Sanjujit Samal and Subham Nayak shone with the ball as A and B teams of twin city Cuttack and Bhubaneswar posted wins in the first four super league matches of the Kalahandi Cup Senior Men Inter-District Cricket Tournament at different ground here today.

Sanujit Samal scalped seven wickets for 47 runs to help Cuttack-B beat Jharsuguda by 75 runs, while Cuttack-A rode on a six-wicket haul by off-spinner Subham Nayak to crush Bhadrak by 199 runs. Fine all-round performance by Biswajit Bhuyan propelled Bhubaneswar-B to a five-wicket win over East Coast Railway, while Bhubaneswar-A cruised to a seven-wicket victory over Bargarh.

BRIEF SCORE (SUPER LEAGUE):

Match No 40 (Ravenshaw Ground-I): Cuttack-A 330/6 in 45 overs (Rajesh Dhuper 89, Gyanajyoti Ray 82, Abhishek Rout 50, Aravinda Singh 45, Biplab Samantaray 21; Abhinash Singh 2/47, Harekrushna Barik 2/48) beat Bhadrak 131/10 in 22.4 overs (Harshit Rathod 47, Kshyamasagar Bal 33; Subham Nayak 6/40, Tarakanta Samal 2/18, Abhishek Rout 2/20) by 199 runs.

Match No 41 (DRIEMS STADIUM): Bargarh 94/10 in 23.2 overs (Devendra Singh Kunwar 28; Manoj Barik 3/18, Asish Pradhan 3/20, Basant Mohanty 3/22) lost to Bhubaneswar-A 95/3 in 19.4 overs (Sandeep Pattanaik 40*; Vishal Singh 2/26) by 7 wkts.

Match No 42 (Nimpur SCC Ground): East Coast Railway 182/10 in 44.1 overs (Girija Rout 57, Subit Biswal 20; Tukuna Sahu 4/42. Prabir Nayak 3/30, Biswajit Bhuyan 2/19) lost to Bhubaneswar-B 183/5 in 46.3 overs (Biswajit Bhuyan 88*, Santosh Devkant 32, Kartik Biswal 22; Jayanta Behera 2/38, Suryakant Pradhan 2/43) by 5 wkts.

Match No 43 (SCB Medical Ground): Cuttack-B 260/6 in 44 overs (Abinash Nayak 120, Bibhudutta Panda 69, Sanjeeb Sahoo 23; Rajkishan Patel 2/54; Tarun Sa 2/64) beat Jharsuguda 185/9 in 44 overs (Preetamjeet Das 73*, Anil Buda 29, Md Yassin Qureshi 21; Sanujit Samal 7/47) by 75 runs.