USA’S newest cricket sensation Saurabh Netravalkar continued to impress and led the Washington bowling charts after his skipper Steve Smith received the toss and requested MINY to bat first.
AS IT HAPPENED | MATCH CENTRE
‘Participant of the Match’ Netravalkar took three for 24 and was ably supported by fellow pacer Justin Dill, who took three for 33.
The duo of Netravalkar and Dill by no means let the opposition batters settle as MINY saved dropping wickets at common intervals. It was solely due to West Indies big-hitter Nicholas Pooran‘s 30-ball 44 and cameos by Afghanistan allrounder Rashid Khan (31 off 15 balls) and South African Anrich Nortje (14 off 9) that the New York workforce may put up a decent complete of 154 for 9.
Chasing the goal with rain risk looming massive, Washington misplaced their Australian World Cup winner Travis Head (1) within the second over. Former Australia skipper Smith, who got here out to open with Head, took time to quiet down however by no means appeared again after getting his eye in.
With Andries Gous on the different finish, Smith took cost of proceedings to race to 46 not out off 28 balls, together with four fours and three sixes.
The Washington scorecard learn 55 for 1 in 7.four overs when umpires stopped play due to lightning. Quickly after the rain arrived and did not enable any extra play, bringing the DLS methodology into play.
Because of Smith’s brisk scoring tempo, Washington managed to edge MINY by 4 runs in line with DLS calculations.
