Cuttack: Give Ashok Dinda an inch and he'll takes a mile. Given a game on Saturday, the Bengal pacer had done enough for India Blue skipper Yuvraj Singh skipper bowling with Irfan Pathan in sunday's Challenger Series final. He made it count in telling fashion.
Removing Parthiv in his first over, he struck the most debilitating blow on India Red when he removed the dangerous Rohit Sharma in his next over. Badrinath's men never quite recovered from those blows and he 151 they put up was always going to be easy meat for the Blues on a wicket that had shown marked improvement over the past four days.
The entire top-order had their fill, Robin Uttappa adding a 42 ball 46 to his scored of 94 and 76 in he tournament. He declared man of the series. India Blue' pacer Trivedi declared man of the match for his 3 for 23.
Toss: India Red, who chose to bat first Result: India Blue won by 8 wickets (with 146 balls remaining) Man of the Series: Robin Uttappa |
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India Red Inning | ||
PA Patel | lbw b Dinda | 0 (8) |
M Vijay | c Karthik b Trivedi | 30 (37) |
RG Sharma | c Kohli b Dinda | 1 (6) |
S Badrinath | b Ashwin | 56 (95) |
JN Shah | b Trivedi | 4 (9) |
AM Nayar | c Kohli b Trivedi | 4 (10) |
PP Chawla | c Nanda b Ashwin | 3 (11) |
P Kumar | lbw b Nanda | 35 (37) |
R Vinay Kumar | not out | 7 (20) |
MB Parmar | b Pathan | 0 (10) |
L Balaji | lbw b Pathan | 5 (16) |
Extra (b 1, lb 1, wd 3, nb 1) | 6 | |
Total | 151 (43.0 Ov) | |
India Blue Inning | target 152 (50 overs) | |
AM Rahane | lbw b Parmar | 53 (64) |
RV Uthappa | c Vijay b Chawla | 46 (42) |
V Kohli | not out | 35 (45) |
Yuvraj Singh | not out | 8 (3) |
Extra (lb 1, wd 9) | 10 | |
Total | 152/2 (25.4 Ov) |