ISB accounts for Deloitte H & S in the Kun Chevrolet Cup

ISB Cricket team followed the basketball team had left off (they beat Microsoft a couple of days back) by bringing further laurels to ISB. They won their second match in a row in the KUN CHEVROLET CUP 2006.

In an early start Deloitte won the toss and elected to bat. The first few overs were quiet with not much action. In the 5^th over Abhijit drew first blood by having the Deloitte opener caught at point. Shankar then got into the action from the other end picking two quick wickets. Deloitte opener Manish batted well to score 36 before being dismissed by Shankar. After 10 overs Deloitte were 68/4 and looked set to score in excess of 140. That is when Neeraj Kumar came into the attack. He literally ran through the lower middle order of Deloitte picking up a wicket in each of his four overs to end up with 4/27 in a classic exhibition of leg spin bowling. He was unlucky not to get a fifth as the ball hit the stumps and bails did not fall off. The Deloitte innings folded up for 125 in the 19^th over.

ISB had a new opening pair in Nishant Tiwari and Prateek Garg. They started off at breakneck speed taking 22 off the first two overs and then there was a quiet over. If Deloitte thought that the initial burst was tough to handle and things would get easy they were wrong. What followed was impossible to handle. Both Prateek and Nishant tonked the bowling to all parts of the ground as ISB score moved from 50/0 in the 9^th over to 100/0 in the 13^th over. There was a competition between the two as to who would be the first to reach 50. Prateek won the battle there but was soon dismissed for 51(28 balls, 6’s -2, 4’s - 7). Nishant fell on just short being dismissed for 49(33 balls, 6’s - 1, 4’s - 9). There was a minor hiccup as 3 wickets fell in a hurry. But in the end ISB won comfortably reaching the target in the 15^th over with 5 wickets to spare.

The man of the match was shared by Prateek and Neeraj.

ISB next takes on The Hindu on Sunday.

Team for the day: Abhijit Roy(C), L Ramakrishna, Kartik Agarwal, Naresh Mahadevan, N S Srikant(wk), Prateek Garg, Nishant Tiwari, Prateep Dasgupta, Neeraj Kumar, Shankar Balakrishnan, Nitin Gupta, Venu Gorti, Nagaraju B.

Scores in brief:

Deloitte – 125/10 in 19 overs (Manish – 36, Sridhar -15, Neeraj – 4/27, Shankar – 2/11, Nitin Gupta – 2/18)

ISB – 126/5 in 14.2 overs (Prateek – 51, Nishant – 49, Nishit – 3/15)