Delhi varsity win KPl T20 Cricket league
Bhubaneswar: Delhi University emerged champion by defeating Al Falah University by 58 runs in the final of the 8th All India KIIT T-20 Day and Night Premier league Cricket Tournament, which concluded at KIIT Campus here on Thursday. The final match played between Delhi and Al-Falah University. Delhi University won the toss and decided to bat first. Delhi University scored 183 runs by loss of five wickets in 20 over, while Al-Falah scored 125 runs by loss of nine wickets in 20 over. Delhi won the final match by 58 runs. Delhi University won the champions trophy along with cash award of 2 lakh. The runners up Al-Falah University got 1.5 lakh cash prize. Andhra University and KIIT University placed in 3rd and 4th position and got Rs 50,000 and Rs25,000 respectively. Ashis Serawat of Delhi University declared as man of the final and got Rs 6,000. Similarly Rohit Dubey of Delhi University declared as best fielder, while Biswajit Bhuyan of KIIT best wicketkeeper, B Siddharth of Andhra University best bowler and Surendra Dahia of Al-Falah University declared as best batsman of the series and each got Rs 6,000 cash prize. Azam Khan of Al-Falah University declared as man of series and got Rs 8,000 cash prize with trophy. Every league match winner got Rs 10,000.
In the closing ceremony international cricketer Piush Chawla distributed the prizes in presence of Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT and KISS, Prof. P. P. Mathur, VC, KIIT University and Dr. Sasmita Samanta, Registrar.
CTC-A register first innings lead in U-19 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Cuttack-A (CTC) registered a 38 runs first innings lead against Bhubaneswar-A (BBSR) and scored 63 runs for the loss of three wickets at day three stumps in the U-19 Inter-District Cricket Tournament at Sunshine Ground in Cuttack on Thursday. In reply to CTC-A’s first innings score of 292 runs, Bhubaneswar-A (BBSR) added 130 runs to their overnight score of 124 runs for the loss of three wickets. Sandeep Patnaik and Ragunath Malla scored 90 and 71 runs respectively, but BBSR-A scored 254 runs.
Brief Score: Sunshine Ground: Cuttack-A 292/10 in 90.4 overs (Soubhagya Mishra 53, Venkatesh Vende 36, Md.Akram 34, D.Ashok Rao 37, Jamala Bhanjan Mahapatra 35; Satryajit Sabat 3/57, Swagat Routray 3/115) and 64/3 in 32 overs (Prateek Tripathy 26, Venkatesh Vende 24 n.o;) Vs Bhubaneswar-A 254/10 in 120.3 overs (Raghunath Malla 71, Sandeep Patnaik 90,Rohit Sagar 28 n.o; Asotosh Das 2/27, Jamala Bhanjan Mahapatra 3/51, D.Ashok Rao 2/19) .
Biswabharati enter cricket finals
Bhubaneswar: Biswabharati Cricket Club (BCC) of Cuttack barged into the final of the 2nd NM Bhuyan and Sourav Mohanty Memorial Cricket Tournament by defeating RYCC of Rourkela by four wickets at BJB College Ground here on Thursday. Batting first, RYCC scored only 135 runs in 36 overs. In reply, inform batsman Rashmi Ranjan Das of BCC smashed 82 runs and guided the team reach winning target for the loss of six wickets in 22 overs. Rashmi of the winning team bagged the man of the match award. In the semifinal match on Friday, host Mukteswar Cricket Club would meet Rising Student.
Brief Score: RYCC, Rourkela 135/10 in 36 overs (Ajit Behera 30(4x2) (52 balls), Natraj Behera 28(4x2,6x1) (43 balls), Basudev Behera 24(4x4) (28 balls) ; Ramesh Behera 3/22, Tapendra Singh 3/29, Prasant Sahoo 2/33) lost to Biswabharati, CTC 139/6 in 22 overs ( Rashmi Ranjan Das 82(4x11,6x3) (59 balls) ; Ayaskant sahoo 2/35, Santosh Jena 2/45) by 4 wickets.
Delhi to meet Al Falah in KPl T20 final
Bhubaneswar: Delhi University would meet Al Falah University in the final of the KPl T20 Cricket Tournament at KIIT Campus here on Friday.
Delhi University and Al Falah University defeated Andhra University and KIIT University by 37 and 29 runs respectively in the semifinals on Thursday. Andhra University would meet KIIT University for the third and fourth place.
Brief score: Delhi University 152/ 08 in 20 overs beat Andhra University 115/ 10 in 19.1 overs. Alfalah University 227/ 03 in 20 overs beat Kiit University 199/ 10 in 19.1 overs