Vishal claims five in Spartans' win

Vishal’s five-wicket haul and Ranjith MS’ half-century helped Spartans Cricket Club register a 69-run win over Ranji Cricket Club in the KSCA Group I Division IV league-cum-knockout cricket tournament for Metro Shield.

Batting first, Spartans CC rode on Ranjith’s 55, which was well supported by Manoj’s 38 and Nithin S 26, to post a score of 202 for the loss of eight wickets in 50 overs. Madhu scalped four wickets for Ranji.

In reply, Ranji were bundled out for 133 runs in 46.2 overs. Vishal and Manoj, with figures 5/24 and 2/12 respectively, caused the damage.

Brief scores: Spartans Cricket Club: 202/8 in 50 overs (Nithin S 26, Ranjith MS 55, Manoj 38, Vishwanath 25 n.o.; Raghavendra HS 2-42, Madhu 4-49) bt Ranji Cricket Club: 133 all out in 46.2 overs (Aravind 39, Raghu 35; Vishal 5-24, Manoj 2-12).

Select Cricketers: 222/7 in 34 overs (Yathiraj 61, Alok 77; Janardhan BG 3-46, Deepak P 2-47) bt Gary Cricketers: 169/9 in 34 overs (Ajith Keshava 69, Hemanth Kumar 30; Anand G 2-26, Yathiraj 4-37). (Due to wet pitch the start of the match was delayed. 34 overs per side was allotted).

IISC Gymkhana: 264/7 in 50 overs (Kiran 42, Varun 63, Gaurav 66, Santhosh 43 n.o.; Hanumant Raju 2-47) bt Star Sports Cricket Club, Nelamangala: 96 all out in 30.3 overs (Varun 2-13, Santhosh 2-35, Ravi Teja 3-15, Nagraj 2-13).

Magadi Cricket Club, Magadi: 65 all out in 22.1 overs (Keshav 2-9, Arun 4-6, Nikhil 2-5) lt to Wadiyar Cricket Club: 66/1 in 8.3 overs (Fawwad Hussain 28 n.o.).

Oriental Cricket Club: 154 all out in 45 overs (Kushal Katara 31, Sudharshan 32 n.o.; Nikhil Naik 2-26) lt to Sangam Cricket Association: 157/6 in 42.3 overs (Sumanth P 29, Nikhil Naik 47 n.o.; Kushal Katara 2-31).

Minerva Cricket Club: 252 all out in (Chandra Prakash 33, Abhilash 61, Vijaykumar 36, Nagaraj 66; Srinivas A 2-34, Akash Deshpande 3-28, Daniel Joplin 2-31) bt Whirlwind Cricketers: 122 all out in 42 overs (Mithesh Madan 45, Munim Moosa 30; Nagaraj 5-21, Mohan 3-15, Abilash 2-29).

Jeevanbhimanagar Cricket Club: 127/8 in 31.5 overs (Ramakrishna B 53, Abhishek 28; Faizan 2-15, Krishna 2-44, Pranav 2-10, Sahas 2-27) vs Dolphin Cricketers (Match was called off due to heavy rain).

Silky Town Cricket Club, Channapatna: 133 all out in 38.5 overs (Mubarak Khan 57, Maqdoom Hussain 27; Nagaraj 5-27, Nirmith 2-18, Pradeep G 2-6) lt to Young Challenging Cricketers: 134/6 in 44.3 overs (Deepak 38, Pradeep G 34; Somashekar KS 4-26).
Sri Jayachamarajendra Cricket Club: 159 all out in 47.4 overs (Harsha 27; Shreyas 2-39, Jayanth CR 3-26, Vinay 3-30) lt to Royal Cricket Club, Chinthamani: 162/9 in 33.3 overs (Sandeep 50, Surya Srinivas 32; Somnath 2-28, Daivik 6-16).

Yuvaka Sangha Cricket Club: 130 all out in 39.1 overs (Rajdeep 26, Chaithanya 35; Vineeth 4-22, Vignesh 3-11) lt to Century Cricketers: 131/9 in 22.4 overs (Ullas 35, Dean 30; Koushik 3-53, Akhil 2-18, Sumith 3-12).

Chamrajpet Cricket Club: 201/8 in 50 overs (Pavan 37, Bharath S 78; Brijesh Gowda 2-52, Sharath 2-28) bt Shantinagar Cricketers: 158 all out in 44.5 overs (Brijesh Gowda 52 n.o.; Sriram 2-32, Malaya Kumar Sahoo 4-33, Bharath S 2-23).

Merchants Cricket Club (1): 155 all out in 47.3 overs [Shandar 28, Aravind L 49; Sudhir Kolewad 2-18, Rohit Sai Ram G 2-18, Syed Nooruddin 4-26) lt to Visweswarapuram Cricket Club (1): 157/8 in 39 overs (Aditya R 42, Nitin Minu 28, Sankruth Sriram 28; Jaffer 2-29, Naveen Prasad S 2-44).