Manish’s tight bowling and Sunny’s 52* steers simply one to a win in the Skyline Champions League ‘17

Played at the Skyline Cricket Ground at Gurgaon, Haryana. It was a match between the experienced Reefit Gym Warriors and simply one. Reefit Gym warriors have been exceptional in this tournament and has played a lot of games on this ground as compared to simply one. On winning the toss, simply one elected to field first with an aim of restricting the opposition to a low total.

Batting first, RGW managed to score 149/10 in 19.5 overs which is a fairly decent total to defend. Openers Rahul (33 off 23) & Hitesh (45 off 46) gave an excellent start but most of the batsman below them could not convert the good start given by the openers. From the bowling side, Manish Verma was the pick of the bowlers coming up with impressive bowling figures of 3/22 in 4 overs followed by 2wkts for Farhan. Manish bowled really well in the right areas which helped him to take wickets as well as remain economical in his spell of 4 overs.

Chasing 150 against RGW is not the easiest of tasks but simply one chased down the score comfortably as they scored 153/3 in mere 15.3 overs. Openers Nikhil (31 off 28) and Suresh (26 off 12) gave a perfect start but it was Sunny who carried on the positive momemtum left behind by the openers. Coming in at no.3, Sunny scored a match winning 52* off just 30balls (1 four and 6sixes) which was full of entertainment. simply one won the match in style against the experienced RGW boys while Manish Verma was declared ‘man of the match”

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