Virendra made an unbeaten 176 off just 146 balls with 31 fours, while Vineeth made a relatively sedate hundred off 110 balls with 19 hits to the fence as the winners raced to 383 for two in 50 overs. Abhinav Manohar made a quickfire unbeaten 76 off 43 balls, with 10 fours and three sixes. The target was always going to be beyond the reach of Raichur Zone. Only Athresh, 77 off 118 balls with 12 fours, offered any meaningful resistance before they were bundled out for 162 with four balls to spare.
Farhan masterminded their collapse with a four-wicket haul.
Brief scores:
Combined City XI: 383/2 in 50 overs (Virendra Singh 176 n.o; M Vineeth 108; Abhinav Manohar 76 n.o) bt Raichur Zone: 162 all out in 49.2 overs (Athresh 77; Kaushik Rao 2-37, Farhan 4-4).
Bangalore Zone: 220/8 in 50 overs (Abhishek Reddy 93 n.o; N J Deepak 5-75, Yashas 3-13) bt Shimoga Zone 49 all out in 19 overs (RP Teja 5-17, Gagan Reddy 2-9).
Tumkur Zone: 151 all out in 44.5 overs (M G Shashi 45; Shimon Luiz F 3-32, Konnappa 4-53) lt to Bangalore City: 152/2 in 26.1 overs (Sarthak 50 n.o; Mohammed Saif 57).
Dharwad Zone: 261/9 in 50 overs (Atrey Inamdar 47, Sounak Biswas 86 n.o; S Prashanth 3-58, S Karthikeyan 3-45) bt President's XI: 221/5 in 50 overs (D Nishal 105 n.o, Aaron F 46; Kishore Kamat 2-36, Hanumanth Magle 2-56).
