Saketh, Rakesh and Qureshi shine with five-wicket hauls in Hyderabad league

Hyderabad's A-Division cricket league witnessed standout bowling spells from Saketh Reddy, Rakesh, Qureshi, and Mehrotra, along with centuries by Dharani Kumar and Mickil Jaiswal. Multiple matches were decided by dominant performances with one match awarded due to insufficient players

Hyderabad: Fine spells by M Saketh Reddy (five for 35) for Balaaji Cricket Club, N Rakesh (five for 39) for Cambridge XI, and V Yashveer Goud (five for 44) for Deccan Chronicle were some of the highlights of the A-Division two-day league cricket championship here on Wednesday.

In other matches, Abdul Ela Qureshi (five for 58) for Gemini Friends, M A Shanmukha (five for 58) for Jai Hanuman, and Shashank Mehrotra (six for 20) for Deccan Wanderers also bowled well.

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Dharani Kumar (119) for SCRSA and Mickil Jaiswal (104) for MP Colts were the centurions of the day in different matches.

The scores: A-Division two-day league championship:

Balaaji 239 in 64.1 overs bt AOC 120 in 37 overs (Sachinand Pandey 34 n.o., M Saketh Reddy 5/35).

Budding Stars 432/4 in 89 overs bt SBI 198 in 52 overs (B Sumanth 56, K S K Chaitanya 51, Punnaiah 3/58, Pranav Varma 3/29).

Cambridge XI 379 in 83.2 overs bt Sporting XI 320 in 65.2 overs (A Vignesh Reddy 88, Jasmeet Nain 58, A Varun Goud 45, Anvith Reddy 37, J Anudeep 39, N Rakesh 5/39).

EMCC 244 in 67.2 overs (V Yashveer Goud 5/44, Pratyush Kumar 3/46) bt Deccan Chronicle 172 in 47.1 overs (Saaketh 40, Abdul Adnan 40, Pratyush 32, Nishanth 3/34, Rishab 3/38).

SCRSA 345/9 dec in 72.4 overs (Dharani Kumar 119, Sai Goutham Raja 87, Arun Kumar 3/65) bt Combined Dist 252 in 63.1 overs (Rithwik Surya 55, Sai Krishna Reddy 45, G Pavan 57, Md Arfaz 51, Shaik Ismail 3/56, Sudhakar 4/32).

Deccan Wanderers 326 in 85.1 overs bt R Dayanand 69 in 28.1 overs (Shashank Mehrotra 6/20).

Gemini Friends 369 in 84.2 overs bt MP Colts 297 in 70.1 overs (M S R Charan 46, Mickil Jaiswal 104, Abhinav Tej 41, Abdul Ela Qureshi 5/58, Chirag Yadav 3/46).

Jai Hanuman 369/7 dec in 71 overs bt Hyd Bottling 172 in 52.5 overs (K Prajwal 31, Navanith Rao 34, Ch Nishanth Reddy 37, M A Shanmukha 5/58, Shaunak Kulkarni 3/38).

Central Excise vs Evergreen – Evergreen was awarded the match as only five out of seven permanent players from Central Excise turned up.