JOIN USRahul shines in Karnataka win
Shimoga: KL Rahul’s quickfire half-century helped Karnataka trounce Kerala by 83 runs in their South Zone T20 cricket match for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Monday.
Batting first, Karnataka piled on 185 for five in their 20 overs with Rahul (62 runs, 37 balls, 5x4, 2x6) top scoring and opener Manish Pandey notching up 50 off 42 balls.
Rahul was picked up by Prashanth Parameswaran after he gave a catch to Raiphi Gomez and Pandey was unfortunately run out after he cracked four sparkling fours.
Kerala bowlers did not trouble Karnataka batsmen as much as three of their batsmen were unfortunately run out. Paramsehwaran and P Prashanth picked up one wicket each.
Poor reply
In reply, Kerala could only manage to score 102 for nine in stipulated 20 overs. Local lad and medium pacer SL Akshay (2/18) and Amit Verma (2/16) were the pick of the bowlers for Karnataka. Robert Fernandez top scored with 21 for Kerala.
In another match, Andhra scored a five-wicket win over Hyderabad. Hyderabad made 161 for five in 20 overs, powered by a 118-run partnership off 82 balls for the second wicket between opener P Akshath Reddy (44) and right-hand batsman Tirumalasetti Suman (85). Andhra chased the target by scoring 163 for five with K S Bharat and D B Prashanth scoring 36 each.
In the third match, Tamil Nadu pulled off an easy eight-wicket win over Goa. Batting first, Goa managed to post 122 for seven in 20 overs. In reply, Tamil Nadu made 126 for two in 16.5 overs with an unbeaten partnership of 78 for the third wicket between Abhinav Mukund (49) and S Badrinath (31).
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SCORE BOARD: KARNATAKA: Mayank Agarwal c Samson b Prasanth 33, Manish Pandey (run out) 50, KL Rahul c Gomez b Parameswaran 62, Stuart Binny (run out) 3, Karun Nair (run out) 2, K Gowtham (not out) 6, Amit Verma (not out) 9. Extras (B-4, LB-6, W-9, NB-1) 20. Total (for 5 wkts, 20 overs) 185.
Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-143, 3-154, 4-162, 5-168.
Bowling: Prasanth Parameswaran 4-0-34-1, Sandeep Warrier 4-0-38-0, Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan 4-0-34-0, dmanabhan Prasanth 4-0-24-1, Raiphi Gomez 3-0-33-0, Rohan Prem 1-0-12-0.
KERALA: Nikhilesh Surendran (run out) 6, Sanju Samson c Pandey b Mithun 0, Rohan Prem c Vinay Kumar b Akshay 14, VA Jagadeesh c Gautam b Akshay 8, Sachin Baby b Binny 9, Robert Fernandez c Pandey b Amit 21, Raiphi Gomez c Akshay b Amit 7, Padmanabhan Prasanth (run out) 13, Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan c Mithun b Gowtham 2, Prasanth Parameswaran (not out) 13, Sandeep Warrier (not out) 7. Extras (W-1, NB-1) 2. Total (for 9 wkts, 20 overs) 102.
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-10, 3-29, 4-30, 5-40, 6-54, 7-74, 8-79, 9-82.
Bowling: Abhimanyu Mithun 2-0-8-1, R Vinay Kumar 2-0-14-0, Stuart Binny 2-0-14-1, SL Akshay 3-0-18-2, Amit Verma 4-0-16-2, K Gowtham 4-0-17-1, Karun Nair 2-0-7-0, Mayank Agarwal 1-0-8-0.
Other scores in brief: SOUTH ZONE: Hyderabad: 161/5 in 20 overs (Akshath Reddy 44, Tirumalasetti Suman 85; Atchuta Rao 4-32) lt to Andhra: 163/5 in 19 overs (Srikar Bharat 36, Koripalli Sreekanth 29, Prasanth Kumar 36, AG Pradeep 30).
Goa: 122/7 in 20 overs (Ravikant Shukla 39; Lakshmipathi Balaji 2-33, Sunil Sam 2-14, Suresh Kumar 2-19) lt to Tamil Nadu: 126/2 in 17 overs (Srikkanth Anirudha 27, Abhinav Mukund 49 n.o., Subramaniam Badrinath 31 n.o.; Saurabh Bandekar 2-27).
CENTRAL ZONE: Railways: 127/6 in 20 overs (Amit Paunikar 30, Karan Sharma 37; Ashok Menaria 2-10, Madhur Khatri 3-20) lt to Rajasthan: 128/3 in 17.1 overs (Ankit Lamba 36, Ashok Menaria 46 n.o.).
Vidarbha: 136/6 in 20 overs (FY Fazal 66, AV Ubarhande 25) bt Madhya Pradesh: 99 all out in 17.2 overs (JG Saxena 30; SB Wagh 2-7, RL Jangid 2-13, RD Thakur 2-21, SU Shrivastava 3-13).
NORTH ZONE: Punjab: 160/7 in 20 overs (Chandan Madan 33, Gurkeerat Singh 57, Mayank Sidhana 35; Varun Sood 2-24, Pawan Negi 2-36) lt to Delhi: 162/4 in 19.1 overs (Gautam Gambhir 68 n.o., Virender Sehwad 36, Puneet Bisht 32).
Haryana: 110/8 in 20 overs (VS Malik 2-15, Rahul Singh 2-27) bt Himachal Pradesh: 106/6 in 20 overs (VS Malik 31, Paras Dogra 31; Amit Mishra 2-12).
EAST ZONE: Odisha: 140/7 in 17 overs (revised due to bad light) (Bikas Pati 54, Govind Poddar 38; Arup Das 3-20) lt to Assam: 141/3 in 16.2 overs (Pallavkumar Das 29, Pritam Debnath 69 n.o.).
Tripura: 103 all out in 19.5 overs (Kaushal Acharjee 25; Prakash Seet 2-10, Shahbaz Nadeem 3-23) lt to Jharkhand: 107/2 in 15.3 overs (Ishank Jaggi 50 n.o., Keshav Kumar 29 n.o.; Rana Dutta 2-23).
WEST ZONE: Gujarat: 193/5 in 20 overs (Parthiv Patel 32, Niraj Patel 51, Manprit Juneja 71; Ankeet Chavan 2-17, Aavishkar Salvi 2-44) bt Mumbai: 173/6 in 20 overs (Aditya Tare 47, Abhishek Nayar 29, Siddharth Chitnis 36 n.o.; Jesal Karia 3-21).