Manipur beat Meghalaya by six wickets in the final of the U-22 tournament for Associate and affiliate States of the BCCI at the Eden Gardens. The victory helped Manipur to move into the U-22 Plate division next season.
Brief scores: Meghalaya 233 in 50 overs (Raju Biswa 140; J.G. Thounaojam 3/33, W.R. Nunglettam 3/31). Manipur 236/4 in 48 overs (R.I. Usham 79, R.S. Ngangom 45, M.I. Ngangbam 42; R. Biswa 3/45). Manipur won by six wickets
Top seed PC Vignesh entered the semi-finals of the men’s singles category in the AITA Open Tennis Championship at the Central Excise Athletic Club. He beat Tejas Chaukulkar 7-5, 7-6 (1).
Other winners: quarter finals: singles: men’s: Siddharth Rawat, Saurav Sukul, Shahbaaz Khan. Women’s: S. Vaishnavi Reddy, Shweta Raina, Treta Bhattacharya, Ankita Raina
Income Tax Calcutta beat Chennai Customs 3-2 via a penalty shootout in football at the 44th All India Central Revenue Sports Meet on Thursday. South Zone were the overall champions in the meet. Debashree Majumder of Income Tax Calcutta, who won three gold medals, was the best athlete. P. Francis Sagayaraj of South Zone and Krishna Kumar Rane of West Zone were jointly named best athletes among men.
Baksha B.N. Vidyalaya won the Calcutta Zonal League of Tata Tea Jaago Re Inter Milan Soccer Stars competition by defeating Aharampur Sahara Boys School 1-0.
An eight-member junior badminton team will participate in the 36th Junior National Badminton Championships, which will be held at Jaipur from Saturday.
Boys: Trinankur Nag, Pallab Bose, Shouvik Ghosh, Rajdeep Mitra; Girls: Rituparna Das, Sanchali Dasgupta, Anuriya Das, Adrija Biswas, Coach: Baidya Nath Das
Howrah Union thrashed Calcutta Union Sporting Club 5-0 in a group B match of the first division Calcutta Hockey League.
