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Thanks a lot for joining us- Mohul Bhowmick and Pradeep- for the exciting second semi-final of the Maharaja Trophy between Mysore Warriors and Gulbarga Mystics. The Warriors managed to beat the Mystics quite comfortably and will now take on the Hubli Tigers in the final, which is to be played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium tomorrow at 5:30 PM. Join us for that game as well, and allow us to bid you goodbye tonight. Until next time, take care!
Karun Nair is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: Loved it out there, came out and contributed to team winning, one more game to go and one more innings to go. Throughout the tournament, we got good wickets, really happy with how it went out and looking forward for tomorrow. Hardik bowled well in the tournament, someone to watch out for in the future, excited for him. Everyone stood up to the challenge today, Samarth played well, gave good company. It's going to be exciting game for sure, hope we have lot more support tomorrow, looking forward to tomorrow's game. Thank you very much, please come tomorrow and we will win the trophy, take the trophy back to Mysuru.
This game seemed to be hanging in the balance up till Macneil Noronha and Abul Hasan Khalid were batting together but once the former departed, it started getting tougher for Gulbarga Mystics.
Khalid batted well to bring up his half-century, but he too was scalped by leg spinner Kushal Wadhwani soon and had to depart. The Mystics got off to a good start owing to their openers LR Chethan and KV Aneesh's fearless batting but there was a slight lull in between.
However, Noronha walked out to bat and made sure that the tempo did not go down at all. At one point, it seemed as if the momentum was with Gulbarga and that Mysore had to battle out of their skins to win this game.
Nonetheless, with the fall of wickets at regular intervals, Mysore made sure that they won this game by a rather comfortable margin in the end. 249 is an extremely steep total to chase in Twenty20 cricket, and one has to doff their hat to Gulbarga for the way they tried to have a go at it.
Mysore will be extremely proud of the way their bowlers brought them back into the game, especially Jagadeesha Suchith, whose two wickets in the early overs helped them gain some momentum. Kushal Wadhwani, Monish Reddy and Gautam Mishra too chipped in.
This win, however, deserves solely to Mysore skipper Karun Nair, who stroked a brilliant century earlier in the day to set this win up for his team. However, they will celebrate as a unit and prepare for the final tomorrow, in which they will take on the Hubli Tigers.
That will be that! The defending champions of the Maharaja Trophy, Gulbarga Mystics, have been knocked out of the tournament by Mysore Warriors in the semifinal! Mysore will now take on Hubil Tigers in the final tomorrow.
20
overs
212/8score
1wd
6
1
1
0
6
1
runs
Vijaykumar Vyshak*
16(8)
Hardik Raj
2(2)
Manoj Bhandage
0/16
19.6 Manoj Bhandage to Vijaykumar Vyshak, THAT'S IT! Mysuru Warriors storm into the finals and going to meet Hubli Tigers tomorrow. Change of pace, short on the off-stump, Vyshak mistimes the pull to long-on for one. Gulbarga Mystics, the defending champions have been knocked out of the tournament!
Vyshak keeps targetting his Karnataka teammate Bhandage!
19.5 Manoj Bhandage to Vijaykumar Vyshak, SIX MORE! Vyshak is having a bit of fun here at the end. Length delivery outside the off-stump, Vyshak clubbed it over Nair at long-off as he watches it sail over his head for another maximum.
19.4 Manoj Bhandage to Vijaykumar Vyshak, yorker length, tailed back in on the fourth stump. Vyshak swings but gets no bat on it, through to the keeper.
19.3 Manoj Bhandage to Hardik Raj, back of a length on the off-stump, Raj looks to pull but mistimes it down to long-on for one.