Avadh Club gets walk-over, points too in football league
LUCKNOW : On a day when Sports College ‘A’ and Chowk Sporting split points while playing a goalless draw, Avadh Club collected full two points without even touching the ball in the District Football League here on Tuesday.
Avadh Club had a walk-over against Castle Club, which failed to turn up in the second match of the day, at the Chowk Stadium. Earlier, Sports College ‘A’ and Chowk Sporting played a goalless draw to share the points.
In the Dilkusha-leg of the league, BR Das Club and APS Academy too shared points after playing 1-1 draw, at the Dilkusha ground on Tuesday. Priyanshu put APS Academy ahead in the 15th minute (1-0), but Gurang restored parity in the 47th minute from left flank.
CUE SPORT
The 3rd Nawab Emad-ud-din Ashraf Memorial Billiards and Snooker Tournament will be held from July 28 to August 5, at the Oudh Gymkhana Club here under the auspices of the Billiards and Snooker Association of Lucknow. Top cueists are expected to participate in the tournament, which is to be played on a league-cum knockout basis starting with billiards event. The top draw will be the India No 3 snooker player of the Indian Railways Malkeet Singh. Entries close with Kirti Khanna and Satnam Singh.
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
Lucknow District Basketball Association is going to organize B-League for sub-junior boys and girls here in August. Players, who are born on or after January 1, 2004, are eligible to participate. All colleges/schools of Lucknow can send their entries before July 31 to Pankaj Sinha, secretary LDBA.
CONVINCING WINS
Gulmohar Cricket Academy (GCA) and IPRK Club (IPRLKC) notched up convincing wins to collect full points in the Anwar Memorial Twenty20 Cricket Tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari stadium here on Tuesday. GCA beat Kalpana Foundation by 79 runs, whereas IPRKC beat Chauhan Sporting by five wickets.
BRIEF SCORES GCA 122 for 5 in 20 overs (Mohit Kumar 36*, Dhruv Gupta 23, Adivitya Dubey 2 for 17) beat Kalpana Foundation 43 in 12.4 overs (Prashant Tiwari 18, Rahul Saxena 5 for 7, Arun Kumar 2 for 12). Chauhan Sporting 64 in
14.1 overs (Gopal Singh 3 for 19, Yashvendra Singh 3 for 20, Pankaj Tiwari 2 for 10) lost to IPRKC 67 for 5 in 8.4 overs (Mrinal 14, Rajan Mishra 3 for 26, Abhishek 2 for 18).
FINE BOWLING
Ritesh Shukla (3/10) and Himanshu Kashyap (3/9) bowled superb along with Vivek Meena (2/10) as Asha Cricket Foundation (ACF) trounced Lucknow Cricketers by five wickets in a league match of the Under-6 Cricket Tournament, at the Christian College ground here on Tuesday.
BRIEF SCORES Lucknow Cricketers 40 in
19 overs (Himanshu Kashyap 3 for 9, Ritesh Shukla 3 for 10, Vivek Meena 2 for 10) lost to ACF 45 for 5 in 13.2 overs (Rahul 13, Pawan Kumar 2 for 8, Aaman 2 for 8).
SCHOOL CHESS
Young experts of brain game Sadhil Mishra, Gargi Jeeva and Shraddha Yadav hogged the limelight at the 5th Inter-School Chess Championship here on Tuesday.
Sadhil won the boys under-7 title, collecting highest three points. He was followed by Ramesh Tiwari of DPS Gomti Nagar and Suryansh Shrivastava of the Modern Academy.
Gargi Jeeva emerged champion in the girls under-7 group. Daksha Singh finished runners-up, while Shivnashi Srivastava stood third. Shraddha wrested girls under-19 title, securing three points. Jasfika Lobo and Smriti Singh finished second and third, respectively.