Pran Malhotra Cricket Tourney

NCC rout Reasi Distt by 8 wkts KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, June 10: National Cricket Club (NCC) today made into the quarterfinals by defeating Reasi District XI by eight wickets of the ongoing Pran Nath Malhotra Cricket tourney at GGM Science College hostel grounds here.

Kavaljeet Singh and Rohit Bhat fine half centuries helping NCC to overhaul the Reasi XI total of 155 runs in 27.5 overs for the loss of two wickets.

Earlier, batting first after winning the toss, Reasi District XI bowled out for 155 runs in 37 overs of the 40 overs match.

Imtyaz played matured innings of 60 runs including six hits to the fence for Reasi XI.

Surinder Sharma and Bhanu were other main contributors with 21 and 23 runs respectively.

From NCC, Shafqat Baba was most successful bowler who took four wickets for 21 runs in eight overs.

Deepak Sharma, Amit Baloria and Nitin Mehra shared two wickets each.

NCC achieved the target of 156 runs with eight wickets in hand sparing 12.1 overs of their innings.

Kamaljeet Singh made 64 off 59 runs studded with seven boundaries.

Rohit Bhat played equally good innings of 59 off 80 balls (8x4).

Munish Dogra contributed 14 runs.

Gourav Dogra and Rasid Ahmed took one wicket each from Reasi XI.

For his excellent bowling, Shafqat Baba was adjudged man of the match.

Brij Mohan Sharma and S H Malik were the officials while Raghav Verma maintained the score.

Gianeshwar Sharma acted as observer.