Shamsher Yadav

A BDC member and MNREGA worker was sprayed with bullets by his rivals in Kakori area of Lucknow on Saturday afternoon.The victim, Ram Jeewan Lodhi (50), was attacked when he was returning home. The police recovered bullet shells and the bike of the deceased from the crime scene.

Services are on the brink of conceding the first innings lead to Hyderabad as they were 360 for 9 at stumps on the penultimate day of their Ranji Trophy encounter here, trailing Hyderabad by 220 runs.

Shamsher Yadav completed a superb century to guide Services to a mammoth 400-8 against Andra Pradesh at stumps on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Group C match at Holkar Cricket Stadium here today.

Playing his debut first-class season, the 21-year-old middle-order batsman racked up 945 runs at an average of 72.69 including seven fifties and two hundreds playing for Services. Only Jiwanjot Singh of Punjab (995 in 2012-13 seaon) has scored more runs than Rahul in a debut Ranji season.

A bridegroom went with his ‘baraat’ from Azamgarh to Mau for his wedding scheduled for the night of December 10, but found the bride’s address missing and her whereabouts unknown. Braving the chill, the groom and his relatives scoured the streets for the bride’s residence through the night and finally returned home fuming.

Vizianagaram beat East Godavari by nine wickets in the ACA match tournaments on Saturday.Brief scores: Central zone (Mulapadu): Guntur 607 in 135.2 overs (M. Mahima Kumar 137, D. Harshavardhan Naidu 107, Sk. Jani Basha 91, G. Samanvith 91, K.

“I am left with just a note of Rs 200 and have a family of five to feed,” rued Jaykant Kumar, an electrician who stays at Shiv Vihar in northeast Delhi and has no earning since the lockdown has been announced almost a month ago.

Bengal bowlers failed to bag more than seven wickets as Services batted out 77 overs on the final day to secure a point from their Group D Ranji Trophy encounter, on Monday.

Wicket-keeper Abhishek Gupta struck an unbeaten century on debut as Punjab reached 484 for six in reply to Himachal Pradesh's mammoth 729 for eight declared on the third day of a Group D Ranji Trophy match, on Sunday.

An unbeaten 156 by wicketkeeper-batsman Nakul Verma helped Services declare their second innings at 340 for seven and set a challenging target of 285 for Chhattisgarh on the penultimate day of their Group C Ranji Trophy match on Thursday.

Off-spinner Sk Jani Basha, medium-pacer A Dinesh took five-fors as Guntur beat Prakasam by an innings and 149 runs and West Godavari beat Krishna by 101 runs in the ACA Central Zone multi-day matches tournament on Sunday. Brief scores: CZ: Guntur 607 bt Prakasam 210 in 55.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Jharkhand secured a 42-run win over Saurashtra in a low-scoring Group D match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy at the Edens Gardens, which saw 20 wickets fall in less than five hours, on Wednesday.

Fans who turned up to watch a MS Dhoni special returned disappointed even as Jharkhand cruised to a comfortable seven-wicket win over Services for their second victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Tuesday.

With a little over day's play left, a 295-run target is tempting enough to be pursued. And with a majority of Indian cricketers exposed to 50-over and particularly the T20 format -that target seems very much gettable.

The final list has been pruned from 799 players who registered their names for the auction. There are as many as 122 international players, including six players from Associate nations (five from Afghanistan and one from UAE).