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T20Sim Cup #27

Down Under Taipans vs Cape Town Kings

Venue: Auckland Pacific Stadium

Round: 5 • Result: Defending team won by 60 runs • Winner: Down Under Taipans

Man of the Match
Nathan Brooks
Batting: 57 (40) • SR 142.50 • 4s 4 • 6s 2 | Team: Down Under Taipans

Innings

Innings 1 — Down Under Taipans
Score: 191/10 • Overs: 19.4
Bowling: Cape Town Kings
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Arjun Mehta 24 12 200.00 3 1 c Aiden Rowley b Benji Clarke
Arman Vohra 0 2 0.00 0 0 c Shubham Jaiswal b Kenji Watanabe
Callum Hughes 12 4 300.00 3 0 c Logan Price b Kenji Watanabe
Kunal Bhatia 5 3 166.67 1 0 c Logan Price b Kenji Watanabe
Nathan Brooks 57 40 142.50 4 2 lbw b Axel van Dijk
Imtiaz Ali 3 6 50.00 0 0 c Jack Harrington b Benji Clarke
Aravind Pillai 10 8 125.00 1 0 b Aditya Rana
Jai Suryan 21 16 131.25 1 1 c Callum Hughes b Aditya Rana
Noman Ashraf 48 20 240.00 5 3 b Axel van Dijk
Blake Saunders 0 1 0.00 0 0 c Axel van Dijk b Axel van Dijk
Hugh Donnelly 11 6 183.33 2 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 24/1, 24/2, 36/3, 41/4, 98/5, 101/6, 111/7, 132/8, 180/9, 191/10
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Axel van Dijk 2.4 33 3 12.38
Kenji Watanabe 4.0 36 3 9.00
Aditya Rana 4.0 26 2 6.50
Benji Clarke 4.0 47 2 11.75
Aiden Rowley 3.0 23 0 7.67
Callum Hughes 2.0 26 0 13.00
Innings 2 — Cape Town Kings
Score: 131/10 • Overs: 14.5
Bowling: Down Under Taipans
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Axel van Dijk 13 10 130.00 2 0 lbw b Jai Suryan
Callum Hughes 0 3 0.00 0 0 c Arjun Mehta b Aravind Pillai
Harpreet Singh 27 20 135.00 1 1 c Callum Hughes b Aravind Pillai
Jack Harrington 0 1 0.00 0 0 b Aravind Pillai
Mason Wilde 2 3 66.67 0 0 lbw b Jai Suryan
Logan Price 36 21 171.43 3 1 c Callum Hughes b Blake Saunders
Benji Clarke 2 3 66.67 0 0 c Callum Hughes b Noman Ashraf
Kenji Watanabe 10 8 125.00 0 1 run out (Nathan Brooks)
Aditya Rana 10 8 125.00 1 0 c Aravind Pillai b Noman Ashraf
Aiden Rowley 22 8 275.00 1 2 c Jai Suryan b Blake Saunders
Shubham Jaiswal 9 4 225.00 2 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 13/1, 13/2, 40/3, 40/4, 42/5, 78/6, 80/7, 90/8, 100/9, 131/10
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Aravind Pillai 4.0 24 3 6.00
Blake Saunders 3.0 27 2 9.00
Noman Ashraf 3.5 39 2 10.17
Jai Suryan 4.0 41 2 10.25