Sunil Raju stars for Friends Union

 Sunil N Raju’s all-round effort spurred Friends Union Cricket Club (1) to an innings and 117-run win over Mount Joy Cricket Club in their two-day Group I, Division I league tournament for the Sir Mirza Ismail Shield.

Batting first, FUCC piled on a massive 367 for four in a mere 67 overs before declaring their innings closed. Sunil Raju was the chief architect behind FUCC’s commanding show with the bat as he scored an unbeaten 177 from 205 balls with 23 fours and four hits that cleared the fence.

In response , Mount Joy posted a meek 179 all out in 61.2 overs after FUCC’s B Naveen (4/69) and Aneesh DV (3/35) bowled them over.

Needing 189 more runs to make FUCC bat again, Mount Joy fared even worse. FUCC’s Naveen scalped another three to return with a match haul of seven as  Mount Joy were out for 71 runs from 44.3 overs.

Brief scores: Friends Union CC (1): 367/4 decl in 67 overs (Kunal Kapoor 51, Sunil N Raju 177, B Akhil B, Nirmith N 80 n.o.) bt Mount Joy Cricket Club: 179 all out in 61.2 overs (Manjunath Bhat 30, Vijay Kumar M 38; B Naveen 4-69, Aneesh DV 3-35) and 71 all out in 44.3 overs (B Naveen 3-16, Sunil N Raju 2-7). FUCC (1): 5 points; MJCC: -1 point.

Jawahar Sports Club (1): 134/9 decl in 28.4 overs (K Gowtham 54; Vishnu Prabhas 2-47, Niteesh PD 2-23, MR Darshan 5-23) and 259/7 in 68 overs (KC Avinash 46, K Gowtham 90; Vishnu Prabhas 2-37, Suchith J 3-40, MR Darshan 2-78) drew Jawahar Sports Club (2): 317/5 in 90 overs (K Shashindra 46, Nischal D 78, CB Karthik 97 n.o., Anurag Bajpai 47 n.o.). Jawahars (2): 3; Jawahars (1): 1.

Jawans Cricket Club: 324 all out in 79.3 overs (Dikshanshu 53, Ganesh Satish 27, Abhishek RV 34, Amit Verma 100; R Prabhakar 2-36, Udit B Patel 4-114, Daivik Vishwanath 3-36) drew Swastic Union Cricket (1): 338/6 in 82 overs (Shreyas Gopal 77, Karan Rao 90, Akshay Kodath 71 n.o., Udit B Patel 39 n.o.; Vinoo Prasad N 2-80). SUCC (1): 3; Jawans: 1.

Herons Cricket Club: 291 all out in 83.3 overs (Suraj Sampath 131, S Vinodh 47; Ryan Ninan 5-73, Cariyappa KC 4-58) drew Social Cricketers: 344/9 in 74.5 overs (Bharath Chipli 32, KB Pawan 172, AP Abhishek 51, Deepak Chougule 41; Hardik Munoth 2-56, Bharath Khondoji 3-66, Vinodh S 2-38). Social Cricketers: 2; Herons: 1.

Bangalore Occassionals: 364/7 in 90 overs (Abhishek Reddy 80, Kyan Abbas 63, A Majid 72, Samarth Ooty 65; Naveen Patil 2-76, Yatish Salagundi 2-40) drew Bangalore Cricketers: 347 all out in 88.3 overs (G Pradeep 154; Tejas Subramanian 5-75, A Majid 2-37). Bangalore Occassionals: 3; Bangalore Cricketers: 1.

Swastic Union Cricket Club (2): 137 all out in 63.2 overs (Nitin Guru 37, Abhinav Manohar 27; BN Bharath 4-27, Sinan Abdul Khader 2-27, Pavan Deshpande 2-21) and 143/4 in 57 overs (KV Darshan 28, Abhinav Manohar 45 n.o., Dinesh Borwankar 52 n.o.; Sinan Abdul Khader 4-40) drew Vultures Cricket Club: 286/4 decl in 66 overs (Nishith Raj 35, Pavan Deshpande 78, Anirudh Joshi 115 n.o., BN Bharath 28). Vultures CC: 3; SUCC (2): 1.