Race to the
Super 7

Guinness Giants won the toss, chose to bowl, and Shiva Perumalsamy immediately made that decision look extremely sensible: 1/1 in the opening over, followed by another miserly burst when he returned. Sagar M’s fourth over finally loosened the furniture for ten, but Vinod Yadav answered in the fifth with a wicket. Ankur Sah and Harish Jain rebuilt Bat City patiently, Harish producing the morning’s first six just as the overcast threatened to turn this into a very serious-looking 40/3. Chinmay K then arrived with a squeeze in the eighth, but the Warriors were only beginning to sharpen their knives. ✨

The innings changed mood in the middle overs. Nalin Nimavat found the boundary, Kamaljeet D conceded fourteen in the fourteenth, and then Vinod Yadav’s fifteenth became a small group-chat incident: eighteen runs, two sixes, and Ankur Choudhary enjoying every second of it. Saurabh Jain’s over 17 leaked thirteen more, while Chinmay K and Shiva Perumalsamy kept trying to restore order with admirable, doomed professionalism. Then Aditya Gulkotwar arrived and treated the finish like his own private trailer, launching four sixes on the way to 39 off 20. Ankur Choudhary returned for the final three balls and added 16, including two more sixes; Saurabh’s last over cost seventeen, and Bat City slammed the door at 165/7. 🎆

Guinness began the chase with enough sparkle to make 166 feel negotiable. Sunny Behera struck early, Manish Landge’s 14 gave the opening passage some bite, and Inder Paul S’s fifth over disappeared for nineteen as Sagar Mehla supplied the noise. Prashant Sridharan then began collecting wickets, Aditya Gulkotwar entered the attack in the eighth and returned 1/8, and Sunny came back to apply the brakes. Sudersan J’s twelfth went for fourteen—one four and one six—and suddenly survival had become a proper plan rather than a slogan. Nalin Nimavat answered with 1/3 in the thirteenth, and the chase reached 99/5 before the floor gave way. ⚡

Arpit Sanghavi’s fourteenth brought two wickets for six, Prashant Sridharan struck twice in the fifteenth, and five Giants vanished between overs thirteen and fifteen: not a collapse so much as a queue forming at the exit. Ankur Sah added another blow in the seventeenth, finishing with 2/21, while Arpit finished with 2/21 after returning for the nineteenth. Saurabh Jain refused to let the chase become a quiet ending, cracking an unbeaten 29 off 20, but the required rate had grown teeth. Prashant’s final spell ended at 3/25, Guinness Giants closed on 157/10, and the Warriors had their eight-run thriller. 🏏🔥

Man of the Match Aditya Gulkotwar did the full Saturday double: 39 off 20 with the bat and 1/8 with the ball. Ankur Choudhary’s late fireworks, Shiva’s opening spell, and the Prashant–Ankur–Arpit wicket party all mattered, but Aditya supplied the neatest ending to the story. Bat City Warriors had turned a sturdy morning into a finish worth replaying—and Guinness had made them earn every last run. 🎉