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Indoor corporate tournament gets underway

HYDERABAD: The M.L. Jaisimha 365 Academy will organise the first-ever indoor corporate cricket tournament, for the M.L. Jaisimha Field Turf Cup, at its Bantia Estate premises on Sikh Road from August 13. The event is being sponsored by Field Turf, a world leader in artificial turf.

At an informal press briefing, Vidyuth Jaisimha said the day-night tournament would be played on weekends on a league-cum-knockout format. Each team would comprise eight members and each match would have one batting and one bowling innings per team, each lasting 16 overs.

Each pair would bat for four overs and retire and every player, including the wicket-keeper, must bowl two overs.

For every batsman's dismissal, five runs would be deducted from the team's total. Hitting into the scoring zones would fetch bonus runs.

The winning squad would be richer by Rs. 10,000 and the runner-up by Rs. 7,000. In addition to man-of-the-match awards, prizes are also in store for man-of-the-tournament, best batsman and best bowler.

The groupings:

`A': Satyam Computers, NMDC, Karvy, ITC-IBD and Sreemitra Developers.

`B': HSBC-EDPI, Hutch, Wipro-GE, Seagram and VST Industries.

Visakhapatnam wins

Visakhapatnam retained the P.V. Krishna Murthy Raju Trophy, topping the round-robin league in the Matrix Labs ACA North Zone under-22 inter-district tournament at Srikakulam on Friday.

After gaining the first innings lead over East Godavari, the eventual runner-up, Visakhapatnam decided to go for batting practice instead of pressing for an outright win.

East Godavari's Ch. Ram Kishore impressed with a six-wicket haul.

The scores: Visakhapatnam 355 for five and 210 for nine in 41 overs (Kranthi Kumar 71, D. Sivakumar 62, Ch. Ramkishore six for 36) drew with East Godavari 155 in 33 overs (K. Ravishankar 44, M. Krishna Murthy 42).

Srikakulam 317 and 142 for six decl. in 27 overs (M. Kumaraswamy 67) bt Vizianagaram 104 and 159 in 31.3 overs (Ravi Kiran 45, Gopal seven for 78).

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