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T20Sim Cup #2

Sapphire Smashers vs Thunder Willow XI

Venue: Johannesburg Lions Arena

Round: 3 • Result: Chasing team won by 2 wickets • Winner: Thunder Willow XI

Man of the Match
Liam Kershaw
Batting: 102 (45) • SR 226.67 • 4s 6 • 6s 8 | Team: Sapphire Smashers

Innings

Innings 1 — Sapphire Smashers
Score: 211/7 • Overs: 20.0
Bowling: Thunder Willow XI
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Hamza Farooq 11 10 110.00 1 0 c Vikram Sood b Dev Patel
Ishaan Malhotra 10 7 142.86 2 0 c Aiden Rowley b Dev Patel
Jett Rourke 2 5 40.00 0 0 c Kaito Moriyama b Benji Clarke
Kaito Moriyama 10 8 125.00 0 1 c Ishaan Malhotra b Benji Clarke
Liam Kershaw 102 45 226.67 6 8 run out (Kaito Moriyama)
Toby Nguyen 31 26 119.23 1 2 c Aditya Rana b Hamza Farooq
Santiago Ruiz 0 1 0.00 0 0 c Dev Patel b Hamza Farooq
Tenzin Dorje 24 11 218.18 2 2 not out
Aditya Rana 21 7 300.00 5 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 11/1, 21/2, 23/3, 33/4, 135/5, 166/6, 166/7
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Hamza Farooq 2.0 20 2 10.00
Benji Clarke 4.0 25 2 6.25
Dev Patel 4.0 31 2 7.75
Aiden Rowley 3.0 37 0 12.33
Axel van Dijk 3.0 40 0 13.33
Aditya Rana 4.0 58 0 14.50
Innings 2 — Thunder Willow XI
Score: 215/8 • Overs: 19.1
Bowling: Sapphire Smashers
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Axel van Dijk 17 11 154.55 3 0 c Tenzin Dorje b Tenzin Dorje
Hamza Farooq 0 3 0.00 0 0 c Tenzin Dorje b Tenzin Dorje
Ishaan Malhotra 10 6 166.67 0 1 run out (Liam Kershaw)
Kaito Moriyama 5 4 125.00 1 0 b Santiago Ruiz
Aarav Sethi 51 29 175.86 5 1 lbw b Aiden Rowley
Benji Clarke 20 18 111.11 2 0 c Aditya Rana b Aditya Rana
Dev Patel 68 28 242.86 6 4 not out
Aditya Rana 1 2 50.00 0 0 c Aiden Rowley b Hamza Farooq
Aiden Rowley 0 1 0.00 0 0 b Hamza Farooq
Vikram Sood 43 13 330.77 5 3 not out
Fall of Wickets: 17/1, 17/2, 27/3, 32/4, 83/5, 103/6, 104/7, 104/8
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Tenzin Dorje 4.0 33 2 8.25
Hamza Farooq 2.1 40 2 18.46
Aiden Rowley 3.0 28 1 9.33
Aditya Rana 4.0 33 1 8.25
Santiago Ruiz 4.0 40 1 10.00
Ishaan Malhotra 2.0 41 0 20.50