Promising Prasad Pawar saves Sobo Supersonics with a match saving 83 in the Mumbai Premier League ‘18

Played between Sobo Supersonics and Namo Bandra Blasters at the Wankhede Stadium, Bandra boys won the toss and elected to bowl first with an aim of restricting Sobo Supersonics to a low total.

Sobo Supersonics did felt some early jitters with their openers not able to provide a flying start. However, Prasad Pawar who came at no.4 smashed a match winning 83 to bring his team back into the game. Prasad who is known for playing such knocks took only 53deliveries smashing 6fours and 3sixes to push his team’s total to 149/6 in 18overs. Prasad smashed some really elegant shots while also did good running between the wickets to take his team towards a respectable total. Medium pacer Azhar Ansari was the pick of the bowlers taking 3/21 in 4overs.

Chasing 150 is not the biggest of totals but surely competitive enough if bowled well. However, Namo Bandra Blasters were bundled out for 99/9 in 19 overs on the back of excellent bowling by the experienced warhorse Abhishek Nayar and the talented Rohan Raje. While Abhishek was economical coming up with 3/17 in 4 overs, Rohan was equally impressive taking 3/24.

Sobo Supersonics won the match by 50 runs and it was surely on the back of excellent innings by the talented Prasad Pawar.

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