South Zone completed a hat-trick of triumphs in the JK Bose cricket tournament, cruising past East Zone by seven wickets in the third and final round here on Tuesday. This was South’s third successive win.
After skittling out East for 76, South raced to the target in the 10th over to make it three in a row after triumphs in Bhubaneshwar (2016) and Thiruvananthapuram (2017).
West Zone finished second, beating North Zone by 49 runs.
Amol on a roll
Amol Karhadkar of SJAM swept the table tennis titles in the AC Bali tournament, bagging the singles, doubles (Aswin Ferro) and team honours (Ferro and Devendra Pandey). In singles, Roshan Thyagarajan (SWAB) took the second spot while Swaroop Swaminathan (TNSJA) was third.
SWAB tops quiz
In the quiz competition, SWAB (Sreshth Shah, Debayan Sen and Gaurav Sundararaman) took the top spot. TNSJA (C. Santhosh Kumar, Swaroop Swaminathan and S. Dipak Ragav) finished second and CSJC (Susmita Gangopadhyay, Kasinath Bhattacharjee and Sambuddha Chakraborty) was third.
The events were held as part of the 41st convention of the Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI).
Tuesday's scores: East 76 in 17.5 overs (Abhishek Sengupta 25, Ashwin Achal four for 16, R. Satya two for 10) lost to South 80 for three in 9.5 overs (Abhishek Sengupta three for 28).
West 188 for four in 20 overs (Aditya Chaturvedi 69, Taus Rizvi 45, Jasvinder Sidhu two for 29) bt North 139 for five in 20 overs (Chetan Sharma 45, Jasvinder Sidhu 25, Taus Rizvi two for 12).
Monday's scores: North 81 for seven in 20 overs (R. Satya two for six, Vijeth Kumar two for 10) lost to South 84 for no loss in 6.1 overs (A. Sri Krishna 49 n.o., Roshan Thyagarajan 25 n.o.).
West 144 for eight in 20 overs (Taus Rizvi 40, Abhishek Sengupta three for 13, Sukesh Behera three for 33, Jagadishwar Das two for 28) bt East 115 for five in 20 overs (Allappan Saha 50 n.o., Ethiram Ali two for 19).
