Patna, February 15
Seeing is believing. The Sunday morning at the Moinul Haq Stadium here lit up with flurry of strokes coming from the bat of Pratyay Amirt, a senior IAS officer and presently heading the profit-making Bihar State Bridge Corporation. IAS officers were on the filed to play a friendly Twenty20 cricket match against sports journalists of Bihar. The match was organized by the Sports Journalists Association of Bihar. Pratyay scored an electrifying half-century to help his side Officers XI beat Sports Journalists Association of Bihar (SJAB) XI by 23 runs.
Officers XI skipper Pratyay Amrit won the toss and judging the nature of the pitch collecting all the wisdom of his playing days at college decided to bat on a perfect batting track. Despite losing the wicket of Ajay Nayak early, Officers XI scored 129 for three wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Seeing is believing. The Sunday morning at the Moinul Haq Stadium here lit up with flurry of strokes coming from the bat of Pratyay Amirt, a senior IAS officer and presently heading the profit-making Bihar State Bridge Corporation. IAS officers were on the filed to play a friendly Twenty20 cricket match against sports journalists of Bihar. The match was organized by the Sports Journalists Association of Bihar. Pratyay scored an electrifying half-century to help his side Officers XI beat Sports Journalists Association of Bihar (SJAB) XI by 23 runs.
Officers XI skipper Pratyay Amrit won the toss and judging the nature of the pitch collecting all the wisdom of his playing days at college decided to bat on a perfect batting track. Despite losing the wicket of Ajay Nayak early, Officers XI scored 129 for three wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Pratyay and another senior IAS officer CK Mishra joined together for a 90-run partnership for the second wicket. Pratyay looked more aggressive while Mishra played a sheet-anchor role. Pratyay’s half century was studded with five boundaries and a huge six. CK Mishra also batted well to score 28 runs. Pratyay and Mishra both retired to give chance to other batsmen to show their skills. Armit (12) and Ajay Nayak(6) were the other notable contributors.
Sanjeev Das with his right arm medium-pace took one wicket for nine runs in his spell of four overs. Md Ishauddin and Ramesh took one wicket each.
In reply, SJAB XI could manage to score 106 for nine wickets in 20 overs. Md Ishauddin of Rashtriya Sahara top scored with 18 runs. Abhijeet Biswas of PTI scored 16 runs while Arun Singh of Dainik Jagran struck 12 runs. Hindustan’s Prashant Kakkar (11) and Navin Chandra Manoj (9) were the other useful contributors. Armit bagged two wickets for 25 runs. Ajay Nayak took one wicket.
Sushmita Ratan, Chief Sub Editor, Hindustan Times gave away the prizes to players of the Officers XI. Ajay Nayak, Rajesh Bhushan , Pratyay Amrit and CK Msihra (all IAS officers) jointly gave away the prizes to SJAB XI players. Director of the Techno Point (Bahagalpur), Anshu Singh, who was the chief guest at prize-distribution function, gave away the best player trophies to Pratyay Amrit (Officers XI) and Md Ishauddin (SJAB XI). The convenor of the match Niraj Kumar Pappu was awarded special prize by Pratyay Amrit. RK Sinha, chairman cum managing director, SIS and Mirtunjay Tiwari, president, Bihar Players Association were present during the match.
In reply, SJAB XI could manage to score 106 for nine wickets in 20 overs. Md Ishauddin of Rashtriya Sahara top scored with 18 runs. Abhijeet Biswas of PTI scored 16 runs while Arun Singh of Dainik Jagran struck 12 runs. Hindustan’s Prashant Kakkar (11) and Navin Chandra Manoj (9) were the other useful contributors. Armit bagged two wickets for 25 runs. Ajay Nayak took one wicket.
Sushmita Ratan, Chief Sub Editor, Hindustan Times gave away the prizes to players of the Officers XI. Ajay Nayak, Rajesh Bhushan , Pratyay Amrit and CK Msihra (all IAS officers) jointly gave away the prizes to SJAB XI players. Director of the Techno Point (Bahagalpur), Anshu Singh, who was the chief guest at prize-distribution function, gave away the best player trophies to Pratyay Amrit (Officers XI) and Md Ishauddin (SJAB XI). The convenor of the match Niraj Kumar Pappu was awarded special prize by Pratyay Amrit. RK Sinha, chairman cum managing director, SIS and Mirtunjay Tiwari, president, Bihar Players Association were present during the match.
Photo caption: Officers XI and SJAB XI players pose for photograph at the prize-distribution function after their exhbition T20 cricket match in Patna on February 15, 2009.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui
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