The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy's 2021 edition is picking pace with passing days and after two 200+ scores yesterday, it was a day of some other milestones today.
Bengal’s Vivek Singh hit the first century of the tournament, batting against Jharkhand in an elite group B match at the Eden Gardens, where the Bengal team registered their second win on a trot, defeating Jharkhand by 16 runs. Along with Vivek’s hundred, the bowling of the Bengal team deserves a bit of praise as well. Ishan Porel cleaned up the tail and ended up with figures of 3/32 in his four overs.
Brief Scores: Bengal-161/6 in 20 Overs (Vivek Singh-100 not out, Monu Kumar 3/30) beat Jharkhand 145/9 in 20 Overs (Virat Singh 47, Ishan Porel 3/32) by 16 runs. Check Full Scorecard
In Alur, Punjab’s Siddarth Kaul picked up the first-ever hat-trick of the edition as the north Indian state rolled over the defending Champions Karnataka by nine wickets. The 30-year-old Kaul finished with figures of 4/26 and apart from him, Arshdeep Singh picked two wickets as well. Prabsimran Singh with 89 not out was the star with the bat for Punjab as they lost only one wicket, chasing an easy target.
Brief Scores: Karnataka- 125/8 in 20 Overs (Rohan Kadam -33, Siddarth Kaul- 4/26) lose to Punjab- 127/1 in 14.4 overs (Prabhsimnran Singh- 89 not out) by nine wickets. Check Full Scorecard
Elsewhere, Uttar Pradesh, considered hot favorites before the start of the tournament, suffered a second consecutive defeat as it was blown away by the Railways. None among the IPL heavyweights in Suresh Raina, Priyam Garg, or Rinku Singh could fire as the UP team could only manage 133 in their 20 overs which was chased down with ease by Railways who lost just two wickets while doing so.
Brief Scores: Uttar Pradesh- 133/9 in 20 Overs (Karan Sharma-55, Harsh Tyagi- 2/17) lose to Railways- 137/2 in 17.4 Overs (Mrunal Devdhar-57, Bhuvneshwar Kumar-1/21) by eight wickets. Check Full Scorecard
In other games of the day, Jammu and Kashmir notched up an easy win over Tripura while Himachal Pradesh were beaten by Krunal Pandya-led Baroda in a low scoring thriller by four wickets. Gujarat also made light work of Uttarakhand beating them by a huge margin of 73 runs.
Brief Scores: Baroda-112/6 in 19 overs (Kedar Devdhar- 49 not out, Vaibhav Arora-2/34) beat Himachal Pradesh-109/10 in 20 overs (Prashant Chopra-39, Babashafi Pathan-3/9) by four wickets. Check Full Scorecard
Brief Scores: Gujarat 172/5 (Priyank Panchal-46, Dikshanshu Negi- 2/25) beat Uttarakhand 99/8 (Jay Bista-26, Piyush Chawla- 3/12) by 73 runs. Check Full Scorecard
Brief Scores: Jammu and Kashmir 94/3 (Suryansh Raina- 33, Manisankar Murasingh- 2/19) beat Tripura 93/10 (Udiyan Bose-28, Aaquib Nabi-3/10) by seven wickets. Check Full Scorecard
Vintage Kedar Jadhav turned up for Maharashtra as they chased down 192 of Chhattisgarh with eight wickets in hand. Hyderabad, on the other hand, notched up its first win by beating Odisha by six runs, after having lost their opening game against Assam by just two runs. The last of the game will be played at the Eden Gardens and it is going to be an evening affair between Tamil Nadu and Assam, starting at 7.00 PM IST.
Brief Scores: Maharashtra 196/2 (Kedar Jadhav-84 not out, Veer Pratap Singh-1/23) beat Chhattisgarh 192/5 (Rishabh Tiwari-44, Manoj Ingale-2/43) by eight wickets. Check Full Scorecard
Brief Scores: Hyderabad 153/8 (Tilak Varma-44, Suryakant Pradhan- 3/34) beat Odisha 147/4 (Govind Poddar-50, Chama Milind-2/24) by six runs. Check Full Scorecard
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