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Axa registers emphatic win

Bangalore: Axa registered a 10-wicket victory over Bytes and Foods in the Polycom Twenty20 inter-corporate cricket tournament played over the weekend here.

Bytes & Foods, opting to bat, made 117 as Vinayak grabbed five for 26 for Axa, which later cruised to the target without losing a wicket with openers Naveen (76 not out) and Kumar (43 not out) leading the charge.

The next set of matches will be played on February 16 and 17 at the HMT Watch factory, SGIS and Loyola grounds.

The scores: Dell 180 for five in 20 overs (Girish 52, Sandeep 45, Manikanth 28 n.o., Melvin two for 39) bt Chetan Ent.136 in 18 overs (Vishwanath 56, Akhilesh 31, Prem 27, V. Gowda three for 16); Accenture 164 (Ranjit 56, Pavan 46, Sandeep 37, Karthick three for 21, Pavan two for 32) bt JPMC 73 for nine in 15.3 overs (Arun 31, Pavan five for 11, Satish three for eight); Bytes and Foods 117 in 17 overs (Shaheed 20, Vinayak five for 26) lost to Axa 120 for no loss ( Naveen 76 n.o., Kumar 43 n.o.); TCS 169 in 16 overs (Nagarajan 62, Harish 35, Srikanth 21) bt FIC 108 (Srinivas 30, Rakesh 21, Srikanth three for 20); Firstsource 204 (Harish 58, Vamshi 53) bt Wipro 175 (Ravi 52, Govind 27, Vamshi three for 26, Raja two for 19).

Mihir prevails

Mihir Roy Choudhary prevailed over Harsh Lakhani 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 in the boys’ under-14 singles, in the Tennis Advantage all-India ranking junior tennis tournament which began here on Monday.

Mihir, however, lost in the under-18 section to Siddharth Dabrai in straight sets 2-6, 0-6.

Important results: Under-18: Boys: Sujith Mathew bt Anurag Sipani 6-2, 6-2; Siddarth Dabrai bt Mihir Roy Choudhary 6-2, 6-0; Gurnam Singh bt Rohit Gowda 6-1, 6-3; Sharan Patil bt Murari 6-1, 6-1.

Girls: Shlokha Kumar bt Preethi Ujjini 6-3, 6-4; Surya Suresh bt Spoorthi 6-1, 6-0; Sanjana bt Shwetha Samuel 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Nithya Raj bt Tejaswini 6-0, 6-0. Under-14: Boys: Mihir Roy Choudhary bt Harsh Lakhani 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Nehal Peras bt Anurag Sipani 5-7, 6-3, 7-5; Pratesh bt B.S. Rahul 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Shashank Nagaraj bt Aman Saxena 7-6(5), 6-4.

Narrow win

Vijaya CC defeated Young Cricketers by two wickets in an MTR Nivarana Basavanagudi Cup cricket tournament match here on Monday. Young Cricketers scored 156 in 26.5 overs and Vijaya CC won in 26 overs with Harsha chipping in a 41.

The scores: Young Cricketers 156 in 26.5 overs (Pandian 52, Harsha four for 27) lost to Vijaya CC 159 for eight in 26 overs (Harsha 41).

Minerva CC 116 for eight in 25 overs bt Modern CC 112 for eight in 25 overs.

Jawans CC 171 for eight in 24 overs bt South End CC 92 for seven in 24 overs (Chethan 42 n.o.).

Vultures CC 175 for seven in 30 overs (R. Shah 53) bt Dolphins CC 114 in 25.5 overs.

Sangam CA 109 for seven in 21 overs lost to Jupiter CA 79 for one in 11.3 overs.

V.V. Puram CC 83 for eight in 15 overs (K.N. Ramesh four for 19) lost to Herons CC 84 for one in 9.3 overs.

Chamrajpet CC 141 in 27.1 overs (Praveen Pawar 57) lost to FUCC 143 for three in 16 overs (A.R. Mahesh 42).

Mallweshwaram Gymkhana 196 for five in 28 overs (S. Puranik 46, Vijay Karthik 45) bt Merchants CC 104 for nine in 28 overs.

Fitness course

The Level One course for fitness trainers from South Zone, West Zone and Vidharba region commenced at the National Cricket Academy here on Monday.

The trainers underwent sessions with the resource panel consisting of Paul Chapman, Dr. K. Suratwala, Paul Close and Rohit Wagh. The course will conclude on February 15. Last week, the trainers from North and East Zones participated.

The trainers: Manoj Kumar, B. Ananthasayanam (both TNCA), Moby Thomas, Atul Meethal (both Kerala CA), Bharat Rao, Vijay Chavan (both KSCA), G. Sashikanth, M. Srikanth (Andhra CA), Amit Tembhurne (Vidarbha CA), Rupesh Pawar, Rahul Prakash Patil (both Mumbai CA), Swadesh Nagre, Nilesh Khaire (both Baroda CA), Ashish Tibrewala and Rahul Patwardhan (both CCI Mumbai).

Anuradha qualifies

The Indian Iron-man athlete Anuradha Vaidyanathan has qualified for the World Half-Iron Man championship scheduled to be held at Clearwater, Florida in November. Anuradha made the cut for the World championship on the basis of her performance in Geelong half-Iron man event in Australia held last week, which she finished in six hours and 57 minute.

“I am proud to be the first Indian to qualify for the World half Iron-Man and I will train hard and do my best,” said the athlete in an e-mail to The Hindu here.

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