Baroda win with a six off last ball

Ahmedabad, Jan. 27: Vishnu Solanki helped Baroda pull off a last-over heist against Haryana with a sensational 71, which included a six off the game’s final ball, to fire his team into the semifinals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here on Wednesday.

Baroda first restricted Haryana to 148/7 in the third quarterfinal, and then it was Solanki, who hammered four fours and five sixes in his 46-ball unbeaten knock to get his team over the line after 18 runs were needed off the final over.

Haryana had brought down the equation to 23 off 12 balls for Baroda and their skipper Mohit Sharma (0/30) conceded only five runs in the penultimate over to make the equation tougher for Baroda.

However, 28-year-old Solanki had other plans and took on medium pacer Sumit Kumar (1/37) in the final over, hitting two sixes and a four, to script an eight-wicket win for his team.

In another quarterfinal, Rajasthan, who opted to bat, rode on Mahipal Lomror's 37-ball unbeaten

78, to post a competitive

164/5. Lomror, who took Bihar attack to cleansers, hammered five fours and as many sixes. Openers Bharat Sharma (38) and Ankit Lamba (38) too played their parts.

BRIEF SCORES

■ Haryana 148/7 in 20 overs (Himanshu Rana 49; K. Kakade 2/7 lost to Baroda

150/2 in 20 overs (Vishnu Solanki 71 not out; Yuzvendra Chahal 1/15).

■ Rajasthan 164/5 in 20 overs (Mahipal Lomror 78 not out; S. Kashyap 2/28) bt Bihar

148/4 in 20 overs (Mangal Mahrour 68 not out; Chandrapal Singh 1/21).