JOIN US Malleswaram Gymkhana set up a clash with Friends Union Cricket Club while Swastic Union Cricket Club (2) drew Bangalore Occasionals in the semifinals of the YS Ramaswamy Memorial Trophy tournament here.
In the quarterfinals, Gymkhana crushed Bangalore United CC by 137 runs while their last-four rivals, FUCC prevailed over Vultures Cricket Club by 45 runs.
SUCC (2) advanced at the cost of SUCC (1) which lost the match by 40 runs after rain interruptions forced the officials to use the VJD method to decide the winners.
SUCC (2) take on Occasionals who drubbed Herons Cricket Club by six wickets. Both semifinals will be played on Sunday at the Alur grounds.
Brief scores: Malleswaram Gymkhana: 287/9 in 50 overs (Praveen Dubey 63, Kranthi Kumar M 62, Rohit Gowda 49, Prashanth G 43; Santrupth Chandra 4-67, Balaram Pandey 2-66) bt Bangalore United CC: 150 all out in 36.3 overs (Sharath Srinivas 36, Stuart Binny 31; Praveen Dubey 4-27, Aditya Rai 2-18, Vinoo Prasad 2-28).
Friends Union Cricket Club: 254/9 in 50 overs (Sadiq Kirmani 41, Kunal Kapoor 32, Abhijith S 28, Mithun Bhat 42; SK Moinuddin 2-40, Sinan Abdul Khadeer 4-37) bt Vultures Cricket Club: 209 all out in 47.1 ovrs (Pavan Desphpande 52, Prateesksh 56, Arvind S 26; Praveen Kumar 2-22, Suneel Raju 2-45, Naveeen B 4-42).
Swastic Union Cricket Club (2): 261/8 in 50 overs (Karthip P 32, Nidish M 86, Dinesh Dorwankar 36, Nishanth S 49, Abhinav Manohar 33 n.o.; Abrar Kazi 2-54, Udit B Patel 2-44) bt Swastic Union Cricket Club (1): 183/8 in 41.2 overs (Naveen MG 61, Shreyas Gopal 45, Abrar Kazi 37 n.o.; Karthik CA 2-34, Mohit 2-34) by 40 runs via VJD method.
Herons Cricket Club: 119 all out in 33 overs (GS Chiranjeevi 34, Nikith S 28; T Pradeep 2-23, Avinash D 3-22, Anand D 3-28, S Prashanth 2-9) lt to Bangalore Occassionals: 120/4 in 25.5 overs (Kayan Abbas 55 n.o., Cheluvaraj V 25 n.o.; Shashi Shekar 2-22, AV Raghavendra Rao 2-46).