Excelsior Sports Correspondent
ANANTNAG, May 23: An Inter-Department Cricket Tournament (men) started at South Campus of Kashmir University (KU) here today.
The tournament has been organized by the Department of Physical Education & Sports, South Campus and is witnessing participation of nine teams including teaching-11, non-teaching-11 and seven departments.
Assistant Director Physical Education, Tausif Ahmad Bhat welcomed the teaching and non-teaching staff, officers, officials and the participating teams and gave a detailed account of sports activities being conducted in South Campus from the last week.
Earlier, the tournament was thrown open by Director, South Campus, Prof. Mukhtar Ahmad Khanday who said that South Campus is committed to promote sports activities with an aim to instill sports culture among students and employees.
The inaugural match was played on Monday at South Campus playground between teaching-11 and non-teaching-11.
The teaching-11 team won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 92/5 in allotted 10 overs. Ashfaq Ahmad scored highest 59 runs off 24 balls, while Dr. Firdous Ahmad Shah contributed 14 runs.
Mohammad Ayoub and Showkat Ahmad took 2 wickets each for non-teaching-11.
In reply, non-teaching-11 was bundled out on 57/7 in 10 overs. Hilal Ahmad scored 14 runs for non-teaching-11.
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad took 3 wickets, while Dr. Mohamad Iqbal Bhat grabbed 2 wickets for teaching-11, thereby helping their team to win the match by 35 runs.
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