P Soneji took four for 31 and V Zagad made an undefeated 81 as Air India Sports Club defeated BEML Rail Coach Sports Club by six wickets in the KSCA tournament for Group II Division II teams. Chasing BEML’s 161 for nine from 30 overs, Air India surged to 162 for four in the 23rd over to pull off a comprehensive victory.
Brief scores: BEML Rail Coach Sports Club: 161/9 in 30 overs (A Manohar 27, V Mahesh 32, Padma Prabhu 26 n.o.; A Dube 2-21, P Soneji 4-31) lt to Air India Sports Club: 162/4 in 22.3 overs (V Zagad 81 n.o., Rahul Rathee 42; GR Nanda Kumar 2-40).
KPTCL Sports Organisation: 207/5 in 30 overs (Raghavendra 34, Ravi 85, Girish 39 n.o.; Nishanth 2-31) bt KSTRC Sports Club: 93 all out in 20.1 overs (Venugopal 39; Mohan Gowda 2-24, Nagendra Datta 2-34, Umashankar 3-21).
GTRE Sports Club: 156 all out in 30 overs (Surendra 39, Anil Yadav 30, Dilip 26; Mohan Kumar 3-38, Nanda Kumar GR 3-20) bt BEML Rail Coach: 149/9 in 30 overs (Alexander 29, GR Nanda Kumar 40 n.o., Padma Prabhu 27; Anil 3-27, Daniel 3-32, Shankara 2-28).
Titan Industries Sports Club: 170 all out in 28.1 overs (Aftab 43, Karthik 45; Chandrashekar 2-32, Lakshmikanth 2-42, Shivkumar 3-21, Jagadish 3-12) bt BHEL (EDN) Sports Club: 142 all out in 29.3 overs (Jagadish 31, Lakshmikanth 35; Radhakrishna 2-16, Babu Goundar 2-20, Kittu Swamy 2-35).
BMTC Cricket Club: 206/3 in 30 overs (Murthy 111; Ashwath 2-39, Vineen Shaw 2-28, R Ramesh 2-24) lt to Reserve Bank of India Recreation Club: 207/6 in 29.4 overs (Ashwin Punja 50, N Ashwath 92 n.o.; Mohan 3-55, Prasad 2-27).
Advocates Association CC: 238/6 in 30 overs (CG Sunder 83, Gopal Krishna 32, Rajendra 27, Kempe Gowda 42 n.o.; CP Mohan Kumar 3-32) bt Bangalore Dairy Sports Club: 216/9 in 30 overs (Jayanna 71, T Babu 65; Kempe Gowda 2-35, Satish 2-38, Harish 3-42).
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike: 178/9 in 30 overs (SV Rajesh 77, Narasimha Murthy 33; Srinath 2-21, Raghuram 2-31) bt LRDE Sports Club: 115 all out in 25.2 overs (Satish Kumar 26, Prem Kumar 26; M Srinivas 3-29, T Girish Kumar 2-18).
ADE Sports Club: 161 all out in 29.5 overs (Bhupathi 33, Anil Kulhare 25; Srinath 2-44, Maruthi Shanbal 2-27, S Prakash 2-30, BV Bhaskar 2-29, Ravinandan Roy 2-31) lt to State Bank of India: 163/1 in 18.2 overs (BV Bhaskar 45, Ravinandan Roy 35 n.o.; Maruti Shanbal 65 n.o.).