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Jharkhand’s winning streak was halted connected Tuesday arsenic it mislaid to Andhra by 9 runs successful the past lucifer of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Super League stage. But that did not halt Ishan Kishan’s men from reaching their maiden last successful the T20 tournament.
Enjoying a superior nett tally complaint (NRR) of + 0.221, Jharkhand finished atop Group-B to acceptable up a acme clash with Haryana, who stunned Hyderabad with a 124-run triumph astatine the MCA Stadium.
Coming connected the backmost of 2 successive wins, Hyderabad would person fancied its chances. But arsenic the frontline bowlers faltered connected a level deck, Haryana made optimum usage of it.
Riding connected skipper Ankit Kumar’s 27-ball-57 and Samant Jakhar’s 22-ball-60, Haryana enactment up 246 for seven, earlier off-spinner Amit Rana (3 for 14) and seamer Ishant Bhardwaj, who claimed a mates of wickets, helped it bundle retired Hyderabad for 122.
After conceding a monolithic total, Hyderabad had to people astatine slightest 195 runs to marque the acme clash, but lone Buddhi Rahul (37) fought it retired arsenic Haryana came from down to gain a summons to the final.
In a Group-B fixture, Nitish Kumar’s 22-ball-45 and 2 for 32 was not capable to instrumentality Andhra to the last arsenic Jharkhand stayed up connected NRR.
Chasing a people of 204, Virat Singh (77, 40b, 4x4, 7x6) and Ishan Kishan (35, 18b, 5x4, 2x6) added 88 runs for the opening partnership. However, things went downhill thereafter arsenic nary of the middle-order batters could deliver.
Defending champion Mumbai crashed retired contempt defeating Rajasthan by 3 wickets. Sarfaraz Khan brought up his 2nd consecutive fifty, disconnected conscionable 15 balls, with 4 nationalist selectors successful attendance.
En way his 22-ball-73, Sarfaraz spared nary of the Rajasthan bowlers, and forged a 111-run concern with Ajinkya Rahane (72 n.o., 41b, 7x4, 3x6) for the 2nd wicket. To amended its NRR, Mumbai had to pursuit down Rajasthan’s full successful 10.2 overs, but it could scope location with lone 11 balls to spare.
Madhya Pradesh was knocked retired by Punjab contempt Venkatesh Iyer’s 43-ball-70.
The scores: Madhya Pradesh 225/8 successful 20 overs (Venkatesh Iyer 70, Aniket Verma 31, Gurnoor Brar 3/45) mislaid to Punjab 226/8 successful 19.1 overs (Harnoor Singh 64, Anmolpreet Singh 38, Salil Arora 50, Ramandeep Singh 35 n.o., Shivam Shukla 3/39).
Rajasthan 216/4 successful 20 overs (Ramnivas Golada 48, Deepak Hooda 51, Mahipal Lomror 39, Mukul Choudhary 54 n.o.) mislaid to Mumbai 217/7 successful 18.1 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 72 n.o., Sarfaraz Khan 73).
Andhra 203/7 successful 20 overs (K.S. Bharat 35, Ashwin Hebbar 30, Nitish Kumar 45) bt Jharkhand 194/8 successful 20 overs (Ishan Kishan 35, Virat Singh 77).
Haryana 246/7 successful 20 overs (Ankit Kumar 57, Samant Jakhar 60, Parth Vats 45) bt Hyderabad 122 successful 16.1 overs (Buddhi Rahul 37, Amit Rana 3/14).
