6
0
4
1
2
4
= 17
Match Details
ENT vs PB 2nd Match, MPL 2024
PB
188-920.0
Eagle Nashik Titans won by 7 runs 🏆
ENT
20.0195-6
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Time to say good bye from our coverage. This is myself Saptak Sanyal signing off on behalf of my co-commentators Soumarya Dutta and Hrutuja Deshmukh and our scorer/analyst Dushyant Madhukar Kumar. Good bye.
Prashant Solanki ( Eagle Nashik Titans Captain ) - Our team has specific defined roles for specific individuals and they performed their roles well as we reached a good total in the end. I trust our bowlers who executed their plans really well. Mukesh has IPL experience and he did really well in the end.
Ranjit Nikam (Player of the Match)- "I thought right from the start that I will spend time in the middle. I hit those which were in my hitting slot. My mindset was simple. Atharva Kale helped me a lot to help me to spend the ample time in the middle."
Player of the Match- Ranjit Nikam
Time for the post match presentations.
Ruturaj Gaikwad (Puneri Bappa Captain)- "To be honest, I think we lost by one hit. One umpiring error cost us the game. Batting position depends on what the team wants from me.
Our chinaman bowled well. Yash Kshirsagar batted really well. Lots of positives to take on. This is a great boost for us as lots of people are coming to watch the game. It's more of a mental game than physical I think. I always try to keep myself mentally fresh."
Our chinaman bowled well. Yash Kshirsagar batted really well. Lots of positives to take on. This is a great boost for us as lots of people are coming to watch the game. It's more of a mental game than physical I think. I always try to keep myself mentally fresh."
17:59 IST and Local time - Puneri Bappa fall short by 7 runs in the end and it has been an excellent victory for the Eagle Nashik Titans! Ruturaj Gaikwad fought hard till the end but once he had been dismissed on the final ball of the penultimate over, it was always going to be Nashik's game. They will end up with 188/9 in their 20 overs and they will be ruing the fact that their skipper didn't come out to bat early.
Puneri Bappa had a really poor start as Arshin Kulkarni pegged them on the backfoot straight away in the powerplay. He picked up both the openers in Pavan Shah and Shubham Taiswal. Yash Kshirsagar and Rohan Damle came together to build up a good partnership before Damle was dismissed by Sawant on the final ball of the 8th over which led to the strategic time-out.
Sawant was incredible as he finished with figures of 2/20 in four overs and in the process he put up pressure on Puneri Bappa. Rahul Desai, the impact substitute, played a few big shots but fell to Sawant while the key batter Yash Kshirsagar fell for 40 just when they needed him to go all the way. It was all down to the skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad at that stage, as the game entered into the final phase of the game.
Gaikwad continued to find the gaps and picked up the boundaries as the likes of Arshin Kulkarni and Prashant Solanki were taken to the cleaners. Suraj Shinde gave him good company for a while and scored a crucial 23 run cameo which helped the Bappa to come back into the reckoning. The bowlers held their nerve though and the two experienced players, Mukesh Choudhary and Arshin Kulkarni emerged as the heroes in the end as they picked up six wickets between them.
Puneri Bappa had a really poor start as Arshin Kulkarni pegged them on the backfoot straight away in the powerplay. He picked up both the openers in Pavan Shah and Shubham Taiswal. Yash Kshirsagar and Rohan Damle came together to build up a good partnership before Damle was dismissed by Sawant on the final ball of the 8th over which led to the strategic time-out.
Sawant was incredible as he finished with figures of 2/20 in four overs and in the process he put up pressure on Puneri Bappa. Rahul Desai, the impact substitute, played a few big shots but fell to Sawant while the key batter Yash Kshirsagar fell for 40 just when they needed him to go all the way. It was all down to the skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad at that stage, as the game entered into the final phase of the game.
Gaikwad continued to find the gaps and picked up the boundaries as the likes of Arshin Kulkarni and Prashant Solanki were taken to the cleaners. Suraj Shinde gave him good company for a while and scored a crucial 23 run cameo which helped the Bappa to come back into the reckoning. The bowlers held their nerve though and the two experienced players, Mukesh Choudhary and Arshin Kulkarni emerged as the heroes in the end as they picked up six wickets between them.
OVER 20
Puneri Bappa
188/9
Roshan Waghsare
0(1)
Sachin Bhosale
2(4)
Arshin Kulkarni
3-35(4.0)
19.6 A Kulkarni to R Waghsare
4b SWING AND A MISS! Bowled on fuller length at the outside off and missed by the batter, also the keeper, misses it and the ball goes to the fence. Four leg byes signaled by the umpire. Nashik Titans won by 7 runs.
Roshan Waghsare, is the final batter!
19.5 A Kulkarni to V Shelar
W Eagle Nashik Titans need just a legal delivery to register a win! Kulkarni bowls it on yorker length at the middle and leg. Shelar tries to play a helicopter shot but completely misses it. The ball crashes on to the leg stump and Shelar departs for 6.
OKAY!!! Shelar gets the first maximum. That was the need of the hour. Puneri Bappa need a couple of this now.
19.4 A Kulkarni to V Shelar
6 SIXX!!!!!!!!! What a shot by Shelar, Pitched in the slots and lifted over extra covers for a cracking boundary, now they need 12 runs in 2 balls.
19.3 A Kulkarni to V Shelar
0 That means Puneri Bappa need 3 sixes from the final 3 balls now. Kulkarni fires it on full length wide outside off. Shelar throws his bat and misses.
18 runs from 4 balls. Shelar to face his first ball.
19.2 A Kulkarni to S Bhosale
1 Fuller length delivery on the leg stump and drives towards mid wicket for a single.
19 needed from 5 balls now.
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