Mumbai beat Bengal by 10 runs

Ajinkya Rahane. Pic/AP, PTI

Mumbai pacer Mohit Avasthi led his side's attack brilliantly with a 3-25 as Bengal choked in their small chase of 132 to suffer a 10-run defeat in their Elite Group B match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament here on Saturday.

Defending 19 runs in the final over, Avasthi took two off two balls by dismissing the hard-hitting Shahbaz Ahmed (12) and Writtick Chatterjee (0) to seal a second win for the Ajinkya Rahane-led side. But it was their other pacer Tushar Deshpande (2-19) who turned it around in the middle overs by dismissing a well set Ritwik Roy Chowdhury (31) in the 17th over that triggered the collapse.

Brief scores
Mumbai 131-7 (S Dube 24; W Chatterjee 2-19) beat Bengal 121-8 (K Ahmed 31, R Chowdhury 30; M Avasthi 3-25, S Lad 2-16, T Deshpande 2-19) by 10 runs

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