Calcutta, Dec. 9 :
Calcutta, Dec. 9:
East Bengal today completed formalities in their CAB senior division league match, beating a hapless Ballygunge United by a massive 357 runs at the Greer ground.
Starting off from their overnight 482, East Bengal's Abdul Munayem picked up five for 31 as Ballygunge United collapsed for 125.
Playing at home Kalighat, built on yesterday's fine performance (286 off 85 overs), stubbing out Aryan's challenge for just 193 in 55 overs.
The only show of defiance was from veteran Arup Bhattacharya who scored 60.
The main wrecker for Kalighat today was Murtaza Lodhgar who picked up eight for 64 to give them the 93-run win. Lodhgar had scored 63 yesterday.
Other winners today were Calcutta Customs (an 82-run win over Mohanlal Club), Tollygunge Agragami (6-wicket win over Eastern Railway, Kaustuv Ganguly remaining unbeaten on 119), High Court (a 131-run win over Sporting Union), Netaji Subhas Institute (a 7-wicket win over Dakshin Kalikata Sansad) and BNR (also a 7-wicket win over George Telegraph, riding Prasanta Sinha Roy's 174 and Mithun Dutta's 104).
SUMMARISED SCORES
At Kalighat: Kalighat 286. Aryan 193 off 55 overs (Arup Bhattacharya 60, Samrat Bhowmick 34; Murtaza Lodhgar 8/64). Kalighat won by 93 runs.
At East Calcutta SC: Calcutta Customs 219 in 68.3 ovs (Prasenjit Ganguly 52, Anustup Majumdar 35; Taposh Pal 5/56, Saptarshi Ghosh 4/49). Mohanlal Club 137 in 76.5 ovs (Mainak Dutta 36 n.o.; Anup Das 6/27, Rudra Mukherjee 3/40). Customs won by 82 runs.
At Town Club: Belgachia United 322 in 85 ovs (Arpan Hazra 65, Sudip Palit 69; Abrab Ali Khan 3/73, Suvankar Roy Chowdhury 3/72). Town Club 198/8 in 85 ovs (Suman Chatterjee 110; Abhirup Mukherjee 3/49, Sandeep Banerjee 4/74). Match drawn.
At Taltala: Aikya Sammelani 320. Taltala Institute 280/7 (Amit Biswas 106 n.o.; Abhisek Roy 3/65). Match drawn.
At Rajasthan: Eastern Railway SA 252. Tollygunge Agragami 255/4 in 70.3 ovs (Kaustuv Ganguly 119 n.o., Abakash Khatua 87 n.o.). Tollygunge won by 6 wkts.
At High Court: High Court 429/8 (Ritesh Jaiswal 111, Basanta Khanna 102 , Nain Khan 90, Abbas 61). Sporting Union 298 (Satrajit Lahiri 72; Farasat Ullah 4/41, Suprotip Chatterjee 4/111). High Court won by 131 runs.
At Oxford Mission: Barisha Sporting 386/7 (Subhojit Banerjee 112, Abhisek Chowdhury 164, Santanu Mitra 57 n.o.; Prosenjit Shetty 3/90). Manoharpukur Milan Samity 322/7 (Bikramjit Bhowmick 112, Siddhartha Lahiri 83, Sanjay Das 37). Match drawn.
At Tala Park: Wari AC 316/9 (Prabir Mukherjee 83, Pradip Majumdar 62 n.o.; Irfan Bari Khan 4/105). Paikpara Sporting 219/9 (Siddhartha Mukherjee 60; Anjum Parvez 55, Siram Jhadhav 44; Kaushik Bhattacharya 4/34, Prabir Mukherjee 2/48). Match drawn.
At Deshapriya Park (DKS): Dakshin Kalikata Sansad 238. Netaji Subbhas Institute 240/3 (Biswanath Bose 130 n.o.). Netaji Subhas Institute won by 7 wkts.
At Bhowanipore: George Telegraph 317. BNR Rec. Club 321/3 in 68.4 ovs (Prasanta Sinha Roy 174, Mithun Dutta 104). BNR won by 7 wkts.
At Greer: East Bengal 482/8. Ballygunge United 125 (Abdul Monaim 5/31). East Bengal won by 125 runs.
Junior cricket
Khadim Ashok Malhotra Cricket Academy today beat Benrec by eight wickets to lift the Priyak Memorial sub-junior title.
Benrec scored 228 for seven in their 35 overs, Priyajit Biswas hitting 45. Malhotra CA notched up 233 for two, Srivats Goswami and Mohan Kayal scoring 84 and 70, respectively.
Mohan Kayal was declared Man of the Series, Srivats the Man of the Final, Benrec's S. Biswas the Best Batsman and Peara Bagan's Prasun Sadhukhan the Best Bowler.
Brief scores: Benrec 228/7 (P Biswas 45, S Biswas 38). Malhotra CA 233/2 in 30.3 ovs (S Goswami 84, M Kayal 70).