Last over win by Strikers against Mumbai Stars

Thakur Ground: As morning matches are often too hard to bat first, yet Strikers with there good batting stand by openers and some fine bowling managed to restrict Mumbai Stars to 129 and win the match by 5 runs.

Mahesh Takhtani (captain of Strikers) won the toss and elected to bat first on wet pitch with lots of dew in the field. Mahesh opening with wicketkeeper batsman Mohan Jangid gave a steady start. Mohan fell in the 4th over with a good ball on AJ bowling in off stump line.

With Mahadev hitting some sweet boundaries in covers took to score to 64/1 in 10th over before trying to hit a middle and leg bowl on-side and getting out LBW.

Mahesh followed soon after, Darshan walked in scored some decent boundaries to take to score to 100. Then came the magical spell by Mumbai Stars' Prashant Bhai who took 3 wickets in really short time. Strikers were looking at another low score, with 101-6 in 14th over in a match of 18 overs.

Anuj and Sohail both new at the creeze decided to take the partnership to the last ball. Running for everything, left right and center, it was a 30 run partnership taking the score to 131/6 in 18th over with 2 cracking 4s. Sohail being a faster runner of 2 got run-out while Anuj was looking visibly tired. First inning ended with 134/7 in alloted 18 overs.

Maulik and Joshi started the inning for Mumbai stars with very watchful game play. Darshan opened the bowling and bowling with good pace. One of the quick bouncer hit Maulik right in the helmet. With Vinit bowling super slower and cutters, good length from other end, Mumbai starts only managed to score 14 of the first 4 overs.