Nirbhay’s fearless performance has Highflyers win by 1 run in the Friends Premier League | Mumbai

In one of the closely contested matches, Highflyers won by narrowest margin of 1 run against the Spartans in the Friends Premier League. Click here for full match scorecard.

Spartan won the toss and elected to field first in bowling friendly conditions. Highflyers got off to a breezy start scoring 32 in just 3rd over but lost 3 wickets at the same score. They went from 32 for no loss in 2.3 overs to 36 for 4 by the end of the 4th over. Tarun Kapoor scored well composed 22 runs off 22 deliveries. It was bowlers day as Chetan Rai, Saurabh Korgaonkar and Ashish Jain picked up 2,3 and 2 wickets respectively. But the day belonged to Nirbhay Kahar. Coming to bat at number 9, he batted fearlessly scoring handy 30 runs in just 18 balls hitting 2 maximums and 3 boundaries. Highflyers posted a modest 125 all out without finishing their quota of 20 overs.

Spartan’s chase anchored around 1 down batsman Arnab Bhujbal, who scored a brilliant half century in bowling friendly conditions. Arnab scored 56 while Nishant Chaudhary scored 25 runs. These were the only 2 batsmen from Spartan to score double digit apart from 23 extras. Nirbhay and Chandan Jha, each took 4 wickets. Spartans too failed to bat their full quota of 20 overs and fell tantalizingly short by 1 run of Highflyers total. Credit should go to Nirbhay and Chandan along with some excellent fielding.

Nirbhay was declared Man of the Match!!!