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MATCH NO. 9
Seeing the first match on this ground Cognizant to
elected to bowl first by now somehow ground was
got settled a bit the moisture which was there In the
morning is now not going to be there so it will be
interesting to see whether the decision of cognizant
will be the right decision or not
HSBC is not having their last year’s best performer
Vilakshan in there team so how combination will
be of the HSBC will be interested, watching puneet
bowling is always a wonderful feeling and puneet
has started bowling first over for cognizant,
he has started with accurate line & length
and was bowling on the toe and got the
wicket on 5th ball of his first over
soon both the openers was in hut
and Navid and Jay have the big
Cognizant responsibility to settle the
nerves and game, where
Vs Navid & Jay both fall
HSBC on 15 individual
runs Dhavan
and shashank
both came
on the
bringing out
the best
in eaCh other
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crease and put the accelerator to the HSBC inning,
when dhaval was looking set to score big he was
plumb out to aayush in middle of the middle stump,
Nikhil was on ground with Shashank and was
not trying to hit big but tried to give more strike
to shashank and in no time he has consumed 10
deliveries for his four runs which has put more
pressure on sashank and also on nikhil who was out
at crucial juncture to abhinav kalia we can call this
wicket as blessing in disguise for HSBC as Basavraj
was on crease and he has hit one over the rope big
hit and and a boundary before his partner shashank
got out in last over trying to score big, Anchal does
not have to much to play and at the end of the
inning HSBC was 123/8, they must be missing their
last year start performer Vilakshan.
Cognizant started their inning cautiously as they
know key over here is wicket and not runs at the
moment and if they are able to keep the strike
rotating they are having power hitters in their
team who can finish the inning even if they are
chasing around 8 or 9 an over in last 5-6 overs,
digvijay after hitting one six became bit greedy and
gifted his wicket in 4th over after which Kounain
and Prathmesh, started to rotate the strike but
Prathmesh’s woes continues as he is getting starts
but not getting big scores, he is having the potential
but was not able to convert the small inning into
40’s &50’s, then the last match hero and hurricane
Vaibhav came to bat and in blink of eyes he has
scored 38 runs from 68/2 in 9.3 overs Cognizant
won the match by 1st ball of the 15th Over, vaibhav
in his cameo hit as much as 4 sixes and 2 boundaries
whereas Kounain on the other hand stitched his
wonderful 42 runs inning from 31 deliveries which
include 7 boundaries
Nipun Sharma was given Nimble I man of the
Match for his wonderful bowling performance
where he has taken 2 wickets in 4 overs
giving away just 17 Runs.
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CriCket: win or
Lose, take equaLLy
On 12th November 2017 10th Match between Springer Nature and Syntel this match was always
interesting as this is in between two sides which are more or less in same weight. Syntel won the
toss here and elected to bowl first to get the benefit of early morning dew. Where Pankaj has
provided Syntel early wicket by removing Rahul in very first over itself but then piyush
patil and vaibhav have put their foot forward to and played out of their skins to not let
their team down where vaibhav was playing much cautiously and when he was looking set
to up the tempo he was cleaned up by beautiful delivery from Prashant Shendge, after fall
of second wicket springer nature was in needed someone to hit big and they have given
this responsibility to Avinash and by this time Piyush was also started to score at
brisk pace. Avinash was aware that anything below 160 will be deficult to depend
for his team so he has also started with piyush and hit 3 boundaries in his 17
runs from 13 deliveries where he has tried to hit big and was foxed by the
bowler. After fall of 3rd wicket captain Pramod taken the responsibility Springer
on his shoulder to handle the situation but before he could do Nature
anything he was out on 8 runs from 9 deliveries, after that no
one was able to give the support to Piyush he wanted and in Vs
the hurry he has thrown away his wicket in the form of Syntel
run out. At the end of the inning springer nature was
quite happy that they have got the score of 159
which is good score to defend on this track.
While in reply Syntel started slightly better
than their counter part but soon both the
openers are undone by the JP Shirole, after fall
of both the openers sabir and Akshay started to
score runs where akshay has taken the role of defender
while sabir was aggressor in his inning both of them have
got good start and created the launching pad for themselves
but when time came for launching the missile both of them got
crashed. There after Syntel send their most powerful tsunami who
has taken match away from springer nature Mr. Rajat kaul who have hit
3 sixes in his small knock of 29 runs from 15 deliveries. Springer nature was
again back in game after that wicket and swiped 3 more wickets when prashant
who has bowled wonderful spell came to the rescue of Syntel and started scoring
boundaries at one stage it was looking Springer Natures game when they have got the
9th wicket but they were 1 wicket away and sanket has completed the win for his team
with 2 boundaries in 3 balls he has faced. It was kind of seesaw match changing almost every
over but at the end Syntel manages to win this game.
Prashant was awarded with MOM for this match for his 21 not out from 13 deliveries in helping his
team getting over line after losing 9 wickets he has shown the great temperament and he has also bowled
well in first inning where he got the wicket of Vaibhav and taken the wicket in field in terms of run out of the
most successful batsman in both the innings together Piyush patil
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