Brief Scores: Essex Farm: 209 for no loss (Parikshit Bhatia 109 not out, Mukesh Marwaha 82 not out). LIC: 207 for 7 (PK Sony 92 not out, Praveen 27, Sareen Bansal 3 for 36, Ashwani 2 for 33, Mukesh 2 for 45). Ircon: 125 for 1 (Surender Kumar 61 n.o, Raj 23 n.o). Yorks: 123 for 9 (Narender Deswal 25, Rajesh Deswal 22, Ranjit Singh 4 for 21, Rajender 2 for 25). Pusa Youngsters: 158 (Vinay Kumar 48, Dev Kumar 20, Sandeep Joshi 4 for 30, Radhey Shyam Gupta 2 for 22). Delhi Blues: 100 for 9 (Sandeep Dogra 52 n.o, Yougesh Sharma 3 for 25, Ratan Chauhan 2 for 20).

Lion Kanishka: 126 for 6 (Ravinder Rawat 41, Mustafa 34, Javed 3 for 27, Aqeel Ahmad 2 for 12). Three Star: 125 for 8 (Shakit Sikka 27, Javed 22, Vijay Arya 4 for 16). Young Friends: 154 for 10 (Praveen Thakural 38, Mobin Ahmad 26, Kushal Pal 5 for 22, Raju Sharma 2 for 41). Delhi Audit: 154 for 8 (Raju Sharma 50, Satish Salwan 30, KS Rana 26, Sanjeev Rana 3 for 18, Rakshit Pant 2 for 28).

DDA games
Seema Seth outplayed Saroj Chowdhary 11-4, 11-7, while Nandita Bora overwhelmed Usha Sharma 11-4, 11-5 in the ladies badminton singles semi-final of DDA annual indoor games.

Results: Men's singles (quarter-final): Maharaj Krishan bt B Tewari 15-2, 15-6, Nand Lal bt VK Kapoor 15-11, 11-15, 15-13, P Bhattacharjee bt Maniram 15-2, 15-5, AK Puri bt Raj Kumar Jerath 15-4, 15-6.

Ball badminton
Delhi men won the second north zone ball badminton title beating Punjab 29-8, 29-18 at Chandigarh. In the women's section, Chandigarh defeated Punjab 29-28, 29-24. Delhi clinched the third position.

Badminton meet
The inter-ministry badminton tournament for civilian central government employees of Delhi/New Delhi will be organised at Ansari Nagar courts from January 11. Entries close with Central Civil Services, Cultural & Sports Board, Room No. 361, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, on January 7 (Phone: 4624204).

Danial hits 114
A stroke-filled 114 by Deepak Danial (12x4, 6x6) helped Youth Fellowship Holy Trinity Church triumph over Dhaka Church XI by 97 runs in the semi-final of third inter-church Unity Cup.

Brief Scores: YF Holy: 244 for 3 (Deepak Danial 114, Luis D Souza 50, Rajeev 2 for 30). Dhaka XI: 147 (Rajeev 41, Rajnish 30, Rajesh Sharma 4 for 29, Parvez 2 for 19).

Collage win
Excellent batting by Rakesh Singh (58) and Manu Kumar (44) helped Collage Group beat SB Youth by 76 runs in the second Hari Singh Tyagi TYCA league.

Brief Scores: Collage Group: 169 for 6 (Rakesh Singh 58, Manu Kumar 44, Prakash Ranjan 2 for 25, Amit Bansal 2 for 28, Vipin Sharma 2 for 24). SB Youth (junior): 93 for 6 (Jagat Gaur 35, Jaspreet Narula 25, Sanjay Saini 2 for 23, John Anthony 2 for 26).

Manjit sparkles
Fine knock by Manjit Singh (55) enabled Youngmen humble MCC (Mundakhaira) by two wickets in the first round of Dada Swami tournament at Dariyapur. In another match, GCC humbled KCC by three wickets. Parmesh Kumar (40) was the main scorer for the winners while Dharmvir (28) contributed for the losers.

Brief Scores: YMCC: 112 for 8 (Manjit Singh 55, Ravinder 25, Mukesh Kumar 3 for 30). MCC: Gagodhar Singh 30, Mukesh Kumar 21, Bhagat Singh 3 for 10, Manjit Singh 2 for 13, Ravinder 2 for 19). GCC: 113 for 7 (Parmesh Kumar 40, Pramil 25, Ramnish 2 for 14). KCC: 111 (Dharmvir 28, Kishor Kumar 22, Raju Singh 3 for 7).