CUTTACK 03-Jan-2016
Riding on a half-century by opening batsman Prashant Gupta and his 84-run partnership for the second wicket, Uttar Pradesh beat host Odisha by 32 runs in their Group D Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Inter-State T20 match at Barabati Stadium here today. This was the second win for Uttar Pradesh, who defeated Maharashtra yesterday.
On the other hand this was the second straight defeat for Odisha, who went down to Mumbai by six wickets yesterday. Odisha will meet Maharashtra in their third league match here tomorrow. Karnataka and Maharashtra registered wins in two other matches of the day. Karnataka beat Mumbai by one run at DRIEMS Ground in Tangi, while Maharashtra pravailed over Services by 31 runs here at Barabati Stadium.
SCOREBOARD:
UTTAR PRADESH: Prashant Gupta b Samantaray 53, Samarth Singh lbw Sahoo 23, Eklavya Dwivedi c D Behera b Sahoo 47, Akshdeep Nath b Samantaray 0, Piyush Chawla (not out) 12, Umang Sharma b D Behera 0, Saurabh Dubey (not out) 7; Extras (w-1, b-4, lb-3) 8
Total (5 wkts; 20 overs) 150
Fall of wickets: 1-42 (Singh, 5.3 ov), 2-126 (Gupta, 17.3 ov), 3-126 (Nath, 17.4 ov), 4-134 (Dwivedi, 18.6 ov), 5-135 (Sharma, 19.2 ov)
Bowling: Deepak Behera 4-0-32-1, Basant Mohanty 4-0-39-0, Alok Sahoo 4-0-23-2, Biplab Samantaray 4-0-17-2, Lagnajit Samal 2-0-16-0, Tukuna Sahu 2-0-16-0
ODISHA: Tukuna Sahu c Chawla b Mishra 6, Bikash Pati lbw P Kumar 9, Govinda Poddar c Nath b Yadav 22, Abhishek Yadav c Gupta b Yadav 11, Biplab Samantaray lbw Chawla 1, Arabind Singh b Chawla 8, P Rosan Kumar Rao (not out) 31, Alok Sahoo b Rajpoot 17, Deepak Behera c Dwivedi b Mishra 5, Lagnajit Samal (not out) 2; Extras (w-2, lb-4) 6
Total (8 wkts; 20 overs) 118
Fall of wickets: 1-16 (Pati, 2.6 ov), 2-30 (Sahu, 5.2 ov), 3-53 (Poddar, 8.3 ov), 4-54 (Yadav, 8.5 ov), 5-54 (Samantaray, 9.5 ov), 6-65 (Singh, 11.6 ov), 7-104 (Sahoo, 17.5 ov), 8-109 (Behera, 18.2 ov)
Bowling: Praveen Kumar 3-0-24-1, Ankit Rajpoot 4-0-9-1, Amit Mishra 4-0-32-2, Kuldeep Yadav 4-0-24-2, Piyush Chawla 4-0-18-2, Saurabh Dubey 1-0-7-0
