AMC lift Captain Mirza football trophy

LUCKNOW: Favourites Army Medical Corps (AMC) lifted the Captain Qaiser Mirza Memorial Football Trophy, registering a hard-earned 8-7 win against UP Police through tie-breaker, at the Chowk stadium here on Thursday. The two teams were locked in a goalless draw at the end of the regulation time.

FINE BOWLING

Fine bowling by Shivam Dixit (4/43) and Javed (3/18) helped UP Cricket Association enter semifinals of the 13th All-India Amiy Tripathi Memorial cricket tournament, defeating Cricket Association of Uttarakhand by five wickets, at the Raj Malti stadium in Fazilnagar on Thursday. BRIEF SCORES CAU 189 in 33.3 overs (Mayank Mishra 46, Ravi Bisht 37, Prateek Panwar 24, Shivam Dixit 4 for 43, Javed 3 for 18, Dhruv Pratap Singh 2 for 40) lost to UPCA 191 for 5 in 27 overs

(Shubham Agarwal 49, Madhav Kaushik 41, Dhruv Chandra 35, Kurban 3 for 67).

THRILLING WIN

K Cricket Academy scored a thrilling 17-run win against SYC Club and collected full points in the Ekmi Devi Memorial Twenty20 cricket tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari stadium here.

BRIEF SCORES

KCA 140 for 9 in 20 overs

(Surendra 33, Saksham Chandra 32, Amir 3 for 25, Tasleem 2 for 27)

beat SICC 123 for 9 in 20 overs

(Abhishek Mishra 31, Vipul Rao 26, Tridev Ishu 3 for 18, Surendra 2 for 16, Rahid 2 for 33).

CONTRASTING WINS

It was a day of contrasting wins in the 2nd Hare Krishna Memorial Under-16 state cricket tournament, at the Avadh School ground here. Hosts ASCA defeated Sitapur Cricket Academy by 88 runs, whereas Faizabad Cricket Academy beat ASCA Hostel by 21 runs.

BRIEF SCORES ASCA 206 for 3 in 30 overs

(Ritikpal 104*, Nitin Khandpal 53) beat SCA 118 in 21 overs

(Abhay Srivastava 51, Prasoon 33, Sulabh Singh 4 for 17, Ayush 4 for 30). FCA 207 for 8 in 30 overs

(Dipesh Kumar 48, Shubham Yadav 33, Gagandeep 25, Ankit 3 for 25, Mushtaq 2 for 19) beat ASCA Hostel 186 in 29.5

overs (Rahul Gupta 73, Ragib 34, Vikas Yadav 28, Shubham Dwivedi 3 for 22, Vinay Yadav 3 for 22, Robin Singh 2 for 9).

SADBHAVANA TROPHY

Hosts National Cricket Club defeated KVS Sitapur by 29 runs in the first match of the sixmatch series for Sadbhavana Trophy cricket tournament, at the Christian College ground here. But in the second match, they lost to the same outfits by 13 runs. In the first match, batting first after winning the toss, NCC scored 131 in 20 overs. Amit Yadav scored highest 29. For rivals, Shrestha took two for 13. In reply, KVS Sitapur got out for 102 in 19.1 overs. Naren made 30. For NCC, Avinash Yadav took three for 15, whereas Vijay Chauhan and Mayank shared four wickets between them.