Morung Express News Dimapur | October 18 Sovima Cricket Club and Kings Bird Tigers registered wins in their respective matches at the ongoing Sovima T20 Gold Cup on Tuesday. In a closely contested match, Sovima CC edged Blue Star CC by 2 wickets – the win coming off the penultimate ball of the final over. Blue Star winning the toss elected to bat and scored 123/7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Thejasel led the scoring with a breezy 56 runs from 51 balls. He was supported by Samik Das who scored a composed 34 runs from 38 balls. Tameed Rahman and Probal Borkotoki picked a wicket each for Sovima CC. In the run chase, Sovima CC lost wickets regularly as Blue Star’s Michael and Imli Wati returned with impressive figures of 2/13 and 2/19 respectively in their 4 overs. However, Blue Star’s target of 124 proved to be a tad too low as Sedezhalie Rupreo with 22 runs from 26 balls and Jintu Mali with 21 runs from 32 balls helped Sovima CC reach 124/8 with one ball to spare. Blue Star’s Thejasel was awarded the Man of the Match for his half century. In the second match, Kings Bird Tiger CC trounced Kings Bird Royal CC by 61 runs. Kings Bird Tiger winning the toss, elected to bat and put up an impressive 145 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in a game which was reduced to a 15-over match. The swashbuckling Akash Patil put in a man of the match performance smashing a 46-ball 81 runs. He was ably assisted by Ravindra who scored a brisk 34 runs from 28 balls. Hekavi and Sedevilie picked a wicket apiece for the Royals. Chasing a mammoth 145 with a required run rate of over 9.5, Kings Bird Royal could only manage 84 runs losing 9 wickets. Hekavi with 15 runs from 22 balls was the only batsman to offer some sort of resistance to the Tiger’s bowling attack. Raj Kumar returned with bowling figures of 3/9 from 1.5 overs while Rakesh picked 2 wickets at an economy rate of 3 from the allotted two overs.
