Sporting Union club wins by a whisker in a nail biting finish against Youths Own cricket club
Tournament – Kanga League Knock Outs Plate Div | Venue :- Cross Maidan | Date : 8 Mar 2015
Sporting Union clashed with Youth Own Cricket club in the opening match of Kanga League Knockout tournament.
The match was straight out of a Bollywood thriller you could say and till the end one could never predict who what was going to happen.
Sporting union lost the toss and Youths Own cricket club elected to bat first. Sporting union did well to restrict Youth own to 118 in 27 overs. The mainstay of Youth own cricket club was Akshay Thakur who scored 47 (59)valuable runs. They say once you get yourself in especially at the top, then you need to build your innings for others to play around you. That’s what Akshay did and although wickets were falling at the other end, he never lost focus and paced his innings and batted almost till the end. A cameo of 17 runs in a over by Sachin Todankar 21(19) added spice and respectability to the total.
Santosh Peveker bowled his heart out for his 3 wickets for Sporting Union with his leg spin and proving that if you bowl with tremendous control and confidence you reap the benefits. Truly Santosh was rewarded for his efforts. Pankaj Kori too bowled well and picked and ended with 4 overs 22 runs and 3 wickets.
In reply the Sporting Union batting was crumbling and were faulting in their chase with wickets falling at regular intervals. When the penultimate wicket fell , close to 25 runs were required for Sporting Union and at that stage it looked like in favour of Youth Own C.C. But cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties. Yet again it was proved right and this time by the last wicket pair of Sporting Union (Sanjay Naik and Santosh Pevekar). They put on 25 runs and saw their side Sporting union through. It certainly was a thrilling match.
Akshay Thakur shone yet again this time with the ball picking up 5 wickets with his off spins and the dangerous quicker ones and effecting a brilliant run
out.
But the honours for the man of the match went to Santosh Pevekar of Sporting Union for his allround performance, but lets applaud Akshay Thakur’s efforts also.
All In all both the sides played well and of course it was huge sigh of relief for the winning team Sporting Union. Cricket too was victorious today.
In the end, Sporting Union managed to win by 1 wicket.
Article courtesy Mr.Venkat