Excelsior Sports Correspondent
KATHUA, May 18: District Level Inter-Zonal Cricket Tournament for Under-17 boys got underway at Sports Stadium, here today.
The Tournament in which 130 players of 10 zones of District participated is being organized under the supervision of District Youth Services and Sports Officer, Kathua, Subash Chander Bhardwaj.
The opening match was played between Zone Barnoti and Zone Malhar in which Malhar outplayed the former by 03 runs.
In second match, Zone Hiranagar outplayed Zone Mahanpur by 9 wickets and made it to the quarterfinal.
The Third match was played between Zone Bani and Zone Kathua in which Kathua trounced Bani by 32 runs to enter semifinal.
Zone Marheen crushed Zone Bhaddu by margin of 74 runs and entered semifinals.
In its quarterfinal match, Zone Hiranagar crushed Zone Billawar by 10 wickets to seal berth in the semifinal. Billawar gave the target of 69 runs in allotted 8 overs and Hiranagar achieved the target without losing any wicket in 6 overs. Arjun Sharma of Hiranagar scored 41 runs off 22 balls and Amit of the same zone clinched 2 wickets and made 22 runs off 19 balls.
Tomorrow Lakhanpur will face Malhar in the 4th quarterfinal.