Dreamz Trophy Plate B Pre Q-F: GEP send arch rivals CGI home; Rohan grabs six-for
Venue: R.B.I
It seems as if T20 can be made more exciting by having low scoring ties. The way teams are making efforts to defend low totals is really good for cricket in the long term. Recently a team defended 123 by just 4 runs. Now GEP Solutions defended 126. What’s more! The margin of victory a whopping 31 runs! 27 more than the previous match. This was indeed one of the best low scoring lop sided victories one would ever witness, international matches included.
The story doesn’t end here. In fact, it turns spicier! CGI group had defeated GEP solutions twice in 2013 and 2014. Though they were only league games, a loss is a loss. So this was a sweet revenge for GEP Solutions against their old rivals. What’s more! This one sided win came in a knock out encounter making the revenge even sweeter as they sent CGI packing.
Tejal, Captain of GEP Solution says, “For me it was a sweet revenge because when I started playing with GEP, my first match was against CGI in 2014 and we ended up on the losing side. This year, finally we managed to pull out a win against them when it mattered the most i.e.in the knockout stage”
In the Pre quarter finals of Dreamz Champions Trophy Regular Plate B, GEP Solutions won the toss and elected to bat first. Openers provided a decent start to the innings, scoring 20 runs in first 4 overs. But GEP kept losing wickets at regular intervals and were also not able to increase the scoring rate throughout the innings. But valuable contributions from middle order batsmen including captain Tejal’s 20, Giri’s 16 helped GEP cross the run a ball mark and ended up with 126 runs on the board on the penultimate ball of the innings. Sanjeev was the chief tormentor with the ball scalping 4 wickets in his 4 overs.
127 was relatively easy target to chase. To add to that, CGI had their recent favourable record against GEP. But no one was aware of a thunderstorm that was awaiting by the name of Rohan Nayak. Rohan ran through the batting line up of CGI, capturing 6 wickets and giving away just 7 runs. Only Rohit (38 runs) and Vibodh (20 runs) could withstand him for some time, but writing was on the wall very clearly. Five of Rohan’s dismissals were either bowled or LBW, stating the class of bowling display by him.
Rohan’s heroics prevented a third consecutive defeat for GEP against CGI and knocked them out of the tournament. He was deservingly adjudged man of the match for his devastating spell.
Brief Scores:
GEP: 126 All out in 19.5 overs (Tejal 20, Kingsly 18, Sanjeev 4/35, Rohit 2/32)
CGI: 95 All out in 17.3 overs (Rohit 38, Vibodh 20, Rohan 6/07)
Match Report by:
Sumanyu Jain
Regional Manager & Editor @CricketGraph