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Bengal beat Tamil Nadu with Shahbaz Ahmed’s all-rounder game

India’s recent debutant Shahbaz Ahmed’s all-rounder play helped Bengal register an impressive 43-run win over Tamil Nadu in their Group E match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy on Sunday. The Haryana player, representing Bengal, played an aggressive innings of 42 runs in 27 balls and contributed significantly in taking the team’s score to 164 for six. He also did wonders in his bowling, taking three wickets for just 13 runs in four overs, due to which Tamil Nadu’s team could score 121 runs for nine wickets.

Apart from Shahbaz, Abhimanyu Easwaran (38), Sudip Gharami (27) and Ritwik Chaudhary (32) also contributed well with the bat for Bengal. Washington Sundar took two wickets for Tamil Nadu, while Sai Kishore, T Natarajan, and Varun Chakraborty took one wicket each. Chasing the target, Sai Sudarshan scored 64 runs in 48 balls but he did not get the support of any other batsman from the other end.

Shahbaz picked up the crucial wickets of Baba Aparajit (16) besides Sanjay Yadav (zero) and Washington Sundar (four) after taking a brilliant catch from opener N Jagadeesan (2) off Akash Deep. In the other match of the group, Odisha registered a one-wicket win over Chandigarh in a thrilling match that lasted till the last ball. Rakesh Patnaik played an aggressive innings of 61 not out in 24 balls for the team. Chandigarh made 179 for six when invited to bat first.

For the team, Bhagmendra Lather scored 59 runs in 41 balls with seven sixes while Raj Bawa scored 40 runs in 17 balls. Odisha lost two wickets for five runs in reply but Shantanu Mishra (39) and Subryanshu Senapati (47) finished the innings with useful contributions and Patnaik gave the team victory with a daring batting.

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