Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Shorey's 84 goes in vain as Delhi lose way

KOLKATA: Bengal pulled off a narrow three-run victory over Delhi in their Super League Group B match of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at the Jadavpur University Salt Lake campus ground on Tuesday.
Delhi, with two wins in three matches are still on top of the table, but with Tamil Nadu taming UP in the day’s other match, Group B is now wide open.
Delhi made heavy weather of chasing down Bengal’s tally of 170/6.However, overcoming mid-innings blues, Delhi got themselves in a winning position before losing the plot again the last two overs as Bengal snatched victory from jaws of defeat.
A good start was the need of the hour for Delhi, but they lost their openers Gautam Gambhir (1) and Rishab Pant (4) cheaply for the second match running. Dhruv Shorey, as he had done against Baroda on Monday, came to Delhi’s rescue with a strokeful 84. He made Bengal pay for letting him off thrice during his 46-ball knock which included seven boundaries and four sixes.
Brief scores:Bengal 170/6 in 20 overs (Sudip Chatterjee 51, Vivek Singh 32; Pradeep Sangwan 2/27, Kulwant Khejroliya 2/25). Delhi 167/8 in 20 overs (Dhruv Shorey 84, Lalit Yadav 45; Kanishk Seth 3/25, Sayan Ghosh 3/24). Bengal won by 3 runs.
Rajasthan 160/8 in 20 overs (Aditya Garhwal 31, Ankit Lamba 58; S Aravind 3/25, Vinay Kumar 2/29). Karnataka 138 all out in 20 overs (Aniruddha Joshi 73*; Deepak Chahar 5/15, Chandra Pal Singh 2/31). Team Rajasthan won by 22 runs.
Uttar Pradesh 162/4 in 20 overs (S Raina 61, S Chaudhary 38, A Nath 38 not out; W Sundar 2/32). Tamil Nadu 163/5 in 19.2 overs (S Yadav 52; Mohsin Khan 2/20, A Rajpoot 2/37). TN won by 5 wickets.