Milan Corporate League: Match tied; Dental Wagon win by 6 runs in super over
Venue: Sunder Cricket Ground, Cross Maidan(Plot no 5) | Match Scorecard |
A high scorer. A tied game. An absolute thrilling finish. What more can you expect from a cricket match as a spectator. In the end one team emerge as winners and the other one lost, not due to playing bad the full 40 overs but due to not playing that 1 super over well. That’s Cricket for you. All that effort of 40 overs is nullified by one over. Dental Wagon edged out AMS by 6 runs in the super over to win their encounter in Milan Corporate League 2015.
AMS won the toss and elected to bat first. Openers Shriyank (30, 22 balls) and Yusuf (58, 43 balls) provided a great start scoring 63 runs in just 7 overs. Yusuf added 50 runs with the next batsman Sandeep as well. Handy contributions from Prajwal and Bismal enabled AMS to post a challenging 177 on the board. There were as many as 27 extras in the innings. Four bowlers managed a wicket each for Dental Wagon.
Chasing 178, Dental Wagon began decently but lost opener Dharam in the third over. Kavish and Chang joined hands for a 59 runs stand in less than 7 overs to keep the run chase on track. They soon lost the third wicket as well and match was hanging in balance. Three batsmen from the lower middle order-Saddam (20), Priyesh (18) and Pradnesh (34) took their team closer to the target. They needed 9 runs from the last over but it turned out to be a comedy of errors by them that forced the match to be decided by the super over. As many as 4 wickets fell in the last over and all via run outs showing the lack of application by the tail enders of Dental Wagon. On the last ball 2 runs were required but the last pair could not complete the second run and the match was tied.
Shriyank managed to pick a couple of wickets while three other bowlers captured a wicket each.
In the Super Over, Wagons batted first and scored 9 runs after Dharam Malji lost his wicket. Paresh Pandit was handed the responsibility for defending 9 runs with the ball and he started with a wide ball. Next ball he got a wicket. Only 1 run was scored off the next two balls and on the 4th ball, he delivered an excellent Yorker to uproot the middle stump of the batsman. With this, Dental Wagon won the match by 6 runs.
Pradnesh was adjudged the man of the match for his knock of 34 and scoring crucial runs in the super over.
Paresh Pandit from Wagons told CricketGraph, “It was a great experience. The match really went down to the wire. It was obviously a lot of pressure in the super over. Team showed faith in me and I am happy that I delivered. Overall it was a good team effort.”
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Brief Scores:
AMS: 177/6 in 20 overs (Yusuf 58, Shriyank 30, kavish 1/16)
Dental Wagon: 177 All out in 20 overs (Kavish 45, Pradnesh 34, Shriyank 2/30)
Match Report by:
Sumanyu Jain
Regional Manager & Editor @CricketGraph