Calcutta: Mohun Bagan beat Suburban by 71 runs in the A.N. Ghosh Trophy on Saturday. In another match Shyambazar beat Eastern Railway by four wickets.
Summarised scores
Mohun Bagan 257/7 (Humza Ferozi, Naushad Akhtar 81). Suburban 186/8 (Vishal Tulsian 52; Gourav Sharma 3/29). Mohun Bagan won by 71 runs.
E. Railway 178/8 (Sanjoy Bhattacharya 53 n.o., Anirban Chatterjee 4/30). Shyambazar 180/4 (Rakesh Krishnan 49). Shyambazar won by 6 wkts.
Satinder Yadav’s 112 helped Tapan Memorial score 332 for nine against East Bengal in the quarter final of the CAB senior division league.
Brief scores: Tapan Memorial 332/9 in 85 ovs (Satinder Yadav 112, Avik Mukherjee 51) vs East Bengal.
Allahabad Bank, with 14 points, emerged champions in the eastern region bank athletics meet, organised by UBI at Rabindra Sarovar Stadium. Atanu das of Allahabad was declared men’s best with nine golds, while Mallika Mondal of Allahabad emerged best among women with five golds.
A cable TV channel, in association with the IFA, is presenting an international football package, dubbed in Bengali, for viewers in and around Calcutta. Bangla Ekhon, it was announced at a press conference, will broadcast this Australia-made ‘highlights of highlights’ at weekends, incorporating onfield and off-field news on soccer. Despite this being a commercial venture, the IFA will not make a rupee from it, said IFA secretary Subrata Dutta.
CRICKET: CAB League quarter final — East Bengal vs Tapan Memorial, 2nd day’s play, from 9.30am.
FOOTBALL: Final of Avenue Sammilani veterans’ meet at Rabindra Sarovar stadium from 6pm.
GYMNASTICS: Second day of the 17th sub-junior nationals at the SAI, Eastern Centre from 9am.
