Kanpur: In the ongoing UP T20 League at Green Park, the second match took place between Meerut Mavericks and Lucknow Falcons on Wednesday. Meerut won the toss and decided to bat first. Electing to bat first, Meerut team scored 193 at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. By scoring runs, the target of 194 was given to Gorakhpur. In reply, Gorakhpur team was all out in 15.2 overs. At this time, Gorakhpur could score only 102 runs. At the same time, Madhav Kaushik was the hero of Meerut’s victory.
Rohit Rajpal failed to leave much impact
Meerut Mavericks, who came to bat first, had a very attractive powerplay. Although Parth Jain (1) was out in the very first over, Uvaish Ahmed (44) along with Madhav Kaushik (84*) took Meerut Mavericks to 80/0 at the end of six overs. Uvaish Ahmed’s ruckus ended after he was caught out in the deep on the ball. Rinku Singh played a quick innings of 24 runs before being dismissed by Shaurya Singh in the 12th over. Rohit Rajpal failed to make much of an impact and was dismissed by Zeeshan Ansari. While Madhav Kaushik completed his half-century in 35 balls, taking Meerut Mavericks’ score to 154/4 in 15 overs. Yash Garg (3) himself got run out in the death overs. Zeeshan Ansari continued his influence and dismissed Aniket Seth (0), Yuvraj Yadav (0) and Ansh Dwivedi (0) in the 17th over. While wickets were falling around him, Madhav Kaushik carried the innings forward without any fear and played an unbeaten inning of 84 runs as Meerut Mavericks’ score ended at 193 for the loss of 8 wickets.
Lucknow Falcons started aggressively and lost the openers.
In response to this target, Lucknow Falcons started aggressively but lost both the openers in quick succession, Shaurya Singh (11) was dismissed by Karthik Tyagi and Harsh Tyagi (4) was dismissed by Kuldeep Kumar. Aaradhya Yadav on consecutive balls in the fifth over. (3) And Kuldeep bowled a brilliant spell while dismissing Sawan Singh. Lucknow Falcons were struggling at 57/4 at the end of the powerplay. Amidst the fall of wickets, Anjaneya Suryavanshi (22) was looking in good condition, but in the seventh over, Abhinav Tiwari beat him and sent him back to the pavilion. The innings deteriorated further when Ali Zafar (20) and Zeeshan Ansari (2) became Tiwari’s second and third victims, taking the score to 97/7 in 12.2 overs. As soon as Yash Garg was brought back into the attack, he found immediate success through the wickets of Vikas Singh (1), Vineet Dubey (3) and Puneet Choudhary (0) as they bowled out Lucknow Falcons for 102/91 in 15.2 overs. Won by runs.