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New Delhi: Punjab rode on half-centuries from Gurkeerat Singh and Yuvraj Singh to beat Railways by three wickets in a Group A clash of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Wednesday.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: Punjab rode on half-centuries from Gurkeerat Singh and Yuvraj Singh to beat Railways by three wickets in a Group A clash of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Asked to bat first, Railways produced 246\/9 in their allotted 50 overs.<\/p>\n
Arindam Ghosh top scored for Railways with a 100-ball 83 which included two boundaries and four sixes.<\/p>\n
Yuvraj bagged a couple of wickets for Punjab while Abhishek Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Baltej Singh, Manpreet Gony and Sandeep Sharma bagged a wicket each.<\/p>\n
The Punjab chase was off to a slow start as they lost a couple of early wickets before Yuvraj and Manan Vohra produced a 52-run partnership.<\/p>\n
Yuvraj scored a run-a-ball 66 with six boundaries and a six before being dismissed by Ashish Yadav.<\/p>\n
Gurkeerat then scored an unbeaten 69 off 84 balls and Gony hit a quickfire 46 off 24 balls lower down the order to help Punjab go past the post.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in Group C, defending champions Gujarat defeated Madhya Pradesh by four wickets in Chennai.<\/p>\n
Gujarat produced a disciplined bowling effort to restrict Madhya Pradesh to 213\/9.<\/p>\n
Subham Sharma was the top scorer for Madhya Pradesh with 40 runs.<\/p>\n
Ishwar Chaudhary, Ashav Panchal, Rohit Dahiya and Rujul Bhatt clinched two wickets each for Gujarat while Chintan Gaja got one wicket.<\/p>\n
Kirit Panchal then scored a 78-ball 53 to spearhead Gujarat’s chase. Bhargav Merai (45) also batted well as Gujarat overhauled the target in 43.1 overs.<\/p>\n
Among other matches of the day, Bengal beat Rajasthan by two wickets while Haryana got the better of Assam by 53 runs.<\/p>\n
Brief scores:<\/strong><\/p>\n Group A:<\/strong><\/p>\n Railways: 246\/9 in 50 overs<\/strong> (Arindam Ghosh 83; Yuvraj Singh 2\/35) vs Punjab: 247\/7 in 49.1 overs (Gurkeerat Singh 69 not out, Yuvraj Singh 66; Ashish Yadav 3\/41)<\/p>\n Haryana: 306\/6 in 49 overs<\/strong> (Shubham Rohilla 118, Nitin Saini 54; Amit Verma 3\/47) vs Assam 253\/9 in 49 overs (Pritam Das 65 not out, Arun Karthik 60)<\/p>\n Group C:<\/p>\n Madhya Pradesh: 213\/9 in 50 overs (Shibham Sharma 40; Ishwar Chaudhary 2\/39, Ashav Panchal 2\/46, Rohit Dahiya 2\/32, Rujul Bhatt 2\/44) vs Gujarat: 214\/6 in 43.1 overs (Kirit Panchal 53, Bhargav Merai 45; Saransh Jain 2\/48).<\/p>\n Rajasthan: 274\/9 in 50 overs (Dishat Yagnik 100; Kanishk Seth 4\/59) vs Bengal: 275\/8 in 50 overs (Sudip Chatterjee 85 not out, Abhimanyu Easwaran 79; Rahul Chahar 3\/33, Kamlesh Nagarkoti 3\/50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asked to bat first, Railways produced 246\/9 in their allotted 50 overs.<\/p>\n Arindam Ghosh top scored for Railways with a 100-ball 83 which included two boundaries and four sixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4744,4388,466,877,520],"class_list":["post-33748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-gurkeerat-singh","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-vijay-hazare-trophy","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Delhi: Punjab rode on half-centuries from Gurkeerat Singh and Yuvraj Singh to beat Railways by three wickets in a Group A clash of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n