Milan Trophy: Naaptol Online edges past Babyoye in a high scoring thriller | Mumbai

In one of the high scoring matches this weekend in the Mumbai corporate tournaments, Naaptol online beat Babyoye by 3 wickets and 7 balls to spare.

This match of the well known Milan trophy, which was played at Cross maidan, Churchgate, Naaptol online elected to field first after winning the toss. Babyoye posted a respectable score of 183 runs in their 20 overs with major contributions from Vinay Naik, Swapnil and Sachin Khot. Sachin was unfortunate to miss his half century by just a run. Nevertheless 183 was a formidable total batting first. Srinivas and Nilesh of Naaptol took 2 wickets each while opening bowler Ashish showed excellent control giving away only 15 runs in his 4 overs.

Naaptol’s top order was upto the task and each of top 3 performed. Special mention needs to be given to opener Abhishek Pande who scored a quick half century (59 runs off 40 balls). Other opener Moez Khan and Ashish amin scored 25 and 41 respectively. But Naaptol kept losing wickets at regular intervals. It was the extras that cost Babyoye too much. Even though Naaptol kept losing wickets they did pretty good on the required run rate and eventually run this high scoring encounter by 3 wickets and 7 balls to spare.

Abhishek Pande was declared Man of the Match!!!