Sandeep Sharma’s ton helps ONGC to fix finale date with Air India; defeat FCI by 2 wickets in semi-final;
NEW DELHI:
With the help fine 203 runs partnership for the 2nd wkts in 25.2 overs between veteran Sandeep Sharma (134, 20×4 3×6 b100) and Tanmay Srivastava ( 97 , 10×4 2×6) ONGC move into the final of the 42nd All India Goswami Ganesh Dutt Memorial Cricket Tournament 2015 as they defeated Food Corp. Of India by 2 wkts in the nail biting semi-final match.
Traditional rivals Air India and ONGC will meet again after four years in the final which will be played on June 14, 2015(Sunday) at Ferozshah Kotla Ground, Delhi.
Today ONGC skipper Suhail Sharma won the toss and invited FCI to bat first. FCI scored a huge total of 323 runs in 40 overs by losing 8 wkts with the help of fine batting by skipper Chetan Sharma who scored 100 runs with the help of 13×4 2×6 in 81 balls and Mayank Tehlan ( 58 , 7×4 b 61). Both the batsman put on 166 runs for the first wkt in 22.2 overs. Paras Dogra scored 49 runs with 3×4 2×6 in 34 balls. Umang Sharma scored 29, and Vijay Chaudhary scored 22, and Rajinder Bisht not out with 20. Medium pacer Sumit Narwal again shone with the balls and took 5 wkts for 69 runs. Birender Singh and Gaurav Tomar took 1-1 wkts each.
In reply ONGC lost the first wkts at 32 of Samarth Singh (13) at 32 but veteran Sandeep Sharma and U.P. Ranji player Tanmay Srivastava played a superb innings and put on 202 runs for the 2nd wickets in 25.2 overs. Sandeep Sharma scored 134 runs with the help of 20×4, 3×6 in 100 balls and Tanmay Srivastava scored 97 runs with 10×4 2×6 in 77 balls. Later Gaurav Tomar (20 3×6 in 8 balls), Radhey Shyam Gupta ( 28 not out 1×4 2×6 in 14 balls) helped their team to reach the target of 324 runs in 39.4 overs by losing 8 wkts. Off spinner Pulkit Narang bowled well for FCI and took 4 wkts for 52 runs in 9.4 overs. , Nikhil, Rajinder Bisht, Arjun Gupta and Vinay Chaudhary took 1-1 wkts each.
SCORE BOARD
FOOD CORP OF INDIA :- 323 FOR 8 IN 40 OVERS(CHETAN SHARMA C SAMARTH SINGH B GAURAV TOMAR 100 ( 13X4 2X6 B81), MAYANK SIDHANA C SIDDHANT SHARMA B BIRENDER SINGH 58 ( 7X4 B61), PARAS DOGRA C TANMAY SHARMA B SUMIT NARWAL 49 ( 3X4 2X6 B34), UMANG SHARMA C SIDDHANT SHARMA B SUMIT NARWAL 29 ( 4X4 1X6 B17), GEETANSH KHERA C GAURAV TOMAR B SUMIT NARWAL 5, NIKHIL GANGTA C SAMARTH B SUMIT NARWAL 9, VINAY CHAUDHAARY C BIJENDER B SUMIT NARWAL 22( 3X4 1X6 B14),, RAJINDER BISHT NOT OUT 20 ( 4X4 B10) PULKIT NARANG RUN OUT ( NITISH) 1, ARJUNE SHARMA NOT OUT 5 EXTRA 25 ( B 12, LB 4, 2,W9,)
FOW: 1/166(2), 2/191(1), 3/224(4), 4/238(5), 5/255(6), 6/293(3), 7/298(8), 8/316(9)
BOWLING:- SUMIT NARWAL 10-0-69-4, BIRENDER SINGH 7-0-66-1, SUHAIL SHARMA 5-0-45-0, SIDDHANT SHARMA 3-0-29-0, NITISH RANA 5-0-29-0, VISHAL CHAUDHARY 8-0-51-0, GAURAV TOMAR 2-0-18-1
OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORP:- 324 FOR 8 IN 39.4 OVERS (SAMARTH SINGH C VINAY B NIKHIL 13( 2X4 B16), SANDEEP SHARMA B VINEY CHAUDHARY 134( 20X4 3X6 B100), TANMAY SRIVASTAVA B RAJINDER BISHT 97 ( 10X4 2X6 B77), NITISH RANA C GEETANSH B PULKIT NARANG 9, GAURAV TOMAR C UMANG SHARMA B PULKIT NARANG 20 ( 3X6 B8), RADHEY SHYAM GUPTA NOT OUT 29 ( 1X4 2X6 B14), SUMIT NARWAL ST GEETANSH B PULKIT NARANG 5, SUHAIL SHARMA C PARAS DOGRA B ARJUN SHARMA 7( 1X6 B3), SIDDHANT SHARMA ST GEETANSH B PULKIT NARANG 1, VISHAL CHAUDHARY NOT OUT 1 EXTRA 9 ( LB 1, W 8)
FOW : 1/72 (2) 9.2 OVERS
BOWLING:- JAVED KHAN 5-0-50-0, NIKHIL GANGTA 5-1-30-1, RAJINDER BISHT 6-0-61-1, ARJUN SHARMA 5-0-45-1, PULKIT NARANG 9.4-0-52-4, VINEY CHAUDHARY 8-0-71-1, UMANG SHARMA 1-0-14-0