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Powered by tons from Robin Uthappa and Srikkanth Anirudha, India Green hammer India Blue by 79 runs to set up the title clash of the Challenger series against India Red.
Sent into bat, India Green posted a enormous 348 for nine, with openers Uthappa and Anirudha setting up the stage for the huge score with their 203-run partnership.
Uthappa, who had retire hurt after implementation his century but later came back to bat, produced a sparkling knock of 132-runs from just 103 balls, decorated with 14 fours and three shots over the fence.
Anirudha take 88 balls for 111 runs and help himself with 13 fours and three sixes.
India Green then shot out India Blue for just 269 in 41.4 overs with left-arm pace man Samad Fallah being the most winning bowler with three wickets.
India Blue made a forceful start to their chase in spite of losing Tanmay Srivastava (3) early in the innings as Murali Vijay (45) and Saurabh Tiwary (74) common a quick fire 87-run position for the second wicket.
However when the two batsmen were dismiss, necessary run-rate kept hiking up as the outstanding batsmen could not score quickly.
Dinesh Karthik (49) and Manish Pandey (32) resist for some time but their knock only abridged the beat margin.
Earlier, Uthappa and Anirudha tore separately the rival assault, beating fours and sixes almost at will before the former retire hurt after a 203-run stand in just 23 overs.
Uthappa had to leave as he could no longer use a runner under the new rules of the ICC. He came back to the fold after Ishank Jaggi got out and finally departed for a well-made 132.
The opening duo of Uthappa and Anirudha hit 22 fours and six sixes throughout their partnership.
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