Ahmedabad Rockets were confident in chasing and were positive in this game with their decent batting performance. Hyderabad Heroes had a shaky start and the opening bowlers of Ahmedabad Rockets bowled line and length and were taking wickets regularly.

Gillespie and Patel of Ahmedabad Rockets scalped two wickets each and both were economical. This bowling combination proved to be deadly for Hyderabad Heroes and the top order batsmen were dismissed in the 5th over with a cricket score of 30 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. Then Rayudu and Boje steadied Hyderabad Heroes innings and put on a 50 run partnership. The 5th wicket partnership between Rayudu and Boje was broken in the 7th over with Rayudu dismissed for 2 runs in the 50 run partnership.

Rayudu played a defensive knock and gave most of the strike to Boje, who was playing aggressively. Rayudu just faced 8 balls and in just 3 overs, they put on a 50 run stand. This was the match winning partnership. The cricket score then was 89 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the 7th over. The middle order batsmen of Hyderabad Heroes played well to raise the team’s cricket score. Binny played aggressively, carrying the momentum from Rayudu – Boje partnership and scored 48 runs off 32 balls featuring 8 boundaries and a maiden six.

Boje played an anchor innings and scored 47 runs off 30 balls including 5 boundaries and 2 sixes. Hyderabad Heroes boosted their score in the last 3 overs with some lusty knocks from Chris Harris who scored 37 runs off 18 balls featuring 6 boundaries and a six. Hyderabad Heroes scored 37 runs in the last 3 overs and finished their innings with a cricket score of 166 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Hyderabad Heroes innings was saved by the middle order batsmen and took them to a decent score.

Ahmedabad Rockets chased a competitive score positively with their opening batsmen delivering again. Ahmedabad Rockets have successfully won when their opening batsmen played big knocks comments cricket 360. Ahmedabad Rockets had a 50 run opening partnership till the 9th over, a watchful innings without losing wickets early. Then Martyn put on a partnership with Goodwin who started playing aggressively. Rayudu was excellent in the field and dismissed Martyn with a wonderful catch. This wicket of Martyn by Rayudu was a crucial one at a cricket score of 113 runs in the 16th over.

Harris was the bowler in the 16th over which decided the match. Ahmedabad Rockets needed 50 runs in the last 4 overs, when Rayudu took an excellent catch to dismiss Martyn for 16 runs and in the same over, the dangerous Goodwin was also dismissed for 59 runs off 50 balls with 2 boundaries and 4 sixes. Harris and Rayudu put a speed breaker for the acceleration of Ahmedabad Rockets.

Sodhi of Ahmedabad Rockets played aggressively and scored 41 runs off just 15 balls with 4 sixes and a boundary. This made the match exciting as the target became close. In the end, Ahmedabad Rockets fell just 3 runs short and managed to post 163 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in this exciting ICL encounter. Cricket360 attributes the loss due to the over cautious innings played by the top order batsmen of Ahmedabad Rockets. Rayudu was declared Man of the match.

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