full outside off, sliced to deep point
UP vs Baroda, Final at Mumbai, Jan 20 2016 - Ball by Ball Commentary
10.00pm The Uttar Pradesh players let out a massive cheer as they pose for the post-match team photos. They've played wonderfully. That brings us to the end of our ball-by-ball coverage of this game. Hope you've enjoyed it. Until next time, ta ta!
Suresh Raina, the UP captain, is also man of the match. "We've played really well as a unit. The bowlers bowled very well, showed character. I've always felt Kuldeep was a very good bowler. He bowls very well in patches, and I felt he needed to bowl more regularly in matches, which is what he has done here, practiced a lot in the nets. I thought over 150 will be a very good total. I looked to build partnerships. Prashant Gupta batted very well."
9.55pm Presentation time. First up, Irfan Pathan: "Losing a final is very disappointing, but really proud of the way the boys played throughout the tournament. Hopefully next year we'll come back and come back hard. Raina played really well, he kept one end safe. It wasn't easy for the new batsman to come in and start hitting the ball. We kept losing wickets. One set batsman would have been there, it would have been easier to hit the ball. I really want to congratulate the groundsman. If we get pitches like this in first-class cricket, it will improve our standards a lot. It had true bounce. Well done, UP."
9.45pm Kuldeep Yadav says he's lucky to have Piyush Chawla as a teammate - "I have a lot to learn from him. PC bhai keeps telling me which areas to bowl and what trajectory to bowl."
Atul: "This could be my happiest cricketing moment since the World Cup win. The years of disappointment in between seem to have gone missing. Who would have thought UP could come back like this after a disappointing Ranji Trophy. Raina's presence played a role maybe."
Tamil: "Yusuf's innings reminds me of Yuvi's innings in Wt20 final. It is almost same."
9.42pm An utterly one-sided game in the end. UP were magnificent with the ball, particularly their spinners, and particularly Kuldeep Yadav, who sucked the air out of Baroda's chase with a spell of 4-0-12-2. Piyush Chawla was accurate and varied his pace well, and pretty much all of the seamers were on the money with their yorkers. You can see why they've won nine on the trot in this tournament, and are deserved winners of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
low full-toss on leg stump, whipped to deep square leg
low full-toss on off stump, clears his front leg and looks to whack it down the ground, ends up skying it loopily into the vacant area at mid-on
very full, angling down leg, misses the flick and it hits him on the pad
Some sort of hold-up in play. Don't know what the issue is. Anyway, we're able to continue now.
short ball angling into the body, doesn't quite middle the swivel-pull but manages to get it into the gap to the left of short fine leg
low full-toss on off stump, makes room and slaps to extra cover
slower ball angling into middle stump. Lets it come on and dabs towards backward point
full on off stump, backs away and swipes to long-on
slower ball angling into off stump, shuffles across and tucks it into the midwicket region
around the wicket to Arothe
very full on leg stump, whipped to deep midwicket
length ball on off stump, goes on the back foot and slaps to cover
in the blockhole on middle stump, whipped over the non-striker's head, bounces down towards long-on
Rishi Arothe is the new man.
gone! That's a fast, back-of-a-length ball in the corridor, and Pinal looks to make room and dab to third man, can only edge to the keeper falling to his right
now he bowls the leg-stump yorker, and all Tai can do is dig it out into the off side
yorker outside off, Tai slogs and misses
low full-toss on off stump, and Irfan swings through the line and hits the ball straight down long-on's throat
now he follows his movement outside off with the yorker, and Tai fails to connect with the attempted helicopter
moved across his stumps before the bowler released. He attacks the base of the unprotected stumps, and he swipes across to try and whip it away. Misses it, the ball misses leg stump, and the keeper fails to stop it with a dive to his left
slants the yorker across, outside off, jabs down and squeezes it to the left of the keeper
yorker on middle and off. Irfan jams down on it and squeezes it to the right of the keeper, off the inside edge
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
VIDAR | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0.017 |
GUJ | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 1.559 |
TN | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 1.136 |
HP | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | -0.025 |
HYD | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -0.270 |
BENG | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -0.786 |
HRYNA | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -1.406 |
Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
KER | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0.873 |
JHK | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0.799 |
SAU | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 1.050 |
PNJB | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 0.528 |
RAJ | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0.034 |
TPURA | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -1.079 |
J + K | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | -2.235 |