Monday, February 2, 2009

Media Cup cricket: Big win for Rashtriya Sahara




Patna, January 27
Defending champions Rashtriya Sahara opened their title hunt in style drubbing All India Radio (AIR, Patna) by 122 runs in pool 'A' league match of the 4th Airtel Media Cup Twenty20 cricket championship at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Tuesday.

Rakesh Chouhan of Rashtriya Sahara, who claimed four wickets, including a hat-trick, and made unbeaten 32 runs, was declared man of the match.

Earlier in the first match of the same pool, Doordarshan Kendra, Patna, (DDK, Patna) thrashed Radio Mirchi by five wickets. DDK, Patna skipper Vijay Kumar, who made 23 runs, was declared man of the match.

Brief scores:
Rashtriya Sahara: 180 for two wickets in 20 overs(Nitosh Jha-51, Abhay Pathak-34, Rakesh Chouhan-32 not out, Rajeev Ranjan-42 not out, Alakh-1/21, Manik-1/30)

All India Radio: Patna: 58 all out in 16.4 overs (Nawal Kishore-11, Deepak-22, Rakesh Chouhan-4/2, Nitosh Jha-2/9, Rajeev Ranjan-2/20, Birendra-1/12, Bhaskar-1/2).
Man of the match: Rakesh Singh Chouhan
Radio Mirchi: 93 for six wickets in 20 overs(Umang Vikram-27 not out, Ratnesh Kumar Rai-11, Damodar-2/26, Gopal Sharma-2/13, Jitendra-1/10)
DDK, Patna: 94 for five wickets in 15 overs(MK Sinha-18, Vijay Kumar-23, Gyanesh-18 not out)
Man of the match: Vijay Kumar


Sanmarg, Dainik Jagran win
Sanmarg beat News Agencies by 89 runs while Dainik Jagran beat Times of India by 67 runs in pool B league matches on Wednesday.

Brief scores:

Sanmarg: 155 for 9 off 20 overs (Md Shadab 43, Mayank Sharma 26, Apurva Verma 20, extras 24, Shivaji 3 for 12).
News Agencies XI: 55 all out of 15.5 overs (Vinay 16, extras 30, Mayank 4 for 12, Md Shadab 3 for 14).
Man of the match: Md Shadab
Dainik Jagran: 142 for 4 off 20 overs (Alok Chaturvedi 50 not out, Ramesh 40, Amrendra 25 not out, Vivekanand 10, extras 10, Avnit 2 for 26).
Times of India: 75 all out off 18 overs (Sanjeev Tiwari 25, Avnit Kumar 20,extras 13, Alok Chaturvedi 3 for 5 , Sumit 2 for 25, Manish Singh 2 for 2).
Man of the match: Alok Chaturvedi
Photo caption: Top: News Agencies XI (in red) and Sanmarg players pose for a group photograph in Patna on Wednesday.
Bottom: Dainik Jagran (in sky blue) and Times of india players in Patna on Wednesday.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

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