Santosh spurs Shantinagar

Santosh Shetty struck a valuable 46 and claimed four wickets giving away 52 runs to power Shanthinagar Cricketers to a massive 121-run victory over Royal Cricket Club in the KSCA Group I-IV Division tournament for the Metro Shield. 

 Batting first, Shanthinagar Cricketers posted a strong 296 for eight in 50 overs. Akshay top scored with 86 while Vishwas (47), Santosh and Piyush (42 n.o.) chipped in. In reply, Royal CC batsmen couldn’t handle Anand Prakash (5/47) and Santosh (4/52) and were bowled out for 175. 

Brief scores: Shanthinagar Cricketers: 296/8 in 50 overs (Akshay 86, Vishwas 47, Santosh Shetty 46, Piyush 42 n.o., Rakesh Reddy 39 n.o.; Girish KL 2-44, Arun Kumar 2-42, Vinay Kumar 3-49) bt Royal Cricket Club: 175 all out in 27.2 overs (Ravi HS 38, Girish KL 30, Amith GS 26; Santosh Shetty 4-52, Anand Prakash 5-47).

Rajajinagar Colts Cricket Association: 188 all out in 42.5 overs (Bhaktavatsala 31, Vishwas 49, Murali 32; Arvind 2-17, Madhu 2-21) lt to Friends Cricket Club: 190/7 in 37.3 overs (Madhu 63, Sandeep Pais 32; Naveen JR Ram 3-36, Manoj 2-10).

Duleep Cricketers: 292/9 in 50 overs (Santosh 58, Vishnu 67, Ashoka 30; Sundr
esh 3-74, Alvin 2-40, Ashok 3-42) bt Crescent Cricket Club: 163 all out in 43.3 overs (Ashok 46, Tushar 55 n.o., Srinivas 2-20, Praveen 2-38, Harsha 2-23, Narendra 2-16).Sri Jaychamarajendra Cricket Club: 206 all out in 42.3 overs (Tilak Karthik 64; Inayath 2-36, Jaffer Ali 5-36, Nadeem Ahmed 2-30) bt Merchants Cricket Club (2): 103 all out in 30.2 overs (Inayath 37; Nagraj 4-31, Arjun Dev 6-28).

Century Cricket Club: 183 all out in 38.3 overs (Ullas AK 60; Ashith 2-22, Santhosh Rao 5-33, Arindan 2-27) bt IISC Gymkhana: 162 all out in 46.2 overs (Gaurav Tikkas 32, Raviteja 25, Akash 35; Sudarshan 2-23, Stephen 2-23, Lokesh 2-30).

Friends Cricket Team: 145 all out in 39.1 overs (Sachin 36 n.o.; Gopi 3-30, Ajay 3-28) lost to Hoskote Cricket Club, Hoskote: 146/6 in 36 overs (Manu N 57 n.o., K Kiran 32; Shivanand 3-30) by 4 wickets.

National United Cricket Club: 204 all out in 43.5 overs (Prince 51, Harish 58; Chaitanya 2-26, Jagadeepu 6-47) bt Yuvaka Sangha Cricket Club: 152 all out in 41 overs (Harish 28, Skandha 36; Aries 2-33, Shobhan Babu 4-36, Chandrashekar 2-29).

Merchants Cricket Club (1): 278/6 in 50 overs (Yuvaraj 71, Santosh 55, Girija Shankar 71 n.o.; Adithya 3-60) bt Chamarajpet Cricket Club: 175 all out in 45.1 overs (Athreya 30, Ravi Sakri 29, Koushik 29 n.o.; Rahul Singha 2-15, Prasanna 3-44, Mohan 3-28).Indiranagar Cricketers: 154 all out in 41.2 overs (Karthik R 64; Chetan Williams 2-31, Raghavendra K 3-28, Yusuf 3-10) lost to Cambridge Cricket Club: 156/3 in 29.5 overs (Yusuf 42, Shivakumar EM 85).

Oriental Cricket Club: 96 all out in 38.4 overs (Kushal 40 n.o., Srikanth 5-20, Raghavendra 2-25, Sarbojeet 2-14) lost to Ranji Cricket Club: 97/7 in 32.2 overs (Touseef 3-31, Aravind 2-23).