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T20Sim Cup #2

Sapphire Smashers vs Perth Panthers

Venue: Auckland Pacific Stadium

Round: 1 • Result: Defending team won by 61 runs • Winner: Sapphire Smashers

Man of the Match
Aditya Rana
Batting: 45 (16) • SR 281.25 • 4s 4 • 6s 4 | Bowling: 3/42 • 4.0 ov | Team: Sapphire Smashers

Innings

Innings 1 — Sapphire Smashers
Score: 220/9 • Overs: 20.0
Bowling: Perth Panthers
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Hamza Farooq 5 5 100.00 1 0 run out (Arjun Venkatesh)
Ishaan Malhotra 18 9 200.00 2 1 c Aarav Sethi b Dev Patel
Jett Rourke 0 2 0.00 0 0 c Aarav Sethi b Dev Patel
Kaito Moriyama 48 22 218.18 4 3 c Connor Briggs b Benji Clarke
Liam Kershaw 33 24 137.50 3 1 b Connor Briggs
Toby Nguyen 3 4 75.00 0 0 c Hamza Farooq b Dev Patel
Santiago Ruiz 64 32 200.00 7 3 c Nikhil Shetty b Axel van Dijk
Tenzin Dorje 0 2 0.00 0 0 c Aarav Sethi b Connor Briggs
Aditya Rana 45 16 281.25 4 4 run out (Aarav Sethi)
Aiden Rowley 2 3 66.67 0 0 not out
Connor Briggs 2 1 200.00 0 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 5/1, 23/2, 23/3, 71/4, 104/5, 107/6, 171/7, 171/8, 216/9
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Dev Patel 4.0 29 3 7.25
Connor Briggs 4.0 34 2 8.50
Axel van Dijk 2.0 35 1 17.50
Benji Clarke 4.0 52 1 13.00
Fahim Rahimi 3.0 20 0 6.67
Arjun Venkatesh 3.0 50 0 16.67
Innings 2 — Perth Panthers
Score: 159/10 • Overs: 15.3
Bowling: Sapphire Smashers
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Arjun Venkatesh 19 13 146.15 3 0 c Aiden Rowley b Tenzin Dorje
Axel van Dijk 16 8 200.00 2 1 c Toby Nguyen b Santiago Ruiz
Hamza Farooq 20 10 200.00 3 1 run out (Liam Kershaw)
Jett Rourke 15 8 187.50 1 1 c Hamza Farooq b Tenzin Dorje
Nikhil Shetty 20 10 200.00 4 0 b Aditya Rana
Aarav Sethi 23 17 135.29 1 1 c Hamza Farooq b Aiden Rowley
Benji Clarke 19 10 190.00 0 1 c Aditya Rana b Hamza Farooq
Dev Patel 3 6 50.00 0 0 c Ishaan Malhotra b Aditya Rana
Connor Briggs 18 9 200.00 2 1 c Ishaan Malhotra b Aditya Rana
Fahim Rahimi 6 1 600.00 0 1 not out
Pranav Kulkarni 0 1 0.00 0 0 b Hamza Farooq
Fall of Wickets: 19/1, 35/2, 55/3, 70/4, 90/5, 113/6, 132/7, 135/8, 153/9, 159/10
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Aditya Rana 4.0 42 3 10.50
Hamza Farooq 0.3 6 2 12.00
Tenzin Dorje 4.0 49 2 12.25
Aiden Rowley 3.0 20 1 6.67
Santiago Ruiz 4.0 42 1 10.50