HAM vs SIK

ECS Sweden · Match 14

Recent overs

Ov 10
W1wd062nb16
16 runs
Ov 9
61lb1041
13 runs
Ov 8
661wd1066
26 runs
Ov 7
411lb060
12 runs

Commentary

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Match summary:

SIKIF win by 6 wickets with 1 ball to spare

Yasir Ikram 40*(18) | Yasir Ikram 2/22 (2)
Rahel Khan 36(14) | Essa Farooq 1/11 (1)

What an absolute classic we've witnessed at the Marsta Cricket Club just now! Yasir Ikram has turned out to be the hero for SIKIF, who just achieved their first win in the European Cricket Series, and how! They almost seemed beat deep into the first innings of the game, but since then, they kept fighting, with the ball and then the bat, their batters kept going after the target, and eventually, thanks to a superb display from their top-order, they got past the line!

Abdul Razzaq's (no, not him) departure two balls into the chase paved way for a blistering start for SIKIF, with Sarmad Imtiaz and Naveed Anjum going hammer and tongs in the powerplay. Sarmad seemed the more intimidating of the two, clobbering a couple of maximums before mistiming one to square leg. The wicket of Anjum soon after had SIKIF in a soup.

Ankit Gupta was struggling a bit in the middle overs, with Hammarby bowling themselves back in the contest. But with Yasir Ikram finding the boundaries, the pressure never really got to them. Once Ankit started to middle it, SIKIF were back on course for the target. Four towering sixes in the 8th over off Khalid Mehmood turned the tide towards them. Rashid Qazi accounted for Ankit in the final over, but then, Irfan Nazir went on to clobber a couple of sixes without any fuss, and got SIKIF over the line!
9.5 Rashid Qazi to Irfan Nazir, SIX! BANG! Nazir does it for SIKIF! A low full toss outside off, Nazir shuffles across and smacks that downtown. Not off the middle of the bat and it goes just over the outstretched hands of the leaping long off fielder! 
9.4 Rashid Qazi to Yasir Ikram, length ball outside off, Ikram looks to go big but ends up slicing it high in the air. The fielder at point pouches that one and fires in a throw to keep it down to a single. 
Drama! What drama!
9.4 Rashid Qazi to Irfan Nazir, a massive full toss wide outside off, Nazir looks to cut but it is far too wide outside off. Past the keeper and down to deep third man for a single. It will be a no ball! Free hit coming up! 
9.3 Rashid Qazi to Irfan Nazir, SIX! BOOM! Short and angled into the body of Nazir, who rocks onto the back-foot and swivels to hook that over the backward square leg region for a huge maximum! 
9.2 Rashid Qazi to Irfan Nazir, DOT BALL! Into the blockhole and outside off, Nazir looks to go for the big hoick across the line but fails to make any connection. 
9.2 Rashid Qazi to Irfan Nazir, WIDE! Sprayed down the leg side and it will go down as a wide. 
Irfan Nazir, RHB, comes to the crease
9.1 Rashid Qazi to Ankit Gupta, OUT! CAUGHT! Short and outside off dug into the track, Gupta clears his front foot and looks to go big downtown. Cannot get the elevation and ends up playing that straight into the hands of the fielder running in from long on! Huge moment in the game! 

Ankit Gupta c Muhammad Munir b Rashid Qazi 32 (20b 1x4 4x6)
Rashid Qazi (1-0-1-0) is back into the attack
What a match this is turning out to be! The equation reads 13 off 6. With the way these two batters are striking it, there's every chance that SIKIF get past the line with time to spare! Munir has turned back towards Qazi for the final over. He did a great job in the only over he bowled, conceding one off it. Can he produce another magical over?
9Ov124/3Score
61lb104113 runs
Ankit Gupta*32 (19)
Yasir Ikram39 (17)
Aftab Ahmad0/31
8.6 Aftab Ahmad to Ankit Gupta, short and on the body, Gupta has a swipe at it. Gets the top-edge down to a very fine deep third man for a single. 
8.5 Aftab Ahmad to Ankit Gupta, FOUR! SHOT! Full and outside off, Gupta gets his front foot out of the way and slams that over the covers! One bounce and into the fence! 
8.4 Aftab Ahmad to Ankit Gupta, full and on the body swinging away, Gupta has another big heave across the line but cannot make any connection. 
8.3 Aftab Ahmad to Yasir Ikram, a full toss outside off which is pushed out into the covers for a single. Was above the waist but Ikram had charges well down the track. 
8.2 Aftab Ahmad to Ankit Gupta, nails the yorker on the shoes, deflects towards the keeper, who fires in an overthrow. The batters run a single. 
8.1 Aftab Ahmad to Ankit Gupta, SIX MORE! The momentum has shifted completely! The slower length ball outside off, Gupta reads the change of pace, waits for the ball and thumps that over the long on region for a huge maximum!