U-16 Cricket: Bajrangi hat-tricks in Cuttack-A win

Cuttack-A, Bhubaneswar-A and Balasore won both of respective preliminary group league matches to qualify for super league of the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament at different grounds here today. Cuttack-A rode on a hat-trick by BLS Bajrangi and half-century each by Prince Sanket Behera and Sumeet Rout to make mincemeat of Boudh by 249 runs.

Bhubaneswar-A faced stiff fight against Deogarh before coasting home by three wickets, while Balasore got the better of Balangir by 35 runs. The three matches of the day were officiated by umpires Pradeep Jena, Sambit Pattnaik, Chudamani Padhi, Sabyasachi Saha, CP Mohapatra, Anand Sahu and scorers Rashmi Ranjan Malla, Biswa Ranjan Das, Govinda Behera.

BRIEF SCORE:

Match No 7
(Bidanasi Ground): Cuttack-A 321/8 in 50 overs (Prince Sanket Behera 63, Sumeet Rout 61, Biswajit Mohapatra 38, Jagyanjit Sahoo 34; Sobhandev Behera 2/45, Sibani Shankar Parida 2/67) beat Boudh 72/10 in 24 overs (Sibani Shankar Parida 24, Subhankar Dash 23; BLS Bajrangi 6/5, Aditya Sekhar Natia 2/13) by 249 runs.

Match No 8
(Ravenshaw Ground-II): Deogarh 87/10 in 21.3 overs (Prabin Tirkey 22; Ashutosh Nayak 4/27, Swayam S Routray 4/48) lost to Bhubaneswar-A 89/7 in 17.4 overs (Dhananjaya Deep 2/24, Sohamraj Mohapatra 2/34) by 3 wkts.

Match No 9
(Sunshine Ground): Balasore 114/10 in 23.5 overs (Tarun Khandelwal 29, Suman Sourav Ojha 26; Rashmi Raj Bhanjan 4/38, Pratik Mishra 2/17) beat Balangir 79/10 in 30 overs (Subha Sundar Barik 3/15, Anubhav Jasuria 3/18, Bhabisya Behera 3/19) by 35 runs.

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