Senior Women’s T20 Trophy
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 20: Shivanti Gupta scored second consecutive fifty, while Nadia Chowdhary sparkled and skipper Sandhya Sayal continued her superb bowling display to guide Jammu and Kashmir to a big win by 85 runs win over minnows Arunachal Pradesh in the ongoing Senior Women’s T20 Trophy at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati today.
Earlier, winning the toss and batting first, J&K rode on a brilliant partnership of 103 runs between Shivanti Gupta (52) and Nadia Chowdhary (49) to set a good target of 145 runs for Arunachal Pradesh. After the loss of Anju Tomar’s wicket at 8 runs in 2 overs, the duo of Shivanti and Nadia took the score to 111 runs before latter’s dismissal. Shivanti scored 42-ball 52 runs studded with 7 boundaries, while Nadia contributed 49 runs off 50 balls with the help of 6 boundaries. Then explosive Rubia Syed hit power-packed 19-ball 26 runs including one six and one four to help J&K score formidable 144 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, losing 5 wickets in the proces.
For Arunachal Pradesh S Ligu took 2 wickets by conceding 23 runs in her 4 overs, while Itika Tyagi and Nabam Para claimed one wicket each.
In reply, Arunachal Pradesh managed to score paltry 59 runs in 20 overs by losing 6 wickets to lose the match by a big margin of 85 runs. Skipper Nabam Yapu (22) and Sai Rajesh Bhoyar (18) were the main contributors.
For J&K, Sandhya Sayal Sayal was once again pick of the bowlers who took 2 wickets by conceding 7 runs in her 4 overs, while Nadia also took 2 wickets by giving away 15 runs in her 3 overs. Bismah Hassan and Anju Tomar claimed one wicket each.
Now, J&K will take on Tamil Nadu in the next match on October 22, 2022.
The J&K team is being accompanied by Chetan Dhingra as Head Coach, Irshad Hassan as Manager, Meenu Singh Slathia as Assistant Coach, Anuradha Sharma as Co-Manager, Sushil Pajnu as Video Analyst, Lovely Bansal as Physiotherapist and Rohit Rana as Strength and Conditioning Coach.
Meanwhile, Sub Committee Members of JKCA including Brig Anil Gupta, Cricketer Mithun Manhas and Advocate Sunil Sethi have congratulated the team for this big victory.
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