Challengers cricket club continue to lead the Computer Point T20 tournament after beating Victory by 53 runs on Sunday thanks to Subashis Samal’s knock of 77 runs.

Victory CC were set a staggering target of 209 runs as Challengers made the most of the opponent’s poor fielding to post the highest score of this year’s tournament.

Andy Storey’s brilliant knock of 74 runs not out off 53 balls with seven fours and 3 sixes wasn’t enough to take VCC home.  "We had an early collapse that probably contributed to our loss,” said Ed Pearson, who scored 48 runs.

In the day’s other game, Indo-Pak CC’s performance continued to decline as they lost their third straight game to Indorwa CC by 62 runs.  Put in to bat, ICC scored 187 runs in their allotted 20 overs with Nayan Patel 49 runs and Denis Mukama 25 runs not out. Group A preliminaries ended on Sunday with Challengers leading the group with 15 points followed by Victory CC with 10 points.