Former champions MCC (Red) are back on winning ways as they dethroned second-placed MCC (Yellow) by 68 runs to jump to second spot in the in the 8-team MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here Yesterday.
Siddhant Rai’s fine all round show was the highlight MCC (Red)’s win. Rai, who hit up fighting 34 in his side’s score of 179, later excelled with ball, capturing four wickets for 31 runs. He was well supported by Simant Dubey, who bagged three wickets.
Opting to bat, the former champions, thanks to Avinash Tiwari’s fighting unbeaten 52, hit up 179 before they were allout. But in reply, “Yellow” batters just crumbled for 111 with Rai and Dubey sharing the bowling honours.
In another tie at the adjacent plot, bottom-placed MCC (Green) thumped MCC (Blue) by 7-wickets
Brief scores:
MCC Pro-40 League: MCC (Red) 179 all out (Avinash Tiwari 52, Amit Chauhan 36, Siddhant Rai 34; Nitin Vishwakarma 3/13, Mukesh Gupta 2/48) bt MCC (Yellow) 111 all out ( Pratik Chauhan 27; Siddhant Rai 4/31, Simant Dubey 3/26)by 68 runs. . Man-of-the-match: Siddhant Rai .
MCC (Blue) 185/9 off 40 overs (Lakshman Chaure 52, Kishan Prajapati41; Satyam Tripathi 2/35, Shubham Sonkusare 2/42) lost to MCC (Green) 187/3 (Shubham Sonkusare 65, Gaurav Pagare 41, Shashikant Yadav 41). Man-of-the-match: Shubham Sonkusare.