A fine all-round performance by Arun went in vain as Secretariat Cricket Club scripted a facile 72-run win over Bangalore Dairy Sports Club in a KSCA Group II, II Division league.
Batting first, SCC put on a formidable 313 for six. For Dairy SC, Arun picked up three for 63. In reply, Dairy SC, were dismissed for 241 despite a fighting 128 by Arun.
Brief scores:
Secretariat Cricket Club: 313/6 in 30 overs (Chetan 55, Nandeesh 121, Anand 29, Pradeep 37, Ramesh 25 n.o.; Arun 3-63) bt Bangalore Dairy Sp. Club: 241 all out in 29.4 overs (Arun 128, Raghavendra 30; Chetan 2-22, Pradeep 2-38, Shivaswamy 2-52, Anand 2-53).
BEML RC, Bangalore: 169/6 in 30 overs (Madhu Kumar 43, MK Srinivas 63; Manoj Turakhia 3-23, Suresh Shanbal 2-27) lt to State Bank of India: 173/5 in 28.1 overs (B V Bhaskar 25, Ravi Nandan Roy 39, Srinath 53 n.o., J Nagaraja 2-29).
KSRTC Sports Club: 255/3 in 30 overs (Venu Gopal 46, K Manjunath 91, S Deva Kumar 85 n.o.) bt BHEL (EPD) Sports Club: 146/9 in 30 overs (Venkatachala Murthy 27, PN Jayaram 2-26, S Dev Kumar 2-19, Venugopal 2-17).
MICO Sports Club: 144/9 in 30 overs (B Nanda Kishore 42; Mohan Gowda 3-29) lt to KPTCL Sports Organisation: 146/2 in 18.5 overs (Raghavendra 42 n.o., HK Ravi 64).
ADE Sports Club: 152/9 in 30 overs (Sunil 30, Bhupathi 38; M Jagannath 4-16) bt MICO Naganathapura Sp. Club: 151/9 in 30 overs (HR Chandra 46, Chandrashekar 28, Sathya Mohan 4-22).
EPF Recreation Club: 119 all out in 27.5 overs (V Nagabhusan 29; Dhiraj Makasari 3-11) lt to AIR India Sp. Club: 120/2 in 19.2 overs (Diwakar Shetty 30, Piyush Soneji 30 n.o., Dhiram Makasari 25 n.o).
GTRE Sports Club: 177 all out in 28.2 overs (Anil Kumar Yadav 110 n.o.; Anil 3-29) lt to Advocate Association CC: 181/4 in 21 overs (CG Sundar 43, Ranjith Prakash 57 n.o., Sanjay Nair 26; Daniel 3-38).