BREAKING NEWS!!
ATRENTA beats NEC-HCL to lift Sequence Cup 2008
Champions - Atrenta
ATRENTA beats NEC-HCL to lift Sequence Cup 2008
Champions - Atrenta
Toss won by Atrenta
Atrenta - 140/9 [20 Overs]
Atrenta - 140/9 [20 Overs]
Runs : Simranjit - 41(30), Praveen - 17(13), Amit Handa 14(8),
Pankaj 10(9), Swami 10(9), Ajit 10(23)
Wkts: Shadab - 3/19, Subhash 2/ , Sanjay 1/ , Subhash 1/ Sharib 0/26
Runners-up NEC-HCL
NEC-HCL-ST - 125/10 [20 Overs]
Runs : Bhupesh 24(31), Shadab 24(35) , Sanjay 15(14) ,
Piyush 15(15), Gaurav 8(5), Sachin 6(6)
Wkts : Swami 3/7, Simranjit 2/21, Praveen 1/13, Handa 1/37
Men of the Match - Swami & Simranjit (Atrenta)
Man of the Series - Simranjit (Atrenta)
Commentary....
Toss won by Atrenta and elected to Bat first (as expected for Finals)
Arindam and Ajit opened the innings. Gaurav started the first over with wonderful line and length with slight in-cutters to let Atrenta manage to score only a single of their first over.
Subhash started the second over and got Arindam out of his second ball in a short pitch delivery outside off-stump and Arindam trying to cut it and giving a catch at the point bondary (caught by Sanjay). Pressure on Atrenta.
Amit handa comes to bat and hit a six in the same over on a slower ball from Subhash to relieve the pressure a bit.
NEC has a consistent bowling line up and backed up by good fielding to let Atrenta score with an average of 5 an over till the 5th over and then Amit tried to sweep a ball and somehow got the ball hits the stump.
Captain Simranjit comes to the field and played some wonderful shots all around the ground making NEC captain keep his main bowlers in the attack and at the end of 10 overs Atrenta is 59/3.
After the drinks break Simranjit tried to escalate the run rate and in trying to do so took few risky singles along with Vishal till he got run out taking a second run from an over through which should not be called for a run.
Having Simranjit on attack Atrenta was expecting a score of around 150 in their 20 overs but once Simranjit was out- the hope was not that high but still the rest of the batsmen contributed equally and almost everyone of them hit a six to take the score to 140/9 in 20 overs. Quite a nice team effort from Atrenta even against good bowling attack of NEC.
NEC comes to bat with captain along with left handed Piyush to hit some big ones from the very beginning.
Arindam and Ajit opened the innings. Gaurav started the first over with wonderful line and length with slight in-cutters to let Atrenta manage to score only a single of their first over.
Subhash started the second over and got Arindam out of his second ball in a short pitch delivery outside off-stump and Arindam trying to cut it and giving a catch at the point bondary (caught by Sanjay). Pressure on Atrenta.
Amit handa comes to bat and hit a six in the same over on a slower ball from Subhash to relieve the pressure a bit.
NEC has a consistent bowling line up and backed up by good fielding to let Atrenta score with an average of 5 an over till the 5th over and then Amit tried to sweep a ball and somehow got the ball hits the stump.
Captain Simranjit comes to the field and played some wonderful shots all around the ground making NEC captain keep his main bowlers in the attack and at the end of 10 overs Atrenta is 59/3.
After the drinks break Simranjit tried to escalate the run rate and in trying to do so took few risky singles along with Vishal till he got run out taking a second run from an over through which should not be called for a run.
Having Simranjit on attack Atrenta was expecting a score of around 150 in their 20 overs but once Simranjit was out- the hope was not that high but still the rest of the batsmen contributed equally and almost everyone of them hit a six to take the score to 140/9 in 20 overs. Quite a nice team effort from Atrenta even against good bowling attack of NEC.
NEC comes to bat with captain along with left handed Piyush to hit some big ones from the very beginning.
Swami makes a wonderful start by giving only 1 run in his first over. Amit comes for bowling the second over and gave two fulltoss to let NEC manage to 9 in 2 overs without loosing a wicket.
After the first 4 overs being bowled by Amit and Swami, they were replaced by Simranjit and Praveen and Simranjit took the first wicket of NEC (Piyush) innings in his very first over. But, Captain Shadab still continued playing with responsibility and started hitting a boundary in each over making 50 in 8 th over. Pressure is again on Atrenta to get some wickets or to lower the run rate.
Ajit comes to bowl the 9th over followed by Arindam on the 10th and they bowled consistently targetting the off stump to let NEC score exacty the same during the drinks break (59) after loosing 2 wickets.
Ajit and Arindam continued after the drinks and target becomes 60 in last 6 overs but they indeed have many batsmen to come but on the other hand Swami and Amit were still having 4 overs out of these 6.
NEC started loosing wickets in regular interval with wonderful bowling from Swami and that backed by good fielding letting NEC to have a target of 29 in their last 2 overs with only 2 wickets in hand. Subhas still managed to hit a six in 19th over making 21 required of last 6 balls with 1 wicket in hand and Swami comes to bowl the last over. He takes the last wicket to give Atrenta their second Sequence Cup Champions title in a row.
It was a wonderful match which either side could have won but at the end , team effort from Atrenta proved too much for the early favourites NEC-HCL .
Ajit comes to bowl the 9th over followed by Arindam on the 10th and they bowled consistently targetting the off stump to let NEC score exacty the same during the drinks break (59) after loosing 2 wickets.
Ajit and Arindam continued after the drinks and target becomes 60 in last 6 overs but they indeed have many batsmen to come but on the other hand Swami and Amit were still having 4 overs out of these 6.
NEC started loosing wickets in regular interval with wonderful bowling from Swami and that backed by good fielding letting NEC to have a target of 29 in their last 2 overs with only 2 wickets in hand. Subhas still managed to hit a six in 19th over making 21 required of last 6 balls with 1 wicket in hand and Swami comes to bowl the last over. He takes the last wicket to give Atrenta their second Sequence Cup Champions title in a row.
It was a wonderful match which either side could have won but at the end , team effort from Atrenta proved too much for the early favourites NEC-HCL .
