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T20Sim Cup #14

Nightfire Strikers vs Iron Pitch Panthers

Venue: Melbourne Southern Coliseum

Round: 10 • Result: Chasing team won by 2 wickets • Winner: Nightfire Strikers

Man of the Match
Blake Saunders
Batting: 50 (24) • SR 208.33 • 4s 4 • 6s 3 | Bowling: 2/18 • 3.0 ov | Team: Iron Pitch Panthers

Innings

Innings 1 — Iron Pitch Panthers
Score: 181/10 • Overs: 17.0
Bowling: Nightfire Strikers
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Axel van Dijk 15 5 300.00 2 1 c Aiden Rowley b Aiden Rowley
Hamza Farooq 7 5 140.00 1 0 run out (Santiago Ruiz)
Liam Kershaw 16 6 266.67 2 1 c Siyabonga Dlamini b Aiden Rowley
Sameer Qazi 35 25 140.00 3 2 c Imran Qureshi b Hugh Donnelly
Aarav Sethi 12 7 171.43 1 1 lbw b Aiden Rowley
Benji Clarke 4 2 200.00 1 0 run out (Axel van Dijk)
Khalid Hamid 10 11 90.91 0 0 c Aarav Sethi b Hugh Donnelly
Aiden Rowley 7 3 233.33 0 1 b Imran Qureshi
Blake Saunders 50 24 208.33 4 3 c Imran Qureshi b Axel van Dijk
Pranav Kulkarni 15 9 166.67 3 0 b Hugh Donnelly
Rahul Deshpande 10 5 200.00 0 1 not out
Fall of Wickets: 15/1, 22/2, 38/3, 73/4, 85/5, 89/6, 99/7, 106/8, 156/9, 181/10
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Hugh Donnelly 4.0 33 3 8.25
Aiden Rowley 4.0 36 3 9.00
Axel van Dijk 1.0 6 1 6.00
Imran Qureshi 3.0 35 1 11.67
Arjun Venkatesh 1.0 23 0 23.00
Santiago Ruiz 4.0 48 0 12.00
Innings 2 — Nightfire Strikers
Score: 182/8 • Overs: 18.4
Bowling: Iron Pitch Panthers
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Arjun Venkatesh 33 11 300.00 3 3 c Benji Clarke b Khalid Hamid
Axel van Dijk 16 10 160.00 2 0 c Rahul Deshpande b Benji Clarke
Hamza Farooq 33 24 137.50 3 0 run out (Pranav Kulkarni)
Kaito Moriyama 29 19 152.63 3 1 c Axel van Dijk b Blake Saunders
Mason Wilde 24 17 141.18 3 0 run out (Blake Saunders)
Aarav Sethi 4 5 80.00 1 0 c Blake Saunders b Blake Saunders
Santiago Ruiz 2 4 50.00 0 0 c Liam Kershaw b Aiden Rowley
Aiden Rowley 0 2 0.00 0 0 c Pranav Kulkarni b Aiden Rowley
Hugh Donnelly 29 15 193.33 6 0 not out
Imran Qureshi 12 5 240.00 3 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 33/1, 49/2, 82/3, 111/4, 135/5, 139/6, 141/7, 141/8
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Blake Saunders 3.0 18 2 6.00
Aiden Rowley 4.0 20 2 5.00
Benji Clarke 4.0 49 1 12.25
Khalid Hamid 4.0 50 1 12.50
Axel van Dijk 2.0 19 0 9.50
Hamza Farooq 1.4 26 0 15.60