Veteran cricket tourney Cyclone pack off Blue Hawk by 7 wickets
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 21 2014 :
Riding on a fine all round show of 37 runs off 45 balls and 1 wicket from Robindro, Cyclone downed a fighting Blue Hawk by 7 wickets in the 11th Manipur Veteran Cricket Championship today.
Winning the toss, Blue Hawk opted to bat first and managed to put on a competitive 130 for 7 wickets in the allotted 30 overs.
Anand of Blue Hawk led the charge with 41 runs off 60 balls (not out), followed by Surjit 30 off 23 balls (not out) and Devkanta 16 off 29 balls.
The chief wrecker was Arun of Cyclone who scalped two wickets followed by Robindro, Surchandra, Binoy, Tiken and Randhir who took one wicket each.
Put in to bat, Cyclone went on the rampage, with Robindro scoring a breezy 37 runs off 45 balls (not out), followed by Bobby 26 off 26 balls, Ingenjao 21 runs off 18 balls and Hokendro 18 runs off 14 balls (Not out) to overtake the score of 130 and reach the winning target of 131 runs.