There was a glut of fine performances, both with bat and ball, in the Elite Division of the two-day cricket league conducted by the Hyderabad Cricket Association in the city.
Leading the bowlers’ pack was Ch Surya Prakash, whose second innings 7/40 — with tremendous help from teammate Abdul Samee Ansari who bagged 5/42 in the first innings — helped Saleemnagar defeat Apex CC by 126 runs.
Earlier, taking first strike, Md Asad Ali scored 119, negating Arun Daniel William’s 5/63 as Saleemnagar posted 215/9 (declared). Then, thanks to Ansari, they restricted Apex to 145/9 (declared) before riding on Rajamani Ravi Kumar’s unbeaten 116 to scored 200. Surya then swung into action, dismissing APex for just 144. Among other performers were Galaxy’s Deepak Kumar Dixit (5/76) and Yash Kapadia (107 n.o.), Team Speed’s C. Hitesh Yadav (5/38), Venus Cybertech’s M. Nandu Vishnu Vardhan (107), Budding Star’s Junaid (144) and Mega City’s Deepansh Bhuchar (145).
Brief scores:
Elite, Pool ‘A’
Galaxy CC 309/9 decl in 87.3 overs (Yash Kapadia 107 n.o. — 272b, 9x4, A. Prateek Reddy 67, K. Ashish 82, A. Vaishnav Reddy 3/55, Y. Sai Kiran 3/56) drew with Kosaraju CC 274 in 86.5 overs (Rohan Varkey 40, A. Vaishnav Reddy 81, Deepak Kumar Dixit 5/76, K. Ashish 3/78); Points — Galaxy CC 9, Kosaraju 4.
Team Speed 133 in 49.2 overs (C. Hitesh Yadav 31 n.o., G. Surya Kiran 3/30, L. Naveen Chary 4/29) & 165/5 decl in 46 overs (Sagar Chaurasia 66, M. Rakesh Yadav 39, C. Hitesh Yadav 30 n.o., K. Chandrakanth 3/53) drew with Postal 182/9 decl in 58.1 overs (M. Ajay Kumar 84, C. Hitesh Yadav 5/38) & 41/5 in 9 overs (C Hitesh Yadav 3/14); Points — Postal 8, Team Speed 5.
Sai Satya 282 in 54.5 overs (K. Sukurth 45, N. Srikarn 50, K. Baran Kumar 3/52, K. Satyanarayan 4/93) vs Osmania 307 in 77.1 overs (P. Siddhanth 85, V.K.C. Ashish 44, N.V. Nithish Koundinya 33); Points — Sai Satya 4, Osmania 8.
Elite, Pool ‘B’
Venus Cybertech 239/8 decl in 50.2 overs (Y.V.V.S. Sai Charan 31, M. Nandu Vishnu Vardhan 107, R. Vishnu Chaitanya 3/61, Ammaar Ayub 3/52) & 127/4 in 31.4 overs (Partiv Mehta 40 n.o.) drew with Zinda Tilismath 263/9 decl in 71.4 overs (G. Madhu Kumar 73, Md Azharuddin 64 n.o., N. Vamshi Krishna 3/44, A. Jayasurya 5/92); Points — Venus Cybertech 3, Zinda Tilismath 8.
Saleemnagar 215/9 decl in 39 overs (Md Asad Ali 119 — 92b, 12x4, 4x6, Arun William Kumar 5/63) & 200/6 decl in 33.5 overs (Abdul Samee Ansari 32, Rajamani Ravi Kumar 116 n.o. — 87b, 16x4, 2x6) bt Apex CC 145/9 decl in 39.1 overs (Srivas Shubham 36, Abdul Samee Ansari 5/42) & 144 in 32.5 overs (K. Reddy Pesta 59, Ch Surya Prakash 3/26, V. Pushkar 7/40 — 7.5-0-40-7); Points — Saleemnagar 15, Apex CC 5.
Budding Star 331/5 in 85 overs (Junaid 144 — 186b, 12x4, Koushik 77, Karthikeya 34, M.A. Razzak 36 n.o.) drew with Mega City 230/9 in 67.1 overs (Deepansh Bhuchar 145 — 144b, 17x4, 5x6, Mukesh Suthar 3/64, Adnan Bafana 3/44); Points — Buddings Star 9, Mega City 1.
