IPL misses out on fine wine as Pravin Tambe silently shuts down the critics with towering perfomance in the Mumbai premier League ‘18

There are some things which improves with age. They don’t detoriate but their value and presence just keeps on improving as the time passes.  Only a real car lover will know the value of an old Mercedes, only a royal smoker will know the value of a fine cigar and only the finely bred intellectuals who are connoisseurs of drinking will know the value of a 47yr old bottle of wine compared to the newly made. A 47year old bottle of english wine gets sold for lakhs while a new freshly made bottle of wine gets sold for nothing more than a thousand bucks.

Such is the case of Pravin Tambe-a bowler who has been improving leaps and bounds with age. He just gets better and better with age. You stand besides him and you will not realize that he is a 47yr old practicing besides you. Infact one may get complex looking at his fitness levels, his passion, dedication and enthusiaism towards the game. Tambe just recently showed how potent he can be in T20’s when he came up with record bowling figures in the match between Arcs Andheri and Namo Bandra Blasters at the Wankhede Stadium where in Bandra Blasters won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Arcs Andheri were bundled out for 107runs and a major reason for that was their leg-break bowler Pravin Tambe who came up with amazing bowling figures of 3/8 in 4overs.  Conceding just 8runs at an economy of 2runs per over is a very rare feat in a hig-profile T20 game and not everyone can attain such bowling figures. Tambe took crucial wickets while also kept the batsman in check. Apart from him, medium pacers Aiswarya Surve and Azhar Ansari bagged 2wkts each. Chasing 108 was a mere formality for Bandra Blasters and why not when you have Shreyas Iyer opening the innings & as always indulging in regal batting. Shreyas smashed an unbeaten 53* while he got good support from no.3 Nikhil Patil who scored 39* off 35deliveries to seal the chase in just 13.2overs.

NaMo Bandra Blasters won the match by 9wkts and 6.4 overs to spare & it was definitely Pravin Tambe with the ball who silently proved how priceless he is with the ball while Shreyas and Nikhil doing the job perfectly with the bat.

CRICKETGRAPH