14th Manipur Veteran Cricket Tournament : NAPSA brush aside CRAU by 8 wickets
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 09 2017:
NAPSA, Kha Imphal trounced CRAU, Khamnam Leirak by 8 wickets in the ongoing 14th Manipur Veteran Cricket Toumament at Oriental College and Model Higher Secondary School ground today.
Winning the toss, CRAU opted to bat first and despite some good contributions from their frontline batsmen, the accurate bowling spells from the bowlers of NAPSA ensured that wickets kept falling at regular interval.
Gopeshor led the way in compiling 32 runs off 55 balls followed by Rocket with 21 runs off 27 balls.
Rohendro made a quick 15 runs off only 12 balls and Poireiton followed with 6 runs from 9 balls.
The bowlers of NAPSA on the other hand kept a good line and length to ensure that wickets kept falling at regular interval.
Surjit led the way grabbing three wickets from 6 overs while Himat followed with 2 wickets from 5 overs.
Somorendro and Bhogen bagged one wicket each.
The innings of CRAU folded up at 134 runs for the loss of 10 wickets in 29.2 overs.
Faced with a target of 135 runs to win the match, NAPSA rode on a fine 62 runs from Gautam to overhaul the target in 23.2 overs for the loss of 2 wickets.
Gautam's 62 runs came off only 54 balls while Brojen contributed 29 runs off 37 balls.
For CRAU, Santi and Basant took one wicket from 2 overs and 6 overs each.
For his fine show of 62 runs not out, Gautam of NAPSA bagged the man of the match award.
Tomorrow CCC, Lilong Chajing will meet Cyclone, Thangmeiband.