Winning the toss, East Zone selected to bat first, and their choice was vindicated because the bowlers, led by Riyan Parag, put up a superb efficiency, proscribing North East Zone to a mere 169 runs.
Chasing the goal, East Zone’s Abhimanyu took cost and displayed his batting prowess, scoring an unbeaten century. He reached his century off 102 balls, hitting 13 boundaries within the course of. This was his eighth List 100, confirming his consistency as a batter.
East Zone accomplished the chase comfortably in simply 31.3 overs, because of Abhimanyu’s excellent innings. With this win, East Zone secured their second consecutive victory within the match, incomes 8 factors and climbing to the second place on the factors desk.
Despite having the identical variety of factors as South Zone, East Zone at present sits within the second place resulting from South Zone’s superior web run fee (NRR) of two.526 in comparison with East Zone’s NRR of 1.107.
Abhimanyu’s batting was particularly harsh on Sikkim off-spinner Lee Yong Lepcha, whom he smashed for 21 runs in simply 11 balls, together with three boundaries. Lepcha managed to take two wickets within the match, dismissing Utkarsh Singh and Parag.
The partnership between Abhimanyu and Utkarsh proved to be essential, as they put up a strong opening stand of 93 runs in 19.3 overs, setting the tone for East Zone’s comfy victory within the match.
Parag was dismissed cheaply for 13 within the twenty second over, however that solely boosted East’s need to step on the pedal and enhance their web run fee.
Abhimanyu and Virat Singh amassed 61 runs for the unbeaten third wicket in simply over 9 overs.
Earlier, Parag, whose area of interest space is hard-hitting, took 4 wickets together with his leg spin.
Parag’s 4 for 30 ensured that North East by no means actually gained any momentum of their innings.
The lone level of steadiness for North East was a 55-run partnership between Rex Rajkumar Singh (65, 74 balls, 10×4) and Lepcha for the eighth wicket.
It lifted North East from a lowly 82 for 7 to a extra respectable complete, however a vastly inadequate one.
Brief scores: North East Zone: 169 all out in 48 overs (Rex Rajkumar Singh 65 not out; Riyan Parag 4/30, Mukhtar Hussain 2/20) misplaced to East Zone: 170/2 in 31.3 overs (Abhimanyu Easwaran 100 not out, Utkarsh Singh 29; Lee Yong Lepcha 2/34) by 8 wickets.
(With PTI inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com