Title favourites and a dominant Teegala Krishna Reddy Engineering College faced a shock exit after losing to Marri Laxma Reddy Institute of Technology in the Uninor’s Aurora Premier Cricket League tournament being played at the Aurora’s Seethaiah Engineering College ground here on Monday.
Batting first TKR were all out for 91 runs in the 15-over-a-side semifinals. Vamshi (43 runs) waged a lone battle to take his side to a decent total. Madhu (2 wickets for 8 runs) and Vishal (2 wickets for 16 runs) were among wicket-takers for MLRIT.
In response, MLRIT led by a decent batting by Vikranth (35 runs) and helped by off-colour bowling from TKR raced to victory in just 13.4 overs for loss of 5 wickets. TKR has badly missed the services of its star performer P Akshath Reddy who is on duty for the Hyderabad Ranji Trophy cricket team, which just finished as the better side in the plate league match against Jharkhand and secured three crucial points.
This victory now takes MLRIT into the finals of the Rs. 25000/- cash prize event being sponsored by Uninor, a leading GSM mobile operator. In the finals, MLRIT will face the winners of the second semi-finals between _ JNTU-H vs SNIST. Finals will be played on Tuesday. Former Ranji player Vivek Jaisimha will be the chief guest and will give away prizes to the winner.
Brief scores:
Semi-finals 1:
TKR 91 all out in 14.5 overs (Vamshi 43, Chaitanya 14; Madhu 2 for 8, Vishal 2 for 16)
Lost to
MLRIT 92 for 5 in 13.4 overs (Vikranth 35, Vivek 10; Roham 2 for 19)
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