Openers Vipin Chaurasiya and Tejas Solonki set a MMPL record of sorts by hammering an unbeaten 82 runs in just 5.5 overs to steer Juhu Heroes to a 10-wicket win over Mulund Blasters to top Pool B in the 8-team SAI-Mumbai Masters T-20 League, powered by Paradigm Reality, at the Police Gymkhana’s floodlit ground here last night.
Skipper Niket Korgaonkar, of Paradigm Borivali Warriors, receiving the Man- Of-The-Match award from the chief guest Ashish Goel, vice-president, MMPL in the 8-team SAI-Mumbai Masters T-20 League.
Batting first, Mulund Blasters, trying to go all out in the allotted 16 overs, went hammer and tong right from the first ball. But their ploy failed badly as Juhu bowlers bowled good line and length to curb their aggression. All that Mulund Blasters could achieve in the end were 81 runs for the loss of nine wickets. And in reply, the Juhu Heroes openers Vipin and Tejas batted as if they were to catch a flight and ended with flurry of fours and sixes to finish the tie in 5.5 overs.
In pool A, table topper Worli Pitch Smashers were in for a shock when Borivali Warriors, thanks to whirlwind 75 by their skipper Niket Korgaonkar with 11 fours and three sixes, made 192 for six. Chasing 193, the Worli batsmen failed to match the deeds of their rivals and ended up with 141.
Brief scores: POOL A: Borivali Warriors 192 /6 (Niket Korgaonkar 75 (11×4, 3×6), Shaheen Mistry 40; Sandeep Shinde 2/13, Ajoy Singh 2/30) bt Worli Pitch Smashers 141 all out (Ketan Choudhari 25, Siddharth Govekar 37; Rahul Bhadreshwara 2/31, V inod Lund 2/23, Santosh Singh 2/21) by 51 runs.
POOL B: Mulund Blasters 81/9 off 16 overs (Vivek Prabhu 30; Vishal Shinde 2/15, Sagar Ghadigaonkar 2/11, Kailash Chavan 2/6) lost to Juhu Heroes 85/0 in 5.5 overs (Vipin Chaurasiya n.o. 40, Tejas Solanki n.o. 32) by 10 wkts.