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That's it for this match, folks! Shreyas Gopal's side are rollicking at pace in this tournament while Mayank and Co. have a big list of things to work on. For now, this is Rudransh and Bidipto signing off for Sportskeeda!
Shreyas Gopal (Shivamogga Lions captain): It's great. 2 out of 2 is we always dreamed of. A few things to work out but we can do that. [On not coming to bat earlier] The situation didn't need me at that time. I think I need to be a bit selfless in such situations. The team's interest is always above mine. Kranthi and Shivaraj are better finishers and Kranthi's choice paid off today as well. [On opening the bowling] Bhuvan hasn't played me before so the thought was I might beat his edges and we got a team wicket and a maiden over, which is always a bonus. I honestly keep a par of 170/180 I back my bowlers to defend that. So I was pretty happy with 200.
Rohan Kadam has been adjudged the Player of the Match! Here is what he has to say.
Rohan Kadam: The pitch was a little sticky initially. I supported Nihal to begin with and then, backing myself, stepped on the accelerator and got the runs. Happy that they came off!
It is time for the post-match presentation!
End of the match! Shivamogga Lions win by 36 runs! They make it 2 in 2 while Bengaluru Blasters lose their second match!
What a performance from the Lions! They dominated this game from ball 1. 202 was an excellent total but we have seen that been chased a hundred times at this stadium and the Blasters surely had the quality to do that as well. But as soon as Mayank got runout on the second ball, they just got shell-shocked and never really recovered.
Raju was dismissed by the excellent and metronomic Koushik. Acharya and Deshpande built up a mini partnership which was understandably slow at the start and was broken by the second run out of the former.
Gopal was excellent in the middle overs and just conceded 11 runs off his four overs. He was helped well by impact player and mystery spinner Devadiga, who tightened the screws too until his last over. That's when Mahesh and Appana, probably after getting a message in the strategic time out, went all berserk.
Their four sixes provided more entertainment than hope before two more runouts killed both.
20
overs
165/8score
1
0
1
0
1wd
1
6
runs
L R Kumar*
16(9)
Aashish Mahesh
30(24)
Kranthi Kumar
0/16
19.6 Kranthi Kumar to L R Kumar, SIX RUNS TO FINISH BUT SHIVAMOGGA LIONS GET THEIR VICTORY! Full and in the slot outside off-stump. L R gets the width he wanted to swing through the line. He connected superbly and managed to get it over the rope at deep cover!
19.5 Kranthi Kumar to Aashish Mahesh, full outside off-stump. Heaved down to long-on from deep in the crease for a single.
19.5 Kranthi Kumar to Aashish Mahesh, WIDE outside the line of off-stump on this occasion. Time to bowl it again.
19.4 Kranthi Kumar to Aashish Mahesh, full around off-stump. Squirted to cover off the front foot but the single is refused by Aashish here.