2016 Assembly polls: Check out the sports stars' scorecard in politics

The results of the 2016 Assembly polls are outHeres a look at how some of the more prominent sports starshoping to make successful careers off the sports pitchdid in their political examWhile most of the sports personalities failed to register a win two of them former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and former India football skipper Dipendu Biswas won from their constituenciesLaxmi Ratan Shukla TMCFormer BCCI President late Jagmohan Dalmiyas daughter and TMC candidate Vaishali Dalmiya right and former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla being garlanded after they won the Assembly elections in Howrah district in West Bengal on Thursday PicPTIThe Howrah North seat went to former Bengal cricket captain and TMC candidate Laxmi Ratan Shukla who beat Congress Santosh Kumar Pathak and BJPs Rupa Ganguly televisions Draupadi from BR Chopras Mahabharat Ganguly got 30000 votes less than the cricketerturnedpolitician who garnered 61917 votes The retired Bengal allrounder a firsttimer in politicsoutclassed his nearest rival Left Frontbacked Congress candidate Santosh Pathak by a whopping 26959 votesThe seat was previously held by Trinamools Ashok Ghosh who was dropped before the electionsThe 34yearold was played three ODIs for India in 1999 and retired in December 2015 after scoring 6217 runs and taking 172 wickets from 137 firstclass matchesBhaichung Bhutia TMCBhaichung BhutiaFormer captain of the Indian football team Bhaichung Bhutia of the Trinamool Congress lost from his constituency of Siliguri to CPIMs Asok Bhattacharya The Trinamool Congress candidate came out second best against former state minister by 14072 votesThe 39yearold had unsuccessfully campaigned two years ago in the Lok Sabha polls losing the Darjeeling seat of which Siliguri is a part to the BJPs Surinder Singh Ahluwalia by almost two lakh votesSasthi Duley BJPFormer international footballer Sasthi Duley lost in Dhanekhali constituency to Pradip Majumdar of the All India Forward Bloc The diminutive former East Bengal midfielder best remembered for his cameo in the 2003 ASEAN Cup finalSyed Rahim Nabi TMCThe former East Bengal and Mohun Bagan and current Mumbai FC star who had taken a sudden break from football midway into the season to pursue his dreams in the political arena lost from his hometown of PanduaAmjad Hossain of CPIM edged past the former footballer by 1392 votes only Nabi grabbed 90097 as compared to Hossains 91489Jyotirmoyee Sikdar CPIMA former Asian Games gold medallist runner and former Member of Parliament CPIMs Jyotirmoyee Sikdar lost to TMCs Firdousi Begum from Sonarpur North constituency in South 24Parganas district TheArjuna award winning athlete lost to the sitting lawmaker by 24880 votesPreviously she had been the CPMs MP from Krishnagar Sikdar won two gold medals in atletics at the 1998 Asian GamesDipendu Biswas TMCDipendu Biswas is another former footballer contesting this election on the TMCs ticket He received 88085 Votes to defeat BJPs only MLA in the state Shamik Bhattacharjee at Basirhat South constituency an area bordering Bangladesh Biswas a former Indian captain had lost the bypoll in 2014 from the same constituency when the margin of loss wasless than 2000 votesThe former striker garnered 88085 votes 24058 more than that of secondplaced BhattacharyaThe prolific striker has played for East Bengal Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting in the pastSreesanth BJPBJPs Thiruvananthapuram central candidate S Sreesanth at the party headquarters after poll results were announced in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday PicPTITainted cricketer Sreesanth who also contested in the BJP ticket from Thiruvananthapuram bit the dust in the polls He lost to the sitting Congress MLAVS Sivakumar Sreesanth was banned for life by the Board of Control for Cricket in India after fixing allegations He last played in the 2013 Indian Premier League He was arrested on charge of matchfixing and was lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi In July 2015 a Patiala House court in Delhi exonerated him and two other players in the case against which Delhi Police have gone in appeal Sreesanth has played 27 Tests 87 wickets 53 ODIs 75 and 10 T20Is seven wickets and was part of two World Cup winning teams in the 2007 World Twenty20 and the 2011 World Cup