PDCA senior division league: Contrasting wins for SBI and Patna College

Patna, April 11, 2009
Patna College struggled to edge past Patna Electric Supply Undertaking (PESU) by one wicket in the PDCA senior division league at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Saturday. In the first match of the day, State Bank of India (SBI) defeated Navshakti Niketan by 48 runs.

Batting first SBI collected 174 runs for the loss of two wickets off 30 overs. Mridul and Arvind Jha slammed half centuries. In reply, Navshakti Niketan stumbled out for 126 runs off 27.2 overs. Deepankar Kumar Sinha ran through the Navshakti innings claiming six wickets for 29 runs.

PESU made 136 for 7 off 30 overs while Patna College achieved the target with eight balls to spare losing nine wickets.

Brief scores:
SBI: 174 for two wickets in 30 overs (Mridul-54, Arvind Jha-52 not out, Rajeev Prasad-13, Tarun Kumar-29 not out, Rajan-1/22, Rajesh Choudhary-1/22)

Navshakti Niketan: 126 all out in 27.2 overs (Ram Kishore-13, Rajesh Choudhary-31, Vinay-26 not out, Mukesh-10 not out, Deepankar Kumar Sinha-6/29, Rajeev Prasad-2/13)

PESU: 136 for seven wickets in 30 overs (Indrajeet-27, Nikhilesh Ranjan-38, Rajesh Sinha-15, Kislay-12, Amit Nicky-5/18, Sunil-1/23, Gyanendra-1/10)

Patna College: 137 for nine wickets in 28.4 overs (Vikas-19, Amit Kumar-23, Amit Nicky-18, Gyanendra-21, Chandan-11 not out, Vishnu Shankar-2/14, Tushar-2/33, Nikhilesh Ranjan-3/23, Rajesh Sinha-2/30)