Chennai, Aug 18 (IANS) Overnight rains played havoc with the schedule in the All-India Buchi Babu Memorial cricket tournament Wednesday, but Mumbai and Rajasthan recorded victories in their opening league fixtures, here Wednesday when six of the eight scheduled matches were called off without a ball being bowled.
Brief scores:
Rajasthan 310 for 5 in 90 overs (Ankit Lamba 63, Rishikesh Kanitka 45, Robin Bisth 51, Ashok Minaria 72 not out, Dishant Yagnik 30 not out) beat City XI 305 all out in 82.3 overs (M.Kaushik Gandhi 147 not out, M.Praveen Srivatsan 31, Madhur Khatri 3 for 82).
Districts XI 198 in 69.3 overs (Vijay Shankar 39, S Sureshkumar 32, G Vignesh 35, Murtuza Hussain 3 for 50, Harmeet Singh 3 for 44) lost to Mumbai 199 for 6 in 42.3 overs (Sushant Marathe 51, Swapnil Salvi 54, Kaustab Pawar 34 not out, G Vignesh 4 for 51).
Uttar Pradesh 239 all out in 77.2 overs (Tanmay Srivatsav 59, Parvinder Singh 67, Ashish Yadav 33, Balkrishna Jadeja 3 for 31, Kamlesh Makwana 3 for 53) drew with Saurashtra 28 without loss in 10 overs.
Madhya Pradesh 307 for 7 in 90 overs (Jafar Ali 100, Devendra Bundela 66, Harpreet Singh 57) drew with Karnataka.
Orissa 223 all out in 77.5 overs (Niranjan Behera 61, Rakesh Mohanti 44, G Shankar Rao 4 for 78, GVS Prasad 3 for 62) drew with Andhra Pradesh 16 for no loss in 10 overs.
Vidarbha 278 for 9 in 90 overs (Amit Paunikar 32, Alind Naidu 60, Ranjit Paradkar 63, A Ubarhande 30, R.Sutheesh 3 for 56, M.Prabhu 3 for 82) drew with Tamil Nadu.
Assam 223 for 9 in 78.5 overs (S.S. Roy 58, Amol Muzumdar 51, Dipak Sharma 49, Tajender Singh 43, C Ramesh 5 for 56) drew with Kerala.
Hyderabad 265 for 4 in 65.5 Overs (Akshat Reddy 32, D.B.Ravi Teja 149 not out, GH Vihari 44) drew with Punjab.
