SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2014 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU RCC Srinagar storms into final Pavit stars in Honours shared on opening day Sidhant Academy’s as Satish, Ahmer slam big fifties huge win despite Smith’s rearguard action Excelsior Sports Correspondent For MGCA, Aryan and Bhanu Excelsior Sports Correspondent MELBOURNE, Dec 26: off Yadav in the second over and help Australia dominate the claimed one wicket each. Captain Steven Smith put itself. last session in the company of JAMMU, Dec 26: Outplaying In reply, MGCA bundled out JAMMU, Dec 26: A superb himself on course for his third The visitors, however, failed Shaun Marsh (32 runs off 83 Mayank Goswami Cricket for 115 runs in 18.3 overs, thus knock of unbeaten 98 runs and successive century but India to capitalise on the initial gains balls). But the visitors had other Academy (MGCA) by a big mar- lost the match by 71 runs. splendid 4- bowled reasonably well to as Shikhar Dhawan, who took a plans, continuing their good gin of 71runs in the semifinals by Abhishek was the top scorer wicket haul by restrict Australia to 259 for five low catch at the slips to dismiss work and removing Marsh with- riding on magnificent half-cen- with 40 runs, while Sahil Pavit Singh on the opening day of the third Warner, put down an easy one in 12 balls of play resuming in turies from Satish Kumar and Mahotra contributed 312 runs Ishar helped cricket Test to leave the match when Watson was on 37 four the final session. Ahmer, Raianwari Cricket Club and Subrat chipped in with 11 Sidhant Cricket on an even keel here today. SCOREBOARD Mohammad (RCC) Srinagar stormed into the runs. For RCC, Satish was the Academy to finals of the ongoing 2nd Jammu pick of the bowlers, who bagged thrash Col R N Electing to bat, Smith Australia 1st innings: Shami (2/55) wasthe Young wrestlers holding certificates while posing for a group Tawi Premier T20 Cricket 3 important wickets by conced- Chopra Cricket again proved to be the main Chris Rogers c Dhoni b Shami 57 bowler, continuing photograph alongwith dignitaries at Domana in Jammu on Tournament, being organized by ing 6 runs in his 2 overs, while Academy-B by a bigmargin of tormentor for the visitors as David Warner c Dhawan b Yadav 0 his recovery from a Friday. JTCC at GGM Science College Manik Gupta, Kuldeep Kumar 79 runs in the ongoing Under- he anchored the innings to Shane Watson lbw b Ashwin 52 poor morning session, Hostel ground, here. and Raghbir claimed 2 wickets 16 Boys Cricket Tournament at remain undefeated on 72 at Steven Smith not out 72 as left-handed Marsh 12th Jammu District Indian Style Earlier, batting first, RCC each and Amit Sharma took one. IIIM-CSIR ground, here today. stumps on an absorbing first Shaun Marsh c Dhoni b Shami 32 edged behind to keep- Srinagar scored a decent total of For his extraordinary all-round Earlier, Col R N Chopra day of the Boxing Day Test Joe Burns c Dhoni b Yadav 13 er-captain Mahendra 186 runs in the stipulated 20 display, Satish Kumar was Cricket Academy -B team won Wrestling Championship concludes at the MCG. Brad Haddin not out 23 Singh Dhoni. overs, losing 2 wickets in the adjudged man of the match. the toss and elected to field first. Excelsior Sports Correspondent Prem Kumar, Kulbir Singh, The Australians lost Extras: (B-1, LB-6, W-1, NB-2) 10 Debutant Joe process. Ahmed was the top The match was officiated by Put into bat, Sidhant Cricket Darshan Lal, Mohd Fareed and David Warner (0) early but Total: (For 5 wkts, 90 overs) 259 Burns (13) then JAMMU, Dec 26: 12th scorer with 66 runs, studded Sadiq Hussain Malik and Academy scored a mammoth Raj Hussian. President of staged a recovery through Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-115, 3-115, 4-184, 5-216. walked out to a thun- Jammu District Indian Style with 11 boundaries, while Satish Rajinder Singh as umpires, total of 185 runs for 4 wickets Jammu District Indian Style Chris Rogers (57) and Bowling: Ishant Sharma 21-6-54-0, Umesh derous response but Wrestling Championship, organ- contributed brilliant unbeaten 61 while Sandeep Manchanda and in the stipulated 20 overs. Wrestling Association Inderjeet Shane Watson (52) with a Yadav 20-2-69-2, Mohammed Shami 17-4-55-2, did not last long at the ized by Jammu District Indian runs with the help of 7 bound- Sohail Yousuf were the scorers. Skipper Pavit Singh Ishar Khajuria and treasurer J&K 115-run partnership for the R Ashwin 27-7-60-1, Murali Vijay 5-0-14-0. crease. He was dis- Style Wrestling Association in aries and one six. Shashi Kumar Now, RCC Srinagar will scored unbeaten 98 runs off 59 Indian Style Wrestling second wicket. The hosts missed by Umesh collaboration with J&K Indian also scored valuable 44 runs lock horns with Wave Cricket balls, studded with 13 delec- Association P.R. Sharma also then lost three quick wickets to overs before lunch. Australia Yadav (2/69) in the 71st over, Style Wrestling Association, including 4 crispy boundaries. Club in the finals. table boundaries and 4 sixes, spoke on the occasion. allow the Indians to claw back went into the lunch on a com- again caught behind. under the aegis of J&K State while Munish and Rohit con- Earlier, in 55 kg, Rustam- into the game. fortable 92 for one. The Indian attack zipped Sports Council concluded at tributed 31 and 23 runs to the Chaudhary of Kairi won gold, From a shaky 184 for four, India recovered from a poor through their overs, thanks in Peer Bawa Meer Shah Akhara total respectively. For Col. R N Yogesh-Saini of Sarore bagged the home team reached 259 for first session to pull things back part to the tremendous effort put Domana, here today. Chopra Cricket Academy -B silver and Arshad Ali of five, mainly through the watch- and produced their best bowling in by Ashwin (1/60) on a day The Championship in six team, Parth took 2 wickets and Kanger claimed bronze, while in ful effort of their captain and display of the series, restricting one pitch. The bowlers, in tan- Weight Categories 55Kg, 61Kg, Ayush claimed 1 wicket. 61kg, Mustaq Ahmed of Kairi, Brad Haddin, who remained not the hosts in the other two ses- dem, kept the run-scoring in 67Kg, 75Kgm, 84Kg, and 97 Col. R N Chopra Cricket Parveen Singh of Sarore and out on 23. sions of play. check and stuck at regular inter- Kg, was held under the overall Academy in reply bundled out Bachan Singh of Domana Pacers Umesh Yadav and Smith, who came out to bat vals, never letting the Australian supervision of president J&K for a paltry total of 106 runs in clinched gold, silver and bronze Mohammed Shami stuck to a at number four at the fall of batsmen dominate in the last Indian Style Wrestling 15.4 overs. Arya scored 17 runs medals respectively. tight line and length to grab two Rogers' wicket just after the start two sessions. Association, Shiv Kumar and Lionar chipped in with 15 In 67kg, Balwinder Singh of wickets apiece while an equally of post-lunch session, held one Burns had stayed long Sharma as the chief guest on the runs. For Sidhant Cricket Halqa, Surjan Singh of Patta and impressive Ravichandran end together to ensure that enough to bring up the 200- occasion. He presented medals, Academy, Pavit Singh Ishar Ajay Singh of Patta Ashwin took one wicket. Australia ended on a fighting mark for the hosts in the 66th certificates and track suits to the was the wrecker-in-chief, who Won gold, silver and bronze Strike bowler Ishant Sharma score. over, while Smith had reached wrestlers, while chairman J&K took 4 wickets in 3.4 overs giv- medals respectively, while the was impressive in his spells but The 25-year-old skipper was his 10th Test fifty in the 71st Indian Style Wrestling ing away just 7 runs, while gold, silver and bronze medals in ended the day without any wick- in tremendous form having over. He faced 96 balls, and hit Association Prem Choudhary Psychologist and social activist Seema Agarwal lighting cere- Prince took 3 wickets and 75 kg went to Mohd. Ashraf of et. scored 375 runs from the first four fours as well as a six, cross- presided over the function. monial lamp while inaugurating Youth Festival at Gandhi Nagar Anshuman claimed 2 wickets. Kairi, Narinder Singh of RS Pura Australia were put on the two Tests with two hundreds and ing 1000 runs in the calendar Retired SP P R Sharma, retired backfoot as soon as the match one half century. year on the way. (PTI) in Jammu. and Sunil Rakwal of Thather Deepak selected D.F.O Inderjeet Khajuria and respectively. began as their danger-man Post-tea, Smith looked to retired Tehsildar Bansi Lal Warner got dismissed for a duck continue his fine run of form KC Sports Club In 84 kg, Sakeel Khan of Seema Agarwal inaugurates to NSF Jury Tidyal were the guests of hon- Domana won gold, while silver organizing 1st Winter Excelsior Correspondent our. medal went to Darshan Lal of Director Competition, NIS Patniyal and in 97 kg Marf Camp from Jan 1 Youth Festival JAMMU, Dec 26: With his wrestling coach Mulk Raj selection as head of jury for Hussian of Kairi and Ishant Excelsior Sports Correspondent Excelsior Sports Correspondent Director General Youth Sharma conducted the proceed- National Shivalik Shama of Domana won gold and Services and Sports, Navin ings, while the vote of thanks silver medals respectively.