Bengal opener Vivek Singh slammed the primary century of the continued Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 trophy to assist his aspect defeat Jharkhand on Tuesday. Beginning with a cautious strategy, the southpaw took the assault to the opposition after settling down within the first two overs.
Finding gaps at will, Singh was significantly aggressive on Jharkhand’s Rahul Shukla and Anukul Roy. He reached his fifty off simply 28 balls, his eighth T20 half-century in first-class cricket.
Batting with none blemish, Singh continued to tonk the bowlers everywhere in the Eden Gardens. The inside-out shot over the cover-region fetched him fairly a couple of runs.
He slammed 13 fours and three huge sixes in his entertaining innings and at last reached the three-figure mark within the final over of Bengal’s innings. His 100 of 64 balls got here at a damaging strike fee of 156.25.
It was Bengal who received the toss and opted to bat and driving on Singh’s century posted 161/6 after 20 overs.
However, aside from Singh solely Shreevats Goswami made a notable contribution with 27 off 28 balls. Rest of the Bengal line-up hardly made any runs with most of them getting dismissed for single-digit scores.
For Jharkhand, CSK seamer Monu Kumar was the choose of the bowlers with 3/30 in 4 overs.
Chasing 162, Jharkhand fell quick by 16 runs after being restricted to 145/9.
Prabhsimran powers Punjab
Elsewhere, Punjab’s younger prodigy and wicket-keeper batsman Prabhsimran Singh slammed an unbeaten 89 off 52 balls to assist Punjab defeat Karnataka on Tuesday.
Put into bat, Karnataka might solely muster 125/8 in 20 overs which was chased down by Punjab in simply 14.4 overs. Siddarth Kaul was the wrecker-in-chief with the ball with 4/26 in 4 overs.
