T20 veteran cricket: LCCC, CHAMP win
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 29 2024:
LCCC, Lilong Chajing and CHAMP, Khagempalli on Monday won their respective league matches in the 11th T20 Manipur Veteran Cricket Tournament 2024 held at Langthabal Public Ground.
In the first match, LCCC defeated YPHU, Lalambung by eight wickets.
Choosing to bat first, YPHU scored 155 runs for the loss of three wickets with major contribution from Boiton (51) and Hemanta (68).For LCCC, Jiten and Krishna claimed one wicket each.
In reply, Prabin scored 84 runs off 42 balls in the team's total of 159/2 in 15.5 overs to guide home LCCC.
Prabin also won the Man of the Match award.
On the other hand, CHAMP defeated YUCC, Moirangpurel by 5 wickets.
Winning the toss, YUCC scored 128/5 in 20 overs with Kh Raju (35), Somorjit (19) and P Bidison (20) being the notable scorers.
CHAMP's Bonny took two wickets, while Ratan, Gopeshor, A Sanjoy and S John got one each.
Chasing the target, CHAMP suffered early shocks with three top order batsmen failing to score.
However, partnership between Bablu (S3 not out) and A Sanjoy (42) along with last minute heroics from Ratan (13) saw the team cruise to victory in 18.4 overs for the loss of 5 wickets.
For YUCC, P Bidision and Tomba took 2 wickets each and Manikumar got 1 wicket.
Man of the Match title was bagged by A Sanjoy for his all-round performance of 42 runs in 36 balls and one wicket in four overs.