Sakure helps MP thump Mumbai
CHENNAI: Chandrakant Sakure (5/25) finished with a five-wicket haul as Madhya Pradesh registered a 80-run win over Mumbai in a Group C match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Tuesday.
Mumbai restricted Madhya Pradesh to 214 in 45.1 overs but themselves fell for a meagre 134 in 38.4 overs. Put in to bat, Madhya Pradesh opener Ankit Dane (46) and Sohraab Dhaliwal (51) chipped in with important contributions to take the team past 200-run mark.
For Mumbai, Shardul Thakur (3/27) was the pick of the bowlers with three scalps. In reply, Mumbai kept losing wickets at regular interval with Sakure and Saransh Jain (3/30) doing the damage, sharing eight wickets between them.
Madhya Pradesh: 214 in 45.1 overs (Sohraab Dhaliwal 51, Ankit Dane 46; Shardul Thakur 3/27) bt Mumbai: 134 in 38.4 overs (Abhishek Nayar 24; Chandrakant Sakure 5/25, Saransh Jain 3/30)
JHARKHAND CRUISE TO SEVEN-WICKETWIN
KALYANI: Fans who turned up to watch a MS Dhoni special returned disappointed even as Jharkhand cruised to a comfort- able seven-wicket win over Services for their second victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Tuesday. Chasing a stiff 277, Jharkhand did not require services of their captain ‘cool’ as Saurabh Tiwary (102 not out) and Ishank Jaggi (116 not out) put together an unbroken 214-run partnership to script a fluent
chase with 22 balls to spare.
PANDYA BROTHERS STAR FOR BARODA
NEW DELHI: Brothers Krunal and Hardik Pandya excelled with the bat and ball respectively as Baroda crushed Punjab by 75 runs in a Vijay Hazare Trophy Group A match.
Krunal scored 78 off 105 adding 102 runs with Aditya Waghmode (54) as Baroda scored 249 in 48.3 overs.
Irfan Pathan (37 off 40 balls) and Vishnu Solanki (24 off 17 balls) added 52 runs for the sixth wicket.
Punjab skipper Harbhajan Singh was economical giving away only 39 in his 10 overs.
Baroda then bowled out Punjab 174 in 40.4 overs with Hardik working up good pace to finish with figures of 3/26 in 8.4 overs.
Hardik cleaned up Gurkeerat Singh Mann (62), Sandeep Sharma (10) and Siddharth Kaul(0).