Plate Tournament: Puffing UCC cross the line against WCA
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 31 2015 :
UCC Uripok overcame WCA by 1 wicket in a low scoring match of the Plate Tournament of Manipur Cricket Association (MCA) at Luwangpokpa Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
WCA won the toss and elected to bat in match reduced to 30 overs due to nature's intervention.
WCA batsmen's techniques to play swing and seam were tested by the UCC bowlers.
The pitch was offering some help to new ball bowlers due to overnight rain and overcast condition.
The condition was exploited by UCC fast bowlers.
In front of some fine bowling three batsmen could reach double digits, Jellis (15); Gautam (14) and Lelin (11) and folded WCA innings in 102 with loss of all wickets.
The opening pair of UCC bowlers Denin and Daimon returned with 3 wickets each while Jemson accounted for 2 wickets.
UCC thought of reaching the target comfortably was given a sock when WCA bowlers also exploited the pitch.
Similar to WCA inning UCC batsmen could not negotiate the favour returned by WCA, especially of Prasanta and Lenin.
Prasanta and Lenin claimed 3 wickets each while Ashutosh returned with 2 wickets.
Gautam also accounted 1 wicket.
The effort of WCA bowlers fell short by 1 wicket and UCC overcame the nail biting match with one ball left.
UCC wickets fell regularly against the hostile and accurate bowling of WCA but the experience of Perish guided UCC to home.
Perish made a patient 14 from 24 balls and remained not out.
Anish (15) and Satish (11) were the notable contributors to UCCs success.
PCC and OSCAR will continue the battle on Wednesday.