Dhanbad defeated Koderma by nine runs at Tata Digwadih Stadium on Monday on the inaugural day of JSCA Under-14 Inter District Cricket Tournament.

Batting first, Dhanbad scored 180 runs at the loss of seven wickets in 40 overs.

Md Muzammil who scored 39 runs with the help of five fours emerged as the most successful batsman. Openers Siddharth Sinha and Soumya Raj who scored 31 and 29 runs respectively also played an important role in scoring the total for their team.

Chasing the victory target Koderma players scored 171 runs for a loss of eight wickets in 40 overs but lost the match by nine runs due to slightly slower run rate.

For Dhanbad Eklavya Singh took maximum wickets while Sunny Kumar Samad, Zishan Hussain, Md Muzammil and Ranvir Singh took one wicket each.

In the second match played at Jealgora stadium, Ranchi defeated Khunti by six wickets.

Khunti batted first and scored 87 runs in 25.5 overs.

Chasing the target, Ranchi showed some good batting and comfortably won the match in 15 overs by scoring 91 runs.

For Ranchi, Aman Kumar scored 20 runs.

For Khunti, Aditya Raj took two wickets while Ranbir Singh and Sushil S Raj took a wicket each.