Cricket360 could not find till date from Hyderabad Heroes the defending champions’ innings and that was realized here in Panchakula in the 32nd ICL Season 2 match against Mumbai Champs. After winning the toss Harris elected bat and the opening faced some sort of distortion as Razzaq could not continue his usual form and was sent back by Van Der Wath on the very first delivery of the match with the help of Morris. Rayudu along with Maher continued with high run rate and the flow could reach up to 45 runs in 5 overs but once again Wath and Kasparovich made the tricks for Mumbai Champs to send both batsmen back at the score of 45 runs.
Anirudh Singh too could not do much more and fell prey to Khirid in the 8th over. Then Cricket360 could find one of the finest batting partnerships of ICL Season 2 between Boje and Binny. The duo kept on thrashing the bowlers and they together excavated 35 runs out of the 14th and 15th overs to surge past 150 mark. Binny found his 2nd ICL fifty off just 24 balls decorated with 5 boundaries and 3 sixes. Immediately after that he departed for 51 runs after making 92 runs partnership for the 5th wicket. The score was 164 then and Boje continued with the onslaught and he picked 88 runs from 49 balls laced with 8 fours and 5 huge sixes. The penultimate ball of Heroes’ innings but found his bails out and by the time he placed the teams’ score at 214 for 6, the highest in
ICL Season 2.
Through out their chase Mumbai Champs could not make any threat to Hyderabad Heroes as per Cricket360. The opening partnership fell in the 3rd over itself and after 5 overs they were far behind Heroes at 37 for one wicket. Harris brought slow bowlers to tie up the batsmen and as a result champs were struggling at 66 for 3 after their first half of batting. Only resistance in the form of Dheeraj Jhadav too lived short of sailing Champs to the shore as Reddy got rid of him for 43 runs in the 12th over.
Bowlers did the act decently for Hyderabad Heroes and the credit should go to their skipper Harris for bringing the spinners much early in the innings. Mumbai Champs looked a lost side by Cricket360 through out their chase and their nominal effort came to an end at 135 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs, thanks to Van Der Wath for a fast addition of 26 runs. At last the total of Mumbai Champs fell short of 79 runs and Hyderabad Heroes snatched another win by one of the biggest margin in ICL Season 2.
