For the second consecutive week, a group led by Shreyas Iyer ended up dropping a serious T20 closing. On Thursday on the Wankhede Stadium, MSC Maratha Royals did a Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Shreyas’ SoBo Mumbai Falcons to raise the T20 Mumbai league’s coveted trophy.
Riding on affect participant Chinmay Sutar’s good anchor function (53, 49b, 2×4, 2×6) and teenager Awais Khan’s cameo (38, 24b, 3×4, 2×6), the Royals overhauled the Falcons’ whole of 157 for 4 with 5 wickets and 4 balls to spare.
When Awais joined Sutar — dropped by wicketkeeper Angkrish Raghuvanshi off offie Harsh Aghav on 15 within the eighth over — within the center, the Royals required 75 runs off 9 overs. While Sutar continued to rotate strike, Awais swept the spinners to perfection, clearing the boundary at will together with his calculated dangers.
When medium quick bowler Akash Parkar was launched within the sixteenth over, he used the tempo nicely to clear quick fine-leg for a 4. Both fell to Kartik Mishra within the penultimate over — Awais stumped off the third ball after successive fours off the primary two balls, courtesy misfields at long-off and long-on, and Sutar miscuing a heave off the final ball.
But veteran allrounder Rohan Raje completed the sport with two sensible strokes off Parkar within the final over.
Earlier within the night time, Siddhesh Lad received the toss and inserted the Falcons into bat. The Royals stifled the Falcons after the batting unit cantered to 60 for 3 in 10 overs. The onus was then on captain Shreyas to reduce unfastened.
But Shreyas missed an tried reverse-sweep off spinner Vaibhav Mali and at 72 for 4, Aghav (45 n.o., 28b, 1×4, 4×6) took guard with Mayuresh Tandel (50 n.o., 32b, 3×4, 3×6) for firm. The duo took time to get going however lusty hits within the final 5 overs meant they added 85 runs off 49 balls to assist the Falcons cross the 150-run mark.
In the tip, it wasn’t sufficient!
The scores: SoBo Mumbai Falcons 157 for 4 in 20 overs (Mayuresh Tandel 50 n.o., Harsh Aghav 45 n.o.; Vaibhav Mali 2/32) misplaced to MSC Maratha Royals 158 for 5 in 19.2 overs (Chinmay Sutar 53, Awais Khan 38) by six wickets.
Published – June 12, 2025 11:43 pm IST
