Finals update

Finals between Maratha warriors and Chargers started with MW captain Hrishikesh Bhadange winning the toss and deciding to bat first.

Maratha warriors got off to a shaky start, with their first wicket falling in the very first over as a result of a great delivery from Charger's strike baller Sohail. Swapnil and Kumar played well with a 28 run partnership for second wicket before two wickets fell in quick succession. Later on Vishvesh and Kumar came together to help MW with a 53 run partnership, the best of the innings with very good running between the wickets. MW made a final score of 98 all out in their 15 overs. Star of the innings was Kumar scoring 59, Swapnil and Vishvesh played very good supporting role. Sohail and Mahesh took 3 wickets each to wrap up the innings.Captain Bhargava chipped in with two wickets towards the end.

Chargers started their innings with Kaustubh taking a wicket on very first ball and then Manish taking second in the next over. They were struggling at 6/2 after two overs.Captain Bhargav and Sohail were playing really well to guide chargers towards the victory, but Sohail fell in 8th over. Bhargav played a captain’s knock of 53 with his classic style and wonderful stroke play, Krishna Chaitanya tried well to support him at the end,but wickets kept falling in succession and Chargers innings ended with 91/8 in 15 overs with some good bowling from MW. Manish took 3 wickets,with a great delivery to take skipper Bhargav's wicket which turned the match.Kaustubh and Dhananjay took one each and MW managed to get 3 run outs with some good work in the field.

We are thankful to umpires Kamal and Raghvendra (Raghu) for their wonderful job today. Raghvendra did umpiring on saturday back to back for two matches along with Ashwin Kumar, ISA is grateful to all the umpires,scorers and supporters throughout the series.

Final scores
Maratha Warriors 98/10 in 15 over

Chargers 91/8 in 15 over

See you all for the independence day celebration on 15th Aug 5:30pm for prize distribution!

report submitted by
sports secretary
Nilesh Naik