Arpit Pannu

Riding on a fine all-round performance from Bipul Sharma, AG Haryana defeated AG Punjab by 33 runs to lift the Indian Audit and Accounts Department's North Zone Cricket Tournament at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium, here on Tuesday.

Chandigarh skipper Manan Vohra’s cracking 56 off 69 balls went in vain after the UT side went down to Kerala by 6 wickets in their Vijay Hazare Group D opener in Rajkot on Wednesday.

Mandeep Singh will lead the Punjab side in the Vijay Hazare Trophy limited-overs tournament while attacking batsman Gurkeerat Singh will be his deputy, said a release from the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) on Tuesday.

Skipper Manan Vohra's stroke-filled century against Hyderabad went in vain as Chandigarh continued to struggle among the Elite teams, registering their third successive loss in the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy in Sultanpur on Saturday.

Batsman Mandeep Singh will captain Punjab in their Ranji Trophy opener against Andhra Pradesh, beginning in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.

Following successful completion of the brief preparatory camp and clearance of the mandatory Covid-19 tests, the Chandigarh team for the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy was on Thursday announced with Manan Vohra being retained the skipper. All-rounder Gurinder Singh has been named his deputy.

Punjab seamer Siddarth Kaul returned with an impressive six-wicket haul to dismiss Delhi for 107 in their first innings on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Group B match on Wednesday.

LIC Club beat Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, by one wicket in the first match of LIC Challenger Trophy being organised by LIC Cricket Club at Sector 16 cricket stadium and LIC ground, Sector 26 on Wednesday.

After a disappointing outing in their Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign opener against Kerala, Chandigarh put up a much improved performance against Uttarakhand on Thursday before narrowly going down by three wickets in Rajkot.

Chandigarh's middle order batting finally came of age after Ankit Kaushik complimented the efforts of the top order with a fighting century to help his side salvage a draw against Baroda in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group B encounter at Cuttack on Sunday. The result helped the UT side open their tally with a solitary point.

Opting to bat, Goa had a solid start with Suyash Prabhudessai and Ishaan Gadekar (45) putting on a 79-run opening partnership before Gadekar was dismissed by pacer Arpit Pannu. Prabhudessai then partnered with Krishnamurthy Siddharth (77), and together, they built a formidable 149-run partnership for the second wicket, consolidating Goa's innings. The partnership was eventually broken by Raj Bawa, but Prabhudessai's unbeaten century put Goa in a commanding position at the end of the first day.

Delhi produced an all-round clinical show to thrash Uttar Pradesh by nine wickets and notch up their second consecutive win in a Group E match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament on Saturday.

On a day the Mumbai team made a backdoor entry into the Ranji Trophy quarters, Mumbai's U-19 team held on grimly to win the Cooch Behar Trophy on the basis of the first innings lead against Punjab.

Into their second domestic season, Chandigarh will get first-hand experience of playing in the Elite Group, when they open their Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign against neighbours Haryana in a Group E clash in Kolkata on Sunday.

Chandigarh succumbed to their third successive defeat in the Vijay Hazare Trophy after going down to Chhattisgarh by 44 runs in a Group D encounter in Rajkot on Saturday.

Skipper Manan Vohra led from the front with yet another scintillating half century to help Chandigarh register a consolation six-wicket win over Uttarakhand in their final Elite Group E league encounter of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy played in Sultanpur on Tuesday.

Having nearly missed a quarterfinal berth in the previous season, thanks to a washed out contest, Chandigarh will look to gain some early momentum when they open their Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy campaign against Uttar Pradesh at the Gurgaon Cricket Stadium, Sultanpur on Thursday.

The Chandigarh team will take on Arunachal Pradesh at the Sector 16 cricket stadium in their maiden Ranji Trophy match on Monday in a dream that will be fulfilled after 40 years following the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) granting affiliation to the Union Territory Cricket Association (UTCA) a few months back.