Cuttack-B, Bhubaneswar-B, Rourkela and Puri won respective opening group league matches in the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament at different grounds here today. Cuttack-B pulverised Dhenkanal by 167 runs.

A six-wicket haul by Deep Ankush Sabat guided Bhubaneswar-B to a 10-wicket win over Paradeep, while Snehasis Sahoo scalped five wickets to bowl Rourkela to an eight-wicket triumph against Jagatsinghpur. Smruti Prakash Swain hit an unbeaten 72 to power Puri to eight-wicket win over KIIT.

BRIEF SCORE:

Match No 10 (Sunshine Ground): Cuttack-B 226/8 in 45 overs (Rashmi Ranjan Sarangi 41, Prateek Das 39, Mohammad Zihan 31*, Sankalp Samantray 22; Madhusudan Sahoo 4/36, Dipanshu Priyadarshi 2/41) beat Dhenkanal 59/10 in 13.5 overs (Sk Danish Akhtar 2/14, Aniket Mishra 2/15) by 167 runs.

Match No 11 (Bidanasi Ground): Paradeep 55/10 in 10.1 overs (Deep Ankush Sabat 6/35, Birajkant Behera 3/13) lost to Bhubaneswar-B 57/0 in 7.4 overs (Punya Prasan Mohanty 24*) by 10 wkts.

Match No 12 (Ravenshaw Ground-II): Jagatsinghpur 68/10 in 30.1 overs (Snehasis Sahoo 5/20, Vijay Yadav 4/13) lost to Rourkela 72/2 in 12.3 overs (Aasirbad Swain 25*) by 8 wkts.

Match No 13 (BOSE Ground): KIIT 141/10 in 47.3 overs (Jagjit Das 49; Jyotipriya Pattnaik 4/31, Dolagovinda Panda 2/19) lost to Puri 143/2 in 30.5 overs (Smruti Prakash Swain 72*, Nishant Prakash Nayak 22) by 8 wkts.