Niranjan Gouda bagged five wickets for 12 runs to help Koraput beat Rayagada by 103 runs in their preliminary league match of the Kalahandi Cup Inter-District Cricket Tournament (Senior & U-19 Men) at Ravenshaw University Ground-1 in Cuttack today. Sambalpur and Rourkela posted wins in two other matches of the day.

Fine allround performance by Ronald Singh (75 runs and 3 wickets) went in vain as Gajapati went down to Sambalpur by six wickets. Captain Sayed Zaki and batsman Ayush put up impressive performance for Sambalpur, bagging four wickets and hitting an unbeaten 63 respectively. Swastik Samal captured four wickets for eight runs to guide Rourkela to a seven-wicket win over Jagatsinghpur.

RESULTS (13 August, 2021):

Match 91 (At Ravenshaw University Ground-2, Cuttack): Gajapati 154/10 in 39.4 overs (Ronald RB Singh 75, Kadagala Chandu 33; Sayed Zaki 4/31, Shresth Singh 2/28, Roshan Mohapatra 2/10) lost to Sambalpur 158/4 in 31 overs (Ayush 63*, Roshan Mohapatra 45, Sayed Zaki 21; Ronald RB Singh 3/38) by 6 wickets.

Match 92 (At Ravenshaw University Ground-1, Cuttack): Koraput 197/10 in 48.2 overs (Prabhanjan Adhikari 32, Sandeep Pattnaik 30, Anshuman Pattnaik 20; Uma S Sahu 3/34, Sanjay K Patra 3/36, Rajan R Kumar 2/32) beat Rayagada 94/10 in 29.2 overs (Manas R Satapathy 21; Niranjan Gouda 5/12, Aaditya Satapathy 2/12, Sandeep Pattnaik 2/17) by 103 runs.

Match 93 (At Nimpur Cricket Ground, Cuttack): Jagatsinghpur 45/10 in 21.3 overs (Swastik Samal 4/8, Ritesh K Pandey 3/23) lost to Rourkela 46/3 in 13.2 overs (Manoj Das 2/18) by 7 wickets.
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PHOTO: Koraput bowler Niranjan Gouda poses after bagging five wickets in their Kalahandi Cup match against Rayagada on 13 August, 2021.