Punjab Police, PSB declared joint winners of Beighton Cup
KOLKATA: High drama marked the final of the Coal India All India 113th Beighton Cup on Friday as Punjab Police and Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB), who
were locked 2-2 till extra time, sharing the trophy after the tie-breaker was called off due to “insufficient light”.
PSB’s Ranjodh Singh opened the scoring in the 30th minute with teammate Rajwinder Singh adding a second one minute later.
Punjab Police bounced back with goals from Amit Singh (45th) and Jagbir Singh (48th).
The match stretched into extra-time and three minutes before the hooter, PSB scored a goal which though was disallowed by umpire HS Sokhi.
A free-hit from outside the D flew into the net and though the goal was initially awarded to PSB by umpire Mandeep Singh, it was later overturned by Sokhi.
PSB players, however, started celebrating the golden goal and left the field thus wasting a lot of time. They were finally made to see reason by organising committee Secretary Gurbux Singh.
Play resumed after a 10 minute delay. Both took the field for the tie-breaker but the captains of the two teams complained of insufficient light and the title was awarded to both the teams.
“Both captains complained insufficient light. Even I felt the light was not OK for the match to continue, so I decided that the trophy be shared,” Sokhi said.