South-paw Hemang Badani’s (88 not out) heroics helped Chennai Superstars register a thrilling two-wicket victory over the Hyderabad Heroes in the second match of the ongoing ICL 50’s.
Unbeaten knock of 88 helps beat Heroes by 2 wickets
CHENNAI: South-paw Hemang Badani’s (88 not out) heroics helped Chennai Superstars register a thrilling two-wicket victory over the Hyderabad Heroes in the second match of the ongoing ICL 50’s being played at Mayajaal on Monday.
Chennai won the toss and elected to field in a high scoring game that went down to the last over.
Batting first, Hyderabad Heroes put on 263 in their stipulated 50 overs thanks to a fine hundred by Ambati Rayudu (103). Rayudu came in the 4th over with the score on 7.
He along with Heroes skipper Anirudh Singh (77) put on a partnership of 161 for the third wicket. Hyderabad started slowly but once Rayudu and Singh got their eye in the runs started flowing. Then a couple of quick wickets made it seem that Hyderabad would struggle to reach 250 but a late flourish by their lower middle order ensured they reached a respectable total.
The stand out performer for the Superstars was G. Vignesh (3/40) who continued his fine bowling.
Chasing the target, Chennai Superstars got off to a decent start losing their first wicket at 37. That brought in S Sriram who along with opener Hemant Kumar put on 79 for the third wicket. Kumar was in fine form as he struck a run a ball 64.
The Superstars then lost 3 wickets with score on 116. This flurry of wickets brought in Hemang Badani who seized control of the game by stringing together two 50 plus run partnerships. First was a 59 run stand with Vasanth Sarvanan for the 5th wicket.
And then he put on 51 runs with P Vivek for the 7th.
ScorecardHyderabad Heroes
PS Nag c Devendran b Vignesh 4; A Singh c Vivek b Sathish 77; A Rayudu c Kumaran b Jesuraj 103; DV Kumar run out (Saravanan) 4; I Khaleel run out (Saravanan) 10; S Binny c Sriram b Vignesh 20; K Sahabuddin not out 10; A Absolem b Vignesh 15; P Reddy not out 10; Extras (6 lb, 4 w) 10
Total (7 wickets in 50 overs) 263
FoW: 1-7, 2-168, 3-176, 4-203, 5-218, 6-229, 7-250
Bowling: Jesuraj 10-0-52-1, Vignesh 10-1-40-3, Kumaran 9-0-56-0, Sathish 9-0-43-1, S Mohammad 7-0-26-0, Saravanan 3-0-23-0, Sriram 2-0-17-0
Chennai Superstars
CH Kumar c Khaleel b Rao 64; V Devendran c Khaleel b Sahabuddin 21; S Sriram c Khaleel b P Reddy 21; H Badani not out 88; R Sathish lbw b Rao 0; S Saravanan b Absolem 20; Mohammad st Khaleel b Binny 0; P Vivek c Binny b P Reddy 25; G Vignesh b Absolem 6; T Kumaran not out 6; Extras (1 b, 7 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) 13
Total (8 wickets in 49.1 overs) 264
FoW: 1-37, 2-116, 3-116, 4-116, 5-175, 6-176, 7-227, 8-255
Bowling: Sahabuddin 7-0-49-1, P Reddy 7-1-30-0, Absolem 8-0-57-2, Bhima Rao 10-1-48-2, PIS Reddy 10-0-28-2, Rayudu 1-0-11-0, Binny 6.1-0-33-1
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