For the second consecutive week, a group led by Shreyas Iyer ended up dropping a serious T20 ultimate. On Thursday on the Wankhede Stadium, MSC Maratha Royals did a Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Shreyas’ SoBo Mumbai Falcons to elevate the T20 Mumbai league’s coveted trophy.
Riding on impression participant Chinmay Sutar’s excellent 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 along with his calculated dangers.
When medium quick bowler Akash Parkar was launched within the sixteenth over, he used the tempo properly 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 gained 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 lower 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 top, 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
