Nitin Vishwakarma’s stellar all-round show featured in MCC (Yellow) ‘s five-wicket win over former champions MCC (Red) in the 6-team MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here. This win takes “Yellow” to the top of the table with six wins out of eight, same as the defending champions “Black”. However, their better run-rate put them to the top of the table.
Batting first, “Red” did well to a hit up challenging score of 163 before they were all out. Pace and spin attackof “Yellow” led by Roheen Shaikh, Nitin Vishwakarma ,Aman Yadav, Chaitnya Patil excelled with ball, each of them claiming a brace of wickets. Chasing victory target of 164, the “Yellow” top order batters showed remarkable grit and gumption to achieve their target with five wickets in hand.
Brief scores:
MCC Pro-40 Double-leg League: MCC (Red) 163 all out (Upesh Singh n.o.38, Amit Chauhan 39; Roheen Shaikh 2/18, Nitin Vishwakarma 2/20, Aman Yadav 2/30, Chaitnya Patil 2/38) lost to MCC (Yellow) 164/5 (Pratik Chavan 46, Avdut S n.o. 43, Nitin Viswakarma n.o.42; Ram Bhajan Rajbhar 2/40) by 5 wkts. Man-of-the-match: Nitin Viswakarma.