FPL Season VIII witnessed a nail biting contest between TCC and HI fliers on 19th Nov at Narangi ground
5th Contest of FPL Season VIII was set to roar at Beautiful Venue of Virar at Narangi Ground between 2 tough competitors who had memorable history of playing the game of cricket with each other and had always nail biting games in past 7 years and same was expected to transpire on 19th Nov’16.
The day began with National Anthem by both the teams and wishes to each other for the contest followed by toss winning by HI fliers and elected to bat first lead to another nail biting contest for teams and audience to witnessed concluded with entertaining win during last over of the game 2 balls & 3 wickets to spare.
Opener Ganesh Patil , Nilesh and Prateek has laid foundation of exciting game followed by super entertaining cameos by ShriNath Daange 4-4-1-4-6 =19 with strike rate of 380% and match winning notch by Roger 1-1-1-6-1-2-4- 4 = 20 with strike rate 0f 250% has seized the exceptional win for TCC which placed TCC on top of the table on that very day. Though it was batting led performances but can’t rule out the importance of fielding and TCC also done exceeding well started with Excellent Catch at short mid-off by Palu Gadvi and 2 brilliant runs outs by Ganesh and Nilesh brought TCC back to the game helped to restrict opponent at 165 runs at the end of 20overs
Ganesh Patil was adjudged Man of the Match for his entertaining notch of the day 45runs runs with strike rate of 150% with sky rocket three 6s and bullet alike five 4s.
IT WAS RETURN BIRTHDAY GIFT to TCC BY A SUPER ENTERTAINING OPENER. HAPPY BRITHDAY TO GANESH PATIL
no doubt they batted well and posted a good 166 on the board in 20 overs which also included a splendid knock of 76 off just 43 balls. Though TC’S skipper had a target of restricting them to 140 but it was because of this aggressive knock from Jigar which included 8 fours and 5 sixes that pushed his team’s total to 166, at one point they even looked good to score 180-190 but as wickets kept on falling from the other end, it became a little tough.
Jigar who was finally castled of a good ball from spinner Naresh Gadvi getting stumped by the keeper! But his job was not done yet as he even took two wickets with the ball. While Ganesh Patil was adjudged man of the match for giving a great start, it was also good to see Jigar Shah of Highflyers stating that ‘this knock of mine is dedicated to my best friend”
All in all it was an entertaining match which ended in good spirits & we wish that FPL may witness much more exciting games in times to come and keep entertaining viewers and participants.
ALL THE BEST TO BOTH THE TEAM FOR ALL FORTHCOMING GAMES .
HAPPY CRICKET & LET THE ENTERTAINMENT CONTINUE