Mahendra Singh Dhoni enthralled one and all with some breathtaking sixes but a young Bengal side put up a spirited display to beat Jharkhand by 41 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy semi-final here on Saturday
Jharkhand skipper MS Dhoni during the Vijay Hazare Trophy semi-final against Bengal in New Delhi on Saturday. Pic/PTI
New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni enthralled one and all with some breathtaking sixes but a young Bengal side put up a spirited display to beat Jharkhand by 41 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy semi-final here on Saturday.
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Bengal will now meet Tamil Nadu in the final. Bengal had lost to Dinesh Karthik and Co. in the two successive finals in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Riding on twin hundreds by Abhimanyu Easwaran (101) and Shreevats Goswami (101) and a blistering 75 from skipper Manoj Tiwary, Bengal scored an imposing 329 for four in 50 overs.
But one of the greatest finishers of the game, Dhoni took the battle back to the enemy camp, hitting 70 off 62 balls, before they were bundled out for 288 in 50 overs.
The four sixes were vintage Dhoni and the 2000-odd spectators who had come to watch him in action were not disappointed. They were ecstatic when Ashoke Dinda dropped a sitter at long-off that trickled down to the boundary.
The hapless off-spinner Amir Gani watched in disbelief as Dhoni then hit him for two sixes over long-on.
Pragyan Ojha (5-17) was the pick of the Bengal bowlers.
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