Karnataka bowlers snatch tie

Tamil Nadu lose plot as hosts top SZ table

Shimoga: Tamil Nadu lost wickets in a heap towards the end as their match against Karnataka ended in a thrilling tie in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Cricket Tournament on Tuesday.

Tamil Nadu managed 150 for seven in their 20 overs, the same total that Karnataka had notched up after losing as many wickets.

Batting first, Karun Nair cracked a valiant unbeaten 51 to help Karnataka put up a competitive total. Nair hit three fours and two sixes in his 38-ball knock.
Nair arrived at the crease when Karnataka were in trouble after losing four wickets for 69 runs in 11.1 overs. Karnataka lost Amit Verma after 10 runs were added to the total.

In reply, Tamil Nadu started poorly losing openers Srikanth Aniruddha (7) and Baba Aparajith (17) and S Badrinath for one.

For Karnataka, Mithun took three wickets while Vinay Kumar, Stuart Binny and S L Akshay scalped one each to restrict Tamil Nadu to take charge.

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SCORE BOARD: KARNATAKA: Mayank Agarwal c Mukund b Mahesh 19, Manish Pandey c & b Shah 35, KL Rahul (run out) 2, Stuart Binny st Karthik b Kumar 4, Karun Nair (not out) 51, Amit Verma c Karthik b Sam 5, CM Gautam b Mahesh 27, R Vinay Kumar (run out) 1, K Gowtham (not out) 4. Extras (W-2) 2. Total (for 7 wkts, 20 overs) 150.
Fall of wickets: 1-40, 2-56, 3-56, 4-69, 5-79, 6-123, 7-133. Bowling: Sunil Sam 4-0-27-1, Lakshmipathy Balaji 4-0-35-0, Yo Mahesh 4-0-34-2, Suresh Kumar 4-0-21-1, Rahil Shah 4-0-33-1.
TAMIL NADU: Baba Aparajith c Agarwal b Akshay 17, Srikkanth Anirudha c Pandey b Mithun 7, Abhinav Mukund c Rahul b Mithun 42, Subramaniam Badrinath c Gautam b Binny 1, Dinesh Kaarthick c Gautam b Mithun 37, Vijay Shankar (not out) 17, Suresh Kumar lbw Vinay Kumar 2, Yo Mahesh (run out) 16. Lakshmipathy Balaji (not out) 5. Extras (LB-1, W-5) 6. Total (for 7 wkts, 20 overs) 150.
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-35, 3-42, 4-104, 5-111, 6-116, 7-144.
Bowling: R Vinay Kumar 4-0-26-1, Abhimanyu Mithun 4-0-29-3, SL Akshay 4-0-29-1, Stuart Binny 2-0-18-1, Manish Pandey 3-0-25-0, K Gowtham 3-0-22-0.
Other scores in brief: SOUTH ZONE: Andhra: 134/7 in 20 overs (Bodapati Sumanth 60; VA Jagadeesh 2-25) lt to Kerala: 135/3 in 18.4 overs (Nikhilesh Surendran 27, VA Jagadeesh 52 n.o., Roham Prem 49).   
Goa: 141/9 in 20 overs (Swapnil Asnodkar 36, Ravikant Shukla 30, Reagan Pinto 33; Chama Milind 3-21, Praneeth Kumar 2-26) bt Hyderabad: 134/9 in 20 overs (Dwarka Ravi Teja 33; Saurabh Bandekar 2-14, Robin D’Souza 2-22, Darshan Misal 3-29).
NORTH ZONE: Punjab: 146/9 in 20 overs (Gurkeerat Singh 27; Ram Dayal 3-32, Rahil Sambyal 2-27, Raman Dutta 3-23) bt Jammu & Kashmir: 103 all out in 19.3 overs (Ahmed Bandy 26, Fayaz Ahmed 34; Siddarth Kaul 3-19).
Himachal Pradesh: 109/7 in 20 overs (Paras Dogra 25, Rishi Dhawan 38; Varun Sood 3-22) lt to Delhi: 110/6 in 18.2 overs (Vikramjeet Malik 3-20).
Haryana: 102/9 in 20 overs (Jayant Yadav 30 n.o.; Ritesh Negi 2-14, Narender Kumar 3-16, Sumit Singh 2-16) lt to Services: 104/2 in 18.5 overs (Anshul Gupta 52 n.o., Sumit Singh 27).
EAST ZONE: Tripura: 121/9 in 20 overs (Kaushal Acharjee 26; Pritam Das 2-26, Gokul Sharma 2-12) lt to Assam: 122/2 in 15.5 overs (Pallavkumar Das 58, Pritam Debnath 34 n.o.).
Bengal: 149/4 in 20 overs (Anustup Majumdar 33, Wriddhiman Saha 27 n.o., Debabrata Das 30 n.o.; Mithun Mukherjee 2-16) bt Jharkhand: 112/9 in 20 overs (Saurabh Tiwary 29, Shahbaz Nadeem 36 n.o.; Shami Ahmed 3-20, Iresh Saxena 3-18, Sanjib Sanyal 2-27).
CENTRAL ZONE: Uttar Pradesh: 136/6 in 20 overs (Prashant Gupta 44, Mohammad Kaif 26; Jatin S Saxena 2-18) lt to Madhya Pradesh: 138/7 in 18.4 overs (Rameez Khan 36, Naman Ojha 30; Ankit Rajpoot 2-24, Ali Murtaza 2-19).
Vidarbha: 143/5 in 20 overs (AV Kolhar 34, RL Jangid 42 n.o.) lt to Railways: 144/5 in 18.5 overs (AG Paunikar 38, PB Awasthi 28, MG Rawat 39; SB Wagh 3-27).
WEST ZONE: Saurashtra: 152/7 in 20 overs (Kuldeep Raval 53 n.o.; Kshemal Waingankar 2-24, Iqal Abdulla 2-30) bt Mumbai: 92 all out in 18.5 overs (Siddarth Trivedi 3-7, Chirag Jani 2-25).