Team Inquest 171/6 in 20 overs (Ekansh 57, Naksh 43, Tarun 3/33) lost to Bhutani Impex 175/6 in 18 overs (Tarun 109, Daman 19, Mohit 3/30) by 5 wickets
The first Royal Sports Cup concluded at the Royal Sports Club Baliwas ground, Gurgaon in a royal manner. There were some excellent individual performances and heart-stopping moments throughout the game. The tournament began way back in May with 12 participants.
The two finalists walked out for the toss on at 2 PM in the noon. Team Inquest won the toss and elected to bat first. Deepanshu and Ekansh got them off to flying start with a partnership of 45 in just 6.3 overs. Deepanshu became the first victim of Tarun in the seventh over when he was trying to flay him out of the park with a heave and was stumped by Guddu. Nitin Saini departed soon for 8. Deepanshu added further 37 with Nikhil (22).
At 91 for 3 in the 13th over, Team inquest were looking in a great position and the situation was further consolidated by the inning of Naksh who score a quickfire 43 off 25 balls. He added another 67 runs with Ekansh and led the team past 150. Ekansh was dismissed in the 18th over after scoring a magnificent 57 off 49 balls. He allowed other batsmen to bat around him as he built the inning. Tarun finished with the figures of 4-0-33-3 as Team Inquest piled on 171 in their quota of 20 overs.
The second inning was a complete one man show. Tarun added 40 with Nik (7), 46 with Saurabh (17), 28 with Tanuj (6). Apart from these partnerships, he stitched down a couple of small partnerships with Jasvinder (0) and Daman (19) too. All these partnerships were heavily dominated by Tarun. During his inning of 109, he smashed 10 fours and 9 massive sixes and managed to score 101 out of the first 144 runs in the chase.
The extent of destruction caused by Tarun was so much that despite other batsmen of his team failing to reach even the figure of 20, Bhutani Impex chased down the target without much trouble. Rana got out in the 14th over but the job was almost done by then. Bhutani Impex needed only 28 at that point in time with plenty of deliveries in the bag. Mohit Saini bagged 3 wickets for thirty but his effort was eliminated in front of Tarun’s inhuman effort.
Rana was awarded man of the match for his spectacular inning as Bhutani Impex celebrated the victory.
