Bengaluru: Swastic Union Cricket Club (1) spinner Shreyas Gopal’s (5/41, 51 & 4/76) match-winning all-round show doomed Friend Union Cricket Club (1) by a comfortable margin of seven wickets in the KSCA Group I - I Division cricket league for the Mirza Ismail Shield.
Batting first in the two-day clash, Friends Union managed a meagre 179. Chiranjeevi GS (45), Stallin Hoover (41) and Vinay Sagar (40 n.o) were the main contributors. Supporting the leggie Gopal, left-arm spinner Abrar Kazi grabbed two wickets.
In reply, veteran left-arm spinner Naveen Balachandra’s seven-wicket haul restricted Swastic Union to 211/9. Samarth Ravikumar topped with 66 while Siddharth KV made 30. Medium pacer Stallin Hoover took two wickets.
With 32 runs behind, seasoned Akhil B (58) and Naveen (50) waged a battle from the lower order as Friends Union once again slumped to 193 in the second essay to set a 161-run target. Spearhead SL Akshay and Kazi picked up three wickets each.
Samarth smashed an unbeaten 84 along with Naveen MG (30) and CM Gautam (39) to chase down the target in just 20.5 overs.
Brief scores: Friends Union CC (1): 179 all out in 39.5 overs (Stallin Hoover 41, Chiranjeevi GS 45, Mithun M Bhat 26, Vinay N Sagar 40 n.o, Abrar Kazi 2/22, Shreyas Gopal 5/41) & 193 all out in 64.2 overs (Akhil B 58, Shivakumar BU 28, Naveen Balachandra 50, SL Akshay 3/33, Abrar Kazi 3/43, Shreyas Gopal 4/76) lost to Swastic Union CC (1): 211 for 9 decl. in 53.2 overs (Samarth R 66, Siddharth KV 30, Shreyas Gopal 51, Stallin Hoover 2/72, Naveen B 7/49) & 162 for 3 in 20.5 overs (Samarth R 84 n.o, Naveen MG 30, CM Gautam 39, Kunal Sanghvi 2/17) by 7 wickets.
Vultures CC: 173 all out in 58.3 overs (Nitin Bhille 34, S Suraj 28 n.o, Prasidh M 2/45, Sharan Gouda 2/42, Anil IG 4/45) & 196 for 3 in 45 overs (Prateeksh 100 n.o, Anirudha A Joshi 55 n.o, Aditya Somanna 2/33) drew with Mount Joy CC: 252 all out in 62.5 overs (Manjesh Reddy 47, Cheluvaraj 116, Praveen 29, Ronit More 2/48, Pavan Deshpande 6/66)
Jawans CC: 226 for 5 decl. in 63 overs (Md. Taha 36, Mayank Agarwal 101 n.o, Nishant Singh Shekhawat 44, Ram Sarikh 3/36) drew with Malleswaram Gymkhana: 27 for 3 in 12.3 overs (Prateek Jain 2/9)
The Bangalore Cricketers: 183 all out in 58 overs (Manjunath SP 34, Asit Kumar 59, Akshay CK 46, Darshan Machaiah BP 2/44, Zeeshanali Sayyed 2/29, Shashi Shekar 5/43) & 87 for 5 in 35 overs (Akshay CK 30 n.o, KP Appanna 2/14) drew with Bangalore United CC (1): 293 for 6 in 90 overs (KC Avinash 58, Prithvi Varadarajan 85 n.o, Zeeshan Ali Sayyed 90, Koushik V 3/44, Akshay CK 2/28)
Social Cricketers: 236 all out in 77 overs (Suraj Sampath 42, Rakshith 45, Sunil Kumar Jain 65, Karthik CA 2/49, Gowtham K 4/81, Arshdeep Brar 3/36) drew with Swastic Union CC (2): 336 for 5 in 80 overs (Nishith Raj 182, KB Pawan 65, Nidish M 43, Kishore Kamath 2/70, Desmond Anthony 2/40)
Bangalore Occasionals: 237 all out in 62.2 overs (Abhishek Reddy 43, Prashanth S 38, Mir Kaunain Abbas 61, Nanda 2/58, J Suchith 5/83, Suresh Karani 2/49) & 61 for 2 in 14.1 overs, drew with Jawahar SC (1): 227 all out in 84.2 overs (GM Rishab 42, Jayesh Babu 28, J Suchith 56, Karthik 27, KS Devaiah 25 n.o, Nikith S 3/42, Avinash D 2/43, Naga Bharath 3/40).
