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KV Maligaon, KV IIT in semis

By Sports reporter

GUWAHATI, June 4 � Kendriya Vidyalaya Maligaon and Kendriya Vidyalaya IIT cruised into the semifinals of the 10th All Assam Inter School Prize Money Cricket Tournament for the Dhan Sena Sinha Trophy organised by the River Rine Cricket Coaching Center.

In two quarterfinal matches played at the Latasil playground here today, KV Maligaon earned a hard-fought one-wicket victory against Ulubari Higher Secondary School while KV IIT posted a facile 41-run win against Shrimanta Shankar Academy.

Put into bat, Ulubari HSS were all out for 85. But despite some brilliant bowling by the Ulubari bowlers, the Maligaon boys crossed the target losing nine wickets in the final over of the 20-over match.

In the second quarterfinal, KV IIT scored a challenging 113 for eight and later bundled out Shankar Academy team for 92.

Brief scores: Ulubari 85 (Jayanta Pathak 18, Monu Sharma 14, Abhirup Bhattacharjya 2/5, Abhishek Kumar 2/14). KVM 86/9 (Amit Kr Yadav 41, Abhishek Kumar 11, Saurav Ghosh 10, Abdul Basid 4/9, Chandan Baruah 3/21).

KV IIT 133/8 (Iftarul Hussain 38, Kaushik Saikia 35, Atish Prasad 16, Samim Akhter Hazarika 2/26, Debashish Saikia 2/35). SSA 92 (Dhritiman Deka 21, Tanuz Kalita 17, Sohail Hasan Choudhury 10, Akash Chetri 5/22, Iftarul Hussain 2/6, Samir Sarma 2/9).

Today�s matches: (Q/F) South Point vs Ganeshnagar; Sri Digambar Jain vs Sonapur Chamata.

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