Hosts SI Club enter semi-finals

LUCKNOW : Hosts Sound Images Club stormed into the final of the 2nd Sagar Khayyami Memorial ‘A’ division cricket tournament, scripting a facile 153-run win against Northern Railway, at the Chowk stadium here on Tuesday. Yadvendra Yadav (82, 83b, 10x4, 1x6) and Siddharth Das (70, 56b, 8x4, 1x6) helped SIC pile up 250 in 39.4 overs while batting first after winning the toss. Later, Mitrakant Yadav (5/29) and Ravinder Solanki (3/31) helped NR floor for paltry 97 in 23 overs.

ASCA IN SEMIS

A sparkling half-century by Manikant Sharma and a fourwicket haul by Shashank Verma helped Abhijeet Sinha Cricket Academy (ASCA) enter semi-finals of the Under-16 Ranjana Singh memorial cricket tournament, defeating Unity Cricket Academy at the Multi Activity Centre here on Tuesday.

BRIEF SCORES ASCA 233 for 9 in 40 overs

(Manikant Sharma 64, Shubham Vishwakarma 28, Rishabh Yadav 3 for 18, Danish 2 for 27, Ankit Mishra 2 for 46) beat UCA

172 in 35 overs (Danish 29, Razi 28, Shashank Verma 4 for 30, Shubham Vishwakarma 2 for 14, Faisal 2 for 30).

EASY VICTORY

K Sports scored a convincing five-wicket win against BSNV College ‘Red’ to make it to the semi-finals of the 2nd Shivpal Sawariya Twenty20 Challenger Cup cricket tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari stadium here on Tuesday.

BRIEF SCORES BSNVCR 105 for 9 in 20

overs (Karan Singh 38, Vikas Pradhan 2 for 21, Shiva Yadav 2 for 24, Janmayjai Yadav 2 for 27)

lost to K Sports 109 for 5 in 17.4 overs (Janmayjai Yadav 41*, Vishal Rawat 24, Prabhnoor Singh 2 for 12).

RAILWAYS CRICKET

East Central Railway defeated Railway Board by nine wickets in a league match of the 63rd AllIndia Inter-Railway cricket tournament, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ stadium here on Tuesday. In other match of the day, WCR

defeated MCF by eight wickets, at the LDA stadium. BRIEF SCORES Railway Board 110 in 37.2 overs (Sanjay Singh 44, Tariq 5 for 28, Ashutosh Kumar 2 for 13)

lost to ECR 112 for 1 in 11.3

overs (P Singh 57, SS Shukla 27). MCF 63 in 20.3 overs (Manmohan Meena 24, Sunny Bhatnagar 5 for 21, Yogesh Patel 2 for 9, Sohail 2 for 23) lost to WCR 66 in 17.4 overs (Bhupendra

Yadav 25).

SUSPENDED

Cricket Association Lucknow on Tuesday suspended Rudresh Singh of Tariq Cricket Club for one-month for playing for some other team in a tournament last month. The cricketer has been barred from all activities of the CAL. Meanwhile, CAL announced a 17-member team for All-India Shubhas Memorial tournament to be played at Beena (MP) from March 15. The team included Rahul Rawat, Karan Singh, Pranshu Anand, R Solanki, Kritagya Singh, Prabhnoor Singh, Chandresh Kumar, Vipin Chandra, Pranshu Srivastava, Mohit Yadav, Hasab Akhtar, Vishvajit Mishra, Atif, Ansh Yadav, Abhishek Singh and Sandeep Yadav.

FIDE INSTRUCTOR

Former UP chess champion Pawan Botham has successfully completed the FIDE Instructor exam at Mohali in Punjab during the FIDE trainers seminar. Pawan happens to be first chess player from Lucknow to get the FI title.

FINE SHOW

UP men finished top in the senior national judo championship, winning two gold medals. They were followed by Punjab, which had one gold, one silver and one bronze. Lucknow’s Vijay Kumar Yadav was named best male judoka.

SELECTED

Taekwondo exponent Pooja Raghav, a trainee at the STC, Lucknow has been selected to participate in the junior world taekwondo championship to be held in Tunisia from April 9 to 12. Another trainee Priyanka Kumari, has also been selected for the Youth Olympic qualification tournament.