Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 20: Hindi Media Cricket Club defeated Media-XI Cricket Club by a big margin of 68 runs in the third match of the first Media-XI Triangular Series being played at M A Stadium, here.
Earlier, Hindi Media led by Ashwani Gupta won the toss and elected to bat first. Sunil scored 55 runs off 40 balls to help Hindi Media to post a challenging target of 159 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Pankaj scored 26 runs off 25 balls.
For Media-XI CC side, Saqib took 2 wickets in his 2 overs, while Yash Khajuria and Ranjeet Singh claimed 1 wicket each.
Chasing the target, Media-XI CC, led by Mir Imran could not get through and ended up making 68 runs, thus losing the match by 91 runs.
Faheem Tak top scored with 27 runs off 19 balls, while Ranjeet scored 13 off 10 balls.
Taqdeer Badal from Hindi Media grabbed 4 wickets in 4 overs while Sunil also scalped 3 wickets.
Sunil was adjudged as the man of the match for his overall performance with 3 wickets and 55 runs to his credit.
The Tri-series is being organized by Media- XI Cricket Club Jammu.
The match was officiated by Abhishek and Nitin as umpires.
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