CUTTACK 10-Jun-2018
Puri beat Phulbani by six wickets in their second and last Group-G preliminary league match of the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament here today. This was the second win for Puri and that carried them to the Super League stage. Dhenkanal, Paradeep and Jagatsinghpur scripted wins in three other preliminary league matches of the day.
Dhenkanal rode on a six-wicket haul by Madhusudan Sahu to trounce Gajapati by 111 runs. Subham Sethy bagged five wickets to steer Paradeep to a seven-run win over Mayurbhanj, while a six-wicket haul by Rabi Nandan Sahoo enabled Jagatsinghpur defeat Kalahandi by three runs.
BRIEF SCORE:
Match No 14 (Bidanasi Ground): Dhenkanal 186/7 in 50 overs (Diptanshu Priyadarshan 47*, Siba Sundar Panda 20*; Manas Panigrahi 2/26) beat Gajapati 75/10 in 19.3 overs (Brain Musten Singh 22*; Madhusudan Sahu 6/29, Siva Sundar Panda 3/12) by 111 runs.
Match No 15 (Ravenshaw Ground-II): Paradeep 62/10 in 18.1 overs (Avishek Mahanta 3/3, Subit Sritam Sethi 3/15, Udit Narayan Deo 2/16, Jatin Gupta 2/18) beat Mayurbhanj 55/10 in 13.5 overs (Subham Sethy 5/13, Mandal Soren 4/11) by 7 runs.
Match No 16 (BOSE Ground): Jagatsinghpur 61/10 in 19.5 overs (Anuj Pattnaik 7/24) beat Kalahandi 58/10 in 14.3 overs (Rabi Nandan Sahoo 6/16, Soham Jyoti Sahoo 2/20) by 3 runs.
Match No 17 (Sunshine Ground): Phulbani 55/10 in 18 overs (Devi Prasad Konhar 24; Dola Govinda Parida 4/18, Rajesh Behera 3/4) lost to Puri 57/4 in 10 overs (Smruti Prakash Swain 25; Satyam Sai Bisoi 2/14, Bajrangi Biswal 2/24) by 6 wkts.
