Senior Women's T-20 League : Manipur suffer 8-wicket loss to Nagaland
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 16 2022: After a brilliant start to the Senior Women's T-20 League Plate Group campaign yesterday, Manipur went down by 8 wickets to Nagaland today at ACA Stadium, Barsapara.

As Nagaland bowlers produced a brilliant bowling performance, Manipur were restricted to 91 for 9 in 20 overs before Nagaland chased down the target within 12 (11.5) overs for the loss of only 2 wickets.

Opting to bat first, Manipur had a dismal start losing Kalpana (6) who hit a four to KP Navgire in the third over her partner Th Loidangton (3) was run out with the completion of 5th overs.

Nagaland bowlers kept pressing for more wickets and PN Khemmar reduced Manipur to 20/3 in the third delivery of the 6th over.

Linthoingambi RK (7) and Monica (8) managed to gather 20 run fourth wicket partnership in the next three overs thanks to 5 extra runs conceded by the Nagaland bowlers but Monica was removed by Gautami Naik in the 4th delivery of the 9th wicket to make the scorecard read 40/4 .

Hardly Manipur got on their feet, Gautami Naik completed her two wicket haul removing Linthoingambi (9) for the fifth wicket and Milan Y was then sent packing for 6 runs by Merensola for the 6th wicket in 11.4 overs as Nagaland bowlers continued to hold sway.

From 52 for 6, Chingkhei M (11) and Binomala (7) gave Manipur a brief respite forging a 25 run partnership off 29 balls but things fell off soon as Binomala holed out to Gautami Naik off Tairenla in the third delivery of the 17th over.

Chingkhei M tried to anchor but got run out for the highest 21 runs off 21 balls in the first delivery of the 19th over before Kiranbala Haorungbam (3) and Th Mangalsana (1) see out the innings with 91 runs on the scoreboard.

With sub 100 target on sight, Nagaland had an easy chase as KP Navgire took on Manipur bowlers with ease and blazed off 9 fours and 6 sixes on her way to 38-ball 81quickfire. Manipur got the breakthrough in the fourth ball of the 8th over with Th Mangalsana removing Alemienla (2) who had forged a 60 run partnership with KP Navgire (56) .

Th Mangalsana also went on to remove Sentilemla (4) in the second delivery of the 12 overs when Nagaland were only 6 runs away from the win and KP Navgire (81) with Kekhrieno (0) steered Nagaland to victory in the next three balls.

Manipur will play Arunchal Pradesh in the next league match on April 18 at Amingaon Cricket Ground.

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