East Bengal demand change in Derby date
East Bengal have lodged a protest with the Indian Football Association, demanding a change in the date of their match versus Mohun Bagan. It is scheduled for January 21, but the match versus Mohammedan Sporting is for January 23. East Bengal officials insist that the recovery time for the players will be far too less.
The IFA, meanwhile, has said that it will be tough to provide police posting for the two matches other than these two dates.
East Bengal have even threatened to take the matter up with the AIFF, if the dates are not changed.
Tollygunge Agragami beat Mohun Bagan by five wickets in a two-day CAB league match on Thursday. Set to score 183 for victory, Tollygunge achieved the target in the 78th over. With this win, Tollygunge have 16 points from four matches, while Mohun Bagan have as many points, having played a match more.
SUMMARISED SCORES
Mohun Bagan 182. Tollygunge Agragami 183/5 (Charanjit Singh 44 n.o., Sanjib Goel 40, Rajib Dutta 3/63). Tollygunge won by 5 wickets.
Taltala Ekta 289. Measurer’s Club 248/5 (Avirup Gupta 79, Mithun Majumdar 100 n.o.). Match drawn.
High Court 256/6. YMCA College 358/3 (Himadri Dutta 201 n.o., Satyaki Biswas 80, Jayanta Roy 41). YMCA College won by 7 wickets.
Victoria Sporting 242/9. Sporting Union 245/8 (Debopam Sarkar 54, Abhishek Chakraborty 83, Hokaito Zhimomi 4/35). Sporting Union won by 2 wickets.
Burnpur CC 286. Mohunlal 277/9 (Sudhansa Roy 3/16, Rajesh Patel 3/122). Match drawn.
Kalighat 380/9. Suburban 166 (Rajesh Biswas 30; Sabir Ali 5/91, Anustup Majumdar 4/25). Kalighat won by 214 runs.
Ballygunge United 346/3. Paikpara Sporting 268/7 (Umakant Fate 66, Ramkrishna Atha 3/41). Match drawn.
Shibpur Institute 380/6 (Subrata Ghosal 113 n.o.). Milan Samity 242/8 (Subhadeep Chandra 54 n.o.; Anirban Gupta 3/44). Match drawn.
Top seed Arijit Goswami edged past Mohammed Imran 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to reach the quarter finals of the boys’ under-14 category in the Calcutta Gymkhana Talent Series tennis meet on Thursday. In the boys’ under-18 category, Farid Alam and Anmol Arora also made it to the last eight stage.
Other results
Boys’ under-14 pre-quarters: Akshay Ashoke bt S. S. Sarkar 6-2, 6-1; Soumit Dey bt Anup Srivastan 6-2, 6-3; Akash Dubey bt Rohan Ray 7-5, 6-4. Girls’ under-14 pre-quarters: Treta Bhattacharjee bt Sahana Chatterjee 6-1, 6-0; Moksada Jain bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-2, 6-3; Richa Valecha bt Apoorva Tyagi 6-1, 6-0; Danielle Jones bt Soumya Pande 6-0, 6-0. Boys’ under-18 pre-quarters: Farid Alam bt S. S. Sarkar 6-4, 6-3; Anmol Arora bt D. Biswakarma 6-3, 6-4. Girls’ under-18 first Round I: Devanshi Rajgharia bt Krita Saraf 6-1, 6-2; Sumedha Dasgupta bt Divya Pandey 6-3, 6-2.
Biplab Mandi scored the winner as Hooghly beat Murshidabad by a solitary goal in a Group C match of the Konark Sheet state soccer league at the Chandannagar Stadium on Thursday.
The three-day West Bengal State School Games concluded at the Rabindra Sarovar Stadium on Friday with B. R. Ambedkar Sports School winning the team titles in the under-14 boys’ and girls’ sections, respectively.
Nadia claimed the boys’ and girls’ under-17 titles, while Uttar Dinajpur won the under-19 boys’ crown with the under-19 girls’ crown going to Nadia.
The 50th senior state volleyball meet (districts) began at Aurobindo Stadium, Burdwan, on Thursday. In all, 15 districts in the men's section and six in the women’s are taking part. The final will be held on Sunday.
TENNIS: The Calcutta Gymkhana Talent series meet.
