JOIN USOpeners Manish Pandey and Mayank Agarwal produced forceful fifties as as Karnataka scored a thumping nine-wicket victory over Goa in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 South Zone tournament here on Sunday.
Agarwal (55 off 48 balls) and Pandey (55 off 57 balls) shared 108 runs for the opening wicket as Karnataka chased down 117 with 10 balls to spare. Karnataka lost Agarwal in the 16th over when the team total was 108, needing nine more runs to win. Agarwal belted four boundaries and two sixes in his knock while Pandey clobbered two fours and three sixes.
Goa put to use all their five bowlers but only S Badizuma could bag the lone wicket of Agarwal.
Earlier, Goa started their innings badly losing five wickets for 40 runs and could only post 116 all out in 18.3 overs. Keenan Vaz top-scored with 41, while R U Shukla and R J Pinto made a quick 20 each.
SCOREBOARD: GOA: Sagun Kamath c Pandey b Vinay 6; Swapnil Asnodkar c Gautham b Mithun 0; Amog Desai c Karun b Mithun 5; Ravikant Shukla c Appanna b Pandey 18; SS Yadav c Pandey b Binny 5; Kinan Vaz c Gowtham b Vinay 18; Regan Pinto (run out) 28; Robin D’Souza c Appanna b Karun 5; S Baddizuma (run out) 0; Shadab Jakati (run out) 4; Gaurish Gawas (not out) 4; Extras (LB-1, W-9) 10; Total (all out, 18.3 overs) 119. Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-6, 3-20, 4-36, 5-40, 6-109, 7-111, 8-118, 9-118.
Bowling: Vinay Kumar 3.3-0-13-3, Mithun 3-0-18-2 (w-6), Stuart Binny 4-0-30-1, Manish Pandey 4-0-19-1, KP Appanna 2-0-25-0 (w-3), K Gowtham 1-0-10-0, Karun Nair 1-0-3-1.
KARNATAKA: Mayank Agarwal b Baddizuma 55; Manish Pandey (not out) 56; KL Rahul (not out) 5; Extras (B-2, W-7) 9; Total (1 wkt, 18.2 overs) 125
Fall of wicket: 1-108. Bowling: Gaurish Gawas 2-0-17-0 (w-2), S Baddizuma 4-0-17-1 (w-5), SS Yadav 4-0-18-0, Shadab Jakati 4-0-32-0, Robin D’Souza 4-0-23-0, Regan Pinto 0.2-0-6-0.
Other scores in brief: NORTH ZONE: At Rohtak: Haryana: 150/4 in 20 overs (Sachin Hooda 56, Rahul Dalal 40) bt Punjab: 103 all out in 17.5 overs (Harshal Patel 2-7, Amit Mishra 2-22, Ajit Chandila 3-15).
At Rohtak: Himachal Pradesh: 78 all out in 18.2 overs (Abhishek Sakuja 3-10, Shadab Nazar 3-10) bt Services: 77 all out in 19.5 overs (V Malik 2-13, Rishi Dhawan 3-13).
CENTRAL ZONE: At Nagpur: Vidarbha: 113/9 in 20 overs (AV Kolhar 34; AV Choudhary 3-19) bt Rajasthan: 103/9 in 20 overs (DH Yagnik 26; AG Jungade 3-12, FY Fazal 2-25).
At Nagpur: Railways: 130/5 in 20 overs (KV Sharma 62 n.o., AG Yadav 44; Praveen Kumar 3-22) lt to Uttar Pradesh: 131/4 in 19.1 overs (Tanmay Srivastav 45, AD Nath 31 n.o., Piyush Chawla 26 n.o.; CK Gowda 3-22).
EAST ZONE: At Agartala: Bengal: 130/5 in 20 overs (Shreevats Goswami 43; Pallavikumar Das 3-26) bt Assam: 77 all out in 16.2 overs (Sayan Mondal 3-13, Shami Ahmed 2-13).
At Agartala: Odisha: 172/8 in 20 overs (Bikas Pati 64, Govind Poddar 52; Manisankar Murasingh 4-32, Rana Dutta 3-25) bt Tripura: 150/6 in 20 overs (Udiyan Bose 32, Ajay Ratra 54; Rakesh Mohanty 3-33).
WEST ZONE: At Ahmedabad: Maharashtra: 147/8 in 20 overs (Nikhil Naik 52, Prayag Bhati 30 n.o.; Mehul Patel 3-33, Akshar Patel 3-21) lt to Gujarat: 148/2 in 14.2 overs (Asad Pathan 87 n.o., Niraj Patel 28; Samad Fallah 2-30).
SOUTH ZONE: At Bhadravati: Andhra: 106 all out in 19 overs (AG Pradeep 43; Lakshmipathy Balaji 4-5, Rahil Shah 3-22, Vinay Shankar 2-35) lt to Tamil Nadu: 107/2 in 17.4 overs (Abhinav Mukund 33 n.o. Subramaniam Badrinath 38 n.o.; AG Praveen 2-17).
At Shimoga: Hyderabad: 133/6 in 20 overs (Dwaraka Ravi Teja 28, Hanuma Vihari 34; Padmanabhan Prasanth 2-20) lt to Kerala: 134/4 in 19.4 overs (Nikhilesh Surendran 53, Sanju Samson 30, Sachin Baby 37).