Hyderabad: Pragun Dubey and Harshavardhan Reddy scored tons in the Two-day league while Cal Public School’s Praneeth and Y. Sai Varun smashed big centuries in a winning cause to hog the limelight in the HCA’s inter-school league matches played here.
In the match between Deccan Blues and Telangana CC, the former were bowled out for 205 as Suresh Naik was all guns blazing in his bowling spells, picking six wickets while giving away 62 runs. However, Pragun Dubey remained unbeaten on 114 at the other end with six boundaries and four sixes in his account. Later, Harshavardhan made the chase easy for Telangana CC as he dispatched 14 fours and a maximum to reach 109 and guide his side to a seven-wicket victory to clinch five points.
Meanwhile, in the inter-school match, Cal Public School handed a huge 297-run defeat to Little Flowers High School. (Abids).
Batting first, Cal Public rode on to brilliant heroics of Praneeth (148) and Y. Sai Varun (137*) to post 348 on the board from 50 overs with two wickets down.
Praneeth hit 14 boundaries and a six in his 158-ball innings but fell short by two runs to reach the 150 mark while Varun dispatched 12 fours and a six in his117-ball entertaining stint. Rest of the work was done by Nikhil who sent half the side of Little Flowers back to dressing room as the southpaw picked an economical five-for to bowl out the opponents for a paltry 51. His figures read 7-3-5-5.
Abhinav Tej (5/10), Mohammed Aqib (5/11), Shashi Shekhar (5/13), Krishnaa Koushik (5/23), Anirudh S. (5/41) and Satwik (5/42) bowled well in the other inter-school matches.
