Puneeth spurs Tumkur

 Puneeth’s impressive bowling effort (5/37) ensured that Tumkur Zone gained a slight upper hand on the first day of their two-day game against Raichur Zone in the under-19 KSCA inter-zonal cricket tournament at the BGS ground here on Tuesday.

 
Brief scores: Raichur Zone: 136 all out in 43.3 overs (Rajesh Kannur 36, N Raghavendra 37; Abdul Gani 4-31, Puneeth 5-37) vs Tumkur Zone: 114/5 in 58 overs (N Jayanth 42; Rohan Patil 4-26).

Presidents’s XI: 332/8 in 82.4 overs (Sharath BR 51, Jayesh Babu 72, Rishi Bopanna 91, Adoksh Hegde 37, Tejas Gowda 27; N Kashyap 4-95, V Samarth 2-91) vs Shimoga Zone: 27/5 in 20 overs (Santrupth Chandra 3-5).

Bangalore Zone: 222 all out in 80.3 overs (Mashooq Hussain 29, Sujith Gowda 37, SM Rajkumar 40, Deepesh Poonia 29 n.o.; K Shashank 3-44, S Chethan 2-31, Nandan Narayan 3-53) vs Mysore Zone: 43/3 in 18 overs.

Combined City XI: 259 all out in 75.1 overs (Mohit Pimplapure 44, Shubham Beesanakoppa 79, Yash Shanbhag 36; Jithesh Shetty 5-48, MU Sureen 2-62) vs Mangalore Zone: 56/5 in 33.4 overs (Vaishak Thimmaiah 26; Gnan Akash 3-10).