An impressive start for Team Datamatics in its debut outing in the Times Cricket Shield ‘18

Datamatics who are playing professional cricket tournament like Times Cricket Shield for the first time are giving the experienced teams a hard time. The current Datamatics team who are very powerful and experienced in the shorter format at the corporate level are proving to be equally promising in the longer format too. In the match which was played against Bank of Maharashtra at the Azad Maidan ground, BOM won the toss and elected to bat first.

However, their decision to bat first proved to be costly as they were bundled out for just 109runs in 35.1 over. The bowlers did a really good job bowling tight where in Sagar was the most impressive of the lot bagging 4/15 in 9.3 overs while Pratik and Ritesh taking 2wkts each. It was overall a good job by the boys where in they bowled in good line and length not allowing the batsman to score runs freely. Sagar in particular was spot on being the pick of the bowlers.

Chasing a score of 110, Datamatics openers Vinayak and Malang Aras gave a flying start almost finishing the chase single handedly. Vinayak scored a match winning 50 which included some really good shots while Malang Aras also chipped in with an attacking 39.

Datamatics eventually won the match by 7wkts in a comfortable win and they are really looking promising where all the players are collectively doing a good job.

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