Rockets bombard Heroes citadel with 7 wicket shock victory.

The sixth match of the ICL 20-20 domestic tournament featured the home team Hyderabad Heroes take on the Ahmedabad Rockets at the Lahari resorts ground Hyderabad. It was an important match for both sides, having lost their respective openers at the tournament.

The Rockets scored a comprehensive 7 wicket victory over their formidable opponents, Hyderabad Heroes; in turn registering one of the biggest upsets on the ICL platform. The chief architect of the Rockets win was their young spinner Sumit Kalia who destroyed the Heroes middle order with figures of 3/16.



Binny won the toss for the Heroes and elected to bat. The Heroes opened with the combination Shashank Nag & Ibrahim Khaleel who added 34 runs for the first wicket. Nag was the first to depart, caught by Sriram off the bowling of Martin for 12.

Khaleel was soon joined by the prodigal Ambati Rayudu to battle it out for the Heroes in the middle.

Both Khaleel (24 runs off 29 balls) & Rayudu (23 runs off 27 balls) failed to capitalize on their good starts, falling to the impressive spinner Sumit Kalia. The 21 year old spinner soon ripped his spinners into the famed Heroes batting-citadel, picking up the scalps of Khaleel, Rayudu & Anirudh Singh to leave the Hyderabad side reeling at 64/3 in the 12th over.

A valiant fight back by captain Stuart Binny (37 off 29 balls) proved insignificant, mainly due to the lack of support from any other Heroes’ batsman. The Heroes finally folded their innings at a modest 124/7 in their allotted 20 overs.

In reply The Rockets got off to a flier mainly due to a sparkling knock from Sachin Dholpure. The Dholpure- Vora combination put on 38 runs for the first wicket which was ended by PK Reddy who scalped Vora for 7in the 6th over. Dholpure played a solid knock, keeping the Rockets in hunt of their maiden win at the tournament. His promising knock (34 runs off 27 balls including 6 boundaries) was cut short by an unfortunate run out in the 11th over.

Significant contributions from Bhima Rao (28 runs off 22 balls) & S Sriram (27 runs off 19 balls) saw the Rockets storm home with three overs to spare.