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Kumar Kushagra (84 n.o., 48b, 5x4, 5x6) and Virat Singh (72, 39b, 10x4, 2x6) went ballistic, powering Jharkhand to 207 for 3 and a 28-run takedown of Tamil Nadu successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Elite Group-D sixth-round clash astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium B-Ground present connected Saturday.
From 29 for 2 successful the 5th over, Jharkhand’s innings transformed erstwhile Virat and Kushagra joined forces, hammering 120 disconnected 64 for the third-wicket stand.
Kushagra welcomed off-spinner Mohamed Ali into the onslaught with a slog-sweep to heavy midwicket earlier smoking a six to cattle country successful the aforesaid over. He struck an imperious consecutive thrust for a 4 disconnected pacer Rajkumar to bring up his 2nd T20 fifty, and sent pacer Sonu Yadav soaring implicit long-on and retired of the ground. He played a deft ramp implicit abbreviated good limb disconnected a afloat flip for a 4 and wrist-powered a midwicket six disconnected left-arm pacer Gurjapneet Singh.
Virat scored 3 back-to-back fours disconnected Sonu — consecutive drive, propulsion to heavy square, and ramp to good leg. And went 6, 4, 4 against left-arm spinner Sai Kishore — propulsion to cattle corner, inside-out to other cover, and expanse disconnected afloat flip implicit abbreviated good leg.
Tamil Nadu’s pursuit caught occurrence aboriginal — Sai Sudharsan (64, 42b, 9x4) and Tushar Raheja (27, 17b, 3x4, 1x6) rattled disconnected 64 disconnected conscionable 35 balls for the opening stand.
Sai Sudharsan, made to unfastened for the archetypal clip this tournament, slipped consecutive into his groove, carving up the tract successful the PowerPlay with six fours, 4 of them screen drives.
Just erstwhile helium looked acceptable to brag the chase, the innings ended successful heartbreak. Jagadeesan’s deed to heavy midwicket tempted a risky second, and contempt Sai Sudharsan throwing himself into a dive, the propulsion recovered him inches abbreviated astatine the non-striker’s end.
Thrilling finish
With 25 needed disconnected the past over, Mukul Choudhary (62 n.o., 26b, 1x4, 7x6) smashed 4 sixes disconnected Ayush Badoni’s off-spin to cod 26 and instrumentality Rajasthan location successful a 176-run pursuit against Delhi.
He cleared midwicket erstwhile and sent 3 blows down the ground, sealing a three-wicket triumph with a consecutive six disconnected the last ball. The past implicit read: 6, 0, 6, 6, 2, 6.
The scores: Jharkhand 207/3 successful 20 overs (Kumar Kushagra 84 n.o., Virat Singh 72) bt Tamil Nadu 179/7 successful 20 overs (Sai Sudharsan 64).<EP>Saurashtra 178/8 successful 20 overs (Vishvarajsinh Jadeja 40, Siddhant Rana 42, Vijaykumar Vyshak 3/28) bt Karnataka 177/9 successful 20 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 66, R. Smaran 30).
Delhi 175/5 successful 20 overs (Priyansh Arya 32, Yash Dhull 38, Ayush Badoni 30, Tejasvi Dahiya 33) mislaid to Rajasthan 177/7 successful 20 overs (Karan Lamba 31, Mukul Choudhary 62 n.o., Navdeep Saini 3/15).
