India Blue wins Challenger Trophy
Ahmedabad: The dashing batsman Dinesh Kartik struck an unbeaten century to clinch India Blue to N.KP.Challenger Salve Trophy,by beating India Red by six wickets.
Choosing to bat first, India Red were bowled out for 269 in 49.3 overs, while opener Gautam Gambhir again topscored for them with a good knock(82).Chasing a target of 270 made Indian Blue under pressure for quite sometime.However, they recovered it with the half-centuries of Suresh Raina (50) and Niraj Patel (62 not out) who supported Karthik (116 not out).
An expolsive batting from Mahesh Rawat (43 not out) enabled India Red go past the 250-mark.
Kathik won the Player of the Match award, while Raina was named the Player of the Series.
Choosing to bat first, India Red were bowled out for 269 in 49.3 overs, while opener Gautam Gambhir again topscored for them with a good knock(82).Chasing a target of 270 made Indian Blue under pressure for quite sometime.However, they recovered it with the half-centuries of Suresh Raina (50) and Niraj Patel (62 not out) who supported Karthik (116 not out).
An expolsive batting from Mahesh Rawat (43 not out) enabled India Red go past the 250-mark.
Kathik won the Player of the Match award, while Raina was named the Player of the Series.
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