Andrew Hall impressed with bat and ball as Chandigarh Lions won the opening Twenty20 match of the inaugural Indian Cricket League today, beating Delhi Jets by eight runs.
The Lions posted a total of 134 all out off their 20 overs with three overseas players posting solid scores. Hall made 31 not out while New Zealanders Hamish Marshall (23) and Chris Cairns (22) also made useful contributions.
South African Hall was not finished there and then took two for 26 off his four overs with Daryl Tuffey of New Zealand taking three for 16.
Put in by Delhi, Imran Farhat put on 40 for the first wicket with Marshall before the latter was caught by Dale Benkenstein off the bowling of Jai P Yadav.
Farhat was run out for 21 before Chetan Sharma was trapped lbw by Ali Murtaza who then bowled Cairns.
Abhishek Sharma took three wickets while Murtaza and Yadav took one more each to polish off the innings with Hall unbeaten in his knock which came off 28 balls.
Hall was quick to strike with the ball, removing opener Taufeeq Umar for two. Monish Mishra (18) and Marvan Atapattu (29) looked set to lead the Jets to victory but then the innings faltered.
Yadav (21) and Abbas Ali (30) added 37 for the sixth wicket before the former became Hall's second victim and Delhi ran out of time and balls.
Source : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
Friday, November 30, 2007
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