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KT vs RGR, 20th T20, MPL 2025 live
KT
162-8(20.0)
Kolhapur Tuskers won by 2 wickets 🏆
RGR
(19.4)159-10
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P'ship : 5(2)
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So that's it from our side, this is Arjun Bhalla signing off on behalf of Utsav Chandak and Dushyant Madhukar, as we wrap the coverage for this fixture. Stay tuned as lots of cricketing action is coming your way.
Rahul Tripathi (Kolhapur Tuskers Captain and POTM): "Well, good to have the win. We would have loved to finish the game a little bit earlier, but it was a tricky wicket, and it was an important win for us. Obviously, we have lost some close games, but it feels really good to win this game.
I think, more than my batting, it was about the bowling and the fielding we did as a team in this game. We fielded really well, and I think that changed the game. Also, bowlers in the end came back strongly. It was due to their efforts that we could get a target of 160 runs. But, the wicket was also tricky and they (Raigad Royals) bowled really well, especially Vicky Ostwal- he bowled really well, and even Tanay.
Our bowlers are bowling really well, I think we have had some close games, where we missed the finish line by a little distance. But they are doing well and sticking to bowling their lengths.
I would want to win all the remaining matches. Points on the board are the most important thing. That's what we are going to focus on."
I think, more than my batting, it was about the bowling and the fielding we did as a team in this game. We fielded really well, and I think that changed the game. Also, bowlers in the end came back strongly. It was due to their efforts that we could get a target of 160 runs. But, the wicket was also tricky and they (Raigad Royals) bowled really well, especially Vicky Ostwal- he bowled really well, and even Tanay.
Our bowlers are bowling really well, I think we have had some close games, where we missed the finish line by a little distance. But they are doing well and sticking to bowling their lengths.
I would want to win all the remaining matches. Points on the board are the most important thing. That's what we are going to focus on."
Player of the Match: Rahul Tripathi
Time for the post match presentation!
Rushabh Rathod (Raigad Royals Captain): "Well our strategy was to get some risk reward runs in the first powerplay, so that if it is a rain curtailed match, we will have something to defend.
To be honest, we could easily reach a total of 175, but even with 159, it looked very much defendable because fantastic character for bowling was shown today, the best bowling display I have ever seen in terms of Raigad Royal's perspective, over the last two seasons. That sure makes us keep our held high, that we can defend any amount of target with that kind of unity and that kind of vigor.
The team is shaping up pretty fine, the road is only up from here and we are eyeing the highest authority."
To be honest, we could easily reach a total of 175, but even with 159, it looked very much defendable because fantastic character for bowling was shown today, the best bowling display I have ever seen in terms of Raigad Royal's perspective, over the last two seasons. That sure makes us keep our held high, that we can defend any amount of target with that kind of unity and that kind of vigor.
The team is shaping up pretty fine, the road is only up from here and we are eyeing the highest authority."
12:27 PM IST, Local Time: What a nail-biting thriller we have just witnessed!! Two runs to get off the final over, and a bouncer goes over the keeper for a boundary off a bye. These things can't be written down. After facing three consecutive defeats, the Kolhapur Tuskers have finally won a game in this edition of the Maharashtra Premier League.
Kudos to Rahul Tripathi and company for fighting out in a chase where they lost half of their side in a collapse. From being slated at 43 for zero, the Tuskers lost the first four wickets in the next 36 runs, before they lost another one on the score of 95.
However, Rahul Tripathi and Vishant More joined hands in the middle to bring Kolhapur into the game. The duo shared 49 runs for the sixth wicket, but another twist was awaiting the Tuskers.
More got run out in the 18th over while trying to convert a single into a double. It was followed by Tripathi's dismissal on 53, with his side needing six off the final over.
With two tail-enders in the middle, KT scored 4 runs and lost a wicket off the first five balls, before Nikhil Kadam bowled a bouncer against Dhanraj Shinde. The batter missed that, so did the keeper, but the ball rolled to the fence at long stop. As a result, Rahul Tripathi's men have won by two wickets.
Stay tuned for the post game presentation...
Kudos to Rahul Tripathi and company for fighting out in a chase where they lost half of their side in a collapse. From being slated at 43 for zero, the Tuskers lost the first four wickets in the next 36 runs, before they lost another one on the score of 95.
However, Rahul Tripathi and Vishant More joined hands in the middle to bring Kolhapur into the game. The duo shared 49 runs for the sixth wicket, but another twist was awaiting the Tuskers.
More got run out in the 18th over while trying to convert a single into a double. It was followed by Tripathi's dismissal on 53, with his side needing six off the final over.
With two tail-enders in the middle, KT scored 4 runs and lost a wicket off the first five balls, before Nikhil Kadam bowled a bouncer against Dhanraj Shinde. The batter missed that, so did the keeper, but the ball rolled to the fence at long stop. As a result, Rahul Tripathi's men have won by two wickets.
Stay tuned for the post game presentation...
OVER 20
Kolhapur Tuskers
162/8
Dhanraj Shinde
6(6)
Shreyash Chavan
0(1)
Nikhil Kadam
2-37(4.0)
19.6 N Kadam to D Shinde
4b And goes for four byes! What an end to this thriller. Short ball, on the off stump, batter misses and all that the captain and keeper had to do was collect the ball to win the match, but he went too early to throw it back to the stumps, ends up missing the ball and the ball has gone to the boundary for four byes. OMG!
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