Controversy hits CAL’s league

LUCKNOW:An alleged controversy marked the opening of the Cricket Association Lucknow’s D division league here on Monday. Out of two matches slated on day one, ASCA Hostel defeated Grace Cricket Academy by 76 runs in the first match, whereas the second match couldn’t start due to some confusion.

One of the teams in the second match even after refusing to play on the first day in advance, reached the ground to play the match.

The other team, as expected, wasn’t there s the tie had already been cancelled.

This isn’t all as some clubs have lodged written complaints to the authorities concerned about the ‘back door’ entry of a few selected clubs in the B division league. An enquiry has reportedly been ordered in this case.

GUPT CRICKET

National PG College Blue and JNPG College stormed into the final of the 20th Chandra Bhanu Gupt Memorial Inter Collegiate Cricket Tournament, scoring contrasting wins here on Monday. NPGC Blue defeated NPGC Red by three runs, whereas JNPGC routed Mumtaz PG College by nine wickets.

SUCCESSFUL

Lucknow’s Vikas Pandey and AP Singh of Kanpur have cleared the online scorers’ examination, conducted by the BCCI recently. Vikas had passed the manual scoring examination in 2012.

NEW GYM

The newly established gymnasium at the Vijayantkhand Stadium in Gomti Nagar would be made operational on Tuesday at 4.30 p.m. in a ceremony.

FINE SHOW

Trainees of the UP Badminton Academy i.e. Mansi Singh and Taneesha Singh did well at the All-India Sub-Junior Ranking Tournament at Patna. Mansi defeated Taneesha 17-21, 21-15, 21-10 in the girls under-17 singles final. Taneesha also finished runners-up in the under-15 category, losing to Tarashah of Maharashtra by 18-21, 8-21.

Meanwhile, Endra Mulajaya from Indonesia has been hired as coach at the UP Badminton Academy, states UPBA’s secretary Arun Kakkar.