Kanpur: A match was played between Noida Super Kings vs Kashi Rudras in the ongoing UP T20 League at Green Park on Thursday. Kashi won the toss and decided to bowl. Noida Super Kings, who came to bat first, scored 112 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. By scoring runs, Kashi Rudras was given a target of 113 runs. In reply, Kashi team scored 115 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 19.2 overs and won by 2 wickets. Prince Yadav was the hero of Kashi’s victory. Prince got man of the match.
Noida Super Kings lost the toss and the innings quickly fell into disarray.
After losing the toss and opting to bat first, Noida Super Kings’ innings soon fell into disarray as debutant off-spinner Suvrat Prasad Tiwari destroyed Noida’s top order by taking the wicket of captain Samarth Singh (0) in the very first over. , followed by Nitish Rana (13) and Tarun Pavadia in the third over. Atal Bihari Rai also maintained his excellent form by dismissing Rahul Raj (3) and putting Noida Super Kings in trouble at 33/4 at the end of the powerplay. Immediately after this, Almas Shaukat (18) got run out after tussling with Aditya Sharma and Arjun Bhardwaj was also run out in the 12th over. Suvrat Tiwari made the fourth score of the night by dismissing Prashant Veer (0). While Aditya Sharma (21) worked hard for his runs, he was dismissed by Shashank Awasthi in the 14th over, leaving the score at 69/8. Saurabh Kumar (2) had minimal impact, but Bhuvneshwar Kumar only managed Surprised Kashi’s bowling attack by playing an important inning of 39 runs in 23 balls, in which he scored 20 runs in the last over and completed a partnership of 34 runs with Naman Tiwari (1). Noida ended its innings at 112 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs and gave the target of 113 runs to Kashi.
Kashi, chasing the score, completely turned the match around
At the same time, in response to the target, Kashi was pushed on the backfoot by the bowlers in the beginning, the combination of Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s experience and the swinging pitch left them unfit to play. Due to which Siddharth Chaudhary (1) and Sachin Singh (1) Got out, while Saurabh Kumar also scored a goal. -Karan Sharma (7) left Kashi Rudra in a world of trouble at 19/3 by the end of the powerplay. Shivam Bansal (11) and Kamal Khan (16) combined to provide stability to the innings, sharing a 30-run partnership before both batsmen fell victim to Prashant Veer, reducing Kashi Rudra to 45/5 in 11.2 overs. In the 13th over, Abhishek Yadav (2) became the third wicket of Prashant Veer while in the 14th over, Naman Tiwari dismissed Bobby Yadav. At the score of 15 overs, Kashi Rudra needed 53 runs and Prince Yadav (46*) and Shashank Awasthi (18) were at the crease. The pair completed the match-winning partnership of 54 runs. In which 35 runs were scored in the 17th and 18th overs. Although Shashank Awasthi was out after playing a brilliant inning of 18 runs in just eight balls, Prince Yadav remained unbeaten in 19.2 overs to help Kashi win with two wickets remaining.