Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Shubham Singh's brilliance gives J&K win over Andhra

A second consecutive half-century from Shubham Singh Pundir and an all-round show from Parvez Rasool gave Jammu and Kashmir a five-wicket win over Andhra in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Shubham Singh Pundir scored a 36-ball 51 in J&K's win over Andhra. (File Image)

Jammu & Kashmir pulled off a five-wicket win over Andhra in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T-20 cricket championship league match at Mulapadu Cricket Complex here on Monday.

Andhra, put into bat, scored 146 for seven in 20 overs with wicketkeeper-batsman K. Srikar Bharat (41, 38b, 3 x 4, 1 x 6) being the top-scorer. The other batsmen found the bowling tough to score off as medium-pacer Ram Dayal (two for 23) was the main wicket-taker. Off-spinner Parvez Rasool bowled a tidy spell of 4-1-19-1.

Day 4: As it happened

In reply, J & K achieved the target thanks to a belligerent knock by Shubham Singh Pundir, who cracked his second consecutive half-century (51, 36b, 6 x 4, 1 x 6) and Parvez Rasool’s breezy 22-ball 31 (1 x 4, 2 x 6).

In another match, Delhi recorded a comfortable, seven-wicket win over Kerala thanks to a fine knock by Nitish Rana (52 not out, 36b, 4 x 4, 2 x 6) after opener Unmukt Chand struck a 32-ball 33 (2 x 6).

Manipur notched up the most emphatic win of the day here when it drubbed Nagaland by 10 wickets with openers Mayank Raghav (80 not out, 45b, 4 x 4, 6 x 6) and P. Prafullomani (51 not out, 54b, 4 x 4, 1 x 6) batting with lot of freedom to help the team chase down a target of 133 easily.