Bhuvneshwar leads Blue to title
India Blue's bowlers, led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, thwarted Delhi's powerful batting order to win the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy
29/09Result
Final, NKP Salve Challenger Trophy at Indore, Sep 29 2013
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![India Blue]( "India Blue")
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![Delhi]( "Delhi")
224 (44.4/50 ov)
Player of the Match
29/09Result
Final, NKP Salve Challenger Trophy at Indore, Sep 29 2013
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![India Blue]( "India Blue")
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![Delhi]( "Delhi")
224 (44.4/50 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Match Details
Toss
India Blue , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
India Blue won the 2013/14 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.00 start, First Session 09.00-12.30 Interval 12.30-13.15, Second Session 13.15-16.45
Match days
29 September 2013 (50-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
INDIA BLUE 274/9 (50 OVERS)
- Piyush Chawla42 (32)
- Manish Pandey62 (78)
- Rajat Bhatia4/59 (12)
- Parvinder Awana4/39 (8)
DELHI 224 (44.4 OVERS)
- Punit Bisht*54 (49)
- Milind Kumar54 (67)
- Vinay Kumar3/64 (10.4)
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar4/39 (9)
Scorer: S Balasubramanian | Commentator: Chandan Duorah
India Blue wins the 2013/14 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy. They clinch the title by 50 runs, Vinay Kumar, Piyush Chawla and Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled well and early wickets set the tempo for them. Earlier in the morning Manish Pandey and Chawla helped them to get a challenging total. For Delhi, Milind Kumar and Bisht tried their best and also not to forget Nehra. The big guns in the names of Gambhir, Chand and Sehwag falls early, Kohli got a start but can't carried it on.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar named Man of the Match. Thanks for all you comments and following the game, that's all we had from this season of Challenger trophy, stay cool, cheers!
44.4
W
Vinay Kumar to Suyal, OUT, All Over! back of a length delivery, round the wicket, pitched it around leg and moving away from Suyal, he backs away and tries to hoicks it over midwicket, managed only an edge and Ojha dives to left and takes a good catch to bring the victory.
P Suyal c †Ojha b Vinay Kumar 0 (8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
kallu: "Nehra is a kind of guy who respects only the balls and not their bowlers"
44.3
1
Vinay Kumar to Bisht, 1 run, on middle and leg, nudged through midwicket
44.2
6
Vinay Kumar to Bisht, SIX, length delivery, on middle and leg, over the Bisht strikes that over point and bring his half-century
44.1
4
Vinay Kumar to Bisht, FOUR, length delivery, outside off, shuffle across and scoops it to the left of short fine leg
END OF OVER:44 | 1 Run | DELHI: 213/9 (62 runs required from 36 balls, RR: 4.84, RRR: 10.33)
- Pawan Suyal0 (7b)
- Punit Bisht43 (46b)
- Ankit Rajpoot8-1-35-0
- Vinay Kumar10-1-53-2
43.6
0
Rajpoot to Suyal, no run, fuller time time, on middle and leg, pushed to mid-off
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India Blue's bowlers, led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, thwarted Delhi's powerful batting order to win the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy
