Amnat Hussain’s fine all round show featured in B4S CC beating MCC (Yellow) by 85 runs to record their fourth win and jump to third spot (with 6 points) behind joint leaders “Red” and “Green” (with eight points) in the MCC (Elite) Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here.
Amanat has been displaying tremendous form both with bat and ball so far this season. He had just missed century in the earlier tie, but today, he not only excelled with bat, scoring 56, he bagged a brace of wickets (2/39) as “Yellow” fell short 85 by runs. Raj Agrahan (2/33) shared the bowling honours with him.
JSF were beaten by Raju Pathak CA by 5 wickets in another tie, played at the adjacent plot. . Replying to JSF’s score of 171, RPCA reached their target with five wickets in hand.
Brief scores:
MCC Pro-40 (Elite) League: B4S CC 257/7 (Amanat Husain 56, Pradnesh 51, Abhinandan Chawan 44; Ziya H 3/31, Nisarg Chaudhari 2/52) bt MCC (Yellow) 172/5 (Aryan Shukla n.o. 52, Horil Kumar 45, Asfaq Siddiqui 30; Amanat Hussain 2/39, Raj Agrahan 2/33) by 85 runs
JSF 171 all out (Ridhikant Tripathi 45, Lohit Suvrna 3/34) lost to RPCA 172/5 (Arpan Das 33, Tejas Chalke 32, Nitin Vishwakarm n..28; Soumya Singh 2/22) by 5 wkts.