Easy for SAIL
Good bowling by Surinder Singh, Rajesh Chauhan and H.Yadav, all of whom took three wickets each, saw Steel Authority of India chalk up an easy 124-run victory over Madras Club in the Lala Raghubir Singh memorial tournament at Modern School.SAIL: 191 in 38.5 overs (Pitamber Dutt 43, Ashu Dani 41, Sanjay Paul 25, Deepak Anand 39, Kartar Nath, Satish Salwan 2 for 31) ; Madras c.c: 67 in 19.1 overs (Kamal Chopra 13, Kesar Choudhry 10, Dhanraj 14, Sanjeev Kumar 10, Saurinder Singh 3 for 19, H.Yadav 3 for 9, Rajesh Chauhan 3 for 10).
MCD move up
MCD (226 for 4: Sant Ram 78, John 50 n.o, Pankaj Joshi 25, Amit Sharma 21 n.o,, Ashwani Kapoor 2 for 21) beat Gary Cricket Academy (224 for 9 in 40 overs: Brijender Tanwar 66, Ashwani Kapoor 50, Vijay Tyagi 32, Anil Kumar 5 for 33, Ajay Tewari 2 for 25) by six wickets to enter the semi-final of the Kalkaji Cricket Tournament.
Sonnet crash out
Last year's champions Sonnet Club were upset by Collage Group by six wickets in the quarter-final of the GG Dutt Memorial tournament at Hindu College ground.The winners will meet D.S.Group in the semi-final.
Sonnet: (190: Akash Chopra 19, Vikram Rathore 60, Devinder Sharma 30, Ajay Sharma 27, Pradeep Jain 2 for 37, Mahesh Bhatti 3 for 20, Satinder Yadav 2 for 14); Collage Group: (191 for 4 in 33.1 overs (Rakesh Singh 59, Adil Sheikh 47, Satinder Yadav 48).
R.R.Gym move up
Unbeaten 61 by Rajeev Chauhan was the highlight of Rohtak Road Gymkhana's eight-wicket victory over Kailash Nagar Colts in the pre-quarter final of the second Lala Hari Ram Aggarwal Memorial Cricket Tournament at the MCD ground.
K.N.Colts: 155 in 27.5 overs (Vijay Garg 52, Sunil Rawat 3 for 18, Gagandeep Singh 2 for 26); R.R.Gym: 156 for 2 in 18.5 overs (Rajeev Chauhan 61 n.o, Vicky Dhir 42, Ravneet Ricky 34 n.o).
Ravi, Nitin shine
Man of the match Ravi Yadav (91) and Nitin Malhotra (5 for 17) helped Kranti Star beat WEMGC by 258 runs to enter the pre-quarter final of the 14th Laxman Dass Memorial Cricket Tournament at the University polo ground.
Kranti Star: 329 for 9 in 40 overs (Ravi Yadav 91, Devinder Bhist 71, Pradeep Aggarwal 26, Kirpal Singh 36, Sudhir Chaudhry 3 for 69, Kumar Chetwani 3 for 11); WEMGC: 71 in 17.2 overs (Nitin Malhotra 5 for 17, Mandhar Singh 3 for 21).
Bobby excels
United Club (169 for 9 in 30 overs: Bobby Dhoundiyal 52, Dharamveer 41, Rohit Sharma 4 for 20) beat Kalkaji Club (150 in 28 overs: Rahul Sharma 61, Bobby Dhoundiyal 4 for 17, Subhash Choudhary 3 for 28) by 19 runs to enter the final of the Ambedkar day/night cricket tournament.