Living up to the reputation and general expectation, BoB won the finals and lifted NPL 3.0 championship against NPL Blasters. This is their 2nd consecutive championship win and marks their dominance over other participating team.
BoB won the toss and selected to bat. NPL Blasters did well to pick up initial wickets and never really allowed BoB batsman to free their arms. Partha and Amaresh did well to give some stability in the middle order and helped achieve a modest score of 113 in 15 overs.
Till this time, NPL blasters were well in contentions. Piyush and team could well have smelt victory at this stage. But BoB bowlers had other plans. Subhash led the pace attack and provided initial blow to Blasters with the crucial wicket of danger man Himanshu. A series of wickets follwed including Piyush who carried all and any expectations for NPL blasters. Subhash's raw pace was too much for Blasters and for that matter for any team till now in NPL 3.0. He was ably supported by Rakesh and Amaresh.
NPL blasters were bowled out in 12th over itself with the score reading 75.
A nervous start but a clinical finish by BoB.
Congratulations BoB for the win.
For 3rd place match, Flame overpowered Swed Tigers in a thrilling SuperOver match.
Swed Tigers' Ashish hit the ball all over the ground to provide an apparently match winning total of 22 but to everyone's surprise, Superover resulted in a tie; courtesy some timely and smashing hits by Sarthank(Flame). What next? Another superover to break the tie. Flame required 18 of 6 deliveries and this time Flame's acting captain Rama hit a last ball six to pick up consolatory 3rd spot for their team.
That's all from NPL 3.0. Prizes will follow soon :).
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yeahhhh!!!...no mercy!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to BoB on their victory. We came close by restrciting them to a modest total but let it all go by an ordinary batting effort. They were the better team on that day but our takeaway from the same is that they indeed are not Invincible. Let us brace ourselves for the NPL 4.0.
ReplyDeleteAll the best to all the teams already awaiting the next version!
For records, BoB lost just 2 matches till date, most recent was the the match against Rest Of NHST which has no significance in context of competion and the other against a team which couldn't survive it's very existence. As of now, they look invincible for sure :). May be an alliance bigger than flame might do some trick :P.
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