Chandigarh, April 16
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has allotted the Zonal Cricket Academy Camp for under-15 (North Zone) to Punjab Cricket Association (PCA). The month-long camp will be organised at PCA stadium, Mohali from April 20. The 25 players selected for the camp are: Mandeep Singh, Arjun Kumar, Ankit Pursharthy, Pankaj Chodhary, Pargat Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Karanpreet Singh, Bhavish Goyal, Gurinder Singh (Punjab state), Samarth Singh, Dhruv Shroey, Jaideep Chohan, Abhishek Kapoor, Kuldip Mirchi, Amir Beig, Vikas Mishra, Manoj Chohan (Delhi District Cricket Association), Devinder Lochub, Krishan Kumar Paul (Haryana Cricket Association), Vinayak Lal, Shashank Sharma, Sahib Malhotra, Nikhil Gangta (Himachal Pradesh), Owais Ameen Shah and Dilwar Singh (Jammu and Kashmir).

According to honorary secretary, M.P. Pandove, all arrangements have been made and the trainees along with supporting staff will stay at PCA Club House within the PCA stadium premises.

Munish Bali will be the chief coach and Rajdeep Kalsi and Bharti Vij will be the coaches for the camp. Brig G.S. Sandhu (retd.) will be the overall in charge of the camp.

Chandigarh, April 16
Himachal Cricket Club (HCC) defeated Anoop XI by 15 runs in the first quarterfinal match of the second Professional Cup Cricket Tournament at DAV College, Sector 10, here today.

Batting first, HCC made 149 for the loss of nine wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Opener Amit Prashar provided a good start to the team with his 60-run knock. A fine partnership of 50 runs between Narinder Kwatra (20) and Rajat Taneja (26) in just four overs helped the team score 149 runs.

In reply, Anoop XI could make 134 runs losing eight wickets in the allotted overs. Gurinder Rana (38) was the highest scorer. Vijay Kumar of HCC took three wickets while Vikramjit Singh and Abhishek Verma claimed two wickets each.

In the other quarterfinal match, Bedi Cricket Club beat Patiala XI by five wickets.

Brief scores: HCC: 149 for 9 in 20 overs (Amit Prashar 60, Rajat Taneja 26, N. Kwatra 20, Madan Lal 3 for 30)

Anoop XI: 134 for 8 in 20 overs (Gurdeep Rana 38, Anoop 20, Vinay 3 for 24, Vikramjit 2 for 16, Abhishek 2 for 21).

Patiala XI: 125 for 8 in 20 overs (Babloo 42, Sandhu 4 for 16)

BCC: 126 for 5 in 17.5 overs (Rakesh Purang 20, Ajay Desodia 20, Babloo 4 for 19).

Chandigarh, April 16
Garry Singh Amor, a Class IX student of local DAV Model School, Sector 15-D, clinched the boys under-14 singles title in the All-India Ranking Tennis Tournament held at the Indore Tennis Club from April 9 to 14.

According to the information received here, fourth seed Garry toppled top seed Jai Gandhi of Gujarat in straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (5).

In the semifinal, the Chandigarh lad defeated second seed and local favourite Saurav Raghuvanshi of Madhya Pradesh 6-2, 6-0.

Chandigarh, April 16
The city will be hosting the four-day Twenty20 Cricket Tournament (Under-19) which is scheduled to start on April 19 at the Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, here.

The tournament is being organised by the Twenty20 Cricket Federation of India which is affiliated to the World Twenty20 Cricket Federation.

According to the organisers, the tournament will be of national level as teams from states including Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are expected to participate in the tournament.

Besides these teams, the federation will also field its under-19 India ‘A’ team.

The players for India ‘A’ are: Amay Soman, Deepanshu Ranjanwal, Harpreet Atwal, Navvrosepreet Singh Sihota, Love Kumar Singh, Guatam, Sudesh Pandey, Bhushan Dhiman, Manjeet Singh, Paramvir Mattu, Sukhwinder Singh, Ravi Raj, Hitesh Vohra, Paras Singh and Kuldip Singh.