Pacer A Mithun returned a rich haul of six for 22 as President’s XI inflicted a crushing innings and 90-run defeat on Mysore Zone on the final day of the two-day match in the SA Srinivasan Memorial under-22 inter-zonal tournament here on Friday.
Resuming at their overnight score of 144/2, President’s XI went on to add 163 runs more before declaring their innings at 307 for four from 82 overs. R Jonathan fell at his overnight score of 63, while Ganesh Satish, who scored a big century in the previous match, was out after a well-made 95.
Dhananjay Murari (72 n.o.) and Harsha Tiptur (51 n.o.) too got amongst the runs.
Mysore, who were shot out for 136 in their first essay, had to score 172 to make President’s bat again. But the visitors came nowhere close to the target falling for a sorry 81 in 25.5 overs.
Right-arm bowler A Mithun did the bulk of the damage removing six of Mysore batsmen while Arjun Shetty, who had claimed six wickets in Mysore’s first innings, added three more wickets to his tally.
In another match, Bangalore City XI scored a convincing 10-wicket win over Raichur Zone. Having reduced Raichur to 32 for 4 in their second innings, Bangalore boys skittled them for 113 in 32.3 overs with P Magizenandan and Madhusudhan scalping three wickets each.
Needing 13 runs to complete the formalities, Bangalore knocked off the required runs in 2.3 overs.
In the other matches, Shimoga Zone drew with Combined City XI while Dharwad Zone also drew with Mangalore Zone.
Brief scores:
Mysore Zone: 136 and 81 all out in 25.5 overs (Harsha Kumar Naidu 39; A Mithun 6-22, Arjun Shetty 3-19) lt to President’s XI (O/n 144/2): 307/4 decl. in 82 overs (R Jonathan 63, Ganesh Satish 95, Dhananjay Murari 72 n.o., Harsha Tiptur 51 n.o.).
President’s XI: 5 points; Mysore Zone: -1 point.
Raichur Zone: 88 and (O/n 32/4) 113 all out in 32.3 overs (P Magizenandan 3-11, Dilip N Sagar 2-23, Madhusudhan 3-41, Ryan Ninan 2-25) lt to Bangalore City XI: 189 and 13/0 in 2.3 overs.
Bangalore City XI: 5; Raichur Zone: -1.
Shimoga Zone: 160 and 210 all out in 57.5 overs (D Raghavendra 32, CK Akshay 31, Irfan Khan 45, SL Akshay 33; Raghavedra Rao AV 2-21, S Moinuddin 2-47, Anirudh Joshi 4-63) drew with Combined City XI: 162 all out in 54.5 over (Nikhil Kashyap 48; SL Akshay 2/43, D Raghavendra 2-30, Balasubramanaya 4-25) and 21/0 in 8 overs.
Combined City XI: 3; Shimoga Zone: 1
Dharwad Zone: 159 and 192/9 in 51 overs (Atif Wadoo 44, Devaraj Koti 37, Vinay Darkar 34; Umesh Karvi 2-26, Mohd. Arif 2-43, Vilton Crasto 2-55) drew with Mangalore Zone: 298/8 decl. in 84 overs (Gurudeep Madhystha 56, Ankit Karkera 26, Mohd. Arif 50 n.o.; Dattatrey Patil 2-34, Sameer Manager 3-71, Raju Kalal 2-73).
Mangalore Zone: 3; Dharwad Zone: 1.