Pravin Lokhande (L) took hat-trick for The Hitavada.A wonderful start, a disastrous middle-order collapse, an excellent fightback by the bowlers and a hat-trick. This was The Hitavada’s story in the second semi-final of the 11th edition of the Orange City Hospital Cup inter-press cricket tournament organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) at Dr Ambedkar College ground, Deekshabhoomi on Thursday.
Opting to bat, The Hitavada started brightly via skipper Susheem Kolay (19; 14b, 4x3) and Kamlesh Waghire (21; 15b, 4x3, 6x1). But a double strike by Ajay Kangali to get rid of both openers got Navbharat back in the game. Pravin Lokhande (29; 22b, 4x2, 6x1) and Rahul Dixit (19; 23b, 4x1) did the rebuilding work with a 41-ball 42 runs stand.
A big score was on cards with both the batsmen scoring fluently but Mahesh Sarangi had other ideas. The Navbharat skipper bowled a magical spell and picked up a five-wicket haul to put his team in the driver’s seat. The Hitavada’s middle-order too did not help their cause by committing a mass suicide. From 100 for three The Hitavada were reduced to 106 for nine. Though a couple of boundaries towards the end by Ramamurti Nerle (12) helped them reach 120. Kangali (3-15) and Shrikant Tikle (2-20) were the other wicket-takers.
The Hitavada bowlers started perfectly striking two early blows. Navbharat were not allowed to score freely against a tight line. Sarangi did his bit with 25 but that was not enough as The Hitavada wrapped up their opponents for 93 runs. Lokhande gave The Hitavada a perfect finish by picking up a hat-trick. He registered match figures of 3.3-0-14-4. Nerle (2-17) also bowled well. Vijay Choure, Nikhil Dixit and Kolay scalped a wicket each.
Bhausaheb Gujar, Senior DGM, LIC of India and Sameer Meghe, Chairman, Tirupati Urban Co-operative Bank, were the chief guest of the match.
The Hitavada will take on Lokmat in the final on January 24 at Ambedkar ground from 9 am.
SCOREBOARD
THE HITAVADA INNINGS:
Kamlesh Waghire b Ajay Kangali 21
Susheem Kolay v Ajay Kangali 19
Pravin Lokhande b Mahesh Sarangi 29
Rahul Dixit b Mahesh Sarangi 19
Nikhil Dixit c N Satyan b Shrikant Tikle 06
Sanjay Chinchole b Mahesh Sarangi 04
Hitesh Limbachia st N Satyan b Mahesh Sarangi 00
Vijay Choure c N Satyan b Mahesh Sarangi 00
Paritosh Pramanik st N Satyan b Shrikant Tikle 00
Ramamurti Nerle Not Out 12
Avinash Kahu lbw Ajay Kangali 01
Extras: b 2, lb 1, nb 1, w 5) 9
TOTAL: (All out, 18.1) 120
Fall of wickets: 1-44, 2-45, 3-87, 4-100, 5-102, 6-102, 7-103, 8-104, 9-106.
Bowling:
Manish Shriwas 1-0-19-0
Ramesh Rao 2-0-20-0
Mahesh Sarangi 4-0-24-5
Ajay Kangali 3.1-0-15-3
Ronnele Michael 3-0-19-0
Shrikant Tikle 4-0-20-0
NAVBHARAT INNINGS
N Satyan run out (Pramanik-Lokhande) 09
Arun Narsapurkar c Sanjay Chinchole b Susheem Kolay 04
Ajay Kangali lbw Vijay Choure 04
Mahesh Sarangi c Hitesh Limbachia b Pravin Lokhande 25
Ronnele Michael lbw Ramanurti Nerle 15
Manish Shriwas c Vijay Choure v Avinash Kahu 16
Shrikant Tikle c Hitesh Limbachia b Pravin Lokhande 11
Hemang Rawal b Ramamurti Nerle 01
Madan Ganvir b Pravin Lokhande 00
Shyam Nagarkar Not Out 00
Ramesh Rao b Pravin Lokhande 00
Extras: (b 1, w 6) 7
TOTAL: (All out, 18.3 overs) 93
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-9, 3-37, 4-47, 5-72, 6-84, 7-86, 8-93, 9-93.
Bowling
Susheem Kolay 3-0-14-1
Vijay Choure 3-0-17-1
Ramamurti Nerle 4-0-17-2
Pravin Lokhande 3.3-0-14-4
Avinash Kahu 3-0-16-1
Nikhil Dixit 2-0-14-0
No comments:
Post a Comment