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PARMINDER CLAIMED FIVE WICKETS TO HELPCHANDIGARH POLICE BOWL HDFC OUT FOR JUST 50 RUNS.

CII CRICKET CUP

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MOGA: A SAS Nagar-based crick-et coach was killed, while hiswife was seriously injured, in a road accident that took placeon the Moga-Ludhiana nation-al highway near Ajitwal, 14kmfrom here, on Thursday.

Harwinder Singh, 28, ofChandar village in Ferozepurdistrict had been workingas coach of the SAS Nagar-based Sher-e-Punjab CricketAcademy.

Gulzar Singh, assistantsub-inspector of Ajitwal police station, said Harwinder

and his wife were travellingby car to Chandigarh whenan over-speeding bus of thePunjab Roadways collided withthe car.

“Harwinder died on thespot while Parminder Kaurwas rushed to the civil hospi-tal, Moga, where the doctors referred her to Amritsar,” saidthe ASI.

After the post-mortem, thebody was handed over to thefamily. “A case has been regis-tered against bus driver Geja Singh of Sivian village on behalfof the statement of deceased’s father Karnail Singh,” the ASIadded.

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CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh Police team thrashed HDFC Bank, while JW Marriott beat Kudos Chemie, to enter the finalof the CII Cricket Cup at DAVPublic School, Sector 8, here on Thursday.

In the first semifinal match,the UT police batted first andraised a challenging total of 150runs in the allotted 20 overs.

While Satnam top scored for the side with 48 runs off 57 balls,it was Jaswinder’s whirlwindknock (47 runs off just 29 balls)that became the highlight of thecontest. His innings includedfour hits to the fences and twotowering sixes.

For HDFC Bank, Om Bahadurand Harjinder Singh shared thebowling honours for claiming three wickets each. GauravJaiswal and Amandeep Saggu also chipped in by picking up one wicket apiece.

Chasing, the HDFC teamwas bundled out for a paltryscore of 50 runs in 16 oversto suffer a hundred-rundefeat.Amandeep Saggu was the leading run-getter for thelosing side, scoring run-a-ball 22.

For Chandigarh Police,Parminder bowled a brilliantspell to collect five wickets whileyielding just five runs.

Ramandeep completed therout by walking away with twowickets.

In the second match, theMarriott team was crownedwinners on the basis of the netrun rate (NRR) method after

their match against KudosChemie was abandoned dueto rain.

Batting first, Kudos scored 94runs for the loss of seven wicketsin the given 15 overs. Rajeev topscored with 22 off 21 balls.

For JW Marriott, Abhilashtook three wickets for 14 runswhile Mandeep Rai picked uptwo wickets for 16 runs.

Replying, JW Marriott hadknocked off 63 runs for the lossof four wickets in 7.4 overs whenrain disrupted play.

As per NRR, Marriott weredeclared winners by 12 runs. Forthe winners, Shahbaz Khan topscored with 37 runs off just 18balls, inclusive of four boundar-ies and two sixes. For KudosChemie, Hussain took threewickets.

The final match between JWMarriott and UT police will beplayed at DAV-8 on Friday at10am. Brief scoresMatch 1: Chandigarh Police150 in 20 overs (Satnam 48Jaswinder 47), HDFC Bank50 in 16 overs (Amandeep Saggu22, Parminder 5 for 5)Match 2: Kudos Chemie: 94for 7 in 15 overs (Rajeev 22Abhilash 3 for 14, Mandeep Ra2 for 16), JW Marriott: 63 for 4in 7.4 overs (Shahbaz Khan 37)

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PANCHKULA: Harsh Gangwar returned a card of four-over-par 76 points, while TavleenBatra finished with 13-over-par85, to lead the respective boysand girls’ sections of Category A after round one of the inauguraltournament of the CGA JuniorCircuit at the Panchkula Golf Course on Thursday.

Nearly 73 budding golfers teed off on the opening day ofthe event.

In boys’ Category A, Khush-manraj Singh shot six-over-par78 to be placed second, whileAnant Singh Alhahwat, at sev-en-over-par 79 was third.

In girls’ Category A, Kianaat Singh returned a card of 93 to be placed second.

In Category B, Jaiveer Singh Sandhu led the pack with six-over-par 78. He leads his nearestrival Vignesh Thakur by fourstrokes. Thakur finished theday on 82.

Karandeep Kochhar was five strokes behind the leader, finish-ing the day on 11- over-par 83. Jaiveer had 10 pars and onebirdie in his opening day round.

In the recently concludedSouthern Golf Challenge,Jaiveer had finished second.

In the girls’ Category B,Sonell Malik led the field witha card of 84, while Precious

Kelson, with a card of 112, was the leader in Category C.

With a card of 84, Vausundhra

Thiara led Category D, whileMyra Jawanda scored 73 to finish atop the leaderboard

in Category E. In the boys’Category C, Aadil Bedi was leader with a three-over-par

75. Yuvraj Singh (82) andHarmanbir Singh Bajwa (85)were second and third, respec-

tively. Arnav Jain led Category

D with a card of 88. He was followed by Mandaar Singh Prashar at the second positionwith a day’s card of 90.

Manjot Singh, who was lead-ing Category E, had a card of 51.

Prize distribution will take place on June 21 at the CGA GolfRange. Haryana chief secretaryPK Chaudhery will give awaythe prizes to the winners.

Day 1: Harsh, Tavleen,Jaiveer capture lead

■ Precious Kelson in action on the opening day of the CGA Junior Golf Tournament at the Panchkula Golf Course on Thursday. SANT ARORA/HT

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CHANDIGARH: Sohrab Singh with-stood a two-hour long contest,and a tough opponent in NikhilSandhu, to clinch the under-18boys’ singles title of the TotalTennis Championship that con-cluded at Swami Ram Tirath School, Phase 4, in SAS Nagar,on Thursday.

While the two players put upa close fight in the opening set,Sohrab lost focus at the crucialstage to let the game slip away. As a result, Sandhu pipped hisopponent 7-5 to take lead.

But the loss did not fluster

Sohrab as he bounced backstrongly in the next two sets.

The gritty player rode onsolid groundstrokes and boom-ing serves to win the second set6-4, thus bringing the match onan even keel. In the third set,Sandhu raced to a 4-1 lead.

But Sohrab played someexquisite shots to level thescore at 4-4 all. In the last twogames, Sohrab did well to keephis nerve, and won the set 6-4,to seal the deal in his favour.

In another closely foughtcontest, Sidarth Goyal got thebetter of Akshit Chhabra 7-5, 6-3 to walk away with the tophonour in the under-12 boys’

singles section. Akshit, however,made up for the loss by winningthe under-14 trophy, beatingSavneet 6-0, 6-4 in the process.

Girls’ sectionCategory E: Myra Jawanda(73); Category D: 1. Vausundhra Thiara (84), 2. Anya Bindra (104); Category C: 1. PreciousKelson (112), 2. Vanishka Sharma (124); Category B: 1. Sonell Malik (84); 2. Ashi Jain(90), 3. Muskanmeet (100);Category A: 1. Tavleen Batra (85), 2. Kianaat Singh (93);

Boys’ sectionCategory E: 1. Manjot Singh(51), 2. Aditya (53); Category D:1. Arnav Jain (88), 2. MandaarSingh Prashar (90); CategoryC: 1. Aadil Bedi (75), 2. Yuvraj Singh (82), 3. Harmanbir SinghBajwa (85); Category B: 1.Jaiveer Singh Sandhu (78), 2.Vignesh Thakur (82), 3.Karandeep SinghKochhar (83); Category A :Harsh Gangwar (76), 2.Khushmanraj Singh (78), 3.Anant Singh Alhahwat (79).

RESULTSjuniorgolfcircuit

Sohrab keeps Nikhil at bay, clinches under-18 title

UT police, Marriott register victories toset up title clash

THE CHANDIGARH POLICE TEAM THRASHEDHDFC BANK BY 100 RUNS, WHILE MARRIOTT BEAT KUDOS ON THE BASIS OF NET RUN-RATE

RESULTS (ALL FINALS)Under-12 boys’ section: SidarthGoyal bt Akshit Chhabra 7-5, 6-3.

Under-14 boys’ section: AkshitChhabra bt Savneet 6-0, 6-4.

Under-18 boys’ section: SohrabSingh bt Nikhil Sandhu 5-7, 6-4,6-4.

■ Akshit Chhabra in action during the Total Tennis Championship at Swami Ram Tirath School in Phase 4,SAS Nagar, on Thursday. The player had mixed fortunes on the concluding day of the event. Chhabra lostthe under-12 final to Sidarth Goyal, but won the under-14 trophy by beating Savneet. HT PHOTO

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CHANDIGARH: The Punjab CricketAssociation (PCA) has organ-ised an off-season camp for itssenior team players at the PCA Stadium in SAS Nagar. Thecamp, which started last week,

includes 13 pacers and five bats-men who are training under thesupervision of former Indianfast bowler Harvinder Singh.

The main objective of orga-nising the camp is to help theparticipating players maintainfitness and polish their bowl-ing skills before the start of the

domestic season.The morning and evening

sessions at the camp are beingdevoted to physical fitness andnet practice, respectively.

The players attending thecamp are: Bowlers: SiddharthKaul, Navdeep Singh, BeantSingh, Baltej Singh, Deepak

Bansal , Harmeet SinghBarinder Singh, ManinderSingh, Khushpreet SinghRobin Dhillon, SiddharthSharma, Amritpal SinghKaran Ahluwalia. BatsmenMandeep Singh, Ravi InderSingh, Kunwarveer Raina, LoveKumar and Mohit Handa.

PCA organises senior off-seasoncamp for medium pacers & bastmen

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CHANDIGARH:Local golfers AbhijitChadha, Sujjan Singh andAjeetesh Sandhu did not get thebest of the starts as the trio was lying down on the leaderboard on day one of the WorldwideHoldings Selangor Masters golftournament in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.

While Chadha returned a card of 74 to finish the day astied 55, Sujjan was at the 79thplace with the first round score of 75. With a scorecard of 84,Sandhu lying further below.

Abhinav Lohan, playing in hisfirst season on the Asian Tour, carded an even par 71 to end asthe best Indian in tied 19th spot.

Anirban Lahiri, C Muniyappaand Rahil Gangjee carded two-over 73 each to be placed tied43rd.

T h a i l a n d ’ s P a r i y a Junhasavasdikul rediscovered some of his best form to storminto early first round lead witha five-under-par 66.

The 28-year-old, who has oneAsian Tour title under his belt,snared eight birdies against onebogey and a double bogey at a sun baked Seri Selangor Golf Club to lead by one stroke fromKorea’s Baek Seuk-hyun in theUSD 400,000 tournament.

Talented Malaysian amateurGavin Green continued to show his promise with a measured 68for joint third place alongsidesix-time Asian Tour winner LinWen-tang of Chinese Taipei andAustralian duo Wade Ormsby and Adam Groom.

Pariya has not hit top formin 2013 but his game clicked atSeri Selangor, which is playinghard and fast due to the dryconditions.

After turning in 31, hedropped a double bogey on thethird hole before bouncing backwith three straight birdies for the early lead.

■ Punjab bowlers hone their skills during the net session of the ongoing off-season camp at the PCA Stadium in SAS Nagar. HT PHOTO

LOCAL GOLFERSFALTER AT MALAYSIAN EVENT

Cricket coach dies in road mishap

NEW DELHI: Young Indian boxer Sunil Kumar continued hisimpressive run at the ChinaOpen tournament by reachingthe semifinals of the 52kg cat-egory in Guiyang on Thursday.By entering the last-four stage, the Bhiwani lad also secured thebronze medal for himself.

Besides Sunil, who also had a bronze at the KonstantinKorotkov Memorial, rookiesAjay Kumar (56kg), Jaideep(75kg) and Manjeet Singh (+91kg) also made it to thepenultimate round and haveassured themselves of a medal.

In the quarterfinals atGuiyang -- under the new ‘Ten-

Point must-scoring system’ -- Sunil, a silver medallist atthe inaugural China Open, was up against Artem Mirazaev of Russia.

With his quick-fire jabsand swift body blows he putthe Russian boxer on the backfoot, right from the very start.Mirazev did well to squeezein a few punches, but in theend it was Sunil who emerged triumphant on a split decisionto march into the semi-finals ofthe tournament. He now takeson local lad Chang Young for a place in the finals.

Ajay, 19, playing his firstinternational competition, also

assured himself of at least abronze medal. He beat Filipinoboxer Nico Magliquian in asplit decision to advance intothe semis, where he now takeson You Lunhai from ChinaMiddleweight boxer Jaideepalso secured a semi-final spotby overhauling Kazakh boxerChingiz Verdybekov.

But the Indian contingentsuffered early setbacks in thewomen’s division of the tour-nament. Pinki Jangra (51kg)Preeti Beniwal (60kg) andNeetu Chahal (75kg) all failedto make it past the quarterfinalsafter losing out to their respec-tive opponents. IANS

Haryana boxer Sunil securesbronze medal in China Open