14th Manipur Veteran Cricket Tournament Cyclone down CCC by 3 wickets
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 10 2017:
Cyclone, Thangmeiband downed CCC, Chajing by three wickets in the ongoing 14th Manipur Veteran Cricket Tournament underway at the playground of Oriental College and Model Higher Secondary School today.
On winning the toss, CCC opted to bat first and the bowlers of Cyclone rose to the occasion never letting the batsmen of CCC to settle down and grabbing wickets at regular interval.
For Cyclone, Bikom led the way with this incisive bowling and in the process he scalped three wickets in 6 overs.
Bikom was ably assisted by Robindro and Binoy who took two wickets each in 6 overs each.
Sur chipped in with one wicket in 6 overs.
The incisive bowling of Cyclone kept the batsmen of CCC bogged down and in their attempt to go after the bowling wickets kept falling at regular interval.
Pupu top scored for CCC with 17 runs off 28 balls followed by Gulson with 15 runs from 27 balls, Vikram 11 runs off 20 balls and Sanjoy 12 runs off 17 balls.
The innings of CCC folded up for 102 runs in 30 overs for the loss of 9 wickets.
Faced with the task of scoring 103 runs to score a win, the batsmen of Cyclone started off steadily with Roben top scoring with 26 runs off 33 balls.
Roben was assisted by Stanley who made 18 runs from 19 balls, Sashi who made 8 runs from 16 balls and Sudhir 7 runs from 35 balls.
Sanjit of CCC led with two wickets in 4 overs while Akbar Khan took 2 wickets in 5 overs.
Ranbir scalped 2 wickets in 6 overs followed by Sanjoy who bagged 1 wicket from 6 overs.
For scalping three wickets, A Bikom of Cyclone walked away with the man of the match title.