Delhi crushed Assam by eight wickets in a Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 group league encounter, courtesy impressive performances by medium pacer Subodh Bhati and off-spinner Shivam Sharma, who shared seven wickets between themselves.
Delhi captain Gautam Gambhir’s decision to bowl was vindicated by his bowlers as they decimated Assam for a platry 44 in 12.1 overs. Seamer Bhati coming in as second change snared 4/9 in 3 overs while former Kings XI Punjab player Shivam had 3/7 in 3.1 overs. Pradeep Sangwan (2/21) provided initial breakthroughs.
In reply, Delhi knocked off the runs in 9.1 overs despite another failure from India discard Gambhir (10).
His deputy Unmukt Chand hit an unbeaten 29 off 28 balls with a four and two huge sixes. This was Delhi’s fourth win in the tournament and are almost certain to enter the quarter-final of the tournament with 16 points in their kitty.
Brief Scores
Assam: 44 (Shib Sankar Roy 16, Subodh Bhati 4/9, Shivam Sharma 3/7) lose to Delhi: 50/2 (Unmukt Chand 29 no). Delhi won by 8 wickets.
Easy win for guj over bengal
Nagpur: Skipper Parthiv Patel hit a quickfire 52 off 32 balls while speedster Jasprit Bumrah scalped three wickets as Gujarat comfortably beat Bengal by eight wickets in a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A encounter here on Wednesday.
Batting first, Bengal batting flopped for the second time in four matches with entire side being bundled out for 101 in 19.2 overs.
Debabrata Das and skipper Ashok Dinda contributed 22 each as none of the other batsmen could cross personal score of 20. Bumrah grabbed 3/16 in 4 overs while another medium pacer Rohit Dahiya also chipped in with three wickets.
In reply, Gujarat skipper blasted the Bengal attack hitting 9 boundaries and a six to finish as Vijay hazare Trophy champions won by 11.5 overs.
Brief Scores
Bengal: 101 (Debabrata Das 22, Ashok
Dinda 22, Rohit Dahiya 3/14, Jasprit Bumrah 3/16) lose to Gujarat: 104/2 (Parthiv Patel 52).
Elsewhere
J&K: 119 (Bandeep 33; Majumder 3/17) lose to Tripura: 121/6 (Singha 45; Rasool 3/25) by 4 wickets; Saurashtra: 115 (Unadkat 32; Manukrishnan 3/11, Prashanth 3/13 ) lose to Kerala: 165/9 (Rohan 56; Unadkat 3/23) by 1 wicket; Railways: 103 (Wakaskar 28; Das 4/10) lose to MP: 104/4 (Zafar 36; Sharma 2/28) by 6 wickets; TN: 150/8 (Aparajith 41; Thakur 2/22) lose to Vidarbha: 154/3 (J Sharma 73; R Shah 2/31) by 7 wickets; Baroda: 154/2 (Irfan Pathan 49, Pandya 38; Misal 2/25) beat Goa: 82 (Gaonkar 48; H Pandya 2/14, I Pathan 2/19 ) by 8 wickets; Hyd: 173/8 (Vihari 44; Chahal 3/43) beat Hry: 138/7 (Saini 30) by 35 runs; Jharkhand: 104/9 (Virat 41; Harbhajan 2/16) lose to Pjb: 105/3 (Pargat 60) by 7 wickets.