Yuzvendra Chahal & Rishabh Pant helps Reliance win in the 13th D.Y Patil Cup Tournament 2017

It was a head to head encounter between two equally strong teams at the DY Patil stadium namely Reliance vs D.Y Patil ‘B’ Both the teams are considered to be strong because both the teams are blessed to have national level and IPL level players in their side.

D.Y Patil ‘B’ elected to field first after winning the toss. They wanted to restrict the opposition to a low score and chase the target as the pitch was decent for batting. However, Reliance posted a very competitive total of 176/5 in 20 overs. T20 specialist Pravin Tambe was again the pick of the bowlers taking 2/20 in 4 overs. Reliance lost their openers early but the middle order did a very good batting to take their team to a decent score. Left-handed Rishabh Pant who has already developed quite a reputation as a clean and hard hitter once again showed his batting prowess smashing a half century off just 23 balls. Rishabh smashed 5 glorious boundaries and 4 clean sixes which lifted the team’s run rate manifold. Yogesh Nagar was also very good with the bat scoring 53 off 36 balls.        

Chasing 177, it was a bad day in the office for

D.Y Patil ‘B’ as they were all out for just 102 runs. Kulwant singh and Yuzvendra chahal destroyed the batting line up of D.Y with 7 wickets together. Chahal who has already made his presence felt at the national level and in the IPL showed what he can do with the ball. Yuzi took 4/13 with his legbreak googlies and did not allow the opposition batsman to settle.

Reliance 1 won the match by 74 runs and they will be moving ahead in the tournament with a lot of confidence and positive momentum by their side.