Bandra Heroes beat Shivaji Park Warriors by five wickets, but their concluding Super League tie was like a dress rehearsal for the final of the Mitsui Shoji T-20 League-Season-8, at Mumbai Police Gymkhana ground at Marine Lines here today. For both finalists, it will be their maiden crack at the Mitsui T20 trophy. The final between the two will be played at the same venue under floodlights on Monday (May 13).
Karan Ravre of Bandra heroes , the Man-of-the-match winner of the of the Mitsui Shoji T-20 League-Season-8 match today .
While the other tie between last year’s finalists Mumbai Police Cityriders and Thane Marathas , resulting in winning by 7 wickets for the former , turned out to be small consolation for the Police outfit.
Brief scores:
Match–1: Shivaji Park Warriors 149/9 ( Kushal Davane 36, Sujay Thakkar 33, Rohit Shinde 25; Amit Mishra 3/18, Ankush Vaze 2/23) lost to Bandra Heroes 150/5( Karan Ravre 49, Nikhil Ambhire 48; Meghan Pednekar 3/32) by 5 wkts. MOM – Karan Ravre.
Match–2: Thane Marathas 129/8 ( Mukesh Gupta 73 (8×4, 3×6), Anirudh Mainkar 2/13, Prfashant More 2/32) lost to Mumbai Police Cityriders 134/3 (Himayun Hirapure 38, Rohit Pol 29; Chandan Jha 2/13) by 7 wkts. MOM- Anirudh Mainkar.