Team Orisports 07-Jun-2018
Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar and Khurda won all of their preliminary group league matches to complete the super league line-up of the Kalahandi Cup Senior Men Inter-District Cricket Tournament at different ground here today.
Super league matches, involving four groups of three teams each, would be held from June 9 to 11 and the four group toppers would advance to the semifinals. Other eight teams in the super league are Cuttack A and B, Bhubaneswar A and B, East Coast Railway, Balasore, Bhadrak and Bargarh.
In the last round of preliminary league matches, Rourkela crushed Mayurbhanj by 10 wickets, Jharsuguda decimated Rayagada by 212 runs, Jagatsinghpur prevailed over Balangir by 102 runs, Khurda drubbed Nabarangpur by 94 runs and Keonjhar
The five matches of the day were conducted by umpires Mahesh Munish, Satyendra Mohanty, Sumendra Patra, Ashutosh Pani, Asit Pattnaik, Biswajit Purohit, Satyabrata Mohapatra, Sudhanshu Satrujeet, Dilip Das, Jayakrushna Rout and scorers Bibekananda Rout, Basu Sekhar, Amiya Kumar Das, Birabara Nayak and AK Mohanty.
BRIEF SCORE:
Match No 35 (Nimpur SCC Ground): Jharsuguda 270/10 in 49.5 overs (Md Saha Arman 56, Pratik Yadav 55, Sagar Rout 27, Yasin Qureshi 22, Ranjan Sahoo 20; Rishikesh Choubey 3/62, Swayamsidhi Mishra 3/64, G Srikant 2/27) beat Rayagada 58/10 in 18 overs (Tarun Saa 6/21, Sagar Rout 2/3) by 212 runs.
Match No 36 (BOSE Ground): Jagatsinghpur 210/10 in 40.3 overs (Pabitra Bisoi 37, Jitendra Rout 32, Rashmi Ranjan Rout 29, Biswajit Paikray 27, Ajay Barik 25, Samir Mohanty 23; Biswa Ranjan Singh 3/45, Ankit Panda 2/19, Anshuman Mishra 2/37, Charanjeet Sahani 2/52) beat Balangir 108/10 in 19.3 overs (Subhasish Mirdhan 20; Tarakanta Jena 3/28, Jitendra Routray 3/33, Md Soib Akhtar 2/23) by 102 runs.
Match No 37 (SCB Medical Ground): Mayurbhanj 118/10 in41.5 overs (Md Akram 2/10, Amit Das 2/15, Govind Poddar 2/23) lost to Rourkela 121/0 in 22.1 overs (Swastik Samal 64*, Ranjit Singh 52*) by 10 wkts.
Match No 38 (DRIEMS Stadium): Khurda 180/10 in 33.1 overs (Santosh Jena 75, Ranjit Paikray 55; Ramesh Satnami 3/15, Prakash Panda 3/20, Laxmi Nrusingha Pal 2/26) beat Nabarangpur 86/10 in 283 overs (Nilu Pradhan 4/23, Sumit Maharana 3/15, Aum Arya Suryanarayana 2/24) by 94 runs.
Match No 39 (Ravenshaw Ground-I): Kalahandi 149/10 in 36.2 overs (Subham Jha 47, Srikant Behera 30; Sujit Barik 3/26, Goutam Das 2/12, Ashutosh Ray 2/21) lost to Keonjhar 150/2 in 21.3 overs (Subhranshu Senapati 54*, Dinesh Nayak 48*) by 8 wkts.
