Mumbai beat Srinagar by 3 wickets in the thrilling final of the Indian Street Premier League (ISPL) Season 2. With this, the Mumbai team, which reached the final of the tournament for the second time, won the trophy.
Batting first at Dadoji Kondadev Stadium on Saturday, Srinagar lost 120 for 5 in 10 overs. In reply, Mumbai scored 121/7 in 9.3 overs and won the title by winning the match by 3 wickets.
Sea-sky-century partnership Sagar Ali and Akash Tarekar came from Srinagar to open. The two shared 108 for the first wicket. Akash played 59 off 32 balls. In the innings hit 3 sixes and 5 fours. Sagar scored 40 off 23 balls. He also hit 4 sixes in the innings. Batting first, Srinagar scored 120 for 5. After scoring 108/0, the team lost 5 wickets for just 12 runs.
Sagar Ali scored 40 runs at a strike rate of 173.91.
2-2 wickets for Abhishek and Rajendra Abhishek, the most expensive player of ISPL, broke a strong 108 -run partnership. He caught the tournament's top scorer Sagar Ali at the hands of captain Vijay Pavle at Long of Long. After this, he also sent a pavilion to the batting ritual. Abhishek took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 2 overs.
Abhishek, who took the highest wicket in the tournament, also took 2 wickets in the final.
Rajendra Singh, who threw the first and last over of the innings of Srinagar, took 2 wickets in 2 overs. He made Lokesh 3 runs and Dilip Binjwan for 1 run. Akash scored 59 and run out on the last ball of the 10th over.
Mumbai lost the first 4 wickets for 64 runs Chasing the target of 121 runs, Mumbai opener Mohammad Nadeem scored 12 runs in the first over of Prabhot. However, in the third over, Suvaronil Roy sent him back to the pavilion. Yogesh Paanker, who was batting then scored the six on the ball first. But he too was caught out by the keeper at the hands of Suvaronil at 8 runs. The third wicket in Mumbai fell in the form of Mahendra Chandan, where Suvaronil took a diving catch in the outfield. Mahendra was dismissed by Raju Mukhiya with 13 runs.
Rajesh, who threw the seventh over of the Mumbai innings, turned the match into the party of Srinagar. He took wickets in his first two balls. Earlier, Rajesh caught Rajat Mundh, who was batting on one side by the sky for 23 runs, while Abhishek Dalhor, who was batting, gave LBW out in zero. At this time, Mumbai's score was 64/4 runs.
Captain Paval turned the aspect of the match Mumbai captain Vijay Pavle and Birendra Ram shared 48 for the seventh wicket. The two together are the ISPL over 50-50, scoring 37 runs. Yogesh first hit two sixes on the ball of Dilip Binjwa, who was throwing the eighth over. After this he took a single. Birendra Ram, who was on strike, hit two consecutive sixes. There were a total of 25 runs in the over, but in the over, 50-50, 12 more runs were added to his score. Vijay scored 22 off 9 balls. He hit 3 sixes. Ram played 14 off 6 balls.
Captain Vijay Pavle (right) with opener Rajat Munde.
Ankur won the match by scoring a six Mumbai needed 6 runs in the last over. Here, the first ball of the bowling Raju Mukhiya played on the bat. The Srinagar team appealed and the umpire gave it out. The shooter reviewed and the umpire had to change his decision. He missed while trying to reverse the ball on the next ball but won the final by scoring a six on Deep Midwicket on the third ball of the over. The team scored 121 for 7 in 9.3 overs and won by 3 wickets.
What is 50-50 in the over in the ISPL? Each match in the ISPL tournament is 10-10 overs. In these 10 overs, there is 2 ISPL over and one over is 50-50. In the ISPL overs, the bowler gets a new ball that is sticked with tape. The ball reads the pitch and swings only in one direction. While the team batting 50-50 in the over decides that he has to take this over between 10 overs. The batting team sets a target for themselves.
For example, suppose a team targeted 10 runs for 50-50 overs. If the team makes such runs, then 5 extra runs will be added to their total runs. On the other hand, if the team fails to score 10 runs, 5 runs are reduced from its total score.
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