Tigers hunt down Champs to score a four wicket victory

The penultimate round- robin match of the ICL 20-20 domestic tournament featured the resurgent Mumbai Champs take on the spirited Royal Bengal Tigers at the Lahari Resorts ground Hyderabad. In a match dominated by the bowlers, saw that Tigers scamper home to a four wicket victory, helped by a fighting lower middle order knock of 28 runs from the bat of Ali Hamid Zaidi. Zaidi’s knock won him the man of the match award.

Earlier in the day Jadhav won the toss and elected to bat. Quick dismissals of the in form Jadhav & Morris at the top of the innings saw the Champs in a bother at 2/30 in the 6th over. With the exception of Narsinha, none of the Champs batters contributed to the batting cause resulting in the Champs fold their innings at a paltry 116/6 in their allotted 20 overs. For the Tigers Tarafdar, Ahmid & Shibsagar scalped two wickets each.

The Tiger’s reply to the modest target started on a disastrous note, with pacer Burkul sending the experienced Deep Dasgupta back to the Tigers dug out in the 2nd over. Quick dismissal of Gavaskar, followed by the scalping of Jhunjhunwala & SG Das by prodigal Champs’ leggie Sridhar Iyer, had the Tigers in deep trouble at 5/63 in the 13th over.

However a fighting 27 run partnership between Zaidi & Mihir Diwakar paved way for the Tigers to scamper home on the penultimate ball of the match by four wickets.