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Shreyas Iyer prolonged his stint with SoBo Mumbai Falcons by different crippled successful an effort to unafraid a T20 Mumbai semifinal berth for his squad with a lucifer to spare. Instead, it was Sarfaraz Khan-led Aakash Tigers Mumbai Western Suburbs that strengthened its knockout credentials with a commanding 64-run triumph astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Monday.
The broad triumph successful its last league fixture propelled Tigers to 3rd spot connected the points array with an awesome nett tally complaint of 0.520. Falcons, meanwhile, was pushed into a must-win concern connected the last time of the league signifier and volition besides request different results to autumn successful its favour.
On a aboveground offering assistance to the spinners, Tigers produced a batting effort of substance and aggression to station a daunting 227 for six. Sarfaraz acceptable the code with a whirlwind 31 (10b, 6x4, 1x6), combining with the bespectacled Jay Bista (57, 27b, 8x4, 2x6) for an entertaining opening salvo. The concern ensured Tigers raced to 68 by the clip Sarfaraz fell disconnected the last transportation of the 4th over.
Ajit Yadav past took over, utilizing his scope and powerfulness to devastating effect, and his 68 (35b, 5x4, 4x6), pushed the full good beyond par.
Falcons needed a flying commencement and concisely recovered 1 done Ishan Mulchandani, whose 40 (15b, 1x4, 5x6) mirrored Sarfaraz’s fearless attack astatine the top.
But Shashank Attarde turned the crippled decisively. The seasoned off-spinner archetypal lured Ishan Mulchandani into a mendacious changeable during the PowerPlay. When Shreyas entered astatine No. 5 arsenic an Impact Player, helium instantly announced himself by launching Attarde implicit midwicket for six. The off-spinner, however, responded brilliantly. Bowling the adjacent transportation quicker and straighter, helium cramped Shreyas for room, forcing a mistimed changeable that was comfortably taken astatine heavy midwicket.
That dismissal efficaciously sealed the contest. Attarde finished with figures of 4/33 arsenic Falcons were bundled retired for 161 successful the 18th over.
The scores: Aakash Tigers MWS 227/6 successful 20 overs (Jay Bista 57, Sarfaraz Khan 31, Varun Lavande 35, Ajit Yadav 68, Prathamesh Dake 2/51) bt SoBo Mumbai Falcons 161 successful 17.5 overs (Ishan Mulchandani 40, Harsh Aghav 43, Shams Mulani 3/47, Ankur Singh 2/26, Shashank Attarde 4/33).
Bandra Blasters 144/9 successful 20 overs (Om Keshkamat 49, Sagarr Chhabriaa 44, Arjun Tendulkar 3/11, Prasoon Singh 2/12) mislaid to ARCS Andheri 148/1 successful 13.5 overs (Musheer Khan 54 n.o., Arjun Tendulkar 66 n.o.).
Women’s League: Thane Sky Risers 159/7 successful 20 overs (Mansi Patil 55, Heeya Pandit 36, Swara Jadhav 2/22) bt SoBo Mumbai Falcons 126/9 successful 20 overs (Ashwini Nishad 2/8, Prakashika Naik 3/25, Trisha Parmar 2/17).
