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Suved Parkar produced a captain’s innings, equalling the highest idiosyncratic people successful T20 Mumbai past with a scintillating 110 (54b, 10x4, 7x6). Yet, adjacent that wasn’t capable arsenic North Mumbai Panthers scripted different bonzer pursuit earlier holding its nervus successful a melodramatic Super Over to registry a 2nd successive triumph against Bandra Blasters.
Chasing a daunting 229 astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Wednesday, Panthers erstwhile again recovered inspiration done opener Hardik Tamore, whose 2nd consecutive half-century — 83 (39b, 10x4, 4x6) — ensured the pursuit ne'er drifted away. His 67-run concern with Abhigyan Kundu, who contributed 39 (24b, 3x4, 1x6), kept Panthers firmly successful contention done the mediate overs.
Tanush Kotian past played the finishing enactment to perfection with 32 n.o. (14b, 2x4, 2x6), portion Vaibhav Mali unleashed 32 (14b, 2x4, 2x6) arsenic Panthers remarkably drew level astatine 228.
Even aft Mali’s dismissal successful the penultimate over, the pursuit remained live courtesy left-arm spinner Rahul Sawant, whose consecutive propulsion shots — a bound and a six disconnected Royston Dias — shifted momentum dramatically.
Needing 14 disconnected the last 4 deliveries, Kotian responded with diagnostic composure, reducing the equation to 3 disconnected the last ball. When Dhanit Raut’s past transportation was driven implicit covers for a couple, the crippled headed into a Super Over.
Mali erstwhile again turned aggressor, taking connected Atif Attarwala’s left-arm gait with 2 sixes and a bound to acceptable a challenging target. Seasoned seamer Mohit Avasthi past produced a near-flawless Super Over, sealing a memorable triumph for the Ajinkya Rahane-led Panthers.
Earlier successful the afternoon, Parkar’s accepted strokemaking acceptable Blasters connected people for a a gargantuan total. But erstwhile helium perished successful the 15th implicit aft scoring 110 — the aforesaid arsenic Jay Bista successful 2019, the Blasters couldn’t heap connected 250. Those past 5 overs, successful the end, turned retired to beryllium the difference.
The scores: Bandra Blasters 228/5 successful 20 overs (Suved Parkar 110, Prateek Ravishankar 33, Pratik Mishra 3/38) tied with North Mumbai Panthers 228/8 successful 20 overs (Hardik Tamore 83, Abhigyan Kundu 39, Tanush Kotian 32 n.o., Vaibhav Mali 32, Sagar Chhabria 3/9, Dhrumil Matkar 3/32).
Super Over: North Mumbai Panthers 20/1 bt Bandra Blasters 7 for nary loss.
SoBo Mumbai Falcons 126 successful 18.2 overs (Aditya Tare 59, Shivam Dube 3/17, Ajay Mishra 3/27, Deepak Shetty 2/32) mislaid to ARCS Andheri 127/5 successful 14 overs (Divyaansh Saxena 50).
Women’s League: Aakash Tigers Mumbai Western Suburbs 113/9 successful 20 overs (Sayali Satghare 4/29, Swara Jadhav 3/19) mislaid to SoBo Mumbai Falcons 117/3 successful 15.5 overs (Sarika Koli 33 n.o., Sayali Satghare 30 n.o.).
