Cyclone, YPHU cruise in Veteran T-20 cricket tournament
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, February 07 2023:
Cyclone and YPHU notched up dominant wins in Tuesday's action of the 10th Manipur Veteran T-20 Cricket Tournament.
Cyclone started the day with a 65-run success against UCC.
The winning side chose to bat and set a 145-run target for their opponents.
They lost six wickets in the innings where N Shashikumar shone with the bat scoring 55 off 42 balls as Ph Rohindro made 34, S Shyamsundar earned 14 and Lamnganba contributed 10 .
Cyclone then bowled out UCC for 79 in 17.1 overs for their convincing victory.
S Tiken led the bowling attack with three wickets, H Tombi did his part with two scalps, and Sudhir and Lamnganba took one each for their team.
Earlier, S Jacky and N Joykumar snapped two wickets each while L Boyai and N Rajesh bagged one each for UCC.
Later in the day, YPHU upstaged YCC by five wickets.
YPHU restricted YCC to 103/5 and then they chased down the target in 17.2 overs for loss of five wickets.
In the run chase, Surjit (25), Boicha (21, Alai (20), Dhaneshor (14) and Ng Kenny (10) were key contributors in YPHU's win.
The side lost one wicket each to Kh Rajesh, H Premananda and L Everest in their chase.
Earlier, Boicha, Ponil and Ng Kenny took a wicket apiece for YPHU.