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West in sight of victory

BANGALORE: West was on the verge of victory against South in their Col. Hemu Adhikari memorial Trophy NCA inter-zonal academy under-19 tournament encounter at Anantapur on Saturday.

After conceding a 172-run lead and following on, South was 111 for nine in its second innings with West’s Saurav Netravalkar (five for 43) and J. Unadkat (three for 14) sharing the spoils. South needs another 62 runs to avoid an innings defeat.

At Mysore, North defeated Central by 211 runs with a day to spare.

The scores:

West 374 for nine in 107 overs vs South 202 in 82.3 overs (Vijay Shankar 59, J. Unadkat four for 55) and 111 for nine in 40 overs (Kinan Vaz 34, Saurav Netravalkar five for 43, J. Unadkat three for 14).

North 129 in 45.1 overs and 237 in 77 overs bt Central 70 in 31.1 overs and 85 in 34.4 overs (Sandeep Sharma seven for 45).

Combined under-16 225 in 84 overs vs AIU 510 for nine decl. in 130.5 overs (Danny Derek Prince 223, M. Raja 118 n.o., Ajmer Singh 44, Ashwin Kumar 33, Akhil Lamba three for 121).

President’s XI 272 in 82.4 overs and 161 in 67.3 overs (P. Neelkanth 38, Samith Gohil 35, Arup Das four for 29, Kundan Singh three for 45) vs East 204 in 58 overs (Govind Poddar 98, Rajiv Das 38, Diptesh Shah 30, Rush Kaneria three for 36, Samith Gohil three for 39) and 155 for seven in 48 overs (Abhishek Das 32, Rahul Kaneria three for 45). — Principal Correspondent

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