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HCA league: Varun Goud slams double ton

Varun Goud stole the show with a 257-ball 227 (22x4, 8x6) as Deccan Chroncile ran up to 437/6 in 90 overs against EMCC

By Telangana Today

Updated On - 16 December 2020, 08:50 PM

HCA league: Varun Goud slams double ton — The Hyderabad Cricket Association's new season began finally at Gymkhana ground on Wednesday. -Photo: Surya Sridhar

Hyderabad: For Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) it was a big victory as they finally got the season’s three-day league got started in seven grounds. The Covid-19 pandemic had disrupted the HCA season this year.

On the first day, there were a couple of big performers. A Varun Goud stole the show with a 257-ball 227 (22×4, 8×6) as Deccan Chroncile ran up to 437/6 in 90 overs against EMCC.

Left-arm spinner G Aniket Reddy scalped five wickets as Evergeen dismissed Concorde for 124 in 45.1 overs. Off spinner Ela Qureshi returned with 5 for 25 as Gemini Friends bowled Cambridge for 182. Swachith Kumar captured five wickets for Zinda Tilismath.

Brief scores:
Budding Star 221 in 55.1 overs (Bhavesh Seth 94, Divesh Singh 38, Y Shravan Kumar 4/26) vs Jai Hanuman 134/2 in 34 overs (Rohit Rayudu 64 batting, Shashidhar Reddy 62);

Concorde CC 124 in 45.1 overs (M Pratyush Kumar 63 no, G Aniket Reddy 5/20) vs Evergeen 135/2 in 39 overs (Vikram Naik 49 batting, Chandan Sahani 54 batting);

Cambridge XI 182 in 45.2 overs (Rishiket Sisodia 65, Nitish Reddy 45, Abhishek 35, Vishnu 4/59, Ela Qureshi 5/25) vs Gemini Friends 146/1 in 34.3 overs (Abhirath Reddy 59, Thakur Tilak Varma 75 batting);

Continental CC 237 in 79.2 overs (M Samhith Reddy 40, G Sankeerth 51, T Aaron Paul 31 no, Swachith Kumar 5/53) vs Zinda Tilismath CC 11/2 in 3.3 overs;

Ensconse 358/8 in 90 overs (Junaid Ali 31, Owais Abdul Wahed 104 no, V Sahasra 53, Syed Mehdi Hasan 92, Abhinav Tej 4 for 59) vs MP Colts;

Deccan Chronicle 437/6 in 90 overs (A Varun Goud 227, T Ravi Teja 50, CV Milind 72, Md Abdul Adnan 31no, Ajay Dev Goud 4/56) vs EMCC;

Income Tax 208/9 in 55.4 overs (P Akshath Reddy 31, B Sandeep 55, Habeeb Ahmed 46 retd hurt, Ruthwik 3/67) vs Sporting XI 83 for no loss in 23 overs (Rakesh 45 batting, Tanmay Agarwal 34 batting)