Plate Tournament : NAPSA bundle out ESU
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 10 2015 :
NAPSA Kha Imphal beat ESU Wangkhei in the group match of the 2nd Palte Tournament being organised by Manipur Cricket Association (MCA) at Luwangpokpa Cricket Stadium on Friday.
The pitch was fresh, as there was no match for last few days, and offers help to the fast bowlers.
NAPSA's Henry wreck ESU batsmen to claim 4 wickets.
Other bowlers also exploited the juice in the pitch as Rockey returned with 3 wickets while Roben; Simon and Kiran claimed 1 wicket each to bundle out ESU for a partly total of 57 in 23.4 overs to win the match for NAPSA by 56 runs.
Earlier, ESU put in NAPSA to bat after winning the toss.
On the contribution of Simon 23 off 35 balls, NAPSA set 113 as target from 27.4 overs.
Rishikanta 18 and Premananda 16 were the major contributors in NAPSA's total score.
NAPSA was restricted to a partly score on the effort of Balajit 3 wickets and Premananda 2 wickets.
Mithul and Shangkar also chipped in with 1 wicket each.
ESU batsmen could not capitalize on the platform provided by their blowers and fail to negotiate NAPSA's bowlers.
Surjit was the top scorer with 12 runs while the next main contributor was Shangkar with 9 runs.
Rest of the batsmen prefers to be in the dressing room rather than negotiate the ferry spells of NAPSA bowlers and hand over the match tamely.
NAPSA's Henry was awarded the man of the match for the exceptional bowling performance.