Rana Chowdhury and Arindam Ghosh are the two new faces that have been included in the 18-member Bengal squad — announced on Thursday — for the inaugural Twenty20 (East Zone) Championship to be held here from April 3-8.
The name of the captain hasn’t been declared as CAB wants to keep options open. “If Sourav (Ganguly) plays, he will lead the side otherwise Deep will be in charge,” a senior CAB official said.
THE SQUAD: Deep Dasgupta, Rohan Gavaskar, Subhamoy Das, Wriddhiman Saha, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tewari, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Ranadeb Bose, Sourav Sarkar, Shib Shankar Paul, Sourashish Lahiri, Ashok Dinda, Kamal Hasan Mondal, Rana Chowdhury, Subhajit Paul, Arindam Ghosh, Anushtup Majumdar. Coach: Paras Mhambrey.
St Xavier’s Collegiate School and Don Bosco registered wins in their respective matches in the SLOBA Inter-school cricket meet on Thursday. St Xavier’s beat St Lawrence by 7 wickets while Don Bosco overcame Birla High School by an identical margin.
SUMMARISED SCORES
Category B (U-16): Birla High School 164/6 in 25 ovs (Purab Joshi 94; Pranveer Singh 3/30). Don Bosco School 168/3 in 20.3 ovs (Pranveer Singh 50). Don Bosco School won by 7 wkts.
Category B (U-16): St Lawrence High School 117 in 23 ovs (Parikshit Dhall 51, R. Arvind 4/17). St Xavier’s Collegiate School 120/3 in 22.2 ovs (Utsav Manjeer 48). St Xavier’s won by 7 wkts.
FCI blanked CC&FC Gremlins by 6-0 in a Beighton Cup hockey tournament tie at the CC&FC on Thursday. Somnath Sarkar (2), Sudhir Minz, Jordan Sarin, Jugal Kishore and Iqbal Singh scored for the winners.
In another tie, Punjab Sports Club trounced Khalsa Blues 3-0. Punjub SC took an early lead as Ravinder Singh and William Messi converted penalty corners in ninth and 17th minutes, respectively. Gurdeep Singh scored a field goal nine minutes from the final hooter to round off the tally.
The Hooghly District Chess Association-organised two-day All Bengal Junior School chess championship will commence at Sarathi, Rishra on Saturday.
GOLF: Calcutta Ladies’ Golf Club-organised Gold Cup meet at the club course.
HOCKEY: Beighton Cup — CPT vs CLW (3 pm, CC&FC), FCI vs SAI Training Centre (3 pm, Mohun Bagan).
