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Bengal beat Services by 60 runs as Vidarbha survive 26 for 6 to beat J&K
Four Ranji Trophy games finished a day early on Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh beat Goa by 68 runs and Vidarbha squeezed past the defending champions by three wickets.
Key points
- Bengal bowled Services out for 148 to win by 60 runs at Palam.
- Vidarbha slipped to 26 for 6 chasing 79 before beating Jammu and Kashmir by three wickets.
- Uttar Pradesh beat Goa by 68 runs as Kartik Yadav took 5 for 37.
Bengal finished off Services at the Air Force ground in Palam on Tuesday afternoon, bowling them out for 148 to win their Ranji Trophy Group C match by 60 runs with a day to spare.
Services, set 209, had reached 121 for 5 by the middle session but could not find a partner for Nitin Tanwar, who top-scored with 49. Pradipta Pramanik took 4 for 48 and Shahbaz Ahmed 3 for 44, giving the all-rounder seven wickets in the match on his return from injury. Bengal, who won without Mohammed Shami, took six points.
Vidarbha hold their nerve
The most dramatic finish of the day came in Group A, where Vidarbha needed only 79 to beat the defending champions Jammu and Kashmir and almost made a mess of it. Sunil Kumar ripped through the top order with 4 for 30 and Vidarbha were 26 for 6. Harsh Dubey (22 not out) and Nachiket Bhute (13 not out) then saw them home by three wickets.
Ravikumar Samarth’s 143 had earned Vidarbha a first-innings lead, and Bhute had taken 5 for 48 in J&K’s first innings.
UP and Tamil Nadu complete wins
Uttar Pradesh beat Goa by 68 runs in Kanpur. Chasing 236, Goa were all out for 167 despite Suyash Prabhudessai’s 72, with Kartik Yadav taking 5 for 37 and Vaibhav Chaudhary 3 for 33. Rinku Singh, whose unbeaten 118 rescued UP on the first day, was player of the match.
Tamil Nadu had earlier beaten Uttarakhand by an innings and 66 runs in Chennai, with R Sai Kishore finishing with 10 wickets in the match and Pradosh Ranjan Paul named player of the match for his 136.
The other matches in the round finish on Wednesday.