Brief
Scores
SRP XI: 7 / 192 in 20 overs
V Bangar 93* (46)
Rajnish
26 (22)
Dixit
3/43 (4)
Kumud
Jha 2/27 (3)
Yes Bank: 6 / 144 in
20 overs
Pawas 37 (34)
Deepak
Yadav 35 (26)
Jambu
2/28 (4)
Robinson
2/37 (4)
Man of
the Match: V Bangar
(SRP XI)
Best
Performer Yes Bank: Dixit
JOSH
TALKS Impact Performer: Jambu
(SRP XI)
Vishad
Bangar Seals a Big Win for SRP XI with a Destructive 93 Not Out
If Shavez’ innings on Saturday had been brutal, bigger draws
were to follow on Sunday in a weekend for big hitters. Vishad Bangar, the star
of this match, matched Shavez’ 93, although in less balls and completely
different circumstances.
Bangar walked in with SRP at 39 / 4 in the 7th over,
after having been put in by Yes Bank. The top order had been victimized by the
sharp and steady seam bowling of Sandeep Arora, Dixit and Kumud Jha. First
Dixit rocked the top order with a double strike in the 4th – Dinesh
caught by the keeper off a feather edge and Manjeet clean bowled – then Kumud
came on and picked up 2 wickets off his first three balls. Jaideep and Bangar,
the two biggest hitters in the SRP line-up, were left to weather the storm. One
of the two needed to fire, and Jaideep (JD) got the partnership going with a
six over extra cover in the same over.
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| Bangar walks out after scoring 93 not out |
Bangar swung straight for the same result in the 8th,
before dispatching off-spinner Nitin Pahuja with a pull over square leg off the
first ball of his spell in the 10th. The tweaker, though, struck
back in the same over, picking up JD caught at square leg off a top-edged
sweep. At 73/5 after 10, the match was poised precariously, but from that point
on SRP, powered by the heavy bombardment unleashed by Bangar’s flailing blade,
swung the game their way emphatically, one over at a time.
The story of the latter phase began in the 13th over,
as the left-handed Rajnish sliced the off-side field and found the cover
boundary off 3 successive deliveries. Vishad gave meted out similar treatment
to Nitin Pahuja in the 14th, blasting two consecutive cover drives
to the fence.
The boundary count kept ticking till Rajnish was finally
dismissed by spinner Sumer, caught at deep square leg for 26 off the first ball
of the 17th. At 134 / 6, Yes Bank still hoped to keep SRP XI in
check. Those hopes were blown apart in the last 3 overs, as Bangar helped
himself to 45 off the 12 balls he faced in this spell. He reached his fifty
with a effortless flick for six in the 18th, before slapping a
boundary and a big six over deep mid-wicket in the next. The batsman left the
best for the last, though, as he damaged Dixit’s excellent match figures with
20 runs off the last over, including two of the biggest sixes we have seen all
season. Both hits over long on, well over 95-100 m in distance, sailed into the
adjacent field.
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| Dixit (center) was the Best Performer for Yes Bank |
Bangar’s savage knock of 93 not out came in a mere 46 balls, and
consisted of 8 big sixes. He helped his team up to a big total of 192 / 7. Yes
Bank are a steady batting side but they just do not have the big-hitting
firepower to launch a chase for such a big total. To their credit, the SRP
seamers Jambu, Akki, and Dinesh all bowled very steady line-length to keep the
batsmen in check. Pawas and Deepak (37 and 35) both played handy knocks, taking
Yes Bank up to 144 / 6 from their allotted overs.
Vishad Bangar was undoubtedly the Man of the Match, while Dixit
picked up the Best Performer award for Yes Bank for his 3-wicket haul.
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