CUTTACK 21-Jun-2018
Twin city teams Cuttack-A and Bhubaneswar-A will meet each other in the final of the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament at Sunshine ground here tomorrow. The winners will be presented the Sumit Bose Memorial Trophy.
In the semifinals today, Cuttack-A rode on an unbeaten 48 by Jagyanjit Sahu to beat Sundargarh by five wickets, while an incredible haul of eight wickets by Ashutosh Nayak and a fine knock of 76 by Ashutosh Sahoo powered Bhubaneswar to a 140-run win over Malkangiri.
BRIEF SCORE (Semifinals):
Match No 49 (Ravenshaw Ground-I): Sundargarh 119/10 in 44.1 overs (Subham Sethy 29; Biswajit Mohapatra 2/3, Pratyush Das 2/33) lost to Cuttack-A 120/5 in 34.4 overs (Jagyanjit Sahu 48*, Prince Sanket Behera 24; Anurag Senapati 3/22) by 5 wkts.
Match No 50 (Sunshine Ground): Bhubaneswar-A 165/10 in 40.4 overs (Ashutosh Sahoo 76; Sumit Mishra 4/25, Ranjit Mohanty 2/21, Subham Naik 2/31) beat Malkangiri 25/10 in 15.5 overs (Ashutosh Nayak 8/12) by 140 runs.
