Published: January 6, 2026 at 10:15 pm
A Avanish Rao and Sachit Binjrajka slammed centuries to help East Marredpally score a mammoth 540 for nine against Gemini Friends in the semifinals of the HCA A Division Two-day League Championship in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Batting first, East Marredpally batters went on the rampage as Sachit made a topscore 121 off 126 balls with 15 hits to the fence. Avanish scored a 87-ball 104 with the help of 15 fours and a six. S Venkat Karthik made 89 and S Rohit Reddy contributed 88 to the total. K Sriniketh bagged four for 88.
In another semifinal, Sai Vikas Reddy hit a century, but Mayank Gupta missed it as Evergreen scored 395 for eight against Deccan Wanderers. Sai made a quickfire 104-ball 133 with 10 fours and a whopping eight sixes. Mayank fell for 94 and Kunal Daswani made 61. Ashiash Srivastav took three for 86.
Brief scores: Evergreen 395/8 in 87.2 overs (P Gaurav Reddy 42, Sai Vikas Reddy 133, Mayank Gupta 94, Kunal Daswani 61, Chandan Sahani 31, Ashiash Srivastav 3/ 86) vs Deccan Wanderers. East Marredpally 540/9 in 90 overs (CP Venkatesh 39, S Rohit Reddy 88, A Avanish Rao 104, Sachit Binjrajka 121, S Venkat Karthik 89, Ansh Chaturvedi 73, K Sriniketh 4/88) vs Gemini Friends.
Nalgonda are B Division T20 champions
Adi Manikiran’s half-century set up Nalgonda District’s 36-run victory over Sportive in the final of the B Division T20 Knock-out Tournament. Batting first Nalgonda made 181 for six with Adi scoring 86 of those. In reply, Sportive were bowled out for 145.
Brief scores (final): Nalgonda District 181/6 in 20 overs (Adi Manikiran 86) bt Sportive 145 in 18.2 overs (Abhishek Murugan 36, N Surya Teja 45, S Akhil Kumar 3/22).
Houzef, Maqbool hit tons; Bhanush, Jaidev, Bipin, Bharat among wickets
Mirza Houzef Baig and Mirza Maqbool Baig slammed centuries to set up Nizam Cricket Club’s 187-run win over Cosmos in the C Division knock-out tournament.
Houzef Baig made a 97-ball 146 with 25 hits to the fence and three over it, while Maqbool Baig scored an unbeaten 101 off 74 balls with 14 fours and two sixes as Nizam made 330 for five. In reply, Cosmos were rocked by Shaik Abdul Sattar who bagged six for 54. Cosmos were bowled out for 143.
C Bhanush took five for 44 for Mahaveer but his effort went in vain as Mahesh won the game by spin of coin after the sides were tied.
K Jaidev Goud took five for 33 to bowl Sagar XI to a 123-run win over Young Citizens.
B Bipin Kumar bagged five for 50 to help Southern Stars post a 31-run win over Sungrace.
T Bharat took bagged five for 10 and his effort helped Sunshine register a thumping 10-wicket win over MP Sporting.
Brief scores: Secunderabad Club 251 in 38 overs (CV Anand 50, Aditya Agarwal 94, Varzavand Debara 31, Vinay Kumar 3/33) bt Victory 200 in 39.5 overs (C Megashya Chowdary 59, B Sudeep 3/17). Mahaveer 176/7 in 45 overs (C Jaya Prakash 52) tied with Mahesh 176 in 40.1 overs (Jasti Ranadheer 45, K Akhilesh Goud 34, Shravan Naidu 44, C Bhanush 5/44, Lokesh Jadav 3/33). Mahesh won by spin of coin. Amberpet 205 in 37.4 overs (K Tharun 84, S Anirudh 30, Md Hassan Shareef 33, Imam Shareef 3/36) bt Kishore & Sons 193/9 in 37 overs. Nizam Cricket Club 330/5 in 47 overs (Mirza Houzef Baig 146, Mirza Maqbool Baig 101 no) bt Cosmos 143 in 29.5 overs (Shaik Abdul Sabur 6/54). Manikumar 174/9 in 43.2 overs (S Sharath Raj 55, Vishnu Vardhan 34, K Sanjay Reddy 4/34) bt Acrylic 144 in 37.2 overs (Kapish Adhikari 3/20). Mahadev 273 in 42.5 overs (R Praveen 73, N Tarun Raj 36, M Teja 43, Md Kareemulla 4/54, S Akshayaguna 3/35) bt Raju Cricket Academy 101/9 in 27.2 overs (Omkar 35, G Ganesh 3/7). VP Willowmen 177/9 in 44.3 overs (Akhileshwar 44) lost to Hyderabad Wanderers 181/4 in 23.5 overs (Sai Vrath Reddy 81). Sagar XI 192 in 47 overs (K Jaidev Goud 87, P Shrestha 49, Ram Charan 3/51) bt Young Citizens 69 in 26.3 overs (K Jaidev Goud 5/33, CH Rithwik 3/2). Southern Stars 207/9 in 47 overs (D Vaishno Dev 36, Md Faiz Ahmed 73, Zafarullah 48, FK Mujtaba 36, M Pranav 3/32, Dheeraj 3/30) bt Sungrace 176/9 in 47 overs (B Bipin Kumar 5/50, M Pranav 40, Mirza Kaleem Baig 3/36, Irshad Pasha 3/22). MP Sporting 95/10 in 31.5 overs (J Meher Prasad 3/20, T Bharath 5/10) lost to Sunshine 96/0 in 6.5 overs (V Ishaan 61no).
Bunny, Abdul Rafeay shine for their teams
Bunny scored an unbeaten half-century to set up Khammam’s 75-run win over Hyderabad in the Kaka Venkataswamy Memorial Telangana Inter-District T20 League Phase ll on Tuesday. Bunny made 71 and Harshil Reddy scored 45 as Khammam ran up 182 for five. B Balaji took four for 21 for Hyderabad, who, in reply, fared badly. They were restricted to 107 for seven.
Abdul Rafeay scored an unbeaten 79 to steer Mahbubnagar to a four-wicket win over Warangal.
Brief scores: Khammam 182/5 in 20 overs (Harshil Reddy 45. Bunny 71 not out; B Balaji 4/21) beat Hyderabad 107/7 in 20 overs (Mithul 26, B Balaji 41; Mahesh Chowdary 2/15. Shaik Azhar 2/23). Warangal 142/7 in 20 overs (K Rohit Reddy 43, Nikshith 30, K Pradeep 36 not out; G Venkat Chandra 2/23, Mohd Shadab Ahmed 2/31) lost to Mahbubnagar 143/6 in 9.2 overs (Abdul Rafeay 79 not out, A Srikanth Nayak 22, Mohd Shadab Ahmed 31).
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Aabhijay to lead Telangana Junior team
V Aabhijay will lead Telangana Junior team in the Shri Rajiv Gandhi National T20 Cricket Championship to be held in Hyderabad from Wednesday.
The team: V Aabhijay (capt), Lohitesh Reddy (VC & WK), Ahmed Hussain (VC), Goteti Sravan, Prachanda, Ahwinan, Aditya J, Adarsh Deshmukh, Hrishikesh Goud, Mohammed Arshad, Bhanu, Bharath Kumar, Pruthvi Sai, Rohit Jadhav, Rehan Khan. Coach: S Rajnikanth Goud. Manager: Sandeep Mishra.
