Khagen Patra?s five-wicket haul sent Mohun Bagan crashing to 195 on the opening day of their CAB senior division league tie against George Telegraph. At stumps on Wednesday, George were 52 for three.
It was a bowlers? day with Ajay Verma of Sporting Union and CPT?s Aditya Dutta also claiming five wickets each.
SUMMARISED SCORES
Young Bengal 255 (Masidur Rahman 79, Sougata Mitra 62; Priyankar Mukherjee 5/53). Eastern Railway 6/0.
Town 233 (Sayan Dey 86; Ajay Verma 5/67, Ashok Dinda 4/41). Sporting Union 6/0.
Aikya Sammilani 268 (Aditya Sengupta 64, Jairam Oraon 52; Soumya Roy Chowdhury 3/52, Kamlesh Singh Rajput 3/78) vs Wari.
Aryan 270 (Avijit Banerjee 62, Ajay Das 45, Aditya Dutta 5/82) vs CPT.
Mohun Bagan 195 (Naushad Akhtar 41, Shiva Dhar Bajpaee 39; Khagen Patra 5/32, Indrajit Ghatak 3/62). George Telegraph 52/3.
Laxmipat Singhania rode unbeaten knocks from Aman Dalmia (49) and Saurav Choraria (33) to a four-wicket victory over St Lawrence in the under-15 inter-school SLOBA meet on Tuesday.
BRIEF SCORES: St Lawrence 143/5 in 25 ovs (Kishan Jaiswal 41). Laxmipat Singhania 149/6 in 20.3 (Aman Dalmia 49 n.o., Saurav Choraria 33 n.o.). Laxmipat Singhania won by 4 wkts.
Around 2500 athletes from 40 banks will take part in 13 disciplines in the third Bank Olympiad from January 3-10 at the Salt Lake Stadium and other venues. Former Test players Venkatesh Prasad and Sunil Joshi will be seen in action in cricket along with Dulal Biswas, Basudeb Mondal and Sunil Chettri (football) and Reet Abraham, Vandana Rao, P. Kannan and Gopal Saini (athletics).
Amar Swarnakar and Mina Basnet will lead the state men?s and women?s basketball teams in the senior national basketball championships to be held in Ludhiana from Sunday.
TEAMS
MEN: Amar Swarnakar, Washim Khan, Sudip Chatterjee, Rajendra Singh, Dhanesh Kumar, Utpal Dutta, B.B. Rajbhar, Suhas Bhattacharjee, Bikash Agarwal, Amalendu Singh, Amitava Mukherjee, Joseph Gomes. Coach: Sukumar Chatterjee.
WOMEN: Mina Basnet, Stimita Dhirendra, Priyanka Kumari, Rima Mondal, Pousali Dutta, Sarika Sharma, Mina Kumari Kanu, Sampurna Chowdhury, Rakhi Bose, Mahua Pal, Jaya Mondal, Nidhi Bakshi.
Wild Cards Omar Abdullah and Bishnu Pradhan had it easy at the Sunfeast BSNL JMTA junior tennis meet on Wednesday. Omar Abdullah blanked Siliguri boy, lucky loser, Rahul Banik 6-0, 6-0 while Bishnu Pradhan upset eighth seed Neil D?Souza 6-4, 6-1.
East Bengal Wednesday left for Kathmandu to take part in an invitational soccer meet. Coach Subhas Bhowmick along with Bijen Singh will leave on Friday. Bhaichung Bhutia did not accompany the side because of his marriage. Earnest Jeremiah also had to stay back because of visa problems.
Maidan Sports Welfare Association will submit a memorandum to the AIFF president Priya Ranjan Das Munshi demanding adequate medical facilities at football grounds and insurance of players following the tragic death of Cristiano Junior. The signatories include Sailen Manna and Sahu Mewalal among others.
CRICKET: Ranji Trophy ? Bengal vs Delhi. Second day?s play at Eden Gardens from 9 am.
GOLF: Eastern India amateur meet at RCGC. Tee-off at 8 am.
KARATE: Asian championship at Rabindra Sarobar from 11 am.
TENNIS: AITA Talent Series meet at JMTA courts from 10 am.
