Sikkim Girls’ Beats Arunachal Pradesh In A One Day Match

The Senior Women’s team of Sikkim is playing Senior Women’s One Day Trophy currently in Puducherry and today in a match against Arunachal Pradesh, they defeated the opponent by 79 runs. With this win, Sikkim earned 4 Point(s). The match was played at Siechem Stadium, Puducherry.

The toss was won by Arunachal Pradesh and Captain Neelam Rajput they choose to field first. In the first innings, Sikkim scored 202 runs in 50 overs losing 5 wickets. Captain of Sikkim Ananya Upendran and Wicket Keeper Tshering Ongmu Lepcha gave a good start holding an opening partnership of 52 runs. Ananya scored 42 runs, Subhi Pandey (43*), Archana Das (40), Tshering Yangden (20), Purni Maya Gurung (17*) and Tshering Ongmu (13). Subhi Pandey and Purni Maya Gurung remained not-out. Pebi Gara of Arunachal Pradesh took 3 wickets.

Sikkim gave the opponent the target of 203 runs to win in 50 overs at a run rate of 4.06 per over. Subhi Pandey forced Joyti Yadav, the opening batswomen of Arunachal Pradesh to return to the pavilion without scoring and built the pressure to the opponent. Tabita Subba took the important wicket of the captain Neelam Rajput who was at her 50’s, after which the game totally changed in favor of Sikkim. Munnu Hangma Limboo took a total of 3 wickets, Tabita Subba 2 wickets, Dichen Ongmu Lepcha, Shristi Rai, and Subhi Pandey took 1 wicket each and Arunachal Pradesh was all-out for 123 runs in 40.3 overs.

Team Sikkim showed a good game in this match where the guest players and locals equally contributed to the win with both bat and ball.