VETERAN Umesh Yadav and Tejas Soni were the wreckers in chief as they both snared three wickets each in their four overs as Nagpur Heroz inflicted the first defeat of the season to Pagariya Strikers by 34 runs in their Vidarbha Premier League match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association’s Jamtha International Stadium, on Thursday.
This was Heroz’s second win in the season. Opener Faiz Sheikh was the only Pagariya batter to handle the fort, he smashed 76 runs off 47 deliveries he faced, it included seven boundaries and six sixes. Faiz was bowled by Soni in the 17th over.
Earlier, Pagariya Strikers’ Sanskar Chavate bowled a sensational opening spell to push Nagpur Heroz on the backfoot initially but they still managed to post a challenging 219-8. The right-handed pacer took three wickets in his two overs to rattle Heroz’s top order.
However, Pagariya Strikers lost the plot from there on as Siddhant Muley (57) and Kartik Rathod (66) added a counter-attacking 120 runs for the fifth wicket and then hard-hitter Apoorv Wankhade slammed a 20-ball 60 to take their total past 200-run mark.
Apart from Chavate, last match’s hero Lalit Yadav, too, made an immediate impact taking the wicket of Parth Rekhade as Strikers reached 32-4 in four overs. Muley and Rathod did the repair job for Nagpur Heroz from there on with an important partnership for the fifth wicket.
Rathod played a counter-attacking game hitting Swapnil Singh for a couple of sixes and a boundary.
He completed his half century from 28 deliveries which had four boundaries and three sixes.
Muley gave him company and took pressure off him hitting occasional sixes as the innings looked to slipping away from Strikers’ grip. He completed his 50 with a huge six off R Sanjay pulling the delivery towards mid-wicket fence.
Wankhade, the costliest buy of the season, the unleashed his brute power hitting eight sixes and a boundary to make the contest an exciting one.
SCOREBOARD
NAGPUR HEROZ INNINGS R B 4 6
P Rekhade c Deshmukh b Yadav 2 5 0 0
A Mokhade c Rai b Chawate 8 4 1 0
I Bhamra c Deshmukh b Chawate 0 1 0 0
S Wath b Chawate 9 9 1 0
S Muley c Kadam b Gujar 57 32 1 5
K Rathod b Chawate b Kadam 66 37 4 5
A Wankhede Not Out 60 20 1 8
A Kombe c Yadav b Salve 0 5 0 0
T Soni c Ahuja b Chawate 3 5 0 0
R Gurbani Not Out 5 3 1 0
Extras: (w 7, lb 1, nb 1) 9
TOTAL: (8 wickets, 20 overs) 219
Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-16, 3-22, 4-29, 5-148, 6-159, 7-158,
8-186.
Bowling: Yadav 4-0-62-1, Chawate 3-0-27-4, Kadam 3-0-24-1,
Singh 1-0-18-0, Salve 2-0-18-1, Ramaswamy 3-0-32-0,
Gujar 4-0-37-1.
PAGARIYA STRIKERS INNINGS R B 4 6
S Ramaswamy c Bhamra b Yadav 8 7 1 0
F Sheikh b Soni 76 47 7 4
R Samarth c Mokhade b Soni 19 9 4 0
A Ahuja c Wankhade b Soni 0 1 0 0
Y Kadam c Wath b Muley 14 12 0 1
P Gujar retired hurt 36 23 4 1
S Deshmukh c Muley b Gurbani 4 4 1 0
L Yadav c Gurbani b Yadav 6 5 1 0
S Rai Not Out 12 9 1 1
S Chawate c Soni b Yadav 2 2 0 0
S Singh Not Out 0 2 0 0
Extras : (b 2, nb 1, lb 1, w 6) 10
TOTAL: (9 wickets , 20 overs) 185
Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-53, 3-53, 4-77, 5-105, 6-165, 7-169,
8-175, 9-179.
Bowling: Gurbani 4-0-41-1, Jolly 3-0-30-0, Yadav 4-1-25-3,
Soni 4-0-35-3, Muley 3-0-24-1, Rekhade 2-0-27-0.
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