Excelsior Sports Correspondent
KATRA, May 16: A friendly cricket match was organized by SMVDU for the faculty and staff members of the University, here today.
Faculty team was led by Rajiv Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and staff team was led by Rajeshwar, Website Designer of the University.
Earlier, winning the toss in a 15-over match, the staff team elected to field first and put the rival team into bat.
Batting first, Faculty team scored decent total of 135 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulate 15 overs.
Abhimanyu Sharma top scored with power-packed 41 runs, while Rajiv scored 40 runs and Amarjeet contributed 32 runs to the total.
For Staff team, skipper Rajeshwar was the pick of the bowlers, who took 3 wickets.
In reply, staff team lost their first wicket early but they were giving good fight with the help of Jaipal scoring quickfire 38 runs.
The match turned to be a thriller in the end as the Faculty team won the match by just 6 runs.
The team members of the Faculty team were Rajiv Kumar, Dr. Suparn Sharma, Dr. Saurabh, Dr. Sanjay Mishra, Ar. Abhimanyu, Dr. Rakesh Jha, Sudesh Kumar, Dr. Ashok Tarai, Amarjeet, Kritti and Shoukat, while the team members of the staff team included Rajeshwar, Jaipal, Chandan, Kewal, Sanjeev Wadhawan, Pankaj, Tinku, Vishal, Rahul, Sahil and Sumit Sharma.
All the arrangements were made by sports coach Captain Sucha Singh and Sumit Sharma.
Vice Chancellor, Prof Sanjeev Jain congratulated the winning team.
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