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Girls’ tournament hit by walk-overs

Bangalore: It was touted as a ‘first of its kind’ and the response was termed heart-warming. However, the KSCA’s inaugural girls’ under-16 inter-School cricket tournament, despite its initial promise, has been grounded with a spate of walk-overs ever since its launch here on September 22.

As per the schedule, 13 matches were to be played by Thursday evening. However, only two matches have been held so far — one on Monday and another on Wednesday — as participating schools have cited reasons varying from exam schedules to the inability to reach the venues.

Even the walk-overs have been complex with some matches not happening as both teams failed to turn up.

In another case, when a match was postponed due to a school citing exams, the game never happened as the concerned school failed to turn up even on the re-scheduled day!

The tournament features 19 teams split into six zones and so far only two matches in Zone ‘D’ have been held.

With another eight matches scheduled in the first phase, the KSCA officials are hoping that schools will respond positively to liven up the remainder of the first phase.

Bharath, Wagle shine

K.V. Bharath’s 60 and Tejas Wagle’s 55 guided host M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) to a five-wicket victory over MVJCE in a M.S. Ramaiah Memorial inter-engineering college tournament semifinal league match here on Thursday.

MSRIT topped the league with six points and qualified for Friday’s final that will be contested against MVJCE (2 pts) which secured the second slot in the semifinal league despite the loss.

The scores (semifinal league): MVJCE 194 for seven in 30 overs (Kuttappa 69) lost to MSRIT 198 for five in 28.4 overs (K.V. Bharath 60, Tejas Wagle 55); BMSCE 146 in 30 overs lost to RNSIT 147 for six in 28 overs (Nikhil Kashyap 51).

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