da bet7： Punjab defeated Bengal by eight wickets in the CricInfo Trophy women’sNational Cricket Championship at the JDSA Ground in Jorhat on Tuesday
22-Mar-2000Punjab defeated Bengal by eight wickets in the CricInfo Trophy women’sNational Cricket Championship at the JDSA Ground in Jorhat on Tuesday.Punjab, powered by a fine innings of 98 not out in 102 balls byGulshan, reached the victory target of 170 in 35.3 overs. ThoughGulshan lost Anjuman Bassi (8) at 31 in the seventh over, she sealedthe match for Punjab with a 119-run second wicket stand in 29 overswith Gurdeep Kaur (24). Then Anjali Sharma (8) joined Gulshan to guidePunjab home in the 36th over.Earlier, electing to bat, Bengal openers Anaya Mitra (11) and SeemaBhowmick (13) put on 28 runs in eight overs. But then they lost somequick wickets and were 56 for 3 in 19.3 overs. However ChandrabatiPall (36) and Rumeli Dhar (43) added 73 runs in 12.5 overs for thefourth wicket. Jhulan Goswami (19) then joined Chandrabati in a fifthwicket partnership worth 31 runs in 5.4 overs. But after that, therewas little substance in the Bengal innings and they were all out for169 in 45.2 overs.