Lucknow’s ASCA beat Sri Lankan side on tour
Lucknow’s Abhijeet Sinha Cricket Academy scored a convincing 31-run win against CCC School of Cricket, Colombo to take 1-0 lead in the threematch series of its international tour, at the Prison Ground (Colombo) in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. With the help of a sparkling half-century by opener Sarthak Bhardwaj (58), ASCA made 130 in 28 overs while batting first after winning the toss. In reply, Colombo side collapsed for 99 in 24.4 overs. Sashank Verma took three for 23, whereas Saklap Jain and Amaan Siddiqui shared four wickets between them.
UNDER-16 CRICKET
K Sports Cricket Academy (KSCA) defeated LDA Coaching Centre (LDACC) by five wickets to make it to the final of the Under-16 Cricket Tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari Stadium here on Wednesday.
BRIEF SCORES LDACC 138 in 35.3 overs
(Vishal Singh 32, Diwakar Singh 26, Jankay Yadav 3 for 14, Vikash Pradhan 3 for 23) lost to KSCA 141 for 5 in 33.3 overs (Vishal Rawat 43*, Vikash Pradhan 32, Janmay Yadav 24*, Ankit Pal 3 for 35).
MANISH EXCELS
Manish Majila’s all-round show helped Jyoti Cricket Club (JCC) beat Divine Cricket Club (DCC) by 74 runs to collect full points in the Prime Sports Trophy Cricket Tournament, at the Multi Activity Ground here on Wednesday.
BRIEF SCORES JCC 205 in 29.5 overs
(Manish Majila 62, S Khan 51, Ramji 3 for 35, Faizal 2 for 32)
beat DCC 131 in 26.2 overs
(Irfan 54, Vinay Mishra 2 for 27, Manish Majila 3 for 40, S Khan 2 for 16).
CRICKET TEAM
Cricket Association Lucknow on Wednesday announced its 14-member team for the All-India Women’s Cricket Tournament, starting April 24 at Kolkata. The team includes, Komal Hora, Garima Singh, Kazal Tamta, Antima Singh, Ayushi Srivastava, Juhi Pandey, Akansha Mishra, Shilpi Yadav, Preeti Kushwaha, Tanu Singh, Muskan Singh, Shobha Devi, Anshu Tewari and Arpita Bhargava.
GIRLS BADMINTON
Shazia Khan and Kavya Kushwaha won the singles titles in the senior and junior categories at the CMS Inter-Campus Badminton Tournament here on Wednesday. Shazia beat Ali 13-11, 11-8, whereas Kavya outplayed Shreya Yadav 11-5, 9-11, 11-0.
WEEKLY BRIDGE
NC Bhattacharya and GN Mehrotra managed 59 percent points to win the match point pairs event at the Weekly Bridge Tournament, at the Lucknow Club here. In all, eight pairs played seven rounds of three boards each. Bhattacharya and Mehrotra won with a narrow margin of 0.34 match points and with a moderately good score.
They were followed by Shantanu Rastogi-TP Khare (58.46%) and AK Sinha-SQ Wajahat (53.97%).