Varanasi Hostel, Allahabad in state hockey quarterfinals
LUCKNOW : Allahabad and Varanasi Hostel made it to the quarterfinals of the state junior boys hockey tournament, notching up contrasting wins at the Padmshree Mohd Shahid hockey stadium here on Thursday.
Allahabad defeated Gorakhpur 3-1, whereas Varanasi Hostel trounced Devipatan 6-0. In other match of the day, Bareilly too defeated Devipatan 2-1. The quarterfinal matches to be played on Friday at 8.00 a.m. BIG WIN
Favourites UP Timber Club scored a comprehensive 112-run win against Unity Cricket Academy and collected full points in the 2nd Sagar Khayyami Memorial ‘A’ division cricket league, at the LDA stadium here on Thursday.
In other match of the day, hosts Sound Images Club trounced Rudransh Cricket Club by nine wickets, at the Chowk stadium. BRIEF SCORES UPTC 278 in 45 overs (Atif 42, S Raj 52, Vishwajeet Mishra 30, Shabbir Hussain 3 for 53, Mohd Agha 3 for 62, Amir 2 for 39) beat UCA 166 in 40.3 overs
(Faiz 54, Danish 35, Mumtaz Qadir 5 for 35, Hasan Akhtar 2 for
24). RCC 86 in 25.3 overs (Shivansh Sharma 23, Ravindra Solanki 3 for 15, Mitrakant Yadav 2 for 13, Monindra Maurya 2 for 30) lost to SIC 89 for 1 in 9.4 overs (Siddharth Das 50*, Almas Shaukat 29). YCC TRIUMPH
A fine century by Vinayak Nigam (113) and fine bowling by Kritagya Singh (4/30) and Priyansh Tripathi (3/23) helped Youth Cricket Club beat Standard Cricket Club in the opening C division league match of the BBD cricket tournament here on Thursday. BRIEF SCORES
YCC 184 for 9 in 40 overs
(Vinayak Nigam 113, Faizan 31,
Kartik P Singh 4 for 33, RS Pawar 2 for 22, Vansh Negi 2 for 46) beat SCC 145 in 29.2 overs (Anubhav Kumar 104, Kritagya Singh 4 for 30, Priyansh Tripathi 3 for 23). EASY VICTORY
Yorker Cricket Club defeated Divine Cricket Club by eight wickets in a league match of the 2nd Shivpal Sawariya Twenty20 Challenger Cup cricket tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari stadium here. BRIEF SCORES DCC 78 in 17.1 overs (Abhai Srivastava 20, Abhishek Roshan 3 for 18, Sachin Tewari 2 for 3, Atul Singh 2 for 11) lost to YCC 80 for 2 in 25 overs (Atul Singh 26*, Aditya Singh 25).