On a cloudy and humid day, Omaha Hunters won the toss and elected to field first. The match had a delayed start by 5 minutes.
Omaha Challengers didn't start well with Bhaskar getting out very early. Lenin joined Srinivas and steadied the innings before the later was bowled by Pavan for 14. Meghadeep followed being ran out and leaving the score 33/3 in 10 overs. Arun joined Lenin and both put on a partnership of 41 runs. Danny picked the quick the wickets of Arun and Saravanan. Sandeep and Lenin tried to accelerate but were out in quick succession. Chaitanya made 17 with couple of lusty blows in the end to take Challengers to 137/9 in 25 overs. Lenin played a good knock with 55 runs. Aditya and Danny bowled well and took 3 wickets and 2 wickets respectively for Omaha Hunters.
Omaha Hunters chasing a target of 138 had no answer to the swing bowling from Bhaskar and Saravanan who reduced them to 28/5 in 10 overs. Sandeep Chinni fought well and counter attacked with three whacking sixes but was holed out at the deep to Sandeep Nandagiri. Pavan, on the other end ran out of partners and was last one out by a brilliant catch from Meghadeep. He made 17 and Omaha Hunters were all out for 73 in 18.2 overs. Sandeep Chinni was top scorer with 31 runs. The pick of the bowlers for Omaha Challengers were Bhaskar (5-0-13-3) and Saravanan (5-1-15-2).
Omaha Challengers won the game by 64 runs.
Lenin Bala was adjudged Man of the Match for his performance of 55 runs and 1 wicket.
Review of the Game: The game was played in good spirit and completed on time. Umpiring was fair and satisfactory.
Umpires: Omaha Hunters: Aditya, Pradeep Salla
Omaha Challengers: Sandeep Nandagiri, Santosh Nukala.
Reporter: Lenin Bala (Omaha Challengers), Tuesday 06/23/2015 @4:45 PM.