Bihar defeat Madhya Pradesh by three wickets

Bihar picked up two points by defeating Madhya Pradesh by three wickets in the first round of the CricInfo Trophy Senior Women's National Cricket Championship at the Gymkhana Ground in Jorhat on Monday.

Chasing a target of 100, Bihar got off to a steady start with openers Nitu Singh (29 runs of 48 balls) and Kamini Kumari (7 runs of 25 balls) putting on 37 runs. Bihar wicketkeeper Geethe Samanth Rao chipped in with 23 runs of 42 balls but there was a minor collapse with Madhya Pradesh's Preeti (3 for 19) bowling an incisive spell. But MP's paltry total was highly inadequate and Bihar were home in the 33rd over.

Earlier, put into bat, MP's openers V Bharti (17 runs of 33 balls) and P Ketaki (7 runs of 26 balls) put on 28 runs in 6.5 overs. But soon MP were in trouble with three of their four middle order batswoman run out cheaply. They could not really recover and were all out in 32.5 overs for only 99.