RBI split points vs LDA ‘A’ in football

LUCKNOW: Experienced outfit Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday scored a thrilling 2-1 win against LDA ‘A’ and collected full points in the District Football League-2018, at the Chowk Stadium here. Love Yadav scored in the 15th minute to give 1-0 lead to the winners, but soon after a change in the ends, Keshav restored parity for the LDA ‘A’ in the 40th minute (1-all). However, Soumitra Singh netted the match-winner in the 50th minute. In other match of the day, Lucknow University beat Aliganj Warrior by 3-0. Mohit, Animesh and Manish shared three goals between them,

SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Mountfort Inter College split points with Govt Jubilee Inter College in the Inter School Football Tournament after playing a goalless draw, at the Chowk Stadium here on Tuesday. Ramadhin Inter College beat St Mary’s by 1-0, whereas DPS Eldeco beat LPS Sector also by 1-0.

OPEN CHESS

An open chess tournament will be held on July 29 and 30 here. The event offers Rs 5100 as prize money, and is open for under-16 and under-12 categories too.

FINE START

After losing the billiards final rather tamely, Akshay Kumar started his snooker campaign with a bang, producing the first century break in the Nawab Emaduddin Ashraf Memorial Billiards and Snooker Tournament, at the Oudh Gymkhana Club here on Tuesday. Akshay defeated Ahsen Raza 80-51, 100-29 and 80-27.

At the adjoining table, Rominder Pahwa displayed better skills and temperament against Shubham Mehrotra to win the tie in straight frames 72-47, 70-45, 101-14.

The Sabihuddin (+16) vs Sanjay Chandevi (+10) match was a tensed encounter wherein after winning the first two frames, Sabihuddin could not stop Sanjay from prevailing in the third.

The tension mounted in the fourth frame before Sabihuddin hitting the winning shot to carve out 63-52, 97-18, 78-60 and 59-50 win.

EASY VICTORY

ASAC defeated K Sports Club to lift the glittering trophy of the 2nd Shivpal Sawariya Twenty20 Cricket Tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari Stadium here on Tuesday.

BRIEF SCORES ASCA 136 for 6 in 20 overs

(Sunil Bhardwaj 64, Sumit Sharma 29, Vikas Pradhan 2 for 18, Jitendra Kumar 2 for 28) beat

KSC 78 in 10 overs (Vishal Rawat 27, Sandeep Pandey 6 for 16, Dheeraj Yadav 2 for 14).