The match was played at Miramar College Ground (Big). Real Panthers were able to gather just 9 players for this game. Having won the toss they had no choice but to bat, after the won the toss.
Sam started the bowling for the Eagles. On the final ball of the first over Aakash as dangerous opening batsman was clean bowled. The wicket was one where ball kept low, often striking the batsman's legs just above the ankles. This apart the ball did also slow down after having hit the sticky grassy pitch. Chaitanya defended more balls with his legs that his bat. For over two overs the could not get a run off the bat. He was bowled by Mansoor. Giresh had come in at the fall of the first wicket and scored freely in the first over having received two full toss and a short ball from Sam.
Srinivas N and Mansoor continued the bowling after the new ball pair of Sam and Amit. Real Panthers kept losing wicket regularly. Rupesh and Mudit picked up wickets. Real Panthers were scoring at slightly above two an over. Scoring was difficult but the loss of wickets did not help their cause.
Manish lofted one straight behind the bowler with Rupesh and Sam guarding mid-on and mid-off respectively. Both called for the ball with Rupesh at mid-on being closer to the ball in comparison to Sam at mid-off. Sam reached the ball and held it and Rupesh clasped his hands around Sam's hand leaving no room for the ball to fall. The very next ball the new batsman struck one very hard to short mid-off and Parag plucked the ball with one hand to give Mudit two wickets in a single over.
Giresh (10), Sanjay (12) and Vilas (11) were the only batsmen to get to double digits for the Real Panthers. Their inning folded with 48 runs being scored in 19.1 overs for the loss of 9 wickets.
Mansoor (2), Rupesh (2), Sam (2) and Mudit (2) were among the wickets. All of the bowlers had an excellent economy rate.
Given that the asking rate was not too high Mansoor and Mudit were given a chance to open the batting. Both started cautiously against Giresh and Aakash. Mudit was bowled by Aakash in the fourth over. Runs came by slowly against the new ball pair. The change bowlers Vilas and Manish offered some loose deliveries. Mansoor struck two boundaries in an over from Manish. Amit struck about 10 runs in the 10t over being bowled by Vilas to finish the game with 10.1 overs to spare.
Eagles won the game by 8 wickets and have now qualified for the quarter final event against Mavericks ..
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