U-23 Men's Cricket : RCA, YWC go top
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 15 2024:
RCA, Lilong and YWC, Langthabal went on top of Group A and B tables in the 1st Haobam Biramangol Singh Memorial U-23 Men's Cricket Tournament registering their fourth wins today.
At Moijing Public Ground, RCA won by 158 runs via VJD method.
Syed Hussain 70, Imran Khan 50 and Md Alfash 48 fired RCA to 192/3 in 28.3 overs and the target was revised to 240 in 28.3 overs for ESU via VJD method with rain interrupting the match.
Chasing the target, ESU slumped to 81 all out in 24.2 overs as Aziz Mirza 4/21 and Md Danish 2/10 shared six crucial wickets between.
Oinam Motilal of ESU finished with the best figures of 2/53 in the RCA innings.
Elsewhere at Model HSS and Oriental College Ground, YWC brought TCMDC's four Group B winning streak by securing a 7-wicket win in a rain-curtailed match.
TCMDC opted to bat first but were bowled out for 103 runs in 35.3 overs as with Y Vivek (4/15) and Y Dailish (2/16) leading the YWC bowling attack.
With rain interrupting the match, the match was reduced to 36 overs with a revised target of 103 runs via VJD method.
YWC then cruised to winning 105 in 24.3 overs with seven wickets left to spare thanks to identical 36-run knocks from Seram Robinson and Yumnam Achouba.
For TCMDC, U Rain 25 and T Nganba were leading run getters.
Meanwhile in the rain-hit Group C match staged at Khangabok Cherapur, YUCC, Kwakeithel Moirangpurel beat AKSDO, Khangabok by 20 runs.
Toss winners, YUCC were 172/4 courtesy of half centuries from N Thoiba 52 and N Sanjit 63 when rain stopped the match.
Applying the VJD method, the target was revised to 204 runs in 24 overs.
AKSDO however ended up gathering 183 runs for 9 wickets in the allotted overs despite Winchelly Laishram's 44-ball 75 to hand YUCC third win in four matches.
For AKSDO, N Sanayai (2/27) and L Roshan (2/29) shared four wickets while N Rahulkumar (4/29) and L Somraj (2/19) shared 6 wickets for YUCC.