Teams of Bhopal, Chennai, Hyderabad and Patna have been selected for the semi finals in the ‘All India SBI Inter-circle Hockey Tournament’. As many as four quarter final matches were played between various teams on the fourth day of the hockey tournament on Friday at Major Dhyanchand stadium.
The first quarter final was played between the teams of Bhopal and lucknow.
The Bhopal team won the first match with the score of 9-0. Javed Habib scored 3 goals and 2 goals were scored by Syed Jalaluddin. However Syed Jalaluddin received the ‘man of the match’ trophy.
Chief Guest of the day State Bank of India (SBI) Assistant General Manager (P and E) Sanjay Tiwari awarded the ‘man of the match’ trophy to Jalaluddin.
The second quarter final match was played between Chennai and Chandigarh. Chennai has beaten Chandigarh with the score of 4-0. Kamal Kannan bagged the ‘man of the match’ trophy. Chief Guest of the day SBI Deputy General Manager (CFO) UP Singh awarded the trophy to Kannan.
Teams of Bangalore and Patna circle played the third match of the day. The match was very exciting till the end as the Bangalore team played well but however in the end Patna beat the Bangalore team with the score of 3-2.
Captain of the Patna team, Cyril Dhan received the trophy of ‘man of the match’ from the Chief Guest SBI Officers’ Association General Secretary Sanjeev Mishra. The fourth quarter final match was played between the teams of Delhi and Hyderabad.
Hyderabad team played well and won the match with the score of 5-2. D Nagaraju received the ‘man of the match’ award from the Chief Guest SBI Deputy General Manager (SMI network 3) RS Pala.