Arun Sunny’s all-round show helped Tumkur Zone take the first innings honours against Raichur Zone in their drawn two-day KSCA inter-zonal cricket tournament match here on Monday.

 Having picked up five for 28 in Raichur’s first innings total of 249 all out, Sunny made 49 to help Tumkur score 390 for seven in their 90-over first innings.

Nasir Ali scored a fine 109, while Jayesh (43) and Among V (60) chipped in with some useful contributions.
Needing 110 to make Tumkur bat again, Raichur finished with 32 for three in their second innings.  Sunny was among the wickets for Tumkur Zone yet again with figures of two for 15.

Brief scores:
At Bangalore: Mysore Zone: 283 all out in 67 overs (Rohit V Tiwari 62, Abdu Majid 69, K Sachin 43; David Mathias 5-76, Prashanth Poojar 2-55, Shariq 2-25) and 104/3 in 26 overs (Rohit V Tiwari 81; Prithvi V 3-23) drew with Bangalore City: 337/9 in 86.2 overs (Md. Muneer 76, Arjun Gowda 69, David Mathias 72, Prashanth Poojar 48; Joshua Sheelan 3-50, CN Abhishek 5-116).

Raichur Zone: 249 all out in 73 overs (Nagaraj Chauhan 34, Murali Krishna 110, Waseem Baig 31 n.o, Laxman 31; Arun Sunny 5-28) and 32/3 in 33 overs (Arun Sunny 2-15) drew with Tumkur Zone: 359/7 in 90 overs (Nasir Ali 109, Jayesh M 43, Vinay Shekar 26, Amog V 60 n.o., Arun Sunny 49; Akbar Hussain 2-49, Sabeek Ahmed 2-69).

At Shimoga: Bangalore Zone: 265/6 in 90 overs (Nihal Unni 84, GC Chiranjeevi 73, Darshan Ponnappa 54 n.o.; Sachin V Bhatt 5-76) bt Mangalore Zone: 131 all out in 62.8 overs (KL Rahul 96, S Sheikh 2-12, S Rohith 4-24) and 107 all out in 41.4 overs (KL Rahul 40, Shivam Bajaj 5-20).