JOIN USS Naveen Prasad’s all-round show spurred Merchants Cricket Club (2) to a comfortable five-wicket win over Young Boys’ Cricket Club (Kolar) in the KSCA Group I, Division V tournament for the JB Mallaradhya Trophy here.
Pegged back by Naveen’s (5/39) inspiring show with the ball, Young Boys were reduced to 199 all out 44.4 overs.
Merchants, in response, once again looked to Naveen and he didn’t disappoint as he scored a half-century to carry them to 202 for five in 42.3 overs.
Brief scores: Young Boys’ CC, Kolar: 199 all out in 44.4 overs (Manjunath BR 45, Shiva Kumar B 76; Naveen Prasad S 5-39) lt to Merchants CC (2): 202/5 in 42.3 overs (Shandhar Hussain 26, Sharad 34, Naveen Prasad S 53, Bharath K 25).
City Cricketers (2): 174 all out in 49.1 overs (Sumanth Sudheendra 28, Hemanth MS 25, Udaya C Madhyasta 39; Abhishek 4-23) lt to Royal CC, Chinthamani: 176/4 in 25.5 overs (Sandeep AV 52, Sandeep Ramesh 53, Arun Kumar 35).
Huttons CC: 179 all out in 50 overs (Srinivas TM 38, Syed Ali 31, Rafiq 41; Santosh 4-40, Shashi 2-9) lt to Cambridge CC: 180/4 in 24.2 overs (Shashi 57, Aakash Deepak 29, Harmain Ahmed 36 n.o., Rahul Bhatkal 39 n.o.; M Rafiq 2-31).
Century Cricket Club: 157 all out in 35.4 overs (Srinivas 35, Santosh 28, Vijay Kumar 53 n.o.; Manjunath S 2-34, Krishna Murthy 2-12, MD Jagadeesh 2-44) bt United Cricket Club: 66 all out in 25 overs (Stephen 2-20, Nitin Prabhakar 3-21, Dean Anthony 2-10, Kiran Dev 2-6).
BTR under-14 knockout tournament for Division III teams: Shreyas Public School: 137 all out in 33.4 overs (Praveen 62; Athreya Raman 2-20, Aditya Balaji Venkatesh 2-27, Varun Raghuveer 3-14) lt to Sri Kumarans Children Home: 138/2 in 16.2 overs (Aditya Balaji Venkatesh 103 n.o.)Ryan International School (Bannerghata): 165 all out in 44.3 overs (Zain 25, Vyshak 32 n.o.; Nirbhay 2-24, Karthik KR 5-32) lt to Vidyaniketan Public School, Ullal: 166/4 in 33.3 overs (Amod P 28, Rakesh 55 n.o., Karthik KR 29 n.o.; Kamlesh 3-30).
Gopalan National High School (Whitefield): 312/6 in 50 overs (Dheeraj 25, Sanjith 59, Karan Pawar 52, Bhargav 33; Aditya 75 n.o.) bt St Ann’s High School: 50 all out in 25.2 overs (Aditya 3-6, Bhargava 2-6).
Vidyaniketan Public School: 238 all out in 48.3 overs (Amod 67, Pratheek NS 45; Pranav Kumar 2-35, Dhiraj V 2-40, Avant K 2-10) bt Baldwin Boys’ High School: 110 all out in 25.2 overs (Manjunath 2-13, Karthik KR 3-20).