Brief
Scores
Yes Bank: 4 / 101
in 15 overs
Deepak Yadav 40* (31)
Rachit
2/29 (3)
Varun
Mishra 1/13 (3)
Stoners: 3 / 79 in 8.1 overs (target 75 in 11
overs)
Shreyans 27 (9)
Dixit 1/10
(2)
Man of
the Match: Shreyans
(Stoners)
Best
Performer Yes Bank: Deepak Yadav
Rain
Crashes the Party, Unable to Derail Stoners Win
Judging by the repeated showers that threatened to jeopardize
this game till the very end, the weather gods might have a sense of humor that
is decidedly wicked. On either side of one serious downpour, we had several
10-minute bursts of rain.
The covers were dragged on and off enough times to
work us up a serious sweat. The game was completed, however, largely thanks to
two very cooperative teams and the ‘magic’ grass of our lush outfield that laps
up rain water in a matter of minutes.
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| Deepak played a fluent innings for Yes Bank |
In spite of the delays and pauses, the action on the field was
intense. Yes Bank elected to bat and Ajay and Manik got them off to a solid
start. Amidst tight bowling, Manik cracked a couple of square drives to the
fence off left arm seamer Rakesh and Ajay also helped himself to a couple at
the other end to push the score up to 23 in four overs.
Stoners owed their first breakthrough in the 5th to
the sharp hands of wicket-keeper Bhaskar, who moved with lightning speed to
collect a Shreyans wide down the leg side and whip the bails off, as Manik lost
his balance and dragged his back foot out of the crease. Ajay followed his
opening partner to the dugout in the 8th, clean bowled by Seamer
Varun. By this point, though, the side’s best batsman Deepak Yadav was well set
and he proceeded to construct his most fluent innings of the tournament.
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| Varun was the Most Economical bowler of the day |
Deepak’s a busy batsman who constantly keeps the score ticking
with singles and twos, while also putting away fuller lengths and poor lines
for boundaries. On the day he stroked the ball around the park, deploying cuts,
sweeps and drives with ease. When the big downpour arrived, Deepak was 40 not
out in 31 balls, and Yes Bank were poised at 101 / 4 in 15, which was about par
for the course.
When play resumed, Stoners got a rain-reduced target of 75 in 11
overs. Shreyans, batting with more aggression than we are accustomed to seeing
from him, smashed 20 off the first over, including a drive for six. By the time
Dixit finally had him trapped LBW in the 5th over, he had crashed
another six on course to a rapid 27, and the team score was already 50. From
that point on, it was an easy win for the aggressive batting side, and they
achieved the target in the 8th over.
Shreyans walked away with his second successive Man of Match
award, and Deepak won himself the Best Performer award for his 40 not out.
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| Shreyans won his second consecutive MoM award |
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