That's all from today's coverage of APL 2024 match between Godavari Titans and Coastal Riders from the ACA-VDCA Cricket Ground, Vishakhapatnam.
I'm Gourav Samal, signing off on behalf of my co-commentators Ayan Chatterjee and Aditya Agarwal and scorer/analyst Yogesh Kumar. Thank you for joining us. Stay tuned for all cricketing actions around the world. Good Bye.
ShaikRasheed (Coastal Riders Captain): "It's getting better. It was hurting but it's fine. Yes, depends on my thing. Wanted to score runs and scored runs just gave away in the end. We always back ourselves to win the game and plan well. Depends on the wicket conditions and fine that we won in the end. Yes, sir. We believe in our process and think about match by match and just do it well. Thank You sir."
Player of the Match: Mitta Lekhaz Reddy.
Super Striker of the Match: Abhishek Reddy.
Game Changer of the Match: S Ashish.
Time for the presentations.
5:59 PM IST and Local Time | That's the end of the match. Coastal Riders won the match and became the fourth team to enter into the playoffs of the APL 2024.
Here is a review of what happened in the match. The rain affected match started 15 minutes late. In between the first innings also, due to slight drizzle, the match was halted for some minutes, which resulted in loss of two overs per side. So, it became an encounter of 18-overs per side. After losing the toss and put into bat first, CR Gnaneshwar and Mamidi Vamsi Krishna opened the innings for Godavari Titans. They were down to 48/4 in 5.5 overs. Krishna was the only batter in the top five to get a double digit score. He added 29 from 24 balls. SDNV Prasad scored 15 from 16 balls and KV Sasikanth added 24 from 18 balls. Gadde Samanvith made 22 from 14 balls. Towards the end Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi added 11 from 4 balls to help his side post a total of 138/10 in 17.1 overs. For Coastal Riders, Yarragunta Pramod took 3/52 in 4 overs while Siraparapu Ashish picked 2/16 in 4 overs. Cheepurapalli Stephen also picked one wicket in the innings. Chasing a target of 139 on the board, Shaik Rasheed and Pitta Arjun Tendulkar opened the innings for Coastal Riders. Arjun could only add 19 from 13 balls before being dismissed. Rasheed was then joined by Abhishek Reddy in the middle. The duo added 81 runs for the second wicket before Rasheed was dismissed for 39 from 33 balls. Abhishek Reddy remained unbeaten on 61 from 42 balls. Maddila Harsha Vardhan scored 15 from 15 balls to help his team win the match.
For Godavari Titans, Chennupati Teja took 21/2 in 3.3 overs. KV Sasikanth and Tripurana Vijay took one wicket each in the innings.
That's it! Coastal Riders win the game by 6 wickets.
17.3 C Teja to D Kumar
4 FOUR! Dharani Kumar has finished things off in style. Short of a length banged into the pitch, Dharani pulls it away through the deep square leg region as the ball races away into the fence for a boundary. Dharani with the winning runs as the Coastal Riders win this game by 6 wickets with 3 balls to spare and they qualify for the playoffs.
W WICKET! Are we onto something here? BOWLED HIM! Fuller length angling into the stumps, Reddy looks to go towards the leg side and misses. The ball goes through to clatter the stumps. Reddy departs first ball and now it is 2 needed off 4 balls.
2 runs needed from 5.
17.1 C Teja to A Reddy
1 Short of a length, Reddy looks to heave it over midwicket and gets a top edge towards the point region for a single.
Chennupati Teja will bowl the final over.
3 needed from 6 balls.
Tripurana Vijay completes his 4 overs with a figure of 1/31.