A late flourish from Raphi Gomez and Padmanabhan Prasanth helped Kerala upset Baroda by four wickets in a Group A clash of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament’s super league at Wankhede Stadium h
A late flourish from Raphi Gomez and Padmanabhan Prasanth helped Kerala upset Baroda by four wickets in a Group A clash of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament’s super league at Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday.
Chasing 161, Kerala were reduced to 15/3 as Irfan Pathan removed Sanju Samson (0) and Rohan Prem (6). But skipper Sachin Baby (44) steadied the innings with a 59-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Nikhilesh Surendran (36).
Kerala were still under pressure but a 45-run partnership in 17 balls between Gomez and Prasanth (17 not out) turned the game.
Prasanth who picked 2/15 with the ball hit two sixes in the penultimate over to ease the equation. Gomez finished the match with a six to stay unbeaten on 47 off 21 balls. Scores
Group A (at Wankhede): Baroda 160/6 in 20 overs (K. Devdhar 31, D Hooda 32, I. Pathan 35*, P Prashanth 2/15) lost to Kerala 164/6 in 19.4 overs (N Surendran 36, S. Baby 44, R. Gomez 47*, I. Pathan 2/14). Vidarbha 181/4 in 20 overs (Jitesh Sharma 56, Apoorv Wankhade 36*, Urvesh Patel 31*, Sagar Trivedi 2/44) lost to Mumbai 182/5 in 18.5 overs (Shreyas Iyer 86, Aditya Tare 41).
Group B (at BKC): Jharkhand 134/7 in 20 overs (Virat Singh 45, Ishank Jaggi 42, Parvinder Awana 3/28, Manan Sharma 2/28) lost to Delhi 138/5 in 18 overs (Nitish Rana 60*, Dhruv Shorey 30, Varun Aaron 3/27). Gujarat 165/6 (Manpreet Juneja 54, Chirag Gandhi 41*, Praveen Kumar 2/32) lost to UP 167/3 in 19 overs (Samarth Singh 65, Umang Sharma 38, Eklavya Dwivedi 33, Suresh Raina 21, Rush Kalaria 2/19).
