- BATSMENRB4s6sSR48.1 Went for a inside-out lofted drive, spooned it up over cover 303/330.3 Steps down the track but chips straight to midwicket 177/148.4 Fantastic innings from Karthik comes to an end. HE goes for a slash to a delivery outside off but gets a nick behind 306/442.1 Went for a pull, leading edge takes the ball to thirdman's throat. With eight overs left, he had to go for his shots. 254/2Extras28 (lb 6, nb 3, w 19)TOTAL317/4 (50 Overs, RR: 6.34)Fall of wickets: 1-177 (Gautam Gambhir, 30.3 ov), 2-254 (Rohit Sharma, 42.1 ov), 3-303 (Robin Uthappa, 48.1 ov), 4-306 (Dinesh Karthik, 48.4 ov)
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR11.3 short of a length delivery, Jaffer looks to drive on the up, balls moves away a shade and kisses the outside edge, neatly taken by Karthik behind the stumps, crucial wicket for India Red there 53/23.1 Sourav Ganguly is out. It was a back of length delivery, angling across, Ganguly jabbed at it, feet in a tangle and the inside-edge crashes into the stumps 10/132.3 Patel's vigil ends. A tired shot. It was tossed on the middle and off, Patel backs away and produces a weak attempt to loft it but it balloons towards long-on 165/614.2 Kumar, the pinch hitter, is gone without pinching anything. banged in short, Kumar backs away but is surprised by the bounce, just pushes at it and is swallowed in the first slip 69/326.5 Deceived in the air brilliantly, aif on the back foot and trying to pull it, ball hurries through and crashes into the stumps. Fantastic bowling from Powar. Gets his man with a beautiful set-up 138/427.2 GONE. Another wicket. Short ball from Kartik this time, almost a long hop. Raina pulls it but doesn't get it in the meat of the bat. Hits it straight to short fine leg where Rohit Sharma plucks a dolly of a catch. India Red on a roll here 139/536.1 Powar scalps another wicket with his flight and loop. Badani, in pursuit of runs, comes down the track but the the ball dips, ends up lofting straight to Rohit Sharma at long-off 178/744.4 Manhas' valiant rearguard ends. He walks across the stump to a length delivery outside off, tries to pull but the ball gets big on him, ends up offering a simple catch to midwicket 249/848.3 Perishes trying to go for the maximum. He walks across the stumps and swings a low full-toss to Sreesanth at long-leg 278/948.4 VRV Singh cleans up the middle stump of Nehra with a perfect yorker and India Red are through to the finals 278/10Extras23 (lb 1, nb 10, w 12)TOTAL278 all out (48.4 Overs, RR: 5.71)Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Sourav Ganguly, 3.1 ov), 2-53 (Wasim Jaffer, 11.3 ov), 3-69 (Praveen Kumar, 14.2 ov), 4-138 (Mohammad Kaif, 26.5 ov), 5-139 (Suresh Raina, 27.2 ov), 6-165 (Parthiv Patel, 32.3 ov), 7-178 (Hemang Badani, 36.1 ov), 8-249 (Mithun Manhas, 44.4 ov), 9-278 (Lakshmipathy Balaji, 48.3 ov), 10-278 (Ashish Nehra, 48.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Z Khan 10 0 67 0 6.70 5 0 S Sreesanth 8 1 34 2 4.25 2 0 VRV Singh 7.4 0 54 4 7.04 3 4 RR Powar 10 0 36 3 3.60 2 0 M Kartik 10 0 52 1 5.20 0 5 Y Venugopal Rao 1 0 10 0 10.00 0 0 TP Singh 1 0 10 0 10.00 0 0 RG Sharma 1 0 14 0 14.00 0 0
Match Details
Toss
India Red , elected to bat first
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00 Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15
Match days
3 October 2006 - day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Points
India Red 4, India Green 0
Match Notes
- RV Uthappa retired hurt on 81* from 164/0 to 254/2
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
Match Coverage
All Match NewsIndia Red win convincingly to advance to the final
Three plucky half-centuries helped India Red seal a spot in the final of the Challenger Series, wrapping up the final league game by a comfortable 39-run margin.
Little to play for really
If this Challenger Series held the public's imagination at any stage, it certainly didn't beyond 7pm on Tuesday, when the tournament ended for Sourav Ganguly.