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Kharagpur Blasters victorious


18th September 2021
In a rain hit Byju's Bengal T20 Challenge match today Kharagpur Blasters defeated Kolkata Heroes by 6 runs at Eden Gardens today. The rain affected match was reduced to a 5 overs per side affair. Put to bat first Kharagpur skipper Kazi Junaid Saifi struck a fluent 15-ball 29 containing 3 boundaries and 2 sixes to post a total of 42/4 in their quota of overs. While chasing Kolkata Heroes were restricted to 36/3 in front of a disciplined Kharagpur bowling attack. Kaif removed Karan Lal early as Kolkata lost their opener to get reduced to 3/1. Subhankar Bal (18) along with Ritwik Roy Chowdhury (7) tried to resurrect the innings with a 22-run partnership till Sandipan Das (jr) sent back the Kolkata wicketkeeper. After that Pradipta Pramanik bagged 1 wicket and Kaif bowled a tight over to help Kharagpur win the game. Earlier Pintu Kumar removed Kazi to reduce Kharagpur to 35/1. Experienced spinner Ramesh Prasad starred with the ball bagging 3 wickets leaking just two runs in the last over to send back Abhimanyu Easwaran (4), Mohit Roy (6) and Md Kaif.




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