Air Force (Palam): 143 (VP Singh 38, Sudhir 34, Parmod Bhatti 2 for 11, Surinder Yadav 2 for 20, Ajit 2 for 30).
Jasleen India XI: 216 for 9 (Rajat Bhardwaj 58, Nitin Malhotra 31, Bantoo Singh 29, Amit 3 for 42, Tejpal 2 for 45); Lajpat Nagar Gymkhana: 217 for 7 (Mukesh 52, Sandeep 36, Tejpal 30, Bantoo Singh 2 for 25, Rajat Bhardwaj 2 for 45).
Cricket camp
The following players have been selected by the Indraprastha Sports Academy for a cricket training camp to be held at Chamba, Himachal Pradesh:Parsoon Patra (captain, senior team), Deepak Chaudhury, naresh kaushik, Parul Jain, Yogendra Singh, Ramandeep, Jagjot Singh, Sobers joban, Rohan Kapoor, Mukul Dagar, Ankit Joshi, Praushan Jain, Satinder Singh, Arjun Kumar Mani, Subhash Khurana, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Parminder Singh, Karan passi, Vikas Verma, Rohit Rawat, Arun Kumar, Abhinav Kumar, Rajeev kumar Dhiman, Rajat Kumar Monga, Pankaj Kumar Dhawan, Gurpreet Singh, Tameer Sharma, Jaspal Singh, Amarjit SIngh. Coach: Surjeet Verma.
Zamin Shines
Deadly bowling by Zamin Oazmi (5 for 19) helped Moonlight beat DSTA by nine wickets to enter the semifinal of Shaheed Abdul Hameed Memorial tournament at Taj Enclave. In another match, Blue Stars defeated Punjab National Bank by eight wickets to qualify for the quarterfinals.
DSTA: 59 (Zamin 5 for 19, Surender 2 for 13); Moonlight: 60 for 1 (Praveen 36 not out).
Prabhat, Bhola excel
Thirteen-year-old medium pacer Prabhat Rai (4 for 34) and Bhola Shankar’s all-round performance (37 and 3 for 20) enabled Keshav Puram beat P C Sharma Academy by 15 runs to record their sixth win in the President’s Estate Challenge Cup.
Keshav Puram: 213 (Harsh Kapoor 39, Bhola Shankar 37, Brij Mohan 35, Puninder Singh 3 for 33, Tarun Sharma 3 for 46); Sharma Academy: 198 (Pankaj 57, Prabhat Rai 4 for 34).
Mayapuri win
Despite Prabhjeet Singh’s unbeaten century, GWTCC bounced out to a 3-wicket loss against Mayapuri Club in the Laxman Dass memorial tournament at the University Polo ground. Mayapuri play Essex Farms in the quarter-final.
Brief Scores: GWTCC: 194 for 8 in 35 overs (Prabhjeet Singh 100 n.o, Hemraj 31, Anil Rana 2 for 30, Sanjay Verma 2 for 42); MPCC: 195 for 7 in 30.3 ( Anil Rana 35, Rajesh Mahavir, Vishal Razdan 25, Dinesh 25, Brij Mohan 2 for 25, Jatin 2 for 32).
Bright in quarters
Bright Club: 202 all out in 39.3 overs (Parinder Sharma 53, Akash Malhotra 24, Sanjay Balwan 41, Joginder Singh 4 for 35, Sandeep Angoorala 3 for 40) defeated R.R Gymkhana: 163 all out in 31.3 (Pradeep Chawla 101, Gopal 2 for 15, Devashis 2 for 17, Kishan Saini 2 for 35, Sanjeev Saini 2 for 35) by 39 runs to enter the quarter-finals of the Khajan Singh memorial tournament despite a fighting 101 by man of the match Pradeep Chawla of R.R Gymkhana.
Soccer diary ’98
The Delhi Veteran Football Club’s Soccer Diary 98′ containing detailed information relating to the World Cup held between 1930 and 1994 and also giving facts about all the 32 participating countries in the World Cup-98 in France, will be released here on June 5. Dedicated to club member and cricketer Raman Lamba, the diary, edited and compiled by DVFC secretary Hem Chand, is the first of its kind in the country.
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