CUTTACK 18-Jun-2018
Subham Singh bagged six wickets, including a hat-trick to propel Jajpur to a nine-wicket win over Balasore in their opening super league match of the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament at SCB Medical ground here today. Sambalpur, Malkangiri and Sundargarh registered wins in three other super league matches of the day.
Sambalpur rode on a four-wicket haul by Sresth Singh and an unbeaten 39 by Pratik Pandey to trounce Puri by eight wickets. Fine all-round performance by Ranjit Mohanty helped Malkangiri beat Nabarangpur by eight wickets. Sundargarh faced stiff fight against Rourkela before winning by nine runs.
BRIEF SCORE (Super League):
Match No 41 (Nimpur Ground): Puri 58/10 in 25.2 overs (Nishant Prakash Nayak 23; Sresth Singh 4/9, Junaid Khan 2/22) lost to Sambalpur 61/1 in 14. 4 overs (Pratik Pandey 39*) by 8 wkts.
Match No 42 (SCB Medical Ground): Balasore 35/10 in 17.2 overs (Subham Singh 6/14, Jamil Akhtar Quadir 2/9) lost to Jajpur 39/1 in 13.5 overs (Raman Kumar Das 15) by 9 wkts.
Match No 43 (BOSE Ground): Nabarangpur 67/10 in 24.1 overs (Asutosh Samantsinghar 28*; Sumit Mishra 3/15, Ranjit Mohanty 3/16, Subham Naik 3/25) lost to Malkangiri 70/2 in 15 overs (Ranjit Mohanty 32*; P Abhishek Behera 2/12) by 8 wkts.
Match No 44 (Ravenshaw Ground-I): Sundargarh 147/10 in 43.3 overs (Raju Singh 32, Maninder Singh Parmar 23; Vijay Kumar Yadav 4/22, Swoop Samith Bhuyan 2/4, Snehasis Sahoo 2/23) beat Rourkela 138/10 in 43.3 overs (Rabi Gope 34, Ishant Nayak 29, Asirbad Swain 27; Akash Seikh 2/23, Goutam Yadav 2/24) by 9 runs.
