U-16 Super League: Rourkela upset Bhubaneswar-B

Cuttack A and B, Bhubaneswar-A and Rourkela posted second wins in the first four super league matches of the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament at different grounds here today. Rourkela caused a mini upset, defeating Bhubaneswar-B by eight wickets.

Cuttack-A rode on a century each by Prince Sanket Behera and Jagyajit Sahu to trounce Puri by 257 runs. Sudarshan Swain scored a half-century to guide Bhubaneswar-A to a 159-run win over Balasore. Cuttack-B humbled Nabarangpur by 136 runs, thanks to a five-wicket haul by Aniket Mishra and a half-century by Sambik Kumar Sahoo.

BRIEF SCORE (Super League):

Match No 37
(Ravenshaw Ground-I): Cuttack-A 331/4 in 50 overs (Prince Sanket Behera 115, Jagyanjit Sahu 100*, Sumit Rout 52, Biswajit Mohapatra 25*) beat Puri 74/10 in 45.4 overs (Saideep Mohapatra 3/12, BLS Bajrangi 2/12, Pratyush Das 2/20) by 257 runs.

Match No 38
(Nimpur Ground): Bhubaneswar-A 193/9 in 50 overs (Sudarshan Swain 51, Bibhansu Sekhar Ray 41, Sai Subham 23; Anuvab Jasuria 2/24, Subha Sunder Barik 2/26) beat Balasore 34/10 in 16 overs (Partha Sarathi Sahu 3/4, Sarthak Sourav Kumar 3/10, Spandan Mohanty 2/4, Asutosh Naik 2/12) by 159 runs.

Match No 39
(SCB Medical Ground): Cuttack-B 201/8 in 50 overs (Sambit Kumar Sahoo 71, Pratik PR Das 29, Arabinda Mohapatra 27, Rashmi Ranjan Sarangi 23; Kishor Kumar Bisoi 3/36, P Abhishek Behera 3/37, Nishar Uje 2/49) beat Nabarangpur 65/10 in 27 overs (Umasankar Jani 16*; Aniket Mishra 5/23, Sankalp Samantray 2/4) by 136 runs.

Match No 40
(BOSE Ground): Bhubaneswar-B 60/10 in 32.3 overs (Vijay Kumar Yadav 3/9, Sarandeep Singh Bariha 2/6, Snehasis Sahoo 2/12) lost to Rourkela 61/2 in 21.4 overs (Aasirbad Swain 38*; Anshuman Bej 2/14) by 8 wkts.

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