Jai Hind Sports kicks off their Nehru T20 Cup Campaign with victory; Prateek shines with bat & ball

By CricketGraph Editor On Sep 29, 2015

Nehru Cricket Cup

In the 2nd match of Nehru T20 Cup, Jai Hind Sports, Maharashtra took on RCT Madhya Pradesh. The former won the toss and elected to bat first.

Riding on use contributions from Prateek (26), Rohit (22) and Asif (17), Jai Hind Sports managed to score 131 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. Pradyuman Tiwari captured 3 while Sushil Dagar and Anil Pandey captured 2 wickets each.

In reply, RCT Madhya Pradesh failed to chase a rather easy target as their innings wrapped up at 112 runs thereby losing the match by 19 runs. Anil Pandey top scored with 41 runs followed by Shobhit (11). The chief destructor with the ball was Prateek who scalped 4 wickets and he was well supported by Asif (3/06) and Deepak (2/10).

Man of the Match: Prateek (26 runs and 4 wickets)

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