Two games were played yesterday. Remember Swadesh's side has to beat Jayashankar's side and Keyur's side has to beat Chandu's for this to be a three way tie between the rest three teams.
The result of the first match is:
Game-5:--- Swadesh's team beats Jaya's team by 1 runs.
The first game started at 12:30 p.m, winning the toss Swadesh's side with two comprehensive victories in the last two games decided to do things differently by bowling first. Jaya's team has lots of big hitters but can they cope with the accurate bowling attack of Swadesh's side was the question on everyone's mind. As always Digant the aggressive left-hander opened the batting, but played sensibly curbing his natural aggressive instincts. Manzeer took charge of the bowling attack for Swadesh and countered the big hitters Jayshankar, Shashank and Sushant with some crafty leg spin. Big hitters like the ball coming on to their bats, which is what they were not offered by Swadesh's side. Swadesh and Vaibhav were as accurate as ever and Nagy's intelligent bowling helped restrict the batting side to 99 runs in 10 overs.
Already in the finals, Swadesh's side tried to test their batting by allowing Porter and Vaibhav to open the innings. Porter played cricket for the first time in this tournament but had been shielded in the earlier matches. Vaibhav too was opening the batting after a long time. With Jaya's attack bowling quick the going was tough. Vaibhav was asked to retire after 2 overs and the in-form Tarun immediately showed the reason why he was so highly rated. Porter got out the next over and then Nagy, the bedrock of team 4's batting joined Tarun. Runs came thick and fast even though the run rate had climbed to 15 an over. Then against the run of play Tarun got out. Swadesh joined Nagy and more sensible hitting followed. Jayashankar tried all his options, but was just not able to control the runs flow defending a smallish target. Poorna, the unorthodox off-spinner created some trouble with his turn and bounce but once his three overs were safely negated it was a matter of hitting the bad balls. Nagy got out with just 15-20 required of 2 overs, which Manzeer and Swadesh were able to get with one ball to go.
Close game and the result certainly opened the tournament up as all the other three teams had the opportunity to qualify. This close game did not hurt Jayashankar's run rate and was the team with the best run rate amongst the three sides. Chandu's side just had to win the next game to qualify for the finals. Keyur's side had the toughest task as they not only had to beat Chandu's side but had to do that in a comprehensive manner as their run rate was hurt bad in the big loss against Swadesh's side earlier. Game-6 follows.
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