Kiran Kumar struck 77 in his team’s first innings total of 267 for nine in 55 overs and then picked three wickets in both the innings of JUC for a match haul of six for 78 as Select Cricketers emerged victors by a comfortable margin of 93 runs.
Having posted 267 in their first essay, Select bowled out JUC for a paltry 116 from 35.5 overs.
Select rattled in 121 for nine from the stipulated 30 overs in their second essay and set up an improbable 214-run target for JUC, who could manage 179 for eight.
Brief scores: Select Cricketers: 267/9 in 55 overs (BM Kiran Kumar 77, Md. Hidayath 40, Pradeep 42, Siddith 36; Das Mrunmay 2-72, George 4-49) and 121/9 in 30 overs (Wahid 28; Das Mrunmay 5-51, George 3-53) bt Jayanagar United Cricketers: 116 all out in 35.5 overs (Das Mrunmay 45, Bharath 27; Sadhik 2-43, Md. Hidayat 2-19, Kiran Kumar 3-23) and 179/8 in 30 overs (Das Mrunmay 28, Bharat 40, Srijith 33; Md. Hidayath 2-34, Kiran Kumar 3-55, Wahid 2-13).
Nagendra guides MCC
Modern Cricket Club put to fore by a good overall performance scored a comfortable 110-run win over Engrades Cricket Club in the Group I, Division V league for the JB Mallaradhya Trophy.
Batting first, MCC rallied on Nagendra Kumar’s ton and a half-century from Harish to post 279 all out in 50 overs. Sachin (61 n.o.) gave Engrades a start but three wickets each for MCC’s Mani Kumar (3/48) and Pramodh (3/23) pegged Engrades to a modest 169 all out in 27.5 overs.
Brief scores: Huttons CC: 229 all out in 41 overs (Abhilash 50, Manjunath 28, Moncy 26, Gaurav 35, Debasish Das 32; Karthik 2-28, Mohan 2-29, James Raju 2-39, Rajesh Babu 3-46) bt Super CC: 120 all in 34.5 overs (Manjunath 3-28, Sharath 4-16); Modern Cricketes: 279 all out in 50 overs (Thirumalish Babu 29, Harish 52, Nagendra Kumar J 102; Shashi 4-56, Srinath 2-64) bt Engrades CC: 169 all out in 27.5 overs (Raj Kumar 29, Sachin 61 n.o.; Mani Kumar 3-48, Pramodh 3-23, Abhishek S 2-19); City Cricketers (2): 223 all out in 49.2 overs (Jayanth 70, SR Raghunandan 26; Rajesh S 4-75, Ravichandra TN 3-65) lt to YMCA CC (3): 225/8 in 48.4 overs (Ravi Chandra TN 26, Subramani BS 26, Bhaskar 57, Venkatesh 41 n.o.; Chandan 2-48, Kiran Kumar CTl 2-24, Chetan M 2-29).
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