SRS vs KCC

That'll be it from us, Bidipto and Rajarshi, as we close our coverage of the third 2022 ECS Krefeld Quarter Final. There's still another game left in the day, Dusseldorf Blackcaps take on the Koln Challengers in the fourth quarter-final, hop tabs to enjoy our coverage of the same. See you later!

Match summary:
Aachen Rising Stars won the toss and opted to bowl

Koln CC 1st innings 87/7 (10 Overs)
Prateek Dabholkar 24*(17) | Tauqeer Khan 4/6 (2)

Aachen Rising Stars 2nd innings 79 all out (9.3 Overs)
Faheem Jan 32(21) | Akshay Dhani 4/4 (2)

Koln CC win by 8 runs.

Euphoria for Koln CC! They were nowhere at the start of the game, they kept fighting back, first with the bat, and then they absolutely dug into the Aachen Rising Stars with the ball! It was all about Akshay Dhani at the start, the medium pacer proceeded to take 4 wickets having not conceded a single run until the final ball of his spell! Much like their opponents from earlier in the game, the Rising Starts were in utter disarray, but Akhil Sugathan led the charge for a fightback on their behalf. 

Sugathan's fightback didn't last for too long; having struck a couple of clean sixes he managed to find the palms of Kapoor at point. The chase revolved around Faheem Jan after that, who shortened the equation bit by bit with the help of the lower-order. Zainul Hassan struck a couple of meaty blows before holing out as well, Usama Ali provided some support to Jan until the latter departed with 10 to get off the final over! The pressure was way too intense for the Rising Stars' lower order, and they ended up being bowled out with 8 runs and 3 balls remaining in the game!

9.3 Sasanka Sanka to Mubashar Inayat, OUT! KOLN CC GET A BIG WIN TO GO THROUGH TO THE SEMI-FINALS! Full outside off, and this one gets top edged from the crease, it goes high up in the air to short third man, and finally, the CATCH gets taken to finish the match! 

Mubashar Inayat c Manav Panwar b Sasanka Sanka 0 (1b)

9.2 Sasanka Sanka to Ahmadshah Shirzad, RUN OUT! Full and wide outside off and hit from the crease to long-off, they try to come back for two, but Akshay Dhani from the deep throws the stumps down direct at the keeper's end and prevent the extra run! 

Ahmadshah Shirzad run out (Akshay Dhani) 1 (1b)

9.1 Sasanka Sanka to Usama Ali, GONE! Good length ball outside off, the batter goes for the forceful hit over cover from the crease, mistimes and then, gives cover yet another CATCH! 

Usama Ali c Irfan Ahmed b Sasanka Sanka 9 (5b 1x6)

8.6 Prateek Dabholkar to Faheem Jan, WICKET! Short on off, this time the ball got a little too big on him as he tried to flat-bat in through the off-side and all he managed was a hit straight to cover on the full! 

Faheem Jan c Irfan Ahmed b Prateek Dabholkar 32 (21b 5x4)

8.5 Prateek Dabholkar to Faheem Jan, FOUR! Full on off, and hit over the in-field between mid-off and cover for a boundary down to wide long-off after walking into the shot! 

8.2 Prateek Dabholkar to Faheem Jan, short outside off, a bit of a drag-pull to wide long-on by stepping out and only a single for the effort! 

7.6 Sasanka Sanka to Faheem Jan, good length ball outside off, and an almighty swing across the line by stepping across, but, a miss! Dot ball.