Legends League Cricket: Dilhara Fernando’s four-wicket haul is helping Manipal Tigers edge previous Bhilwara Kings

Dilhara Fernando was once the superstar with the ball as Manipal Tigers registered a three-run win to get off the mark within the Legends League Cricket on Monday. A past due blitz from the Pathan brothers wasn’t sufficient for the Kings.

Fernando was once the superstar of the display (courtesy: Legends League Cricket Twitter)

HIGHLIGHTSManipal Tigers defeated the Kings by means of 3 runsThis was once the primary win for the Tigers this seasonFernando picked up 4 wickets at the day

Dilhara Fernando’s four-wicket haul helped Manipal Tigers protected a three-run win over Bhilwara Kings within the Legends League Cricket on Monday.

This was once the Tigers’ first win within the event as they in spite of everything were given off the mark within the issues desk in Cuttack. The Kings gained the toss at the day and captain Irfan Pathan made up our minds to ship within the Tigers to bat.

The verdict got here again to hang-out him as Jesse Ryder and Tatenda Taibu were given the Tigers off to an excellent get started because the openers took a liking to the Kings’ bowling assault.

Ryder and Taibu post 109 runs in 10.4 overs earlier than Yusuf Pathan got here in to the act and brushed aside the previous New Zealand batter. The part-time spinner would then disregard Taibu in the similar over handy the momentum again to the Kings.

Ryder scored 47 off 35 balls whilst Taibu were given 54 off 30 balls.

Pardeep Sahu additionally departed briefly hanging the Tigers in just a little of hassle earlier than Corey Anderson and Mohammed Kaif’s partnership were given the group to position up a difficult overall of 175 for 8 within the 20 overs.

The kings’ chase did not get off to the most productive of begins as they misplaced Morne van Wyk with simply 4 at the board. William Porterfield took at the rate along Matt Prior earlier than each males have been despatched again to the pavilion by means of Muttiah Muralitharan and Harbhajan Singh respectively.

Tanmay Srivastava and Jesal karia steadied the send for the Kings earlier than Fernando claimed the previous to wreck the budding partnership. After Karia additionally departed the onus was once at the Pathan brothers to get the group house they usually placed on a perfect display for the group.

Irfan scored 23 off 14 balls whilst Yusuf were given 42 off 21 to present the Kings a glimmer of hope. However Fernando got here again to disregard Irfan earlier than Yusuf fell to Awana.

Fernando would declare the wickets of Rajesh Bishnoi and Tino Absolute best to complete with figures of 4 for 31 in 4 overs to get the win for his group.

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