Thursday, May 6, 2010

Bhojpur too good for East Champaran

Patna, May 3, 2010: Bhojpur earned 45-run win over East Champaran in the Shyamal Sinha memorial under-16 inter-district cricket tournament at the Sanjay Gandhi Stadium here on Monday.

In the second match at Bihta, Begusarai beat Saran by 16 runs.

East Champaran put Bhojpur to bat first after winning the toss. Bhojpur scored 185 for nine wickets off 30 overs. Saurav top scored with 70 runs. Govind Shankar and Ravi Kumar made 23 and 29 runs respectively. Prashant and A Husain claimed two wickets each.

In reply, East Champaran could score 140 runs in 28 overs. Sumeet Gautam (21) and Gaurav Suman (32) were notable scorers. Rajnish, Ashish, Abhishek and Govind all took two wickets each. Begusarai made 120 runs in 28.1 overs. Sunny contributed 43 runs. Rohit took three wickets. Viren bagged two wickets.

Needing 121 runs to win, Saran scored 104 all out off 23.5 overs. Medium pacer Raj Kumar claimed six wickets for 19 runs only. Sakeer was the only batsman to reach the double figures (31).

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