Saurabh, Amit take UPTC into semi-finals
Sparkling half centuries by Saurabh Dubey (87, 66b, 8x4, 6x3) and Amit Chopra (53*, 51b, 3x6) helped UP Timber Club (UPTC) crush LDA Coaching Centre (LDACC) by seven wickets to make it to the semi-finals of the 13th Babu Banarasi Das Cricket League, at the Dr Akhilesh Das Stadium here on Sunday. Needing 202 to win the stipulated 30 overs, UPTC romped home in 29 overs. In other match of the day, Akhil Infra Club routed Lucknow Starlets by 103 runs, at the Chowk Stadium.
BRIEF SCORES
LDACC 201 in 30 overs (Gaurav Yadav 74, Mohit Yadav 35, Prathul Mehta 35, Mohit Singh 22, Akash Luthara 3 for 26) lost to UPTC 203 for 3 in 29 overs (Saurabh Dubey 87, Amit Chopta 53, Mayank Yadav 22, manish Sharma 2 for 41).
AIC 192 for 6 in 40 overs (Anshul Kapoor 79, Abhinav Dixit 45, Sufiyan Khan 21, Arun Sharma 4 for 33, Jimmy 2 for 36) beat Lucknow Starlets 89 in 27.2
overs (Hamza 24, Deepak 21, Anshul Kapoor 3 for 7, Abhinav Dixit 2 for 20, Shiva Singh 2 for 22). THRILLING WIN Awadh Royals won the 1st Deepak Saxena Memorial Cricket Tournament, defeating India Club by 20 runs here on Sunday.
BRIEF SCORES Awadh Royals 108 for 9 in 20 overs (Sandeep Pandey 64, Jai Singh 4 for 7, Mayank 3 for 18) beat India Club 88 for
7 in 20 overs (Vinod Singh 30, Ankur 19, Pradeep Tewari 2 for 24, Sandeep Pandey 2 for 26). BANERJEE TROPHY CAL Veterans XI defeated Media XI by 27 runs in a league match of the Samuel Banerjee Memorial Cricket Tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari Stadium here on Sunday.
BRIEF SCORES CAL Veterans XI 178 for 2 in 20 overs
(Abhilash Pandey 93*, Anurag 60*) beat Media XI 151 for 4 in 20 overs (Rajiv Anand 54, Saurabh Singh 52, Sharad Deep 20*, Najmi 2 for 21). SUMIT EXCELS Sumit Pathak scored a sparkling 75 in 53 balls with the help of seven fours and five sixes as Basti XI defeated Elite Cricket Club, Bareilly by eight wickets in a league match of the Pt Ram Shanker and Dulari Devi Memorial Cricket Tournament, at the Awadh School Ground here on Sunday.
BRIEF SCORES ECC, Bareilly 152 in 42.2 overs (Shivam Yadav 50, Saurabh Mishra 20, Rohit Dwivedi 3 for 33, Sumit Sharma 2 for 8, Akhand Singh 2 for 22) lost to
Basti XI 153 for 2 in 20.3 overs ( Sumit
Pathak 75*, Abhimanyu 39). FOOTBALL TRIALS Two-day trials to pick regional under-19 football team will be held on December 23 and 24, at the Chowk Stadium here. Players registered with the district football association born between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2001 are eligible to participate. Selected team will participate in the state tournament to be held at Faizabad from December 30. AVIJAI CHESS The 2nd Avijai Chess League on Sunday witnessed the participation of 32 players, at the Avijai Chess Academy here. In Botwinnik group David Yung scored two points and secured top position. In Fischer group Kuldeep Srivastava stood first three full three points in three matches, whereas in Kasparov group, Pranju won with three points. In Mikhail Tal group Farrukh Imamuddin, in Nimzowitsch group Sanjay Kumar Bajpai, in Tarrasch group SK Mishra, in Karpov group Avinash Pandey and in Paul Morphy group Kritika Mishra became champions.