Cricket: Gowtham shines in Jayanagar CC's big win

A skipper’s knock by N J Gowtham (136, 14X4s), helped defending champion Jayanagar CC to register a big 121-run win over Saraswathipuram SC in the KSCA Mysore Zone first division league tie played at Gangothri Glades grounds here on Saturday.

At Mandya, National CC had to satisfy for a draw with JaiHind CC, despite a century by Deepak of Mandya National CC.

In the second division match held at Mandya, Navodaya CC too had to satisfy for a draw against Young Cricketers.  Navodaya CC has scored a swift  331 runs in 37.5 overs, due to a century by H S Mahesh.

Scores

First division: Jayanagar CC 302 for six in 41 overs (N J Gowtham 136, S Rajath 88, Vinod Gowda two for 71, Harshavardhan Gowda two for 48) bt Saraswathipuram SC 181 in 55.3 overs (A V Sandeep 68, Suhas 35, Sanketh Shetty five for 46, N J Gowtham two for 51, Nitish Manju two for 12).

FUCC 204 in 50.1 overs (Md Imran Khan 131, Hemanth Kumar three for 67, Sharath Babu three for 20) bt The Mysore Gymkhana 138 in 39.3 overs (Prasanth Shanbal 28, Manjunath four for 44, Yogesh two for 14).

National CC 242 for seven in 55 overs (Deepak S Gowda 100, C G Jagadeesh Kumar  30, Kishan S Bedare 27, Harikrishna Kumar 25, Balaram two for 40) drew with Jaihind CC ‘A’ 222 for eight in 40 overs (Kiran 30, Yeshwanth 35, Manjunath Bharve 28, Siddarth Koul 29, Harikrishna Kumar four for 63, C G Jagadeesh Kumar three for 50).

Second Division: Navodaya CC 331 in 37.5 overs (H S Mahesh 118, Vinayas 47, Vadiraj 25, K R Pawan 35, Naveen three for 42, Krishna two for 35, Vikas two for 83, Shivaprakash two for 51) drew with Young Cricketers 242 for eight in 62 overs (Revanth 42, Madhu 34, Sukvinder 31, Krishna 50, Deepak three for 42, Chethan two for 62, Malliah two for 59).

Third Division: Agraharam CC 138 in 40 overs (Mahadevaswamy 38, Girish 30, Manjunath three for 38. Yeshwanth Kumar two for 21) lost to Jawahars CC (Mandya) 140 for three in 18.1 overs (Umesh Kumar 70, Raghavendra 42, Purushotham two for 40).