Deepak Chahar has a knack of hitting headlines. The Rajasthan pacer, who in his Ranji Trophy debut, claimed eight wickets for 10 runs to bundle out Hyderabad for 21 in 2010, captured a rare five-for in T20 to help his team stun a star-studded Karnataka by 22 runs in a Mushtaq Ali Trophy super league match here on Tuesday.
Asked to bat, Rajasthan aggregated 160 for eight. Chahar’s career best figures, five for 15, shut out Karnataka for 138 runs.
Karnataka’s chase was upset because of its torrid start. Lamba bowled Karun Nair in the first over before Chahar wreaked havoc.
Chahar struck in his second over, castling R. Samarth and having Abhimanyu Mithun caught behind in consecutive deliveries. Chahar, who took four wickets in five balls, was again on a hat-trick in his third over as C.M. Gautam was caught by Lamba and Stuart Binny was trapped in front. By the end of Chahar’s first spell, 3-0-9-4, Karnataka was tottering at five for 24.
Chahar returned to complete his five-wicket haul by dismissing Karnataka captain R.Vinay Kumar.
The scores:
Group A: Rajasthan 160 for eight in 20 overs (Ankit Lamba 58, Aditya Garhwal 31, Sreenath Aravind three for 25, Vinay Kumar two for 29) bt Karnataka 138 in 20 overs (Aniruddha Joshi 73, Deepak Chahar five for 15, C.P. Singh two for 31).
Punjab 149 for seven in 20 overs (Mandeep Singh 48, Abhishek Gupta not out 31, Manpreet Grewal 25, Kaushal Singh three for 26, Varun Aaron two for 20) lost to Jharkhand 150 for six in 19.3 overs (Ishan Kishan 54, Kaushal Singh 29, Saurabh Tiwary 24, Brainder Singh Sran two for 19).
Group B: Bengal 170 for six in 20 overs (Sudip Chatterjee 51, Vivek Singh 32, Shreevats Goswami 26, Manoj Tiwary 25, Kulwant Khejroliya two for 25, Pradeep Sangwan two for 27) bt Delhi 167 for eight in 20 overs (Dhruv Shorey 84, Lalit Yadav 45, Sayan Ghosh three for 24, Kanishk Seth three for 25).
Uttar Pradesh 162 for four in 20 overs (Suresh Raina 61, Shivam Chaudhary 38, Akshdeep Nath not out 38, Washington Sundar two for 32) lost to Tamil Nadu 163 for five in 19.2 overs (Sanjay Yadav 52, Washington Sundar 33, Bharath Shankar 30, Mohsin Khan two for 20, Ankit Rajpoot two for 37).
