Venkatesh's unbeaten century goes in vain

 Ven-katesh P’s unbeaten 119 went in vain as Ace Cricketers lost to Young Cricketers (2) by one-wicket in a high scoring match in the KSCA Twenty-20 tournament here on Thursday.

Batting first, Ace Cricketers rode on Venkatesh’s effort and Aviral Sunny’s 38 runs to post a mammoth total of 214 runs for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs.

Chasing the target, Ravi Thakur top scored for Young Cricketers (2) with 77 as they overhauled the target in 19.3 overs. Ravi was well supported by handy knocks from Nandish Roy (29) and Shahid S (31).
Amith with figures 4/36 was the wrecker-in-chief for Aces.

Brief scores: Ace Cricketers: 214/6 in 20 overs (Venkatesh P 119 n.o., Aviral Sunny 38; Prajwal 2-22, Vinay 2-45) lt to Young Cricketers (2): 216/9 in 19.3 overs (Nandish Roy 29, Shahid S 31, Ravi Thakur 77; Amith 4-36).

Bangalore Occasionals: 232/3 in 20 overs (Abhishek Reddy 46, Abdul Majid 32, Mir Kaunain Abbas 71, KN Bharath 32 n.o.; Anil 3-33) bt Chitradurga Cricket Club: 132/7 in 14 overs (Pruthvi 30, Sanjay 44 n.o.; Vinayak 2-17) (Target was reduced to 163 runs in 14 overs).

SJ (Govt) Polytechnic Cricket Club: 117 all out in 17.3 overs (Nithin 31, Prasanna 42, Sandesh 4-19, Rajoo Bhatkal 3-16, Bharath Chipli 2-19) lt to Social Cricketers: 118 for no loss in 9 overs (Rohan Kadam 56 n.o., Sharath Srinivas 46 n.o.)

Coles Cricket Club: 173/5 in 20 overs (Yashas GL 49, Harshith S 51 n.o.; Karthik 2-32) bt Friends Cricket Club, Kolar: 74 all out in 20 overs (Zahed N 2-10, Prasanna Uthappa 2-26, Shashank 2-8).

Blue Diamond Cricket Club: 112 all out in 18.3 overs (Vishnu 34; Nagaraj 2-21, Manjunath 3-14, Kushal 2-21, Pramod 2-27) bt Star Cricketers XI: 99 all out in 19.5 overs (Riyaz 4-13, Kumar 4-17).

Indiranagar Cricketers: 189/7 in 20 overs (Nithin 47, Mahesh 68, Gowri Shankar 31; Vinayak 4-14) bt Bijapur Cricket Club: 97/6 in 20 overs (Ganesh 29, Manjunath 38 n.o.; Gowri Shankar 4-13).

Sir Syed Cricketers: 118/9 in 20 overs (Akshay Ashok 48; Narendra KC 2-16, Harish Kumar 3-27) bt Duleep Cricketers: 113 all out in 20 overs (Prashanth 33; Rohith Jain 3-18).

Young Star Sports Club, Chitradurga: 188/5 in 20 overs (Manjunath 37, Pratap D 85 n.o.) bt Bowlers Cricket Club: 140/7 in 20 overs (Shashikanth 54, Dilip 21 n.o.).

Friends XI Cricket Club, D’Pura: 88/9 in 20 overs (Ameet 29; Venkatesh 2-10) lt to Silk Town Cricket Club, Channapatna: 92/5 in 12.4 overs (Chandrashekar 42; Suresh 3-14).