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What a win, what a win for Malo! After losing back to back games on an opening day, they bounced back strongly to finish at the top of the table with four consecutive wins. Now they have made it five wins in a row after humiliating Gorkha 11 here today by 48 runs. Gorkha have been outplayed in all three departments of the game. They have nobody else but themselves to blame for not capitalizing on the toss win and allowing Malo to put on 130 on the board.
Chasing 131 was always going to take a monumental effort and to pull it off against the reigning champions in a semifinal is close to unachievable. Gorkha got off to the worst possible start by losing three wickets in the powerplay itself. They were never in the run chase from there. The big three of Suman Ghimire, Imran Khan and Praveen Singh were all back in the shed and it was all over for Gorkha. They couldn't get enough runs on the board from there as they capitulated under scoreboard pressure. Absar Alam's 24 ball 36 in the backend saved some pride for Gorkha but no other batsman managed to score even a third of his total.
Gorkha finish their innings at 82/6 after 10 overs and lose the tie by 48 runs!
10
overs
81/6score
1b
1w
0
2w
0
1
1
2
runs
Amandeep Ghumman*
3(4)
Arslan Naseem
1(2)
Junaid Ali 2
0/7
9.6 Junaid Ali to Amandeep Ghumman, DROPPED! Full-length delivery going down the pads, Ghumman flicks that one away towards deep midwicket and the fielder drops a sitter. The pair run two, but that doesn't bother the Malo CC who have won the match by 48 runs and head into the finals
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9.2 Junaid Ali to Asralan Naseem, length delivery outside the off stump, Naseem has a play and a miss. No run
9.2 Junaid Ali to Asralan Naseem, full length delivery going down the legside, is called a wide by the umpire
9.1 Junaid Ali to Amandeep Ghumman, full length delivery going down the legside, cuts the batsman in half and the pair take a single bye
9
overs
73/5score
1
6
6
0
0
W
runs
Absar Alam*
35(24)
Madhukar Thapa
5(6)
Assad Mehmood
1/13
8.5 Assad Mahmood to Absar Alam, CAUGHT! Full length delivery wide outside the off stump. Alam goes to follow that delivery and gets a thick outside edge. The ball goes off the edge flying to the man at short third man for an easy grab
8.4 Assad Mahmood to Absar Alam, THAPA RUN OUT! Full-length delivery on the line of the off and the middle stump. Alam hits that down to the sweeper cover at the boundary. The pair take a single but Thapa is short of his ground and finds himself run out at the other end
8.3 Assad Mahmood to Absar Alam, SIX MORE! Full length delivery on the middle and the off stump. Alam hits that one straight down the ground and the ball goes over the head of the fielder fo a huge maximum
8.2 Assad Mahmood to Absar Alam, SIX! Full length delivery on the line of the off and the middle stump, Alam gets down on his knee and slogs that one away towards deep midwicket for a maximum
8.1 Assad Mahmood to Madhukar Thapa, length delivery on the middle and the leg stump, tapped away to backward square leg for a single
Good to see Assad Mehmood being given the ball now for the penultimate over. He has often been overlooked by his side whenever it came to bowling. Malo can afford to take this gamble as the run chase looks mathematically impossible as well.
8
overs
60/4score
0
4
2
1b
2nb
1
1
runs
Absar Alam
23(19)
Madhukar Thapa*
4(5)
Syed Maisam
0/12
7.6 Syed Maisam to Madhukar Thapa, full-length delivery on the line of the off stump. Thapa hits that one down the ground to mid-on for a single to end the over
7.5 Syed Maisam to Absar Alam, full length delivery on the middle and the off stump, played away towards mid-on for a quick single
7.5 Syed Maisam to Madhukar Thapa, NO BALL! Waist high full toss from Maisam. Thapa hits that one away towards cover and runs across for a single. The umpire calls it a no ball. Free hit loading
7.4 Syed Maisam to Absar Alam, length delivery outside the off stump. Alam walks down the track and looked to connect but misses the ball. The keeper was up at the stump and misses an obvious stumping, allowing the pair to sneak a bye