Patna, March 18, 2009
Patna opened their knock out campaign in the Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) under-22 inter-district championships in style defeating Khagaria by 103 runs at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Wednesday. With this win, Patna moved into semi-finals.
In the semi-finals on March 20, Patna will play against the winners of the match between Muzaffarpur and Bhojpur.
Batting first, Patna failed to impress and could collect a modest 184 runs off 50 overs losing all the wickets. Ranjit Kumar played a sheet anchor knock of 64 runs. Kundan Gupta (27), Amit (22) and Shridhar (20) were the other notable contributors. Khagaria bowlers kept Patna batsmen on tight lease through out the innings. Kaushal and Saket grabbed two wickets each for 11 and 8 runs respectively.
In reply, Khagaria lost three quick wickets in early part of the innings against Chandan Singh and Munish Khna’s accurate bowling. Khagaria failed to recover from the setback and folded out for 81 runs off 33 overs. Jitendra Kumar top scored with 22 runs and Mukesh Yadav made 15 runs. Chandan Singh took three wickets while Munish Khan captured two wickets for 34 runs.
Ranjit Kumar was named man of the match.
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