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Ayush Mhatre’s scintillating 2nd successive period made it 3 wins successful 3 games for Mumbai, which romped to a nine-wicket triumph against Andhra successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at the Ekana Cricket Stadium here connected Sunday.
The 18-year-old proved that his maiden T20 ton 2 days agone was nary flash successful the pan. He got into the enactment aboriginal successful the 160-run chase, depositing a magnitude shot implicit square-leg, his diminutive framework inactive arsenic ever astatine the crease.
He work the lengths early, lofting pacer C.V. Stephen implicit long-off for a six and past pulling him implicit midwicket adjacent shot for different maximum. While helium continued to flay the bowlers down the ground, helium besides displayed his scope connected the off-side, reaching his 50 disconnected 33 balls with a slash implicit cover, and ushering successful his 58-ball ton and Mumbai’s triumph with back-to-back fours to the third-man fence.
Earlier, Tushar Deshpande’s three wickets successful the PowerPlay dented Andhra early. Captain Ricky Bhui and S.D.N.V. Prasad’s 65-run confederation for the sixth wicket lent Andhra’s full respectability, but it wasn’t capable to withstand Mhatre’s onslaught.
It was a time of breezy tally chases. Sanju Samson’s barrage of sixes saw Kerala dismantle Chhattisgarh by 8 wickets astatine the aforesaid venue.
Samson launched the innings with a first-ball six and tonked left-arm spinner Ajay Mandal for 3 successive maximums successful the adjacent over. Rohan Kunnummal took a cue from his skipper, smashing seamer Sourabh Majumdar for 2 sixes and a 4 successful the pursuing over.
Samson’s tryst with sixes continued arsenic helium swatted pacer Ravi Kiran over fine-leg earlier his mistimed propulsion recovered heavy midwicket. However, with 84 runs coming successful the PowerPlay, Kerala’s triumph was each but sealed. After Samson opted to vessel connected a red-soil transportation offering generous bounce, Sharafuddeen accounted for Ayush Pandey’s wicket successful the archetypal over. K.M. Asif moved the shot some ways to dismiss Shashank Chandrakar and Shashank Singh disconnected consecutive deliveries. Captain Amandeep Khare and Sanjeet Desai resisted with a 51-run basal for the 4th wicket earlier Chhattisgarh was caught successful the rotation web of Ankit Sharma and debutant Vignesh Puthur.
