Sandeep shines in Delhi Blues' win
Excellent bowling by Sandeep Joshi (4 for 20) and an unbeaten 47 by Ajay Verma helped Delhi Blues triumph over Young Paragon by four wickets in the second Hari Singh Tyagi TYCA league at Mohan Meakin ground.Brief Scores: Delhi Blues: 133 for 6 (Ajay Verma 47 n.o, Rohit Ralhan 21, Yatinder 2 for 23). Young Paragon: 132 (Mohinder Channi 29, Gulshan Kumar 23, Sandeep Joshi 4 for 20, Amit Suman 2 for 5).
Sabharwal excels
R Sabharwal prevail over Mayank Jain 2-6, 6-1, 6-0 in boys u-14 quarter-final round of OP Gupta memorial floodlit tennis tournament at Chelmsford Club.
The Results: Boys u-14 (Arjun Uppal bt Samir Jain 6-0, 6-0, Nikhil Goswami bt Amit Arora 6-0, 6-1, Rahul Verma bt Sharvan B Mittal 6-1, 6-1). Boys u-18: Ashutosh Singh bt Vipin Sirpaul 6-1, 6-2, Ashish Gupta bt Pratik Kumar 6-4, 6-3, Pundreer Chaturvedi bt Anil Goswami 6-3, 6-1, Rahul Sharma bt Mayank Jain 6-1, 6-1. Girls u-18: Poornima Narayan bt Amrita Chadha 6-0, 6-0, Harsimran Kaur bt Shilpa Dalmia 6-2, 6-1, Utkalika Badu bt Anukreeti 6-1, 6-1. Family doubles: Shyam Minotra/S Minotra bt Jagdish Kumar/Pratik Kumar 8-0, Gajinder Singh/Vikram Singh bt Yamini Sekhri/Kalpna Sekhri 8-2, Desh Gaurav/Desh Deepak bt N Vatwani/Jaya Vatwani 8-1. Men's doubles: S Swahney/B Watvani bt R Sudan/P Guri 8-1, Manish/P Sharda bt Dhruv Kalra/Amit Singh 8-6, A Arora/Pratik Kumar bt T Kathuria/C Jhala 8-3, Rahul Sharma/P Chaturvedi bt N Shannari/M Ali 8-5, Naresh Kumar/M Singh bt Wasim Khan/Yamin 8-7 (8-6), Anuj Gupta/Rahul Verma bt Anil Kumar/M Nasir 8-6, Ditta Singh/P Arora bt Lalit Sood/Gautam Sood 8-2, SanjayMinotra/P Poddar bt Vijay Prakash/V Sirpaul 8-5.
DU athletics
Vinod Kumar will lead the Delhi University athletic team (men) to participate in the All India inter-university athletic championship to be held at MS University, Tirunelveli from December 30 to January 3. The team members are Vinod Kumar (captain), Raj Kumar, Raj Pal, Kulvinder Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Rahul Sharma, Debasish Garai, Rajeev Kumar, Gajender Singh, Kashmir Singh, Narinder Singh, Deepak Kumar, Sandeep Singh, Piyush Kumar, Suresh Rana, Sunil Bajaj, Ved Prakash Singh, Sateshwar, Pankaj Rana, Amit Dhalla, Suresh Kumar.
Tennis academy
Balram Singh, chief coach of the residential Dharam Hinduja - All India Tennis Academy for the last three years, is starting a new tennis academy at Goodley Public School, Shalimar Bagh from January 1.
Admissions are open for players in the 5-18 yrs age group. Contact Balram Singh, Coaching Director, between 6-9 pm at 3746718.
LB Shastri win
LB Shastri Coaching Centre prevailed over Sarojini Nagar by six wickets in a division C match of DDCA league at Kotla.
In another match of division B, Citizen defeated Professional Management Group by seven runs at Kotla 2.
Brief Scores: LB Shastri: 107 for 4 (Nishant Sharma 42, Vikas Garg 31, Sachin Sharma 21, Vijay Kumar 2 for 32). Sarojini Nagar: 106 (Pankaj Narula 37, Vikas Kapoor 21, Yougender Singh 3 for 14, Rakesh Khari 2 for 5). Citizen: 283 (Harminder 70 n.o, Jagdish 51, Sachin Sharma 44, Raman Chaudhry 3 for 36). PMG: 276 for 6 (Raman Ghai 121, Manish Kumar 33, Charan Jeet Singh Sachdev 27, Vijay 2 for 52, Parminder 2 for 50).
Air Force triumph
Fine spell of bowling by Ramit Gill (6 for 32) enabled Air Force School overwhelm Rosary Public School by three wickets in the fifth Bro Ambrose Memorial junior tournament at Ashok Vihar.
Brief Scores: Air Force: 134 for 7 (Karan Harit 30, Sunny 20, Abhishek 3 for 16, Nishant 2 for 20). Rosary Public: 131 (Sidhartha 44, Nishant Kumar 25 n.o, Ramit Gill 6 for 32, Naveesh 2 for 15).
St James lose
An unbeaten knock by Ashish Bagai (52) and all-round performance by Riten Juneja (26 not out, 2 for 8) helped Modern School (Vasant Vihar) thrash St James School (England) by seven wickets at Modern School ground, Vasant Vihar.
Brief Scores: Modern School: 169 for 3 (Bhanwar Nagpal 33, Ashish Bagai 52 n.o, Riten Juneja 26 n.o, Jasbinder Singh 30, Edward 2 for 36). St James: 168 for 6 (E Matten 100 n.o, Anshul Khandelwal 2 for 40, Riten Juneja 2 for 8).
Dhoundiyal shines
Deadly bowling by Bobby Dhoundiyal (5 for 27) and fine batting by Parmod (55), Sushil (42) helped Sharda Club prevail over Meerut Club by three runs to reach the semi-final of first Gopal memorial tournament here today.Brief Scores: Sharda: 195 for 6 (Parmod 55, Sushil 42, Bobby Dhoundiyal 40, Subhas Chodhary 3 for 23). Meerut: 192 for 8 (Devender 48, Ashish 38, Atul 45, Bobby Dhoundiyal 5 for 27, Jishan Mohmad 3 for 31).
Bisht sparkles
All-round performance by Rajender Bisht (55, 3 for 16) helped Media Transasia (A) beat Ajanta Offret by 33 runs in the Media Transasia league cup at Gargi College ground.
Brief Scores: Media Transasia: 165 for 6 (Sajith Sivanandan 65, Rajender Bisht 55, Rajender Krishali 39, Shammi 2 for 26). Ajanta: 132 (Shammi 32, Naresh 3 for 31, Rajender Bisht 3 for 16).
Manipur top
Manipur got the first position in the fifth National Thang-Ta championship at Talkatora indoor stadium while Jammu and Kashmir and Nagaland stood second and third, respectively in the medal list.
Ministry football
UPSC beat Department of Personal and Training 2-1 in the inter-ministry football tournament. Dinesh Rawat and Rajinder Singh scored for the winners who trailed by a Rajinder Chobe goal at half time.
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