Left-arm Spinner Harshit Jain castles batsman with a stunning 12wkt haul in the Kanga League ‘17
Played at the United Cricketers, Cross Maidan on nov 5, it was a match between two promising teams namely United Friends SC and Prabhu Jolly CC where in Prabhu Jolly boys won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Batting first, United Friends Sports Club made a very decent score of 202/10 in 44.5 overs where in Pratik Singh top scored with 42 at the middle order while Amar and Ritesh chipped in with 30’s. Pratik Singh was also supported by a handy partnership down the order with Harshit jain who chipped in with 21 down the order. Experienced cricketer Akshay Powale was the pick of the bowlers as he took 4/45 in 12 overs while he was supported well by the other bowlers too. However, Prabhu Jolly batsman were bundled out for just 45runs in 12.4 overs due to some great bowling by the opposition. Left-arm spinner Harshit Jain was the wrecker in chief as he castled the batsman with his confusing spin to take an amazing 5wkt haul. Harshit took 5/23 in 6overs while Jalil and Bipin also bowled well taking the other 5wkts between them. Harshit shared his excerpts with Cricketgraph and said ” The opposing team won the toss and elected to bat. We lost quick wickets just before lunch but i had a partnership with Pratik Singh who scored 46 runs while i chipped in with 21. The wicket had turn and bounce which eventually helped me to extract the best out of it”
Prabhu Jolly were given a follow on by United Friends and they again troubled the batsman with their excellent bowling. Harshit Jain who had already taken 5wkts in the 1st innings went on to take another 7wkts in the 2nd innings to restrict Prabhu Jolly CC to 106/all out in 24.3 overs. Harshit came up with excellent bowling figures of 7/38 in 10.3 overs to take his tally of wkts to 12 in the match. United Friends comfortably won the match outright by an innings and Harshit was definitely the star performer. Cricketgraph congratulates Harshit while wishes luck to both the teams for a great season ahead.
CRICKETGRAPH