Sikkim Wins The Inaugural Match Of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021
Chennai, 11 January: Sikkim won their match of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2020-21 against Mizoram by 10 wickets at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai today.
Due to ground condition, the match was reduced from Twenty20 format to five overs. Sikkim won the toss and choose to field first. In the first innings, Mizoram scored 47 runs with the loss of 3 wickets, where Captain KB Pawan scored 27 runs of 13 balls, Pratik Desai 10 runs off 5 balls, Taruwar Kholi 6 runs off 7 balls. Varun Sood and Anureet Singh took 1 wicket each for Sikkim and a run-out was done by Mandup Bhutia of Pratik Desai.
In the second innings, Sikkim made 50 runs in 3.4 overs without any loss of wicket and sealed the match. Anureet Singh scored 28 runs off 12 balls and Varun Sood 21 runs off 10 balls.
SICA executives witnessed this victory as they are on their visit to Chennai for the tournament and happy with today’s performance and wish the team luck for the upcoming matches. Sikkim will be playing a total of 5 matches in the tournament and their next encounter will be with Bihar on 13th January.