MARGAO
Delite Titans beat Estilo Legends by 7 wickets and 2.5 overs to spare in the Desserts n More Sarsangan Super Series Cricket at Arlem Cricket ground.
Electing to bat first on a placid pitch conducive for stroke play, the openers Sachin Sardesai 31 and Sanat Prabhudesai 19 gave the Estilo Legends a decent start putting 33 in 4 overs. However a middle order collapse barring Siddesh Bodke who made 27 saw the Legends reduced to 94-6 in the 13 th over.
However, Café 108 CEO Ashay Ambe 41 (25 balls, 3 x 4s, 1 x 6s) and Siddesh Desai 27 stitched a 65 run partnership in 40 balls to bail the Estilo Legends to 160-9 in 20 overs as Vishnu Namshikar stemmed the run flow giving just 3 runs and picking 3 wickets in the final over. For the Delite Titans, Vishnu Namshikar 3-10, Nikhil Virginkar 2-37, Samrudh Hegde Desai 1-12, Pradip Shetye 1-13, Shridhar Keni 1-16 and Arsh Sardesai 1-35 were the successful bowlers.
In reply, Delite Titans were rocked early, losing 2 wickets within a space of 7 balls, to be 28-2 in the 4 th over. The skipper Deval Karmali 37 put on 48 runs for the 3 rd wicket with Arsh Sardesai 30 to bring the Titans back into the match with the score reading 76-3 in the 8 th over.
However, with the skipper Deval retiring due to cramps with the score reading 98, Titans were left to score 63 in 8 overs. But the two senior pros, Nikhil Virgincar 25 not out in the company Avinash Kossambe 49 not out (19 balls) made lightwork of the Legends bowling, guiding the Delite Titans to 161-3 in 17.1 overs, helping them to a win with 7 wickets and 2.5 overs to spare. For the legends, Siddesh Desai, Kauntey Shenvi and Siddesh Prabhu Alvenkar picked a wicket apiece.
Nikhil Virgincar was awarded the Desserts n More Man of the Match medal and the Estilo Moderno Realty Man of the Match trophy along with a cash prize of Rs.2000 for his brilliant all round display for the Delite Titans. The presentation was done by Pradip Shetye, Tanmay Sukhthankar, Nagnath Shanbhag, Mohan Pai and Govind Shenvi in the presence of Gomakant Mahambrey.
