Imran, Shankar do star turn

A ton each from Imran and Naveen Shankar propelled Duleep Cricketers to a massive 252-run win over Maharan Cricket Club in the KSCA Group I, Division IV league cum knockout cricket tournament for Metro Shield here.

Batting first, Duleep rode on Imran’s 110 and Shankar’s 105, which were backed well by Jai Prakash’s 76 and Ashok’s 45, to post a mammoth 419/8 in 50 overs.

In reply, Maharana CC could only manage 167 before being bundled out in 25.3 overs. Veeresh (2/35), Jai Prakash (3/49), Narendra (2/31) and Harish (2/20) were amongst the wickets for Duleep.

Brief scores: Duleep Cricketers: 419/8 in 50 overs (Imran 110, Naveen Shankar 105, Jai Prakash 76, Ashok 45; Prabhakar 3-106, Venkatesh 2-82) bt Maharana Cricket Club: 167 all out in 25.3 overs (Srinivas 28, Manjunath 39, Venkatesh 27, Shivraj 29; Veeresh 2-35, Jai Prakash 3-49, Narendra 2-31, Harish 2-20).

Wadiyar Cricket Club: 244 all out in 46.1 overs (Shaik Habib H 94, Mohsin K 51; Vishal B 4-27, Puneeth N 3-15) bt Southern Cricketers: 178 all out in 38.3 overs (Vishal 28, DB Santosh 54; Guna SS 4-32, Kaushik V 2-32, Mohammed A 2-20). 

Dolphins Cricket Club: 179 all out in 44.1 overs (Rahul 58, Sureen 48; Mohith 2-37, Vivek 5-28, Kevin 2-19) lt to Sri Jayachamarajendra Cricket Club: 180/7 in 44.4 overs (Bharath 28, Badree 39, Daivik 59 n.o.; Sujay Sony 3-26, Manan 2-38).

Jeevanbhimanagar Cricket Club: 286/7 in 50 overs (Darshan 38, Vignesh 106, Naveen 54; Anirudh 2-36) lt to Eleven Brother’s Cricket Club: 276/4 in 45.5 overs (Abhishek 113 n.o., Ved 32, Shyam 50 n.o.). (Match was interrupted due to rain and target was reduced to 276 in 48 overs).

Friends Union Cricket Club (2): 300/9 in 50 overs (S Dheeraj 52, Varun Anand 62, Tilak Karthik 25, Arjun Dev N 57, Shrikar G 31 n.o.; H Venkatesh 3-43, M Hussain 2-46) lt to Silky Town Cricket Club, Channapatna: 301/6 in 45.5 overs (R Umesh 93, KS Chandrashekar 134; DV Anish 2-38, AR Mahesh 2-60).

Shantinagar Cricketers: 161 all out in 38.2 overs (Ramesh 39 n.o.; Asad 2-42, Tarun 3-12, Arun 5-31) lt to Hanumanthnagar Cricket Club: 163/5 in 32.5 overs (Tarun 71 n.o.; Shalok Ganga 2-25).

Hoskote Cricket Club: 206/8 in 50 overs (Harish 59, Santhosh S 36; Karna AS 2-30, Uday Kumar 3-44) lt to Spartons Sports Club: 207/5 in 48.2 overs (Yashas BY 36, Karna AS 31, Amod PN 45, Kishore Shetty 42, Uday Kumar 34 n.o.;, Manu N 2-20).

Royal Cricket Club, Chintamani: 188 all out in 38.3 overs (Syed Agar 33, Jayakumar M 30, Aleem Pasha 69; J Karthik 3-26, Vinith 3-31, LK Vishwanath 2-28) lt to City Cricketers: 189/6 in 36.4 overs (Jagdish 43, Anshuman G 51 n.o.; Jain 4-37).

Friend’s XI Cricket Club, D’Pura: 237/7 in 50 overs (Prashanth 50, Darshan 30, Shashi 28, Pranchal 36) bt Friends Cricket Team: 162 all out in 44.1 overs (Arun 54, Sai Samarth 26; Vidyadhar 2-28, Pranchal 5-35).

Freelancers Cricket Club: 206 all out in 47.1 overs (Deepak 30, Rakesh 42, Ganesh 26, Rahul 29; Piyush 2-38, Vaibhav 2-45, Anurag 2-24, Likith 2-23) lt to RV College Of Engineering: 210/5 in 43 overs (Likith 66, Vivek 39 n.o., Ishwar 34 n.o.; Ganesh 2-37).

Crescent CC (1): 106 all out in 38.5 overs (Rajesh 31; Aditya 4-27, Aseem 2-21) lt to Palar SC: 110/1 in 16 overs (Ajay S 27, Vikash S 68 n.o.).