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Indian Air Force and SAI teams shoot to victory

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force XI and Sports Authority of India XI scored first round wins through tie-breakers, in the 43rd Nehru hockey tournament here on Tuesday.

Jerom Kujur (8th minute) and Shahnawaz Alam (14th) had put the IAF ahead before Jagjit Singh (42nd) and Gurpreet Singh (55th) levelled the scores for Combined University.

In the tie-breaker, Pardeep Singh, Manoj Kanojia, Sanwar Ali, Prabhakar and Neeraj Sahu scored for IAF XI. Pavninder Singh, Jagjit Singh, Avtar Singh were the scores for Combined University while Manpreet Singh, who took the fourth shot, missed.

SAI XI defeated Central Reserve Police Force XI 7-6 in the sudden death after the teams were tied 3-3 at the end of regulation time.

Yudhvir Singh (18th) and Sashi Kant (41st and 54th) had kept SAI XI ahead but CRPF XI equalised through Balkar Singh (43rd), Mukesh Kumar (58th) and Rajesh Kumar (69th).

PBG wins

Basheer Ali scored five goals to lead President's Body Guards (PBG) to a 7-3 win against Anchor-Emerging in the Baria Cup four-goal polo tournament at the Army Equestrian Centre Ground here on Tuesday.

Col. A. A. Mahmood and Lt. Col. Sanjay Bhatia were the other scorers for PBG. For Anchor-Emerging, Lt. Cdr. A. P. Singh scored a brace while Jagat Singh slotted in one.

In the other match, Bikaner-Sahgal Stud defeated Adam seven goals to three-and-a-half. Dhruvpal Godara and Shailendra Singh scored three goals apiece for Bikaner-Sahgal Stud, while Gaurav Sahgal was the other scorer.

Adam started with half-a-goal on handicap and managed just three goals, from Capt. Sameer Chaudhary, Mickey Gupta and Amir Z. S. Pasrich.

World Cup carrom

from November 17

The second Rajiv Gandhi World Cup carrom tournament will be held at the Tivoli Garden Resorts, Chhattarpur Mandir Road, here from November 17 to 21.

United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Switzerland, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Maldives apart from host India are expected to compete in the tournament.

GIS enters final

Dhanij Rathi's all-round performance (four for six and 50 not out) helped Ganga International School (GIS) beat Salwan `A' School by 10 wickets and make it to the final of the Parle Cup inter-school under-17 cricket tournament here on Tuesday.

Ganga International School will meet Salwan Boys School in the final on Thursday.

The scores:

Salwan `A' School 106 in 38.5 overs (Sandeep Kaushik 34, Dhanij Rathi four for six, Vinod Chug three for eight) lost to Ganga International School 107 for no loss in 15.5 overs (Dhanij Rathi 50 not out, Mohit Sharma 48 not out).

Nassir in lead

Nassir Wajih (5.5 points) beat A.K. Kalsiyan with black pieces in the sixth round and emerged the sole leader in the inter-Ministry chess tournament at the Nirman Bhawan hall here.

The results (sixth round): A.K. Kalsiyan lost to Nassir Wajih (5.5); D.K. Chopra (4.5) lost to Rajesh Kumar (5); P. Chakrapani (5) bt B.L. Rao (4); J.P. Srivastava (4) lost to Sunil Prabhat (5); Nadeem Akhtar (4) lost to A.K. Bhoi (5); B.K. Swain (4.5) bt S.P. Mahato (3.5).

Rajeev Kumar (3.5) lost to Ramesh Prasad (4.5); Sukhvinder Singh (3.5) lost to J.M. Baisakh (4.5); Pradeep Kumar (4.5) bt Sanjay Gupta (3.5); Sanjay Khurana (4) bt Deepak Gupta (3); M. Jena (3) lost to A. Sowrirajan (4); Satvir Singh (3) lost to Khakhai Zou (4).

Rahul advances

Rahul Sharma of Jammu beat P. Chandrashekar of Chennai 21-13, 14-21, 21-13 and moved into the semifinals of the badminton event in the 24th all-India Reserve Bank inter-office sports meet on Tuesday.

In another quarterfinals, Rudra Kaushik of Delhi defeated Gurvinder Singh of Jammu 21-13, 21-14.

In the football semifinals, Delhi beat Bhubaneshwar 1-0 while Kolkata pipped Mumbai 5-4 via the tie-breaker.

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