The Journalists XI of the city defeated the BJP team in the Modi Cup Cricket Tournament organised at the local Gandhi ground here. The Journalists XI scored easily against the BJP’s 169 runs mark with the loss of 8 wickets.
After winning the toss, the BJP team opted for batting first. Accepting the challenge the Journalists XI puts up excellent fielding. Team’s Pradeep Guha presented excellent bowling and took three wickets. The BJP XI has been sent to pavilion with 169 runs in 20 overs.
The BJP’s Prithvi Singh scored 45 runs and Avinash Shrivastava 47 runs. Sangram Singh Rana, Manish Parekh, Shailendra Bhadauriya, Prithvi Singh, Ramashray Singh, Avinash Shrivastava, Shishir Mishra, Chandu, Surya, Rajendra Bajpai and others played in the BJP XI.
In the second innings, the Journalists XI openers Anurag Shukla and Sameer Sen played excellent game. Anurag scored 61 runs with 4 sixes. After that, Sameer Sen could not stick up on the crease any longer. Then Pradeep Guha and Animesh Pal upheld the ground and scored 89 runs.
However, senior player of the team Naresh Kushwaha could not put up any wonder. Even after the out of main players, the team continued on the crease. Sunil Singh, Sumit Mahapatra, Sriniwas Naidu, Satish Sahu, Dharmendra Mahapatra and Santosh Thakur from the Journalists XI side performed well and won the game with 172 runs. The Modi Cup Cricket Match will conclude on Saturday.Slug