Five Bihar players enter quarterfinals

Patna, October 26, 2010: Five Bihar players including Ishank Ravi, Upmanyu Sinha, Anshumat Srivastav, Venkat Siddarth and Vaibhav Kumar moved into the under-16 boys’ singles quarterfinals of the AITA ranking tournament at the Patliputra tennis court here on Tuesday.

Results: Boys’ under-16 singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ishank Ravi bt Sanoj Kumar (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0; Upmanyu Sinha bt Anish Anupam (Bihar) 6-4, 6-3; Anshumat Srivastav bt Harsh Sharma (UP) 6-0, 6-0 and Vaibhav Kumar bt Ayush Sharma (UP) 6-1, 6-0.

Boys’ under-14 singles (pre-quarterfinals): Upmanyu Sinha bt Shekhar Raj Srivastava 6-2, 6-2; Sanoj Kumar bt Adveya Sharma 6-2, 6-2; Madhav Singhal bt Ashish Kumar Ojha 7-5, 6-3; Shree Krishna bt Ayush Sharma 6-0, 6-2; Praduman Buddhiraja bt Ritwik Bhriguvanshi 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Adarsh Anand bt Ramyak Singh 7-5, 6-3; Mridul Kharkwak bt Ankit Anand 7-6, 7-5.

Photo caption: Adamya Vikrant in action during his singles match in Patna on October 26, 2010.

Photo: BLTA

Easy wins for seeded players in mastermind chess

Patna, October 26, 2010: Seeded players recorded easy wins in the Mastermind prize-money inter-school chess championships at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Tuesday.

Arunish Sinha, Arab, Abhinav Khanna, Ritik Kumar and Rishik Anand chalked out comprehensive wins in the first round of under-10 boys’ group while Kamni Kumari, Kumari Srishti, Arti, Minakshi Kumari, Manya Diptam and Usha Arya won their respective matches in their age groups of the girls’ section.

Earlier, Bihar State Sports Authority director-cum-secretary Ajay Kumar Singh inaugurated the championship. OP Singh, vice-principal, Patna Central School was the special guest in the inaugural function. Niraj Kumar Pappu, general secretary, Acharya Sudarshan Sports and Cultural Foundation welcomed the guests.

Results:

Boys’ under-10 (first round): Arab (1) bt Rahul Kumar (0); Arunish Sinha (1) bt Rahul Kumar Ranjan (0); Abhinav Khanna (1) bt Rishabh Kumar (0); Rishik Anand (1) bt Abhinav Prakash (0); Ritik Kumar (1) bt Abhinav Anand (0); Saif Ali Khan (1) bt Aditya Dikshit (0); Aditya Singh (1) bt S Patel (0); Samir K Kumar (1) bt Aditya Sinha (0); Aman Harsh (1) bt Satya Prakash (0) and Amitesh Raj (0) bt Saurav Kumar (0).

Boys’ under-12 (first round): Akash Raj (1) bt Piyush Shukla (0); Aditya Bhashkar (1) bt Ritesh Kumar (0); Ritesh Raj (1) bt Azim Anwar (0); Ashwani Arya (1) bt Shubham Ranjan (0); Ayush Ankit (1) bt Siddharth Kishan (0); Ishant Sinha (1) bt bt Siddharth Mittal (0); Sudhanshu Kumar (1) bt Jaiprakash (0).

Boys’ under-14 (first round): Ayush Anand (1) bt Ravi (0); Siddharth Khanna (1) bt Ritik Raj (0); Rohit Rao (1) bt Akash Kumar Nirala (0); Alok Priyadarshi (1) bt Samarth Mitrtal (0) and Sanjay Kumar (1) bt Kaushik Ghosh (0).

Boys’ under-16: (first round): Nilesh Shankar (1) bt Rahul Roy (0); Rakesh Raushan (1) bt Aditya Verma, Uttam Prakash (1) bt Mohit Sagar (0) and Vikas Kumar (1) bt Pranav Kumar (0).

Mohan Kumar to lead Bihar EPF cricket team

Patna, October 26, 2010: Mohan Kumar Upadhyay of EPF regional office Patna will lead a 14-member Bihar team in the East Zone Employees Provident Fund (EPF) cricket tournament to be held in Jamshedpur from November 16, according to Raghubir Singh, Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner (Administration).

Team: Mohan Kumar Upadhyay (captain), Tathagat Chakraborty, Nehal Akhtar (vice-captain), Aman Kumar Srivastava, Alok Kumar Sinha, Anjani Kumar Sinha, Satish Kumar Singh, Lokesh Kumar, Bipin Kumar Sinha, Abhay Kumar Sinha, Sanjay Krishna, Rajesh Ranjan, Pankaj Kumar and Binay Kumar. Manager: NK Prasad.

Big win for Kumar Club

Patna, October 26, 2010: Kumar Club thrashed Stepping Stone by ten wickets in the Maharana Pratap T20 cricket tournament at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Tuesday.

Niraj Priyadarsh of Kumar Club, who claimed four wickets for nine runs, was adjudged man of the match.

In the second match, AECC humbled Shivam Convent ‘B’ by 117 runs. Raju of AECC, who claimed five wickets for six runs, was named man of the match.

Brief scores: Stiffen stone; 52 all out in 15.2 overs (Anil-14, Niraj-4/9, Babloo-2/10). Kumar Club: 54 for no loss in 7.4 overs (Roshan-10 not out, Amit-19 not out).

AECC: 137 for five wickets in 17 overs (Rohit-17, Vinay-33, abhishek-19, Sumit-20, Ashish-1/170). Shivam Convent ‘B’: 20 all out in 12.3 overs (Raju-5/6, Faisal Gani-3/5).