UP eves win, but fail to enter Super League

LUCKNOW : Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday notched up a fascinating nine-wicket win against Meghalaya in a low-scoring game, but they failed to make the cut for Super League of the Women’s Under-23 Twenty League as they finished poor fourth in seven-team Group A at Kochi with three wins and three loses.

Needing 60 runs, Uttar Pradesh romped home in just five overs with opener Shivpriya Pandey stroking an unbeaten 48 in 22 balls with the help of 10 hits to the fence, at the Rajagiri College of Engineering and Technology Ground.

Decision to bat first winning the toss didn’t go well for inexperienced Meghalaya side as they kept losing wickets on regular intervals before being restricted to 59/9.

L Tamang (19, 33b, 2x4) and DD Dutta (16, 24b, 1x4) remained the key run getters.

Skipper Aditi remained the most successful bowler for UP, bagging 2/10, whereas Kshama, Rashi Kanojiya, Anjali Singh and Tanu Kala took a wicket each.

SELECTION TRIALS

The two-day trial to select Uttar Pradesh’s junior men team will began on January 29, at the Padma Shri Mohammad Shahid Synthetic Hockey Stadium at 9.00 am. The selected team would participate in the 9th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship, scheduled to be held from February 17-28 at Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

ATHLETICS TEAM

Lucknow District Athletics Association on Wednesday announced its team for the forthcoming State Youth (Under-18) Athletics Championship to be held here on January 27 and 28. The team included, Rajveer Gupta, Subar Alam, Rahul Gupta, Himanshu Yadav, Sachin, Ali Haider, Brijesh Yadav, Shashank, Ashutosh, Atul Yadav, Arsi Krishna, Shivanshi Awasthi, Riya Maurya, Akshara Mishra, Anamika Devi, Harshita Yadav, Pooja K umari, Asmita Singh, Asana Siddiqui.

STATE KABADDI

Saharanpur, Kanpur, Varanasi and Meerut made it to the semifinals of the State Women’s Kabaddi Tournament, notching up straight sets wins here on Wednesday. Saharanpur defeated Agra 41-18, Kanpur beat Prayagraj 27-13, Varanasi beat Lucknow 24-11 and Meerut beat Moradabad 51-19. In the men’s section, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Meerut and Varanasi too made it to the semi-finals. Saharanpur dominated the proceedings from the very start before outplaying Mirzapur 32-8 by a huge margin.