Mumbai Champs went down to Royal Bengal Tigers by 12 runs in Sunday’s first match at the Sardar Patel Stadium. Electing to bat, Tigers started off emphatically with openers Hamish Marshall (55) and Deep Dasgupta putting on 84 .
Dasgupta was deceived by Sridhar Iyer’s seaming delivery and was stumped by keeper Subhojit Paul for 32. Iyer then accounted for Marshall (55).
Lance Klusener and Rohan Gavaskar scored 30 apiece to help the Tigers to 170 for 4. In reply, the Champs folded up for 158, with a ball to spare.
Brief scores: Royal Bengal Tigers 170/4 in 20 overs (Marshall 55, Dasgupta 32, Iyer 2-32) beat Mumbai Champs 158 in 19.5 overs (Jadhav 39, Van Der Wath 35, Nechim 3-22 ) by 12 runs.