In the Senior Women’s One Day League played at Ravenshaw University Ground-2, Cuttak, Puducherry Won the match comfortably against Meghalaya.
Meghalaya, who won the toss and chose to bat first, were sailing smooth till the second wicket at 83 in the 29th over. Meghalaya were 130 for 3 when Dutta was out (51 off 117 balls). Thereafter, only Vandana Mahajan, who scored 40 off 67 balls, could push the score to put a total of 167 for Puducherry. For Puducherry, Radhi took 3 for 31 off 10 overs, while Rebecca took 2 for 37 off 10 overs and Astalakshmi and Kani took one wicket each.
Puducherry lost Latika and Ramya Maharajan early and Sandya Mounika was out for 22 off 58 balls, when the score was 89. Then Gouher launched the attack in the company of skipper Anagha. Gouher scored 69 off 76 balls with 8 fours and one six, while Anagha scored 38 off 53 balls with 4 fours. For Meghalaya, Trisha Bera took 2 for 22 off 10 overs.
“The new born baby puducherry reached the mountain’s peak, but……”
While running to reach the peak of the plate group, with no other team to come closer among the nine teams in the Plate group, having won the match by 5 wickets and with this victory, the new born state Puducherry finishes the league stage only to feel the sarcasm of being tied on 28 points with Utharkhand, with a slender margin of 0.341 net run rate difference compared to it’s NRR of 1.548 against Utharkhand’s 1.889, and like a bitter pill struck in the throat, Puducherry stands No.2 in the points table for the year 2018-2019, which is a noteworthy and an excellent achievement in the first year of it’s recognition as a separate state, which is also a big morale booster not only for Senior Women’s Cricket Team of Puducherry but also for other teams of the state to strive hard to finish on top of the table in 2018-2019, which will have a good impact to begin the next season.
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