Wednesday, November 2, 2011

ASTRA, SNIST, Bharat post wins in Uninor’s Auroral Premier Cricket League

ASTRA, SNIST, Bharat post wins in Uninor’s Auroral Premier Cricket League

In a close encounter ASTRA Engineering College defeated Bandari Srinivas Institute of Technology (BSIT) in their Uninor’s Aurora Premier Cricket League match played at Aurora Seethaiah Engineering College here on Wednesday. All matches were reduced to 10-overs a-side with overnight rain delaying the start of proceedings today.

Batting first, ASTRA posted a healthy total of 76 runs for loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 10 overs. Vijay (28 runs) and Chetan (12 runs) helped ASTRA’s cause, while Javeed claimed 3 wickets for 21 runs for BSIT. In response, BSIT managed to score 69 runs for loss of 8 wickets in their 10 overs with Dhanush top scoring with 37 runs. Pratheep claimed 3 wickets for 27 runs and Deepankar took a brace for just 4 runs to ensure ASTRA prevails over BSIT.

In another high scoring match played today, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST) defeated Maheshwara Engineering College for 8 wickets. Batting first, Maheshwara posted 72 runs for loss of 7 wickets while SNIST chased the target in their 10th over with eight wickets in hand.

In the last and most interesting encounter of the day, Bharat Engineering College managed to beat Vignan Bharathi Institute of Technology by a narrow margin of just 3 runs to enter round 3 of the tournament.

Brief scores:

Match 15:
ASTRA                  76 for 7 in 10 overs (Vijay 28, Chetan 12; Javeed 3 for 21)
Beat
BSIT                      69 for 8 in 10 overs (Dhanush 37, Sushil 14; Pratheep 3 for 27, Deepankar 2 fo4 )

Match 16:
Maheshwara         72 for 7 in 10 overs (Raviteja 26, Prabhakar 19; Suman 2 for 8, Ram 2 for 10)
Lost to
SNIST                   73 for 2 in 10 overs (Arun 23, Binay 22)

Match 17:
Bharat                   58 for 9 in 10 overs (Gowtham 14, Tagore 12; Avinash 3 for 14, Bharadwaj 3 for 18)
Beat
VBIT                     55 for 8 in 10 overs (Jayaram 16, Chaitanya 14; Srinath 2 for 8)

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