Mohun Bagan defeated East Bengal in the final of J.C. Mukherjee T-20 Trophy today by 5 wickets. East Bengal scored 160/9. Bagan’s Laxmi Ratan Shukla(46) and Anustup Majumder(67) partnered to win for Bagan. Debabrata and Sanjib did the rest of the work. Saurasish (16/6) was the best bowler for Bagan. Earlier Mohun Bagan beat Town in the semifinal at Jadavpur University ground. Mohun Bagan scored 187/3 (20 overs) by the help of 84 runs in 51 balls of Anustup Majumdar. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and Laxmi Ratan Shukla have both scored 33. In the reply Town only managed to score 110 in 16.5 overs. Sultan Ahmed and Shibsagar Singh of Mohun Bagan have picked up 5 & 4 wickets respectively.
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Mohun Bagan 2-2 Geroge Telegraph
Mohun Bagan were held to a 2-2 draw by George Telegraph at mohun Bagan ground leaving last season’s runners-up battling with Mohammedan Sporting for the Runners Up position this year. Bagan is virtually out of the championship. Bagan is now having 11 points from 6 matches, and is currently in second position with a 7 point difference from the league topper. Mohammedan Sporting is having 11 points from 6 matches – but Bagan has a better goal difference- the only reason to keep them in the second spot.
Goals from Jewel Raja and Manish Bhargav (U-19) gave Bagan 2-0 lead in the first half. Add to it – shiladitya of George got a marching order in the 25th minute but they were soon level when Emeka Michael scored twice in the second half. First one due to poor clearance by Daniel Zeleny and the second one due to handball of Mohanraj.
The only good outcome for bagan in this game was Manish Bhargav – a promising youngstar with a good prospect.
Mohun Bagan: Shilton, Dhanarajan, Zeleni (Anwar), Kingshuk (Pradeep), Mohonraj, Manish Bhargav, Masih, Jewel, Nabi, Ashim, Jagtar (Sakhatar).
Yellow Card: Kingshuk
Defense, Lien and rest of the season
It has been reported in a popular newspaper that the Technical Director of Team Mohun Bagan is upset about Daljit Singh for his poor performance against Dempo SC. mohunbaganclub.com finds this claim to be absolutely baseless and wonders the reason behind this kind of reporting. In the said match Daljit Singh replaced Rahim Nabi in the 58th minute. Dempo failed to score a single goal after Daljit was fielded.
Meanwhile Subhasish Roy Choudhury can join Mohun Bagan in lien. Bagan can sign in 2 Under 19 players as well.