Zeeshan’s last ball boundary helps Sound Images Club enter S-Fs
LUCKNOW:A boundary on the last ball and that too with a reverse sweep by former India Under-19 World Cupper Zeeshan Ansari helped local outfits Sound Images Club (SIC) score a thrilling three-wicket win against KG Colts (KGC), Delhi to make it to the semi-finals of the 1st All India Sports Galaxy Trophy here on Monday.
While chasing 209 in 40 overs, SIC needed four runs on the last ball with three wickets in hand, and Zeeshan struck a fine boundary with a reverse sweep off leftarm orthodox spinner Asif Mansoori to fashion team’s last-ball win, at the Jaipuria School
Ground.
A 75-run sixth wicket stand between Mritunjay Yadav (54, 61b, 5x4, 1x6) and Siddrath Das (47, 59b, 6x4) had already done the repairing work after the side being reduced to 127/5 in 25.3 overs. Nilendra P Singh (31, 38b, 2x4) and Saurabh Dubey (22, 31b, 2x4) were the other main run getters. Asif and Harshit Sethi shared four wickets between them.
Earlier after being sent to bat first, Delhi’s top order clicked in the right manner. Openers Parth Jain (43, 86b, x34) and Raja Khan (35, 41b, 4x4, 1x6) stitched together 58 runs for the first wicket, before Jain adding another valuable 61-run for the second wicket with Nazim Siddiqui
(37, 29b, x34, 1x6).
But once left-arm spinner Mitrakant Yadav and Zeeshan Ansari were introduced, things began changing dramatically with wickets started falling on regular intervals before the side being restricted to 208/9 in 40 overs. Yadav finished with 3/24, where Ansari had 2/49.
CHAUHAN TROPHY
Islamia College and Mumtaz PG College stormed into the semi-finals of the 21st CB Gupta Amit Singh Chauhan Trophy Cricket Tournament, notching up contrasting wins here on Monday. Islamia College defeated Jaipuria School by 16 runs, whereas MPGC defeated Lucknow University by 102 runs.
BRIEF SCORES
IC 99/8 in 15 overs (Shivam Singh 28, Venky 3/19, Pranav 2/15) beat JC 83/4 in 15 overs (Aniket 38, Ayush Negi 21, Rahul 3/13).
MPGC 191/7 in 15 overs (Akash Kashyap 91, Areeb 28, Deepak Maurya 5/34) beat LU 89/6 in 15 overs (Prabal 26, Abhishek 2/22).
SINGH CRICKET
The four-day 11th Kunwar Munindra Singh Memorial Inter School Cricket Tournament begins on Tuesday with hosts Colvin Taluqdars’ College taking on SRM Public School in the opening match at 9.00 a.m, at the Colvin Taluqdars’ College. The second match of the day would be played between Jagran Public School and Lucknow Public Collegiate at 12.30 p.m. Other participating teams in the tournament, include, Unity College, Vidyatree Modern World College, Delhi Public School and LM Boys. The final is slated on October 25.
ANAND SHINES
Anand Prakash took 4/24 as Rising
Eleven defeated AS King by six wickets in a league match of the Phoolmati Chaudhary Memorial Cricket Tournament, at the NER Stadium here on Monday. In other match of the day, GP Eleven crushed Lucknow Huntrez by 100 runs.
JUDO NATIONALS
Uttar Pradesh judokas won eight medals to finish runners-up at the National Sub-Junior and Cadet Championships at Imphal in Manipur.
The medal winners, included Ayush Kumar Singh, Kartik, Aakash Yadav, Sohan Singh, Mukul Singh, Rajeev Kumar Singh, Armaan Siddiqui and Rohan Vishnoi.