Infernos' Flamed!!!

Cricket is a game of great uncertainities and the Finale of NPL 4.0 was a live demonstration.
Flame(98) defeated Infernos's(91) by 7 runs in a pulsating final becoming the NPL 4.0 champions, taking a sweet revenge of their league game loss against the same opposition.

Flame confined Inferno's a few steps short and snatched away NPL 4.0 top spot from right under their noses. Reeling at a paltry 38 at the loss of 4 wickets in 7 overs, Flame looked out of sorts before Saroj Sathapathy took centre stage and turned the tables for Flame. He played a whirlwind 28 off just 8 balls including two massive hits crossing the ropes by comfortable margins. Ramashankar kept the other end  intact, rotating the strike, playing a captain's knock of 28 including 3 boundaries making sure that their bowlers have atleast something to bowl for.
Infernos started well. Scorecard read 20 for no loss at the end of 2 overs. The stage looked set in their favor. At this moment, Rama brought himself and Ashish as first bowling changes and that changed all the equations; once and for all. Suddenly runs were difficult to comeby. Batsmen looked short of breath, short of runs and short of senses apparently. With Ashish (Kango) departing of the bowling of Ashish (Gupta), there was no body to hold the innings together. Easy twos were ones and ones were dot balls. Batters were coming to the crease and leaving as if it was walk on the ramp.
A Harakiri of sorts.
Srikant provided the last spike of any excitement by hitting a brilliant six in the penultimate over but gifted his wicket the very next ball, an unfortunate hit-wicket. Rama kept on rotating the bowlers intelligently so as never to let the grip loose.

The better team on the day took away the game and along with it the NPL 4.0 crown.

In the Super Over Game for third Place, Bob defeated Support Strikers without much fuss. Support Strikers could manage just 2runs in their alloted super over. Subhash clean bowled Himanshu on the very first ball. Rathiji did well to guide the ball over keeper's head for a smart single, but Sachin failed to add any more to the total. Amresh from BoB hit an elegant square cut for four to walk away with a consolatery third place.

That's all from NPL 4.0.
Prizes 'should' follow hopefully :P.