Vijay Hazare Trophy: Nagaland beat Arunachal by 4 wickets

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 16 (MExN): Nagaland defeated Arunachal Pradesh by 4 wickets today in the ongoing men’s senior Vijay Hazare Trophy during their plate group match at Abhimanyu Cricket Ground, Deradhun.

 
Arunachal won the toss and elected to bat first managing to score 212 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 50 overs. 


Rahul Dalal (61 runs),  Uvais Ahmed (32 runs) and Song (35) runs were Arunachal’s top scorers. For Nagaland Imliwati with 4 wickets was the best bowler, followed by a wicket each for Stuart, Mugavi and Inakato.


Achieving the target, Nagaland scored 213 runs in 45.2 overs while losing 6 wickets. Yogesh was Nagaland’s top scorer with 91 runs while Aosashi, Stuart and Srikant chipped in with 28, 24 and 20 runs respectively. 


Nagaland is next scheduled to play Manipur on October 17. 


Meanwhile, in the Vinoo Mankad U-19 boys trophy, Nagaland lost to Pondicherry by 33 runs.