KSCA XI, Colts pull off big wins

Bengaluru: KSCA XI pulled off a superb five-wicket victory over Himachal Pradesh CA in the Dr K Thimmappiah Memorial tournament at the Aditya Global grounds on Saturday.

Having pulled off a Houdini act on the third day through their last wicket pair of David Mathias and Ronit More, KSCA XI, chasing 219, overhauled the target in 65 overs.

C.M. Gautam was at the forefront with an unbeaten 83 in the chase as KSCA XI raced to 219 for five to top Group A with 13 points.

KSCA Colts topped Group C with a crushing four-wicket victory over Dr DY Patil CA while KSCA President’s XI crashed to a 85-run defeat to Baroda CA.   
Brief scores:

At Bengaluru: Green Sports Village (T): Orissa CA: 540 all out in 155.4 overs drew with Tripura CA: 343 all out in 127.2 overs (Yashpal Singh 131, Gurinder Singh 75, Deepak Behera 2/35, Govind Poddar 3/55, Debabrata Pradan 2/88, Basant Mohanty 2/67) and 143 for 7 in 57 overs (Samrat Singh 39, Abhijeet Dey 36, Nirupam Sen Choudhury 35, Govind Poddar 5/39)
OCA: 3 points, TCA: 1 point

RSI (T): Baroda CA: 364 all out in 104.1 overs and 263 for 9 decl. in 66.1 overs bt KSCA President’s XI: 219 all out in 62 overs and 323 all out in 72.1 overs (Liyan Khan 51 Sadiq Kirmani 73, Vyshak V 48, KC Cariappa 52, Jaydev Patel 8/88) by 85 runs. BCA: 6 Points, KSCA President’s XI: 0

Just Cricket (T): Dr.DY Patil CA: 336 all out in 96.3 overs and 192 all out in 62.3 overs (Vikrant Auti 59, Kevin Almieda 28, Iqbal Abdullah 36, Pavan Deshpande 4/34, Praveen Dubey 4/39) lt to KSCA Colts: 324 all out in 102.2 overs and 206 for 6 in 65.4 overs (Nikin Jose SJ 59 n.o., Pavan Deshpande 79, Arvind S 30, Iqbal Abdullah 2/57) by 4 wickets. KSCA Colts: 6 Points, DYP CA: 0 Point

Alur (1): CAB: 402 all out in 131.2 overs and 225 for 7 decl. in 34.3 overs (Manoj Tiwary 76, Pankaj Shaw 65, Sandeep S Warrier 2/26, Vinod Kumar 2/65, Akshay Chandran 3/56) bt Kerala CA: 266 all out in 105.1 overs and 128 all out in 56.1 overs (Vishnu Vinod 32, Rohan Prem 37, Amit Kuila 2/22, Aamir Gani 4/38, Pragyan Ojha 2/24) by 233 runs. CAB: 6 Points, KCA: 0 Point

BGS (T): Haryana CA: 341 all out in 101.4 overs and 187 all out in 67.4 overs(Rahul Dagar 39, Rajneesh Gurbani 2/66, Ravi Thakur 5/19) lost to Vidarabha Cricket Association: 272 all out in 102.4 overs and 296 for 7 in 81.1 overs (Ganesh Satish 26, Apoorva Wankhade 35, Akshay Wadkar 30, Himanshu Joshi 57 n.o., Shrikant Wagh 49 n.o., Sanjay Badhwar 4/44, Poonish Mehta 2/61) VCA: 6 Points and HCA: 0

Aditya Global (T): Himachal Pradesh CA: 337 all out in 91 overs and 223 all out in 51.4 overs lt to KSCA XI: 342 all out in 99 overs and 219 for 5 in 65 overs (Samarth R 34, Mayank Agarwal 47, CM Gautam 83 n.o., Gurvinder Singh 2/65, Mayank Dagar 3/55) by 5 wickets. KSCA XI: 6 Points, HP CA: 0

At Mysuru: JCE (T): Punjab CA: 246 all out in 78.5 overs and 364 all out in 106.5 overs drew with Mumbai CA: 184 all out in 54.3 overs and 271 for 5 in 98 overs (Akhil Herwadkar 30, Swapnil Pradhan 37, Aditya Tare 47, Siddhesh Lad 80 n.o., Parikshith 38 n.o., Shubek Gill 2/60, Arpit Pannu 2/59) PCA: 3 Points, MCA: 1
SDNRW (T): Gujarat CA: 600 for 3 in 180 overs decl. drew with Andhra CA: 535 all out in 161 overs (AG Pradeep 180, KV Sasikanth 66, Karan Shinde 23, Karan Patel 5/173,  Manprit Juneja 2/29) GCA: 3 Points, ACA: 1