Thursday, January 22, 2009

Northeast India Sports news round up Jan 22

Badminton
Hailakandi: Jagajyoti Rajkumar and Rajdeep Chanda won the Open Doubles Badminton Championship by defeating Biprajyoti Choudhury and Sagarnil Choudhury pair 18-21, 21-17, 21-16 on Tuesday at Udharbond in Assam’s Cachar district. In the playoff match for the second runner-up title, Biswajit Singh and Subba Rao overcame Kishore Das and Rahul Das 24-22, 21-12.

Tennis
Guwahati: Unseeded Bedabrata Mohan of Nazira defeated second seed Mayank Borkakoty of Duliajan 5-1 in the boy’s singles (U-14) in the third round of the Oil India All Assam Junior Tennis Tournament at the Zaloni Club courts.

Cricket
Dibrugarh: Cachar defeated Kamrup (Metro) by one wicket while Tinsukia defeated Dibrugarh by 47 runs in the semi-finals of the All-Assam Khakan Ahmed inter-district school cricket tournament on Wednesday.