Chennai Tremendous Kings batter Sameer Rizvi churned out an MS Dhoni-like knock within the UP T20 League to assist Kanpur Superstars come out of a difficult state of affairs. Kanpur’s captain Rizvi smashed 89 from 59 balls to supply a preventing whole of 156 in his crew’s opening recreation within the state match in opposition to Lucknow Falcons on the Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.
Strolling out to bat at quantity 5 when the crew was 16/3, Rizvi performed a masterful knock. He noticed extra wickets tumbling from the opposite finish as his crew went right down to 50/6 however the skipper stood tall. Identical to the occasions when Dhoni used to play saviour knocks for the Indian crew, Rizvi held one find yourself and saved the scoreboard transferring.
He combined aggression with warning to make 89 from 59 deliveries, a knock stuffed with eight fours and 6 sixes. He obtained out on the second final ball of the nineteenth over when the crew was on 148 however carried Kanpur fairly nicely. The crew finally posted 156 after which went on to defend the whole by a really shut margin.
Lucknow gave a tricky combat however had been restricted to 153/9 of their 20 overs. Captain Priyam Garg was the top-scorer with 31 runs from 23 balls, whereas opener Samarth Singh made 29 from 13.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Vipraj Nigam partnered for 30 runs for the ultimate wicket however the two couldn’t take the crew over the road.
Lucknow Falcons squad:
Ali Zafar, Kamil Khan, Parth Palawat, Priyam Garg, Samarth Singh, Sameer Choudhary, Shubhang Raj, Abhay Chauhan, Akshu Bajwa, Kritagya Singh, Mohd Shibli, Navneet, Vipraj Nigam, Aaradhya Yadav (Wk), Kirtivardhan Upadhyay (Wk), Pranjal Saini (Wk), Abhinandan Singh, Aditya Kumar Singh, Ankur Chauhan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harsh Tyagi, Kartikeya Jaiswal, Kishan Kumar Singh, Parv Singh, Prashant Chaudhary
Kanpur Superstars squad:
Adarsh Singh, Kuldeep Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Osho Mohan, Sameer Rizvi, Sudhanshu Sonkar, Sumit Agarwal, Yuvraj Pandey, Abhishek Singh Yadav, Ankur Malik, Faiz Ahmed, Mohammed Aashiyan, Saubhagya Mishra, Shaurya Singh, Inzaman Hussain (Wk), Shoaib Siddiqui (Wk), Aaqib Khan, Asif Ali, Mohsin Khan, Nadeem, Pankaj Kumar, Rishabh Rajput, Shubham Mishra, Vineet Panwar
