CAG edge Punjab & Sind Bank; PSPB held to 4-4 draw

Hyderabad: Last year’s runners-up Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) survived a mighty scare from Punjab & Sind Bank, while defending champions Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) were held to a 4-4 draw by Punjab National Bank (PNB) on the second day of the 6th Hockey India Senior Men Inter-Departmental Hockey Championship at the Gachibowli Hockey Stadium here on Saturday.

The results:

CAG 5 (Trishul Ganapathi, Deepak, Parmod, Manjeet 2) bt Punjab & Sind Bank 4 (Gautampal Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Prabhdeep Singh, Sukhvinder Singh).

SAI 5 (Akash Pal, Sachin Dung Dung, Sunil, Shivam Patel, Vikas) bt CRPF 0.

PSPB 4 (Sudeep Chirmako, Dipsan Tirkey, Diblar Barla, Talwinder Singh) drew with Punjab National Bank 4 (Sachin Sachin, Gursimran Singh, Panchal Prikshit, Mahipal).

Central Secretariat 5 (Chandan Singh 2, Bharath Mahalingappa Kurtakoti 2, Manikanta Venkatashwarlu) bt Sashastra Seema Bal 1 (Bikash Kujur).

SSCB 2 (Atish Dodrai, Selvaraj Kanagaraj) lost to CBT 5 (YM Pranam Gowda, Karthi 2, R Manikandan, Nachappa).

AIPSCB 4 (Arun Sahani 3, Suraj Singh) bt Steel Plant 0.

FCI 4 (Nitin 2, Navraj Singh 2) bt CISF 0.

RSPB 12 (Amandeep Lakra 3, Rohit Rohit, Simranjot Singh 3, Rahim Sayyad Niyaz, Shreyas Dupe 2, Yogember Rawat, Lovepreet Singh) bt TN Police 1 (M Mathan).