Abhishek, Pradeep shine for Occasionals

A patient century from Abhishek Reddy followed by impressive bowling from Pradeep T helped Bangalore Occasionals gain the crucial three points in their drawn encounter against Vijaya Cricket Club in the KSCA Group I (Division I) league tournament here.

Batting first, Occasionals put up a solid show with Abhishek’s 102 (154b, 10x4) laying foundation to their strong first innings total of 313 for four in 76 overs. Apart from Abhishek, Bharath KN (59), Mir Kaunian Abbas (61) and Abdul Majid (56) slammed fifties to pile more misery on Vijaya CC bowlers.

Brief scores: Bangalore Occasionals: 313/4 in 76 overs (Abhishek Reddy 102, Bharath KN 59, Mir Kaunian Abbas 61, Abdul Majid 56) drew with Vijaya Cricket Club: 110 all out in 35.4 overs (Nihal Ullal 34; Pradeep T 4-43, Anand D 3-18) and 130/4 in 47 overs (Gopal Shetty 29, Raunak Shah 57 n.o.)

Bangalore Occasionals: 3 Points; Vijaya CC: 1 Point
Malleswaram Gymkhana: 393/7 decl in 83 overs (Sadiq Kiramani 36, Liyan Khan 95, Melu Kranthikumar 149, Praveen Dubey 51 n.o.; Bharath Kondajji 4-104) and 25/2 in 4 overs)  drew with Herons Cricket Club: 229 all out in 75.2 overs (Arjun Hoysala 86, S Vinodh 47; Gowtham K 2-69, Mitrakant Singh Yadav 5-44)

 Malleswaram Gymkhana: 3 Points; Herons CC: 1 Point.
Jawahar Sports Club (1): 316/9 decl in 89.1 overs (Nischal D 108 (205b, 9x4), Akshay MK 82, Atreya Inamdar 59; Prateek Jain 2-50, Abhilash Semwal 3-54, Abhinav Manohar 2-74) drew with Jawans Cricket Club: 350/5 in 71 overs (Dikshanshu Negi 95, Suraj Sampath 56, Nishanth Singh 61, David Mathias 56, Mohammed Taha 33*; Devaiah KS 2-47)
Jawans CC: 3 Points; Jawahar SC (1): 1 Point

Social Cricketers: 355/6 in 90 overs (Arjun SP 56, Rohan Kadam 169 n.o., Sharath Srinivas 35, Rajoo Bhatkal 85; SP Manjunath 3-113) drew with The Bangalore Cricketers: 142/8 in 59 overs (Chethan S 29 n.o.; Vyshak V 2-38, Santosh Boregowda 2-41, Aditya Somanna 2-36, Swapnil Yelave 2-13)

Social Cricketers: 2 Points; Bangalore Cricketers: 2 Points.
Mount Joy Cricket Club: 235 all out in 76 overs (Rajkumar 49, Cheluvaraj 28, Deepak Chougle 73, Sharan Gowda 41; Deepesh Poonia 2-49, Nitish PD 2-30, Naveen B 2-42, Abhijit S 3-16) drew with Friends Union Cricket Club (1): 243/6 in 55 overs (Abhijit S 32, Akhil B 100 n.o., Naveen B 36 n.o.; Harish Kumar 3-66, Deepak Chougle 2-48)
FUCC (1): 3 Points; Mount Joy CC: 1 Vultures Cricket Club: 309 all out in 87.1 overs (Prareeksh R 45, Nishith N Raj 28, Shrijith KL 116, Anirudha Joshi 38, Bhareth Narayan Prasad 36; Shashank K 3-61, Udit B Patel 5-94, Abrar Kazi 2-89) drew with Swastic Union Cricket Club (1): 397/7 in 90 overs (Samarth R 94, MG Naveen 54, Siddharth KV 38, Akshay Kodoth 36, Nidish Mohanram 37, Rohith Sabharwal 30 n.o., Udit B Patel 79 n.o.; Pavan Deshpande 3-33)

Swastic Union CC (1): 3 Points;  Vultures CC: 1 Point.
KSCA Under-16 Group I (Division I, II, III): Brief scores: Malleswaram Gymkhana: 360/6 in 50 overs (Nitish Kumar 69, Nayan KV 138, Mansoor Md 38, Nishith Setty 26 n.o.; Sahishnu 2-40, Siddarth 2-56) bt Dooravani Cricketers: 69 all out in 26.5 overs (Nishith Setty 4-18, Vishal 4-12).

Bangalore Occasionals: 278/6 in 50 overs (Prithvi S 91, Rohith Rao 107; Adithyan K 2-42) bt Swastic Union Cricket Club (2): 120 all out in 34.3 overs (Emmanuel 27; Madhav Bajaj 3-33, Prathamesh 3-4).

Jawahar Sports Club (2): 93 all out in 36.2 overs (Aditya NG 40; Dhruv Bhandari 2-15, Rithwik Ramesh 3-19, Aamir 2-15, Shaun TJ 2-15) lt to Jawans Cricket Club: 95 for no loss in 16.2 overs (Aditya Singh 50 n.o., Akshath 38 n.o.).

Mount Joy Cricket Club: 191 all out in 41.3 overs (Kishore 29, Manjunath 63, Ajay 36, Vijay K Raman 25; Rohan Nayakar 2-37, Ahan Bolar 5-32) lt to Herons Cricket Club: 192/2 in 28.2 overs (Rohan Nayakar 102 n.o., Sai Rohit 37).