Thane: Tamil Nadu beat Goa by 33 runs in the league match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy ODI series. Goa won the toss and bowled first in the match at Dadhoji Stadium (Maharashtra) yesterday. Sai Sudarsan and N. Jagatheesan started the Tamil Nadu innings together. Jegatheesan 2, Sai Kishor 3 runs out, Tamil Nadu stumbles with 2 wickets for 16 runs. In this situation, Sai Sudarsan – Baba Aparajith pair played responsibly and added 90 runs for the 3rd wicket.
Aparajith scored 40 and became lbw at Arjun Tendulkar’s pace. Vijay Shankar took the wicket on 24 runs and Sai Sudarsan, who played in an uncharacteristic manner at the other end, scored a stunning century. He scored 125 runs (144 balls, 10 fours, 1 six) off the bowling of Vlasi Arjun and was clean bowled. Indrajith was run out with 24 runs, Shahrukh Khan 9 and Varun Chakraborty returned to the pavilion with 4 runs. Tamil Nadu scored 296 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs. Captain Dinesh Karthik scored 47 runs (31 balls, 6 fours, 2 sixes) and Sandeep Warrier (0) remained unbeaten.
In Goa bowling, Arjun Tendulkar took 3 wickets, Darshan Misal, Garg and Mohit Redkar took 1 wicket each. Following this, Goa, who came into the field with a tough target of 297 runs to win, scored only 263 runs in 50 overs and were all out. Krishnamurthy Siddharth top-scored with 61, Snehal Gauthankar 55, skipper Mishal 36 and Rahul Tripathi 26, while other players failed to score significantly.
Sandeep Warrier 4, Sai Kishore, Aparajith 2 each, Natarajan and Sai Sudarsan took 1 wicket each in Tamilnadu bowling. Tamil Nadu won by 33 runs and got 4 points. Puducherry defeat: Puducherry lost by 80 runs against Saurashtra in Bengaluru yesterday. Saurashtra 222 all out in 48.5 overs (Harvik Desai 81, Dharmendra Singh 56, Chirag Jani 38). Puducherry 142 all out in 49 overs (Arun Karthik 48, Dogra 23, Aravindraj 22, Gaurav 21).
