Madhya Pradesh tossed out after dramatic tie

Karnataka recovered only due to some fine restrictive bowling by off spinner Anand Yalvigi and Mansoor Ali Khan. MP slumped to 209 for six in the 38th over. It was then that Sahu played his hand till MP needed two runs off the last ball. Sanjay Pandey got just one leg bye. The spin of coin decided the winner, and Karnataka skipper Sujith Somasundar called heads, correctly.

Earlier, put in to bat, Karnataka were superbly served by openers J Arunkumar (71: 83b, 7×4, 1×6) and Mithun Beerala (78: 104b, 9×4) who added 165 in only26 overs. Anand Yalvigi made a quickfire 32 (19b, 4×4, 1×6) at the end.

Scoreboard

Karnataka: Arun Kumar c Ankit b Abbas 71; Beerala st Srivastava b Majithia 78; Somasundar lbw b Abbas 17; Thilak c Srivastav b Majithia 4; Akhil c Srivastav b Sodhi 23; Shiraguppi lbw Abbas 2; Yalvigi c Srivastav b Yadav 32; Katti c Sodhi b Chauhan 9; Johnson c Sahu b Yadav 17; Ganesh c Pandey b Chauhan 5; Mansoor (not out) 6. Extras (lb4, nb14, w11): 29.
Total (all out in 49.3 overs) 293.
Fall of wickets: 1-165, 2-176, 3-184, 4-208, 5-222, 6-224, 7-249, 8-268, 9-285.
Bowling: Sodhi 8-0-50-1; Pandey 5-0-41-0; JP Yadav 10-0-58-2; Majithia 10-0-52-2; Chauhan 6.3-0-51-2; Abbas Ali 10-0-37-3.

Madhya Pradesh: Yadav lbw Mansoor 9; Khurasia c Sujith b Johnson 79; Sodhi c Shiraguppi b Mansoor 4; Bundela st Shiraguppi b Katti 47; Abbas b Yalvigi 20; Sahu (not out) 67; Raja Ali b Mansoor 21; Chauhan c Yalvigi b Mansoor 12; Srivastav (run out) 3; Majithia (run out) 2; Pandey (not out) 6. Extras(lb9, nb8, w6): 23.
Total (for 9 wickets in 50 overs) 293
Fall of wickets:

1-34, 2-38, 3-123, 4-166, 5-178, 6-209, 7-245, 8-258, 9-267.
Bowling: Ganesh 10-0-65-0; Mansoor 10-0-54-4; Johnson 10-0-60-1; Akhil 5-0-28-0; Yalvigi 10-0-42-1; Katti 5-0-35-1.

Gokulakrishnan scalps five in thrilling finish

Chennai: In a touch-and-go affair, Bengal very nearly mauled their formidable rivals on Friday, taking the game to the last over of which they needed 12, with two wickets on hand. Tamil Nadu medium-pacer DJ Gokulakrishnan, making an impressive debut, stalled Bengal’s advance by accounting for the last two batsmen, finishing with a memorable haul of 5 for 55. Owing to smog the match was reduced to 46 overs. Board President’s XI rattled up 263 for 7 in the allotted overs while Bengal ended up at 257 off 45.5 overs.

Jyoti Yadav (52: 71b, 6×4), skipper Mohammed Azharuddin (56) and Sanjay Bangar (51 not out: 34b, 4×4) scored for the Board side.

Scoreboard

Board President’s XI:SS Das c Sengupta b Panda 5, Jyoti Yadav lbw Chatterjee 52, Azharuddin b Lahiri 56, S Sriram c S Panda b W Mazumdar 14, S Sharath (run out) 15, Sanjay Bangar (not out) 51, Aashish Kapoor lbw Gavaskar 19, Vijay Dahiya c Chatterjee b Shukla 30, DJ Gokulakrishnan (not out) 4. Extras (lb-2, b-1, nb-1, w-13) 17.
Total (7 wkts, 46 overs) 263.
Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-117, 3-129, 4-155, 5-158, 6-180, 7-237
Bowling: Shukla 8-0-48-1, Panda 8-1-59-1, Lahiri 10-0-50-1, Chatterjee 9-0-48-1, Mazumdar 6-0-26-1, Gavaskar 5-1-29-1.

Bengal: Nikhil Haldipur c Sriram b Gokulakrishnan 26, Laxmi Ratan Shukla c Dahiya b Gokulakrishnan 0, Sumeet Panda c Gokulakrishnan b Bangar 49, Rohan Gavaskar c KArthik b Gokulakrishnan 71, Srikant Kalyani b Karthik 14, Saba Karim c Aashish b Karthik 50, Utpal Chatterjee b Aashish 4, M Sengupta b Karthik 10, W Majumdar c Bangar b Karthik 5, Charanjit Singh b Gokulakrishnan 12, S Lahiri (not out) 1. Extras (w-4, lb-8, nb-3) 15.
Total (45.5 overs)257
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-29, 3-149, 4-167, 5-190, 6-194, 7-237, 8-237, 9-252.
Bowling: Kumaran 9-0-58-0, Gokulakrishnan 8.5-1-55-5, Karthik 10-0-45-3, Bangar 4-0-27-1, Aashish 9-0-34-1, Sriram 4-0-25-0, Azharuddin 1-0-5-0.