DPS SHARJAH MAKES A STUNNING VICTORY OVER WESGREEN INT.
The second match of the tournament saw the hosts playing their neighbors, Wesgreen international, Sharjah. DPS captain Agam won the toss and elected to field as Wesgreen skipper Shabbir informs his batting line up. Wesgreen was off to a horrible start as their top order collapsed early with the loss of the first wicket at the score of 3, closely followed by another wicket at the score of 6.Furqan struck early with 2 wickets for DPS supported brilliantly by his fielders which resulted in a run out at the score of 8. Vishal deceived the batsman and another wicket fell with score remaining at 8.
Wesgreen’s middle order were trying to steady the ship as Furqan disrupted it with another wicket. At the end of the sixth over Wesgreen were 11 for 5.Wesgreen started losing hope as Shekhar produced a brilliant run out, and the scoreboard showed 11-6. The slow outfield was not helping Omar and Osama as they were trying to rotate the strike. Another close run out chance from Yash was showed that the running between the wickets was poor. The batsman tried to up the tempo when Yash produced a fabulous catch by the bowling of Furqan, as the Wesgreen innings was toppling at 15-7.
The First change saw Atul coming in to bowl his spin. The very first ball of his over resulted in a wicket, closely followed by another wicket in the following ball which meant he was on a hattrick. He missed the hattrick but the very next ball he cleaned up the innings with a beautiful stumping by the wicket keeper Agam leaving Wesgreen all out for 15.
Dps openers Ankit and Varun finished the job off quickly. The first over saw Ankit dispatching the ball off to the fence twice consecutively.
In the second over Ankit lodged a no-ball over mid-wicket to the fence, taking the DPS Sharjah team home. DPS Sharjah won by 10 wickets.
By Tarun, Karthik & Sreejith for Editorial board