Life Care Cricket Club Defeats Lucknow Development Authority by 5 Wickets
Life Care Cricket Club Defeats Lucknow Development Authority by 5 Wickets
LHNB T20 Trophy: Life Care Cricket Club vs Lucknow Development Authority. Player of the Match: Akshdeep Nath
In a competitive match, Life Care Cricket Club showed a solid all-round performance and chased down the target set by Lucknow Development Authority with 4 balls to spare. Lucknow batted first and managed to score 124 runs in 20 overs, losing 9 wickets. Life Care’s bowlers, especially Akshdeep Nath, Prakhar Mishra, and Sumit Kumar Sharma, bowled smartly and kept the run rate in control. While chasing, Life Care also lost quick wickets, but a strong and composed knock from Akshdeep Nath led them to a comfortable win.
Lucknow Development Authority
Lucknow Development Authority had a decent start as Shivam Pandey played a quick knock of 26 runs off 17 balls, hitting 3 fours and 1 six. His opening partner, Shubh Singh, supported well with 33 runs from 27 balls. The team was going strong at 62/2, but after that, wickets started falling one after another.
Sufiyan Khan scored 37 runs off 38 balls but didn’t get much support from the middle and lower order. The team collapsed from 105/4 to 124/9.
Akshdeep Nath and Prakhar Mishra were the star bowlers, picking up 3 wickets each, and Sumit Kumar Sharma also got 2 important wickets. Lucknow could not accelerate much and finished with 124 runs in 20 overs.
Life Care Cricket Club
Chasing 125, Life Care lost their opener, Sumit Kumar Sharm,a early for just 4 runs. Then wickets kept falling at regular intervals Arbaaz Ahmad (19), Navneet Patel (13), Parth Patel (3), and Gaurav Yadav (9) leaving the team in a tricky position at 64/5.
But then came the match-winning partnership between Akshdeep Nath and Prakhar Mishra. Akshdeep played a brilliant knock of 46 runs in 32 balls, hitting 2 fours and 3 sixes. Prakhar supported calmly from the other end with an unbeaten 20 runs off 30 balls.
They kept their cool and slowly built the innings, eventually taking their team to victory in the 20th over with 5 wickets in hand.