Riders XI vs NSK XI - Match I

Toss:

Riders won the toss and without any hesitation, they elected to bat first. Riders team opening batsmen Pavun and Manikandan walks to the center.

Quick start:

Both batsmen gives trouble to the opponent from the first ball. Pavun is a left hand batsman and Manikandan is Right hander, both rotate the strike and keep bowler under pressure. NSK team opening bowler unable to get his line right and conceding lot of wide deliveries in the very first over of the match, which help Riders team to get 12 runs in the first over of the 10 Over match. Second over, pavun starts with a massive hit of 4 runs and also NSK fielder Ilambaruthi missed a easy catch in the mid wicket area but it doesn't affect them, last ball of the same over pavunu lost his wicket. Riders were 18/2 at the end of 2 overs.

Big Partnership:

Rajarajan now joined with Manikandan, Manikandan played very sensible in the start of his innings. Played very softly to rotate a strike and Rajarajan smashed a lose deliveries and played softly for the good deliveries. Feature of this partnership is running between the wicket, these two guys are played lot of crickets together, both batsmen having good communication and understanding together which help this partnership to reach 30 runs in just 14 balls. Rajarajan got out very thin bottom edge through to the wicket keeper Ilambaruthy, Saravana from NSK get the wicket of Rajarajan for his very first over, Riders loss their 2nd wicket at the score of 49 in 4.5 overs.

Quality batting:

But Manikandan continue his temparement and batted brilliantly, he started smashing the balls over and through to the boundary lines. He suffered all the NSK bowlers and running is the key. Bharathy and Manikandan played together in the middle and take the scoreboard steadily. Manikandan got out at the 9th over of the match, he scored 42 runs just 28 balls and Riders were 79/3 in 9 Overs.

Last Over of the innings:

Ilambaruthy came into bowl the last over of the innings, sathya strike against him and smashed boundary for the first ball that he faced and second ball also he tried to hit over square leg but top edge caught at deep square leg, bharathy strike the 3 ball over log on six runs and fourth ball bharathy also gone run out, Riders were 90/6, 2 balls remaining, nagoor came into the middle, will he hit 2 boundaries to get 100 runs. Yes he hit over covers for the 4 runs. Final ball of the innings Ilambaruthy bowled a great delivery to beatan the batsman and they tried to get a single run but throw came to non-striker end nagoor gone.

Riders scored 94/7 end of 10 Overs, NSK Required 95 runs in 10 overs with 10 Wickets in hand at the rate of 9.5 Runs per Over.

NSK Reply:

Dinesh will bowl the first over of the match up against Vinodh, Wide delivery to start. Second ball of over hit over long on for the Six runs from Ilambaruthy, Pressure back to the bowler, 8 runs conceded in his first 3 balls but good come back 4 runs and get the wicket of vinod in the final ball of the over. NSK scored 12 runs in the first over lose of one wicket. NSK batsmen keep punishing the Riders bowler, they scored 10 runs per over rate in the first 4 overs, they scored 42 runs lose of 2 wickets in 4 overs, they required another 53 runs in 36 balls with 8 wickets in hand. Karthik bowled a low full toss get ride of dangerous batsman from NSK Ilambaruthi, this could be the turning point of this match. Dinesh bowled brilliant 6 over conceding just 3 wides in this over up against Raja. NSK required 29 runs in 3 Overs, Rajarajan bowled the 8th over and conceded 6 runs in this over and they required another 23 runs in 12 balls. Dinesh bowled a brilliant penultimate over of the match and concede just a single run in the last ball of the over after 5 consecutive dot balls up against Saravanan. NSK required 22 runs in last over and they scored just one run in the final over and lost 2 wickets.

Riders Won:

Riders Won by 20 runs and Manikandan S awarded a man of the match for his brilliant batting.

Match Summary:

Riders - 94/7 (10 Overs)
Manikandan S - 42
Rajarajan - 20

Raja - 2/20
Saravanan - 1/14

NSK - 74/7 (10 Overs)
Ilambaruthy - 20
Raja - 18

Dinesh - 2/16 (3 Overs)
Pavunu - 2/20 (2.3 Overs)