SMAT: Padikkal's 45-ball ton wrecks TN
On the back of Devdutt Padikkal's 102 off 46 balls, Karnataka steamrolled Tamil Nadu by 145 runs in Ahmedabad. Padikkal hit 10 fours and six sixes in his knock and was aided by B R Sharath (53) and Smaran Ravichandran (46*) to take Karnataka to 245 for 3 in their allotted overs. In response, Tamil Nadu were bowled out for 100 as Shreyas Gopal and Pravin Dubey picked up three-fers while Vyshak Vijaykumar and Shubhang Hegde picked up a brace.
Abhishek Sharma smashed 50 off 19 while Anmolpreet Singh continued his rich vein of form with a 32-ball 69 as Punjab posted a hefty 222/8 in Hardik Pandya's comeback game. Raj Limbani picked up 3 for 19. But Baroda pulled off the chase successfully with the talismanic all-rounder Hardik smashing 77* off 42 while Shivalik Sharma scored 47 to take Baroda to victory with seven wickets and five balls to spare.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit his first century in the competition with an unbeaten 61-ball 108 in Kolkata. His knock consisted of seven fours and seven sixes which took Bihar to 176/3. But, it wasn't enough as Maharashtra chased the total with three wickets and five balls to spare. Prithvi Shaw continued his good form with 66 off 30 balls to set the tone before the middle-order collectively took the team home.
Goa stunned Madhya Pradesh in Kolkata in a chase of 171 thanks to Suyash Prabhudessai's 50-ball 75*. Abhinav Tejrana scored 55 as well in an 89-run partnership. For the losing side, Harpreet Singh Bhatia scored 80* off 52 while Aniket Verma powered a 13-ball 34 which went in vain. Arjun Tendulkar was the pick of the bowlers for Goa with 3 for 36 in his four overs.
Biplab Samantaray's 61 and Rajesh Mohanty's five-fer (5 for 21) ensured Odisha defended their score of 135/8 in Lucknow. Ajay Mandal picked up a four-fer but it went in vain as only two batters from the Chattissgarh side reached double-digits in their paltry 108 in 19.4 overs, ceding to Odisha by 27 runs.
Gujarat pummeled Puducherry in Hyderabad, as a collective bowling display led by Ravi Bishnoi (3 for 13) and Japagnya Bhatt (3 for 17) had Puducherry bowled out for 83. In response, Aarya Desai hit an unbeaten 30-ball 53 to finish the chase in 9 overs.
Delhi fell short against Tripura in the chase of 158. Barring Nitish Rana's 45, no other batter could get good starts to take the game to Tripura in Ahmedabad. Earlier, for Tripura four batters scored 20s to take them to 157/5.
Ashwin Hebbar's 45-ball 78 powered Andhra to a five-wicket win, setting up a chase of 168 with three balls to spare. Hebbar added 59 runs with Penmetsa Panduranga Raju for the fourth wicket, and another 46 for the fifth wicket with SDNV Prasad. Earlier, Satyanarayana Raju's three-wicket haul kept applying the brakes on Railways' innings, two of those coming in the last over.
Yawer Hassan's 36-ball 57 took J&K to 192 while batting first and set up a 29-run win in Kolkata. Chandigarh were 73/1 in the chase but Manan Vohra's wicket followed by two run outs cost them dearly. Yudhvir Singh Charak's two wickets sliced through the middle order and kept the NRR in check.
Jharkhand captain Ishan Kishan struck 93 off 50 and helped his side pile 209/8 in a massive 84-run win over Saurashtra in Ahmedabad. Chetan Sakariya's three wickets could do little to stop the carnage. Anukul Roy's three wickets later helped Jharkhand defend the target with ease, with Saurashtra bowled out for 125 in 15.1 overs.
Sarfaraz Khan's 47-ball 100* powered Mumbai to a total of 220/4 and a victory of 98 runs over Assam in Lucknow. Sairaj Patil's 9-ball 25 helped finish the innings for Mumbai in style. Chasing, Assam were bowled out for 122 in the last over and were never in the chase. Shardul Thakur picked five wickets.
Karan Lal's 50-ball 113 set up Bengal's chase of 209 with eight balls to spare. He had ample support from Abishek Porel, who hammed 41 off 26 in an explosive 105-run opening stand. HP must have felt they have enough after Ekant Sen's 50-ball 89 and Pukhraj Mann's 36-ball 79 sent Bengal's bowlers all over the park but Shahbaz Ahmed's three wickets at an ER of 9 in a high-scoring game proved to be the difference. Mohammed Shami picked 1 for 31 in his four overs.
Deepak Hooda struck a 50-ball 90 as Rajasthan beat Uttarakhand by 73 runs. Batting first, Rajasthan scored 193/8 even as Rajan Kumar picked four wickets. Uttarakhand were never in the chase, getting bowled out for 120 in 18 overs, with Ashok Sharma picking four wickets and Manav Suthar three.
Ankit Kumar's 53-ball 78 helped Haryana to a comfortable six-wicket win over Services, helping chase a target of 158 with an over to spare. Nakul Sharma earlier struck 57 off 47 but Services never recovered from Anuj Thakral's twin strikes in the last over of the powerplay.
Chinntla Rakshan Readdi and Tanay Thyagarajan picked three wickets each and helped bowl out UP for only 127 in 19.2 overs. Hyderabad chased the target in 17.1 overs, with opener Tanmay Agarwal stroking 43 off 26. Vipraj Nigam picked three wickets but there were never enough runs on the board.
Yash Thakur's five-wicket haul set up Vidarbha's six-wicket win over Kerala. Batting first, Kerala were bowled out for 164 in the last over but kept losing wickets at inopportune times, with 77 being the highest partnership. Atharva Taide's 36-ball 54 helped chase the target with nine balls to spare.
