Safi Darashah Trophy: Cariappa bags six to restrict President's XI

Bengaluru: Bangalore Zone’s KC Cariappa returned with a six-wicket haul to bowl out President’s XI for 293 on the first day of the Safi Darashah Trophy cricket tournament here on Friday.

At the RSI ground, previous game double centurion Abhishek Reddy top-scored with 78, Mir Kaunain Abbas made 69 while all-rounder Melu Kranthi Kumar contributed 59. Supporting the off-spinner Cariappa, Darshan Machaiah took two wickets.

In reply, Bangalore Zone were 66 for 1 at end of day’s play. Arjun Hoysala (22 batting) and Shishir Bhavane (30 batting) were in the middle.

Brief scores (Day 1):

RSI: President’s XI: 293 all out in 74.4 overs (Abhishek Reddy 78, Naga Bharath 32, Mir Kaunain Abbas 69, Melu Kranthi Kumar 59, J Suchith 29, Darshan Machaiah BP 2/47, KC Cariappa 6/79) vs Bangalore Zone: 66 for 1 in 23 overs (Arjun Hoysala batting 22, Shishir Bhavane batting 30, Ronit More 1/10)
IAF: Vice President’s XI: 283 all out in 82.1 overs (Pavan Deshpande 91, Chiranjeevi GS 41, Zeeshanali Sayyed 53, Bhavesh Gulechha 39, Prateek Jain 3/41, Naveen MG 2/54, Stalin Hoover 2/65, Abrar Kazi 2/65) vs Combined XI: 54 for 3 in 12 overs (KV Siddharth batting 22, Bhavesh Gulechha 2/25, Vinay Kumar 1/24).