Shakir Hussain turned in an excellent all-round show to power BEL Sports Club to a crucshing nine-wicket win over MICO Sports Club, Bangalore in the KSCA tournament for Group II Division II teams.
Hussain took three for 28 as MICO were bowled out for 136, then slammed an undefeated 74 to power BEL to 138 for one in just the 24th over.
Brief scores:
MICO Sports Club, Bangalore: 136 all out in 25.4 overs (Nanda Kishore 37; Srinivas 2-33, SDN Prasad 2-9, Shakir Hussain 3-28) lt to BEL Sports Club: 138/1 in 23.5 overs (Shakir Hussain 74 n.o., Sudhakar 37).
South Western Railway Institute, Bangalore: 195/7 in 30 overs (Almeen Yates 76, Kashinath 39, RV Prabhakar 34 n.o.; Srinath 2-37, Subramanya Raju 2-46) lt to EPF Recreation Club: 198/2 in 26 overs (Subramanya Raju 72 n.o., Gangadhar 39, Henry 44, Jagannath 33 n.o.).
Bangalore Telephone Cricket Club: 107 all out in 26.3 overs (Mahesh Babu 28; Sridhar 3-21, HR Chandra 2-19) lt to MICO Naganathapura Sports Club: 111/4 in 21.2 overs (HR Chandra 39 n.o.; Aradhya 2-28).
CIL Sports Club: 184/5 in 28 overs (Raghu Kumar 25, Venkatesh 63 n.o., Namashivayam 28; Sathya Mohan 3-35) lt to ADE Sports Club: 188/3 in 27.1 overs (Boopathy 105 n.o., Ramesh 42; BS Srinivas 2-43).
BHEL (EDN) Sports Club: 103 all out in 27.5 overs (Sreedharamurthy 29; Ananth 2-22, Jayakumar 3-14) lt to Karnataka State Forest Sports Board: 104/2 in 13.4 overs (Narayan 36, Jayakumar 50; Venkatesh 2-28).
BEML Sports Club, KGF: 127/8 in 30 overs (Paramesh 37, Khaleel 29 n.o.; Shoukath Ali 3-23) lt to KPTCL Sports Organisation: 128/2 in 16.3 overs (HK Ravi 63 n.o., Md Sharief 25, Raghavendra 27 n.o.).
Group I Division V, knockout: Blue Diamond Cricketers: 285 all out in 49.5 overs (A Srinivas 52, Varun 30, Lokesh 32, Mahesh 101; Anis 4-37, Dharshan 2-45) bt Dooravani Cricketers (2): 254 all out in 45.5 overs (Darshan 28, Raghavendra 39, Kamakya 57, Jayanath 30; S Venkatesh 2-70, Mahesh 4-51).