Amit Singh’s quick half century helped Venky’s Pune to secure a 3 wicket win over TCS in Sportszone Pune mix corporate cricket tournament
Sportszone present Pune T20 mix corporate cricket tournament 2019-20, Pune 7 Dec. 2019 : Venkys Pune took on Tata consultancy services on 14th December at Verrock Vengsarkar cricket ground, Pune. Tata consultancy services won the toss and chose to BAT first. The pitch was suitable for fast bowlers, offering even bounce to them.
TCS had an extremely good 2nd wicket partnership of 99 runs, Sandeep Sanghai scored 43 runs and Gaurav Bhalerao scored a quick 51 off 36 balls. With few other batters chipping in the score soared to 174 runs losing 8 wickets. For Venkys, Sujit Ubale and Shubham Sutar picked up couple of wickets.
The chase wasn’t a cakewalk for Venky’s batsman and adding to that the top order batsman failed to maintain partnerships. Lower order batsmen Jayesh Rathod(51 off 36) and Amit Singh went all guns blazing in the middle.
The duo went ahead with all their grit when they needed 90 runs in just 6 overs, with their wonderful effort they brought down the equation to 12 runs in the last over. Amit got out in the 4th ball of the last over after hitting a six and very dramatically, no. 7 Omar Akhade scored a 4 in the last ball to seal their wins when they needed 2 runs in the last ball. TCS’s bowlers also bowled pretty well, Abhimanyu Chavan and Tejpal Singh Picked up 2 wickets each.
Result – Venkyspune won the match by 3 wickets.
Amit Singh was awarded the man of the match.
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