Cuttack A and B, Bhubaneswar A and B, East Coast Railway, Balasore, Bhadrak and Bargarh registered convincing wins in the first eight preliminary league matches of the Kalahandi Cup Senior Men Inter-District Cricket Tournament, which commenced at different grounds here today.
As many as three batsmen scored a century each, while 17 others hit a half-century apiece. In the bowling department, five players bagged five or more wickets each. Bhubaneswar-A mustered the highest total total of 339 for six against Paradeep, while the Jajpur registered the lowest of 22 for nine against Bargarh. The tournament, featuring 37 teams, is being organised by Odisha Cricket Association.
Manas Beura, Biraj Dash, Jayakrushna Dut, Sandeep Jee, Pradip Kumar Jena, Rashmi Ranjan Malla, Nirmal Kumar Mishra, Satyabrata Mohapatra, Birabara Nayak, Chudamani Padhy, Sambit Pattnaik, Bibekananda Rout, Sabyasachi Saha, Bibhuti Bhusan Satapathy, Sudhansu Satrujeet, CP Mohapatra, Anand Sahu and Govinda Behera were the umpires of the day
BRIEF SCORES:
Match No 1 (Ravenshaw Ground-1): Gajapati 133/10 in 42.3 overs (Anurag Kanojia 31, Jyoti Ranjan Dalai 31; Alok Sahoo 3/17, Abhishek Rout 3/40) lost to Cuttack-A 134/0 in 15.3 overs (Rajesh Dhuper 98*, Abinash Saha 31*) by 10 wkts.
Match No 2 (DRIEMS Ground): Bhubaneswar-A 339/6 in 50 overs (Sandeep Pattnaik 83, Anurag Sarangi 70, Debasish Samantaray 69, Santanu Mishra 53; Piyush Pattnaik 2/57, Loknath Muni 2/70) beat Paradeep 142/10 in 34.5 overs (Sarthak Parida 44, Piyush Pattnaik 28, Kisan Rath 23; Ashish Pradhan 6/32, Santanu Mishra 2/7, Basant Mohanty 2/11) by 197 runs.
Match No 3 (Nimpur SCC Ground): East Coast Railway 279/6 in 50 overs (Sandeep Mulia 101, Kameswar Barik 94, Sujit Lenka 42, Abhishek Yadav 22; Asish Sahoo 2/39, Sunil Sahoo 2/64) beat Dhenkanal 128/10 in 37.2 overs (Asish Sahoo 56; Lagnajit Samal 5/15, Alok Mangaraj 2/19, Malaya Jena 2/31) by 151 runs.
Match No 4 (BOSE Ground): Sundargarh 216/10 in 47.4 overs (Sanoj Manahand 59, Vicky Prasad Yadav 48, Sachin Shrestha 40, Sanjay Das 25; Sahil Khan 2/23, Kashyama Sagar Bal 2/34, Harekrishna Barik 2/40, Khitish Mohanty 2/42) lost to Bhadrak 217/8 in 41.3 overs (Kshyama Sagar Bal 77, Abinash Singh 52; Suraj Singh 3/36, Walter Toppo 3/49) by 2 wkts.
Match No 5 (SCB Medical Ground): Koraput 134/10 in 33.5 overs (G Chandrasekhar 71*; Dhiraj Singh 5/23, Ashutosh Das 3/24) lost to Cuttack-B 137/1 in 22.4 overs (Pratik Tripathy 69*, Abinash Nayak 67) by 9 wkts.
Match No 6 (Sunshine Ground): Bhubaneswar-B 226/7 in 50 overs (Biswajit Bhuyan 65, Santosh Debkant 54, Satyajit Sabat 23, Kartik Biswal 22; Prashant Pandey 2/15, Sayed Zaki 2/48) beat Sambalpur 134/10 in 32.5 overs (Debabrata Pradhan 57, Prashant Thakar 20; Prabir Nayak 6/34, Kartik Biswal 2/22) by 92 runs.
Match No 7 (Bidanasi Ground): Balasore 328/10 in 49.2 overs (Nirbi Shankar Barik 105, Ronald Das 100, Nautam Bhanja 33; Samir Sahu 4/63, Kalia Sahu 3/47) beat Ganjam 116/10 in 31.4 overs (Asutosh Yadav 44; Nirbi Shankar Barik 4/12, Birendra Singh 4/21) by 179 runs.
Match No 8 (Ravenshaw Ground-2): Bargarh 151/10 in 40.4 overs (Rupak Pradhan 47, Devendra S Kunwar 21; Satya Prakash Padhi 4/23, Abhilash Routray 2/2, Amin Iqbal Khan 2/21, Lelin Kumar Bal 2/24) beat Jajpur 22/9 in 9.4 overs (Rahul Choudhury 5/18, Badal Pardesi Nisad 4/4) by 129 runs.