CUTTACK 29-Mar-2015 54
Hosts Odisha emerged East Zone champions of the Syed Mushtaqu Ali Trophy T20 Tournament despite going down to Bengal by one run in the last league match here at Barabati Stadium today. But the hard-fought win proved in vain for last year`s zonal league toppers Bengal as they failed to qualify for super league stage of the inter-state tournament.
Jharkhand beat Assam by eight wickets in their truncated last league match earlier in the day to secure a ticket for the super league. Both Odisha and Jharkhand finished with 12 points each, winning three matches and losing one. But the former grabbed the No 1 position in the league table on the basis of net run rate (+2.025), while Jharkhand (-0.392) finished second.
Chasing a victory target of 169 and needing 18 runs in the last over, Odisha almost romped home with Suryakant Pradhan scoring 14 runs in the first four balls, hitting a six and a four in the process. But the home team fumbled at the finish as Pradhan and Alok Mangaraj were run out while going for the second run in the last two deliveries.
SCOREBOARD
BENGAL: W Saha b J Behera 33, M Tiwary c Rao b Mangaraj 21, S Chatterjee c Rao b Pradhan 27, RR Chowdhury c D Behera b J Behera 6, S Goswami c Rao b Samantaray 10, LR Shukla (not out) 47, D Das (run out) D Behera 10, A Gani (not out) 1; Extras (lb-6, w-7) 13
Total (6 wkts; 20 overs) 168
Fall of wickets: 1-53, 2-67, 3-73, 4-98, 5-114, 6-152
Bowling: Suryakant Pradhan 4-0-31-1, Deepak Behera 4-0-54-0, Alok Mangaraj 4-0-29-1, Jayanta Behera 3-0-24-2, Govinda Podder 1-0-7-0, Biplab Samantaray 4-0-17-1
ODISHA: Pratik Das c Tiwary b Dinda 17, Anurag Sarangi c S Chatterjee b Seth 13, Govind Podder b Gani 36, Biplab Samantaray c Tiwary b Gani 29, Aravind Singh b Tiwary 0, Abhilash Mallick c Gani b Dinda 16, Deepak Behera (run out) 21, Suryakant Pradhan (run out) 24, Alok Mangaraj (run out) 1, P Rosan Kumar Rao (not out) 0; Extras (nb-1, w-9) 10
Total (9 wkts; 20 overs) 167
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-33, 3-90, 4-100, 5-106, 6-141, 7-151, 8-166, 9-167
Bowling: Ashoke Dinda 4-0-26-2, Amit Kuila 3-0-29-0, Kanishk Seth 3-0-25-1, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 4-0-30-0, Aamir Gani 3-0-30-2, Manoj Tiwary 3-0-27-1
JHARKHAND BEAT ASSAM: A 29-ball 50 by Rishav Das went in vain as Assam lost to Jharkhand in the penultimate match, which was reduced to 11 overs-a-side due to overnight rain and wet area adjacent to the pitch.
Brief score: Assam 100/4 in 11 overs (Rishav Das 50; Mohammad Sarfaraz Ashraf 2/10, Shahbaz Nadeem 2/20) lost to Jharkhand 103/2 in 10.1 overs (Ishank Jagi 43 n.o, Ishan Kishan 28, Saurabh Tiwary 26 n.o) by 8 wkts.
