PANJIM: Salcete Stallions beat Priority Titans by four wickets and three overs to spare in the Desserts n More Sarsangan Super Series Cricket at Arlem cricket ground, recently.
Put in to bat, Priority Titans started on a cautious note through Amod Borkar 53 and Swapnil Nachinolkar 24, putting on 52 in 8.3 overs. The skipper Aditya Prabhugaonkar 21 tried to resurrect the innings putting on 57 runs in 32 balls with Amod Borkar for the 3 rd wicket as the Titans reached 114-3 in 15 overs.
However, the Stallions came right back into the match, picking six wickets in the space of 19 balls giving just 17 runs as the Titans slid from 114-2 to 131-8, thanks to the smart rotation of the bowlers by their skipper Adv Sahish Mahambrey.
Only a useful 15 not out from Dinesh Pai helped the Priority Titans put up 149-8 in 20 overs. Sahish Mahambrey 2-13 and Siddhant Kune 2-22 were the wreckers in chief and received support from Pratap Prabhugaonkar, Gaurish Agni and Saeesh Prabhudesai who picked a wicket apiece.
In reply, Salcete Stallions got off to an explosive start with Durgesh Prabhugaonkar making full use of a dropped chance, smashing 52 (19 balls) with 5 x 4s and 4 x 6s. He was ably supported by Atchut Naik Dalal who made 22 as they put on 65 runs in 5.4 overs for the opening wicket.
Even though the leg spin of Venkatesh Salelkar yielded 2 wickets, Saaiel Kossambe 23 and Samprabh Phaldesai 13 kept rotating the strike and made sure that the Stallions win with 3 overs to spare, Venkatesh Salelkar 2-25 was the pick of the bowlers while Paarth Kossambe, Amod Borkar and Mahesh Churi chipped in with a wicket each.
Siddhant Kunde was awarded the Desserts n More man-of-the-match medal and the Estilo Moderno Realty man-of-the-match trophy along with a cash prize for his brilliant bowling for the Salcete Stallions. The presentation was done by Swapnil Nachinolkar, Anurag Walawalkar, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly and Nagnath Shanbhag in the presence of Gomakant Mahambrey.