Match No 14: Bangalore Provident {Rural} vs Mangalore United at Bangalore on 22.09.10: Mangalore United won by eight wickets

Opting to bat first, Brigadiers lost their inform opener MK Manjunath to the fifth ball of the match for zero and with the score board reading 14, the other opener VST Naidu also departed. MK Manjunath and VST Naidu scored zero and 11 respectively. Brigadiers never recovered from this shock and could muster 140 for 8. Amit Verma {30}, SK Jain {30} and AA Joshi {37} excelled with the willow. Amit Verma and SK Jain stitched a partnership of 63 runs for the third wicket which was the mainstay of Brigadiers’s innings. Barring this stand Brigadiers’ batsmen could not forge useful stands as it lost wickets at fairly regular intervals.

Amit Verma’s 30 came of 30 balls with three fours, SK Jain’s 30 came in 31 balls and contained three fours and AA Joshi’s 37 came in 20 balls with one four and three sixes.

S Aravind {2 for 20} and Aleem {2 for 18} were the main wiceket takers for Mangalore United.

Chasing 141 for a win, Mangalore United openers KK Nair and B Chipli put on fifty runs partnership for the first wicket which was followed by another two useful stands – 41 runs for the second wicket between B Chipli and R Jonathan and 37 runs for the unfinished third wicket between R Jonathan and K Rao

B Chipli, at last, found runs coming his way. A good opening batsman, who represented the state in Ranji Trophy, struggled for runs in the earlier matches. He was very aggressive as the stats of his innings suggest – his 75 came in 53 minutes and occupied the crease for 54 minutes. He hit five boundaries and six sixes.

His six sixes gave him the record of becoming the first batsman in this edition of Mantri-KPL to score five or more sixes in an innings. He wrested the record from MA Agarwal of Diamonds who had hit four sixes against Gladiators at Bangalore on 17.09.10.

B Chipli with his six sixes in this game shared the record of most sixes in an innings with three other batsmen in the tournament. SV Lazarus of Brigadiers had hit six sixes against Provident at Banglaore on 13.09.09, KS Ponnappa of Panthers had hit six sixes against Mangalore at Bangalore on 14.09.09 and J Arun Kumar of Panthers had hit six sixes against Bulls on 16.09.09

B Chipli’s 75 represent the highest score by a batsman in this edition of KPL. He wrested the record from VST Naidu of Provident who had scored 65 not out against Brigadiers at Bangalore on 19.09.10

R Jonathan was the other batsman who was amongst runs. He scored 26 not out in in 18 balls which contained four fours. He was at the crease for 27 minutes. NC Aiyappa {1 for 39} and Amit Verma {1 for 16} accounted for the two wickets that fell in Provident’s innings.

Summarised scores: Bangalore Provident {Rural} 140 for 8 in 20.0 overs {Amit Verma 30, SK Jain 30, AA Joshi 37, S Arvind 2 for 20, Aleem 2 for 18} lost to Mangalore United 141 for 2 in 16.5 overs {B Chipli 75, R Jonathan 26 not out} by eight wickets