HCA League: Budding Star crush Cambridge XI

Jai Ram Kashyap, Alankrit Agarwal and T Ravi Teja shone in Budding Star's massive 189-run victory in the HCA A 1 Division 3 Day League clash on Thursday.

Hyderabad: Riding on centuries from Jai Ram Kashyap and Alankrit Agarwal, along with a five-wicket haul by T Ravi Teja, Budding Star secured a massive 189-run victory over Cambridge XI in the Elite B clash of the HCA A 1 Division 3 Day League Championship in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Jai Ram scored 130 off 129 balls (11×4, 4×6) and Alankrit smashed 105 off 119 balls (5×4, 1×6), setting a total of 307/3 in 50 overs in their second innings. Ravi Teja then excelled with the ball, taking five wickets to help his team bundle out Cambridge for 123 runs.

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In another match, Deccan Chronicle’s Tanmay Agarwal scored 124 runs and Sagar Chaurasia remained unbeaten on 109, as their side posted 340/5 in 73 overs against Central Excise. Deccan Chronicle earned three points from the drawn match, while Central Excise picked up one point.

Brief Scores: Elite: A: Central Excise 336/9 in 90 overs drew with Deccan Chronicle 340/5 in 73 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 124, Sagar Chaurasia 109 no); MP Colts 324 & 141/3 in 16.4 overs (MSR Charan 68)  bt SCRSA 163 in 61.2 overs (Dane Johnson 4/38, Rajamani Prasad 4/18) & 129 in 37.2 overs (Dane Johnson 3/24, Rajamani Prasad 4/37); Jai Hanuman 377/9 & 153/4 in 23 overs (M Abhirath Reddy 81, Neel Chakravarthy 4/13) drew with Sporting Xi 266 in 79.1 overs (A Varun Goud 118, Mudassir 3/54, Hitesh Yadav 5/36); R Dayanand 246 & 157/5 in 26 overs lost to UBI 386/5 in 90 overs (K Krithik Reddy 174no) & 19/0 in 2.3 overs; Ensconse 206 in 65.5 overs (Junaid Ali 63, Sachidanand Pandey 3/53, Mohit Kataria 3/60) drew with AOC 207/7 in 57 overs (Amit Pacharia 73no, Ammaar Ayub 4/66);

Elite B: Budding Star 229 & 307/3 in 50 overs (Jay Ram Kashyap 130, Alankrit Agarwal 105) bt Cambridge Xi 224 & 123 in 28.4 overs (Aarya Udupa 60, CTL Rakshann Readdi 3/32, T Ravi Teja 5/34); EMCC 254 & 183 in 49 overs (VVS Akshay Krishna 3/32, CH Nishanth Reddy 3/24) bt PKMCC 207 & 95 in 27.5 overs (S Venkat Karthikn 49, Harish Thakur 6/21); SBI 190 drew with Evergreen 191/6 in 38 overs (Chandan Sahani 55, Mayank Gupta 80no); India Cements 137 & 263 in 47.1 overs (T Santosh Goud 88, Suraj Saxena 65, Vidyananada Reddy 3/47) lost to Balaaji 380/9 & 24/1 in 4.4 overs; Continental 208/6 in 40 overs (Aryan K 101no) drew with Income Tax 209/7 in 36 overs (Gaurav Reddy 64, Sarthak Bharadwaj 41, Rahul Reddy 35, G Praneeth Kumar 36no);

Plate C: Mahbubnagar Dist 251 in 69.1 overs & 187/9 in 50 overs (Ganesh 56, Roshan 3/28, B Balaji 4/28) bt Sayi Satya 119 in 54 overs (G Prem 45, Jaysimha 4/35, Srikanth Yadav 4/42) & 115 in 32.5 overs (A Srikanth Yadav 4/28, Shadab Ahmed 3/26); Apex 134 & 223 in 49.3 overs (P Koushik 54, Ujjwal Yadav 5/34) lost to Khalsa 192 & 166/4 in 43.2 overs (J Ashrith 64); Deccan Wanderers 215 in 62.2 overs drew with Future Star 218/8 in 77.5 overs (Divesh 87, Avik Dixit 47); Sportive 247 in 67.3 overs drew with HBCC 139/10 in 48.4 overs (Naman Choudhary 44, Abhishek Murugan 5/51).