Prakash Patil’s quick 39 ball 63 helps Rika Global defeat Accenture Trade in the Masters Cup Tournament

Rika Global & Accenture trade processing faced each other for a league match at Elf Vengsarkar Academy, Oval, Churchgate, Mumbai. Both the teams are equally strong & a good match was expected from them. Winning the toss, Rika global elected to bat first since they have a good batting line up to make a fairly big total to defend (it was dry pitch which was good for batting).

Batting first, Rika Global were off to a magnificent start with both their openers firing from all the cylinders. Right handed opener Prakash Patil started playing aggressive brand of cricket from the word ‘go’ as he scored his 63 at a strike rate if almost 175+. Prakash scored 63 coming off just 39 balls in which he smashed 11 glorious boundaries in it (He particularly favored the faster bowlers as he scored a lot of runs against them). While his partner Akash Patil scored a fluent 68 coming off just 51 balls. Both the batsman helped reach the team total to 199/3 in 20 overs. Jayam Singh’s fantastic onslaught of 18 ball 40* down the order also played an equally big hand in making their team reach almost 200. Pritesh was the only bowler with respectable bowling figures of 1/25 in 3 overs.

Chasing 200 runs at exactly 10 runs per over proved to be too much in the bag for the opposition as they managed to score only 143/9 in 20 overs and handed over a victory by 56 runs to Rika Global. M Matim & Suyash were the pick of the bowlers taking 3/18(3) & 2/5(2) for Rika Global. It was definitely a collective team performance put by all the Rika Players who contributed in their capacity. Prakash Patil who gave a quick start at the top of the order was adjudged ‘man of the match’ for his 39 ball 63.

Cricketgraph wishes all the players of Rika Global to keep playing awesome cricket and continue their good form for many matches to come.