Chandigarh/Mohali: PCA Colts led by young Karan Kaila continued their winning streak as they humbled Vidarbha Cricket Association by a whopping margin of 190 runs to garner 4 points and take their league points tally to 8 and secure a place in the quarterfinals of 22nd All India JP Atray memorial Cricket Tournament, here on Monday.
Winning the toss and electing to bat, PCA Colts at St.John’s School Sector 26, opened with Shivluv Sabharwal and Sanvir Singh. The duo put on 43 runs for the first wicket before Shivluv was caught by Bhattacharya off O.Dixit for 15. Taruwar Kohli who came in next perished early as he was caught by wicket-keeper Bipluv off J.Acharya for 6. Sharad Lumba also made an early exit when J.Acharya had him caught by Rathod for 15.
Thereafter, Sanvir Singh in company of Navneet Singh added 38 runs for the 4th wicket before Sanvir Singh was castled by Vedant for 80 off 97 balls studded with 9 boundaries and 2 sixes. Navneet Singh was then joined by Nikhil Chaudhary and the duo put on in an enterprising partnership of 98 runs for the 5th wicket before Navneet Singh was caught by Omkar off A.Jungade for 74 off 61 balls inclusive of 9 boundaries and 2 sixes. Nikhil Chaudhary was later caught by Vedant off Bingewar for 61 off 49 balls inclusive of 6 boundaries and one six.
PCA Colts innings ended at 282 for 6 in 49 overs. The match was delayed in the morning because of early morning showers and was curtailed to 49 overs.
For Vidarbha J.Acharya 2 for 51 was the most successful bowler.
Vidarbha in reply were bundled out for 92 in 29.2 overs. They opened with S.Bhattacharya and Gautam Vaidya and the duo put on 20 runs for the first wicket before Gautam Vaidya was trapped in front by Baltej Singh for 06. Bipluv Jangare fell to Shubek Gill caught by Anmol for 04. The advent of left arm spinner Karan Kaila and Vinay Chaudhary saw the Vidarbha batsmen completely throttled and gasping for breath. The two left arm spinners did not allow any liberties to the Vidarbha batsmen as they continued their procession to and fro from the pavilion.
Vinay Chaudhary returned the impressive figures of 7-2-12-5 for which he was named man of the match. Karan Kaila complimented with 3 for 23. S.Bhattacharya with 37 off 63 balls inclusive of 4 boundaries was the most successful Vidarbha batsman.
The second match between CAG and Assam at Tau Devi Lal Stadium was abandoned due to heavy early morning rain which made the ground unplayable and both the teams got two points each.
The 3rd match between Air India Delhi and Baroda Cricket Association was reduced to a 30 overs match because of the wet outfield due to early morning rains. Air India which won the toss and decided to field restricted Baroda to a modest score of 125 in 29.1 overs. Kedar Devdhar (18), Dhiren Mistri 1(8) Bishnu Solanki (17) skipper Irfan Pathan (11) Murtja Vohra (18) contributed with the bat for Baroda.
For Air India Sukhjinder Singh 3 for 16, Rajesh Sharma 2 for 21 were the main wicket takers. Replying Air India scored 127 for 1 in 22.5 overs to carve out facile 9 wickets win. Wicket-keeper Manvinder Bisla unbeaten (71) off 70 balls with 6 boundaries and 2 sixes and Deepak Joon unbeaten (49) off 67 balls with 4 boundaries and one six were involved in an unbroken second wicket stand of 125 runs.
For his brilliant knock Manvinder Bisla was named man-of-the-match.
Vijay Halai 1 for 34 was the sole successful bowler for Baroda.