A ten wicket haul by Kalia Sahu helped Ganjam to overcome Jagatsinghpur by an innings and 30 runs in the first day of the Group-B league match of the Kalahandi Cup Inter-District Senior Cricket Tournament at Sunshine Ground in Cuttack on Friday. Winners Ganjam bagged seven points. Batting first, Jagatsighpur scored 47 in 17.5 overs, credit goes to Kalia who scalped five wickets by giving 21 runs and equally supported by Nayan Ranjan Acharya who bagged 5 for 22. In reply, Ganjam declared their innings 177 for 9 in 41.3 overs. Once again Kalia pocketed five wickets and restricted Jagatsinghpur for 100.
Bidanasi Ground: BBSR-B 169/10 in 72.3 overs (Sumitosh Praharaj 33, Santosh Debkant 29; Abdul Khalique 5/46, Gobind Podder 3/29) Vs Rourkela 40/2 in 12.5 overs (Natraj Behera 16).
Barabati Stadium : Keonjhar 273/10 in 88.5 overs (Subhranshu Senapati 130, Subash Singh 76 n.o; Jamalabhanj Mahapatra 6/48) Vs Cuttack-B Nimpur Ground: Angul 251/10 in 78 overs (Rakesh Gochayat 69, Sangram Majhi 38, Nirnimesh Jena 35, Chinmay Naskar 27, Milan Sahu 24; Asish Patra 4/51, Asish Nayak 4/38) Vs Kendrapara 13/2 in 14 overs (Milan Sahu 2/11).
Sunshine Ground: Jagatsinghpur 47/10 in 17.5 overs (Kalia Sahu 5/21, Nayan Ranjan Acharya 5/22) and 100/10 in 28.3 (Biswajit Paikray 30; Kalia Sahu 5/26, Jitendra Tripathy 2/5, David Nayak 2/15) lost to Ganjam declared 177/9 in 41.3 overs (Jitendra Tripathy 47, Pintu Maharana 44; Smruti Ranjan Khatua 3/14, laxmidhar Mishra 2/28), by an innings and 30 runs, Ganjam 7 points, Jagatsinghpur 0. DRIEMS Ground: Mayurbhanj 203/10 in 71.5 overs (Satya Narayan Jew 55, Amitav Das 50, Aditya Basa 33, Santosh Jena 3/24, Anurag Prusty 3/60, Kunal Roy 2/43) Vs KIIT 23/1 in 20 overs.