Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: Talented opening batter Shivanti Gupta continued her brilliance with the willow, but Jammu and Kashmir suffered a crushing defeat against formidable Tamil Nadu in the ongoing Senior Women’s T20 Trophy at Amingaon Cricket Stadium, Guwahati today.
Earlier, put into bat, J&K scored 111/2 in the stipulated 20 overs. Shivanti Gupta top scored with unbeaten 48 runs off 56 balls, while Rubia Syed contributed unbeaten 36 off 42 balls, studded with 2 fours and 2 sixes.
For Tamil Nadu, Niranjana Nagarajan took 1 wicket.
In reply, Tamil Nadu chased the target easily in 15.1 overs by losing 2 wickets, thus won the match by 8 wickets. R Abarna top scored with 44 runs, while skipper MD Thirushkamini and Niranjana Nagarajan contributed 26 and unbeaten 25 runs to the total respectively..
For J&K, Nadia Chowdhary and Rubia Syed claimed 1 wicket each.
The J&K team is being accompanied by Chetan Dhingra as Head Coach, Irshad Hassan as Manager, Meenu Singh Slathia as Assistant Coach, Anuradha Sharma as Co-Manager, Sushil Pajnu as Video Analyst, Lovely Bansal as Physiotherapist and Rohit Rana as Strength and Conditioning Coach.
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