Bengal lose but top group

Kolkata: Bengal lost their last league match against Chandigarh by eight wickets in Lucknow on Saturday but still finished at the of top Group E of the Syed Mushtaq Ali (T20) meet thereby making it to the quarterfinals. Mumbai, Punjab, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh also made the quarters. The Abhimanyu Easwaran-led side ended with 18 points from six matches, winning four and losing one game while the game against Odisha was washed off. tnnSummarised scores (GRp E) Bengal 135/8 in 20 ovs (Abhimanyu Easwaran 46; Jagjit Singh 3/28) Chandigarh 138/2 in 17.1 ovs (Ankit Kaushik 57*) Chandigarh won by 8 wkts. Sikkim 58 in 17 ovs (Vikash Singh 2/10, Manishi 2/10) Jharkhand 61/0 in 6 ovs (Nazim Siddiqui 40*) Jharkhand won by 10 wkts. Chhattisgarh 167/7 in 20 ovs (Amandeep Khare 57; Mustaq Beg 2/29) Odisha 80 in 17.3 ovs (Subhranshu Senapati 24; Ravi Kiran 2/2, Shubham Agarwal 2/7). Chhattisgarh won by 87 runs.