In the 13th match of the ICL 50s being played here at the Mayajaal Sports Village, Kolkata Tigers defeated Chandigarh Lions by 3 wickets. Chandigarh Lions skipper Dinesh Mongia won the toss and elected to bat. Abu Nachim was declared was declared man of the match for his brilliant match winning 45 and 2 for 51.
In the must win match Chandigarh Lions, managed to put a score of 272 for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted 50 overs after an awful start. The Lions innings was off to a shaky start as both openers Chetan Sharma and Manish Sharma were back in the pavilion by the 5th over, with the score on 16. This brought in captain Dinesh Mongia and T P Singh who put on 102 runs to take Lions to a safer position after their horrid start. Playing captain’s knock Dinesh Mongia struck a solid 108 off 129 balls hitting 6 boundaries and 4 sixes. T P Singh gave him able support with a 64 balls 47. Singh’s wicket brought in Reetinder Sodhi who scored quick 62 off 73 balls hitting 5 boundaries and a six. He along with Dinesh took the score past 220 in 45th over. After the departure of Mongia and Sodhi rest of the Lions wickets fell cheaply. The stand out performance for the Tigers came from Abu Nachim took 3 for 52 and Syed Ahmed who took 2 for 33 to keep the Lions total in check.
Chasing the target Kolkata Tigers didn’t have good start. Captain Deep Dasgupta was retired hurt in the 4th over. This brought in Abhishek Jhunjhunwala who along with Parviz Aziz put on a partnership of 48 runs. Aziz scored 32 off 26 balls hitting 5 boundaries. Kolkata Tigers lost three quick wickets in the span of 4 overs taking the score to 124 for 4 in 18.3 overs. This brought in Rohan Gavaskar who entered into two crucial partnerships. First partnership with Ali H Zaidi for 23 runs and second with Abu Nachim for 76 runs to take Tigers to the winning position.. Rohan Gavaskar scored 67 off 82 balls hitting 3 sixes and 3 boundaries. Abu Nachim scored brilliant 45 off 41 balls and was declared man of the match. For Chandigarh Lions the pick of bowlers was Rajesh Sharma who took 3/31.
With both the teams out of competition Chennai Superstars will clash with Delhi Jets in the finals of ICL50s at Mayajaal Sports Village on February 10, 2008.
Brief scores: Kolkata Tigers 311 for 7 wickets in 50 overs (Rohan Gavaskar 67,Abhishek Jhunjhunwala 47,Abu Nachim 45,Rajesh Sharma 3/31,Dinesh Mongia 2/41) defeated Chandigarh Lions 272 for 7 wickets in 50 overs (Dinesh Mongia 108 , Reetinder Singh Sodhi 62 , T P Singh 47 , Abu Nachim 3/52 , Syed Ahmad 2/ 33) by 3 wickets.
Source : http://www.indiancricketleague.in/
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