Vijay Hazare Trophy : Bengal meekly surrender against UP
Rajkot , December 13 : Bengal succumbed to their second successive defeat in the Vijay Hazare Trophy , as they lost by 4 wickets against Uttar Pradesh on Sunday . Following the loss Manoj Tiwary and his men will have their task cut out in qualifying for the knock out stage . Bengal captain Manoj Tiwary won the toss and did not hesitate to bat first . Openers Sreevats Goswami and Sayan Sekhar Mondal did not manage to give the start the team management expected as both of them got out cheaply . First to depart was Sreevats Goswami who was caught by Ekalavya off the bowling of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar for 3runs . Next to follow was Sayan Sekhar Mondal who was caught by Ekalavya Dwivedi off Praveen Kumar for 15 runs . Captain Manoj Tiwary did not last long as he was bowled by Md Zaved for 1 run . Indian test wicketkeeper Wridhiman Saha ‘s poor run with the bat continued as he departed for 16 runs caught by Piyush Chawla off the bowling of Md Zaved . Bengal were struggling at 55/4 at that time . In form Sudip Chatterjee combined well with Laxmi Ratan Shukla to put 69 runs for the fifth wicket . Laxmi’s entertaining innings of 32 runs was cut short by leg spinner Piyush Chawla as he got him plumbed before the wicket . Sudip Chatterjee kept the innings steady at the other end with good support from Pankaj Shaw and Md Shami . Sudip fell just three runs short of his hundred . Md Shami chipped in with a quickfire 20 runs off 15 balls which had two hits to the fence and a huge six . Bengal were dismissed for 221 in 48.3 overs . Uttar Pradesh in reply were given a great start by the openers who put 88 runs off 19.5 overs . Prashant Gupta was the first to depart caught by Sreevats off Ojha for 47 runs . Umang Sharma and Ekalavya Dwivedi put on 66 runs for the second wicket before Dwivedi was snuffed up by Md Shami for 45 runs . Shami again gave a breakthrough by removing Umang Sharma bowled for 73 runs . Suresh Raina , playing his first match of the tournament was caught by Laxmi off Dinda for only 7 runs . But that did not stop Uttar Pradesh from cruising towards a comfortable victory as they chased the target (222/6) with little over three overs remaining . Md Shami , who was making a comeback after being out for more than 8 months was the most successful bowler with two wickets . Bengal will next play Madhya Pradesh on December 17 , and it will be a must win tie for Bengal to stay in the competition .
03 Comments
Karla Gleichauf
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment
M Shyamalan
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment
Liz Montano
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment