U-19 cricket: Nagaland women all out for 2, Kerala reach target in 1 ball

When talking about cricket in India, the North-East states are not really the first names that come to mind. But Nagaland is on a mission to rectify that, albeit for all the wrong reasons.

After participating in a 'record-breaking' 136-wides match with Manipur on the opening day of the BCCI's Under-19 Women's North East Championship earlier in the month, the U-19 girls from Nagaland were bowled out for just two runs.

The Nagaland Under-19 Women playing against Kerala at the JKC College Ground in Guntur, managed to put only two runs on the board, which Kerala chased down in just one ball. The Nagaland-Kerala match bettered the previous world record set by Nepal, who had won the match in two balls against Myanmar in their ACC match in 2006.

Nagaland batters stuck around for 17 overs but managed to score only two runs, with one of those runs coming from a wide. Menka, who opened the innings for Nagaland, scored the only run off the bat as the rest of her team was all sent back to the dressing room for ducks.

Kerala's captain Minnu Mani was the pick of the bowlers, as she picked up four wickets as well as keeping it tight with four maidens to boot. Sourabhya P bowled six maidens and picked up two wickets as Sandra Suren and Biby Sebastin picked up one wicket apiece.

In Kerala's chase, Deepika Kaintura began the innings with a wide as opener Ansu S Raju struck a boundary of the only legal ball of the innings to get her team past the required score for a record-breaking win.