Jharkhand score big win over Chhattisgarh in National T20 for the Blind

Jharkhand thumped Chhattisgarh by 201 runs on Tuesday in the ongoing seventh edition of the Men's National T20 Cricket Tournament for the Blind for the Nagesh Trophy. With this victory, Jharkhand tops the table with six points.

In the match on November 12, Jharkhand scored a mammoth 253/4 in the allotted 20 overs and then bundled out Chhattisgarh for 52 in 10.3 overs to seal a comprehensive win. Sanjeev Kerketta of Jharkhand was adjudged Player of the Match for his knock of 101 of 68 balls.

In the second game on the same day, Railways defeated Assam. Having been put into bat, Assam managed to score 145/3 in the allotted 20 overs. Railways comfortably chased the total down (146/3) in 15 overs. Akshay Verma (B2 category) from the Railways Team was named the Player of the Match for his gutsy knock of 67 runs.

The league matches of the tournament will be played across six venues: Bengaluru (Karnataka), Kota (Rajasthan), Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), Hyderabad (Telangana), Ludhiana (Punjab), and Kharagpur (West Bengal).

After the league matches end on December 27, 2024, Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI), in association with the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, will hold the Super 8 Stage Matches in February 2025.

A total of 28 teams, including 24 state and three union territories, as well as an Indian Railways team represented by visually impaired employees of the Railways, will compete in this T20 format tournament which began on November 10.

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