DTDC notch up thrilling win over Canara Bank

Mayank Agarwal dazzles with quickfire century

In high-scoring match, DTDC Sports Club eked out a thrilling three-run win over Canara Bank in the KSCA Group II, Division I Super League match.

Riding on Mayank Agarwal’s blistering 90-ball 138 (12x4, 8x6), DTDC stacked up 286 for four in 39 overs. S Vinodh was the other significant contributor with a 62-ball 76 (8x4, 1x6).

Bharath Chipli led a sprited chase by Canara with a 57-ball 97 which included 16 fours and three sixes, but the bankmen needed a bit more enterprise from other batsmen as they finished their innings at at 283 for seven.

In the match between Central Excise and Customs, Devraj Patil’s ton (105, 104b, 10x4, 1x6) for Excisemen was negated by a much more forceful knock of by State Bank of Mysore’s Aniruddha Joshi, who struck an identical 105 but consumed just 69 balls (15x4, 1x6). Chasing Excise’s total of 243 for seven, SBM replied with 245 for six in 34.1 overs.  

Brief scores: DTDC Sports Club: 286/4 in 39 overs (Mayank Agarwal 138, Suraj Sampath 38, S Vinodh 76) bt Canara Bank: 283/7 in 39 overs (Bharath Chipli 97, KB Pawan 32, G Balaji 27, Raajoo Bhatkal 54, C Raghu 32; SK Moinuddin 3-48, Anish DV 2-48).

Rail Wheel Factory Sports Association: 296/7 in 50 overs (CK Akshay 116, Yere Goud K 61; SL Akshay 2-65, BA Vinay 4-62) bt Vijaya Bank: 233 all out in 46.2 overs (Gautham CM 48, Srivatsa Puranik 56, BA Vinay 42; Prasanna Patil 2-38, Pranesh Desai 3-49).

Central Excise & Customs: 243/7 in 46.4 overs (AV Sandeep 59, Devraj T Patil 105, H Surendra 35; Nooruddin 2-48, Pavan Deshpande 2-26) lt to State Bank of Mysore: 245/6 in 34.1 overs (Karun Nair 45, Aniruddha Joshi 105, VS Thilak Naidu 37 n.o., Vijay Madyalkar 44; HS Sharath 4-52).

Sagar sparkles

Sagar N notched up a century to propel Friends Cricket Team to a facile 91-run win over
Freelancers Cricket Club in the Dell-KSCA Group I, Division V tournament for the JB Mallaradhya Trophy.

Batting first, FCT, riding on Sagar’s 123-run knock and Manikantan’s half-century, managed to post a healthy 241 all out in 49.4 overs. FCC, in reply, found contributors in Mahesh (37) and Narasimharaju (42), but their efforts were far from enough as they were bundled out for 150 in 41.2 overs.

Brief scores: Friends Cricket Team: 241 all out in 49.4 overs (Sagar N 123, Raju M 26, Manikantan 54; Narasimharaju 2-32, Nikhil S 2-35, Jagadish 3-35) bt Freelancers Cricket Club: 150 all out in 41.2 overs (Mahesh 37, Narasimharaju 42; Manju 2-15, Manikantan 3-21, Satish 2-29, Subash Durai 2-27).

Royal Cricket Club, Chintamani: 130 all out in 37.5 overs (Salman 47; R Venkatesh 2-16, Sampath 2-9, Mahendra 2-14) lt to Blue Diamond Cricketers: 133/4 in 22.3 overs (Shashi 31 n.o.; Prajwal 2-19).

National Cricketers: 56 all out in 22.2 overs (Sujan 2-14, Hari 5-5) lt to Head Quarters CC: 57/0 in 7.1 overs.

Gandhinagar Cricketers: 213 all out in 45.2 overs (Sarfarz 45, Suresh 37; Vishal 2-55, Balgi 2-31, Sumanth 2-39, Narendra 2-24) bt Young Poineer CC: 155 all out in 34.5 overs (Hemanth 35, Gaurav 31; Bhaskar 2-30, Praveen 3-33, Henery Jacob 3-29).

Palar Sports Club, Kolar: 268/7 in 50 overs (Nadeem 26, Ajay S 107, Varun 60; Charan 2-39, Shashank 2-64) lt to Dooravani Cricketers (2): 269/7 in 47. 1 overs (Varun Salaria 39, Amar 82, Amith 28 n.o., Charan 31 n.o.; Sujith 4-31).

Bharath Cricket Club: 255/7 in 50 overs (Manish 51, Diwakar 47, M Sharath 28, Vyshank 32; Rajesh 2-36, Jonardhan 2-34) bt Blaze Cricket Club, Hosakote: 191 all out in 44.4 overs (Kumar 45; Vyashak 2-41, Nagaraj 2-16, Babu 2-44, Diwakar 2-15).