That's it from the coverage of encounter between Ratnagiri Jets and Puneri Bappa. I, Aditya Agarwal signing off on the behalf of my co-commentators, Ayan Chatterjee and Hrutuja Deshmukh who alongwith scorer/analyst Yogesh Kumar brought you all actions of the event. Stay tuned for more cricketing action. Till then `BYE!!
AzimKazi (Ratnagiri JetsCaptain): "Yes, Sir. Actually, the wicket was difficult. The bowlers did well and then the situation was tough. The guys are ready for it and boy they did well and accepted the challenge. Yogesh Chavan was good today. Simple was to stay with the plan. Ruturaj was special in the end and that run out. Had to keep them to 140-150 and then chase it down and glad we did that. The preparation we did for 40 days and hats off to the management. Everyone know their roles and there is clarity. We follow the process well. Natural shot for me. No recipe for me to play those shots. Thank You very much."
Satyajeet Bachhav (Ratnagiri Jets) Player of the match: First of all I want to thank my support staff and management for backing me throughout in the entire journey, of course, it was my day but I made sure that I got all of it for the team. As a team, we all are playing well, hope this continues. We have also been training as per the situation.
Player of the Match: Satyajeet Bachhav.
Ruturaj Gaikwad (Puneri Bappa Captain): "A good fight from the team. As I said, the wicket was dry. We were going well and then I got run out in the end. 160 was par and we were under par. The champion side did well and get over the line. My wicket is important and someone has to take the responsibility to continue. The batting has been patchy. We wanted to bat first to give them freedom. Every game has positives. Yesterday was a bad game. Today, it was good and we will come back with a bang. All close games. First game lost our bowler. Second game we won. Third game we had a bad game. Today we came close. These things happen and once the momentum shifts we will come back stronger in the next few games. 6 games to go, hope to get back the momentum back."
22:48 IST and Local Time | What a nail-biting encounter this was! Puneri Bappa won the toss and opted to bat first. Pavan Shah gave great start to them as he smashed 32 in just 19 balls. He fell in the powerplay. Apart from Ruturaj Gaikwad's quickfire 29 off 15 deliveries , none of the batters contributed to the team's cause. Wickets fell at regular intervals in the middle overs, prime reason being Satyajeet Bachhav who bowled an excellent spell of 24 for 4 wickets. Late cameo by Sachin Bhosale meant that Puneri Bappa crawled their way to 144 allout.
Chasing 145, Ratnagiri Jets got off to a slow but a stable start as they the first wicket partnership was for 35 runs. Both the openers fell shortly after the powerplay. Puneri Bappa's spinners bowled tightly in the middle overs and dried up the run rate. The skipper of Ratnagiri Jets, Azim Kazi held one end and made runs . But he didn't get any support from the other end. Piyush Salvi was the pick of the bowlers for Puneri Bappa who finished his figures with 19 for 2.
With the equation remaining 49 off 4 overs, Nikhil Naik and Yogesh Chavan played quick fire cameos which turn the match around its head. The match went down right to the wire but some late hitting from Satyajeet Bachhav meant that , Ratnagiri Jets win this thriller of a contest by 4 wickets to spare.
Ratnagiri Jets win the match with 4 wickets to spare.
19.4 P Salvi to S Bachhav
4 FOUR! That's it! Ratnagiri Jets have done it and have chased it down again. Short of a length banged in, Bachhav pulls it away towards the square leg region as the ball races away to the fence for a boundary to end the game here. The Jets win by 4 wickets with 2 balls to spare and makes it 4 out of 4 games.
19.3 P Salvi to N Naik
1 Short of a length, Naik pulls it to deep midwicket for a single as scores are level.