BHUBANESWAR 10-Mar-2013 197
Odisha suffered a hat-trick of defeats when they went down to Haryana by 12 runs in a league match of the All-India Senior Women’s T-20 Cricket Tournament at Pune on Sunday. The third successive defeat dented the reputation of the Odisha team, which was flying high after their sensational victory over Pakistan in a warm-up match of the Women’s World Cup, six weeks ago.
Chasing a target of 111 set by Haryana, Odisha could make 98 for nine in the stipulated overs. Experienced Kadambini Mohakud once again top scored for Odisha with an unbeaten 36. Ealier electing to bat, Haryana rode on opener P Batra’s aggressive 41 of 34 balls and her 56-run opening-wicket stand with S Khatri (29) to pile up 110 for eight. Gangotree Behera was most successful Odisha bowler, taking three wickets for 19 runs.
Odisha women, who earlier lost to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, will meet Hyderabad in their fourth and last league match on Monday.
SCOREBOARD
HARYANA: P Batra lbw Rath 41, S Khatri c S Das b G Behera 29, A Tomar c R Singh b S Pradhan 11, P Sharma st Mohakud b G Behera 9, R Singh c S Pradhan b G Behera 4, N Tanwar c&b S Pradhan 0, M Joshi (run out) 1, P Bose (run out) 0, S Malik (not out) 11; Extras (w-4) 4
Total (8 wkts; 20 overs) 110
Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-71, 3-93, 4-95, 5-96, 6-98, 7-99, 8-110
Bowling: Ritu Singh 4-0-14-0, Suchitra Das 1-0-10-0, Priyanka Sahu 2-0-16-0, Swagatika Rath 2-0-12-1, Jyoti Kamal Barik 3-0-19-0, Gangotree Behera 4-0-19-3, Sushree Pradhan 3-0-14-2, Rasanara Parbin 1-0-6-0
ODISHA: Madhuri Meheta b Saini 17, Madhusmita Behera (run out) 18, Kadambini Mohakud (not out) 36, Swagatika Rath b Saini 5, Gangotree Behera (run out) 5, Jyoti Barik b P Bose 0, Priyanka Sahu lbw P Bose 1, Sushree Pradhan st Khatri b Prajapati 2, Rasanara Parbin (run out) 7, Ritu Singh (run out) 1, Suchitra Das (not out) 0; Extras (lb-1, w-4) 5
Total (9 wkts; 20 overs) 98
Fall of wickets: 1-33, 2-37, 3-47, 4-62, 5-62, 6-64, 7-67, 8-86, 9-93
Bowling: S Malik 3-0-18-0, M Joshi 3-0-12-0, U Saini 3-0-16-2, N Tanwar 3-0-10-0, S Prajapati 4-0-21-1, P Bose 4-0-20-2
