IT cricket enters super eight stage

Pune, Apr 8 (UNI) Cybage, Wipro, HSBC, Symantec, Tech Mahindra, Infosys and hosts S1 Corporation moved into the super eight stage today in the Vascon-S1 IT Cricket Cup being played at the Nehru Stadium here.

In the last league matches played over the weekend, Symantec scored a seven-wicket shock win over Cybage, thanks to a swashbuckling 62 runs off 42 balls by Salil Bidaye. Wipro scored a five-wicket win over IBM in a last league encounter.

Though BMC Software scored an exiting three-wicket win over Infoys, they could not make it to the last eight stage as Infosys had a better win record in other league encounters.

In the last match of the day, HSBC wrapped up Wipro for just 69 to remain on top of the pool. But Wipro, who had won in earlier league encounters, managed to make it to the super eight.

Following are the results: Cybage 129 all out in 20 overs (Rajesh Kurup 43, K Chandan 25; Atul Kulkarni 2/25, Mandar Kulkarni 2/33) lost to Symantec 130 for 3 in 17 overs (Salil Bidaye 62, Abhijit Kokane 47; Chaitanya Hasabnis 2/19).

IBM 164 for 4 in 20 overs (Guruprasad Kapale 89 no, Vikram Bakshi 20; Yatin Patki 2/24) lost to Wipro Technologies 165 for 5 in 18.5 overs (Rahul Mantri 39, Ravindra Sawant 38 no; Kiran Lagad 3/26).

BMC Software 141 for 9 in 20 overs (Mayuresh Wagh 72; Amar Padhye 3/15, Sanket Karkare 3/22) beat Infosys 138 all out in 18 overs (Sandeep Abhyankar 75 no, Amar Padhye 25; Ranjeet Jadhav 3/28, Mayuresh Wagh 1/18).

HSBC 175 for 6 in 20 overs (N Sriniwas 49, Pavoranjan Behera 36, Nayan Kanekar 34; Anup 3/34) beat Wipro Technologies (Anirudha Garde 23; Ankush Gupta 4/18, Sachin Pawar 3/6).

UNI