Hazaribagh Under-16 cricket team entered in the semifinal by defeating Simdega by 8 wickets in the quarterfinal match of Jharkhand cricket league tournament held at Chandwara police line ground on Sunday.
In this quarter final match is organised by JSCA (Jharkhand State cricket association) Simdega elected to bat after winning the toss and scored 180 runs in 39.5 overs in a 40-40 over match.From Simdega team Swaroop Rajan scored highest 48 runs while Md. Belal scored 34 runs.Akshansh Goyel of Hazaribagh bagged 4 wickets for 29 runs and Kuldeep Kashyap bagged 3 wickets for 21 runs. Hazaribagh found the target and scored 183 runs in only 34.5 overs losing only two wickets. Nikhil Raj of Hazaribag scored the highest 77 runs while Kunal Ranjan scored 24 and Sidharth remains not out with 57. Nikhil Raj of Hazaribagh was awarded Man of the match.
Secretary of KDCA Pradip chhabra told that one of the semi final match of this tournament organised will be played on Tuesday between Hazaribag and Dhanbad team at the chandwara police line ground.