Lions maul Rockets by 5 wickets to move towards final spot

The Eighteenth match of the ICL 20 -20 domestic tournament featured the formidable Chandigarh Lions take on Ahmedabad Rockets at the Lahari resorts ground Hyderabad. In the end it was the Lions from Punjab who came out tops with a 5 wicket victory, keeping their chances of a berth in the finals alive. The star for the Lions was south paw TP Singh who scored a match winning fifty runs, including six boundaries & one six.

Earlier in the day Sriram won the toss and elected to bat on a good bating surface. A solid 59 run, opening wicket partnership between Dholpure & Sriram put the Rockets in the drivers’ seat. The successive fall of both the openers in the eight over; especially the run out of skipper Sriram put the Lions right back in contention.

The Rockets middle order saw both Sodhi (21 runs) & Jain (17 runs) get off to a start but their wickets in the 14th & 15ht over prevented the Rockets’ from taking advantage of a solid start. In the end the Rockets folded their innings at 133/8 in their allotted 20 overs.

The Lions chase was powered by a cracking half century from TP Singh who built a solid 44 run partnership for the second wicket in company of Gaurav Gupta. A solid skipper’s unbeaten knock of 34 runs by Dinesh Mongia, saw the Lions romp home to a five wicket victory, taking them to their fourth win of the tournament and frontrunners for a berth in the final.