Heavyweights Delhi beat Jammu and Kashmir by eight wickets in a North Zone leg match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, here on Sunday.
Without Parveez Rasool, who is on national duty, J&K could post only 103 for 6 in 20 overs with Ishant Sharma being economical with figures of 3-0-5-0 to show for his effort. Shubham Khajuria was the top-scorer with 26.
In reply, Delhi reached the target in 16.2 overs. Veteran India discard Gautam Gambhir's (1) series of failures in domestic cricket continued as he nicked one to wicketkeeper-batsman Ian Dev Singh off Umar Nazir's bowling.
Shikhar Dhawan dropped from India's T20 squad was rusty as he scored 30 off 43 balls — poor even by one day standards, hitting three boundaries and a six. With 18 boundary runs off only 4 balls, Dhawan consumed another 39 balls for his additional 12 runs.
Unmukt Chand hit a quickfire 48 off 39 balls with four sixes and a two boundaries to wrap up the match.
In another match at Nadaun, off-spinner Jayant Yadav made a steady comeback post injury getting 1/10 in 4 overs as Haryana soundly thrashed Punjab by 47 runs.
Riding on Rajat Paliwal (44) and Shivam Chauhan (41)'s Haryana scored 153 for 7. In reply, Punjab were all out for 106 in 18.5 overs.
It was Harbhajan Singh's first competitive match after a long time and the veteran off-spinner went for 24 in four wicketless overs. There was nothing extraordinary in his performance even though he didn't get hit for too many.
Amit Verma's all-round performance steers Assam to victory
Kolkata: Riding on Amit Verma's all-round performance, Assam got the better of Jharkhand by four wickets in a Syed Mushtaq Ali East Zone Twenty20 match here at the Eden Gardens.
Verma (3/17) chipped in with three wickets to restrict Jharkhand to 133 for nine in their allotted 20 overs before scoring an unbeaten half-century to help Assam reach 137 for six in 18.3 overs.
Put in to bat, Jharkhand got off to a good start but Abu Nechim (3/24) took two wickets in two overs to leave them reeling at 73 for four.
Verma then accounted for the next four wickets — three with his legspin, besides effecting a run out.
For Jharkhand, Virat Singh top scored with 26 runs.
Chasing a modest target of 134, Assam struggled as Jharkhand's fast bowling combination of Varun Aaron and Rahul Shukla shared four wickets between them, while Shahbaz Nadeem and Kaushal Singh took wicket apiece.