ENT vs PB

That's it from this match, folks! Hope you enjoyed our coverage. It's the pair of Rudransh and Darpan signing off for now but there's a lot more cricket coming your way. Read some articles, and then maybe hop-on to the South Africa-Sri Lanka T20 WC game? See you!

Prashant Solanki (ENT captain): Our team has role-specific players and we saw that today when we lost early wickets. Ranjeet and Atharva did the job. [On Arshin and Mukesh's performance in the death overs] Role-specific players, that's what it is. Mukesh, you know, has played a lot in the IPL and I had full trust in him to perform well in that stage.

Ranjeet Nikam is the Player of the Match, here's what he has to say: It was nothing much, I just focussed on playing long and then getting the boundaries. The mindset was nothing different. Kale's innings helped me a lot. It helped me spend time on the wicket.

Ruturaj Gaikwad (Puneri Bappa Captain): To be really honest, I feel we lost by just one hit. The umpiring error on the free hit cost us. I do what the team needs me to. This is an inexperienced side, they require me below in the order. The left arm wrist spinner bowled well. Hopefully, we can have more and more people coming into watch as the tournament goes on. I had a good break over the last 3 days. But it is part and parcel of the game. 

ENT win by 7 runs!

Ranjeet Nikam 65 (34) | Mukesh Chowdhary (3/30
Yash Kshirsagar 40 (27) | Sachin Bhosale (2/21)

A massive win for ENT. They have outperformed Puneri Bappa in every department and truly deserve the points. The match was half-won when the batting recovered well from the early breakthroughs to put up 190+ when the pitch was difficult to bat on.

Arshin Kulkarni made the difference with early wickets in the second innings. Kshirsagar and Damle put up a bit of a show in the middle-overs as Gaikwad pushed himself right down to number five. Solanki became a massive target for the Puneri batters and conceded more than 1/4th the target. But on the other end, Sawant kept it tight and picked up two.

Gaikwad showed his class and took the game deep, taking Kulkarni down in the 18th over. However, Mukesh Choudhary's brilliant 19th ended in his wicket, leaving Kulkarni more than enough to defend in the final. Gaikwad would surely come back to this decision but ENT won't care.

19.6 Arshin Kulkarni to Rsohan Wasghsare, misses. Length ball, Waghsare swings with all his might and connects with nothing but air molecules. The keeper misses too but it does not matter. Eagle Nashik Titans win the match.

19.5 Arshin Kulkarni to Vivek Selar, BOWLED! WHAT AN ANSWER! Full ball, almost a yorker. The batter cleared his front leg and tried to deploy the good 'ol helicopter. Missed it altogether. Stumps are shattered, so are Puneri Bappa's hopes.

Vivek Selar b Arshin Kulkarni 6 (3b, 0x4, 1x6)

19.4 Arshin Kulkarni to Vivek Selar, SIX! GAME'S NOT DONE YET! What a shot! In the slot, but he went inside out over extra cover. Not an easy shot but it has been executed to perfection. 

19.2 Arshin Kulkarni to Sachin Bhosale, single. Yorker outside off from Kulkarni. Bhosale digs it out and sends it to deep midwicket. Only one run. 

Vivek Selar, RHB, is at the non-striker's -- Kulkarni has the ball against Sachin. 19 off 6 needed still.

There comes the biggie! Mukesh, you beauty! A high-ish full toss so he's lucky for more reasons than one but that's still a massive wicket. He has given everything he could to the bowler who'll bowl the 20th. Gaikwad... well he dug the hole for himself and failed to get out.

18.6 Mukesh Chowdhary to Ruturaj Gaikwad, FULL TOSS! CAUGHT! Chowdhary wanted to bowl the yorker. Ended up delivering a juicy full toss. Gaikwad went for the big shot but the timing wasn't great. Dhanraj at long on makes no errors.

Ruturaj Gaikwad c D Shinde b Mukesh Chowdhary 38 (21b, 4x4, 1x6)

18.5 Mukesh Chowdhary to Ruturaj Gaikwad, two. Wide yorker attempted. Gaikwad has driven it for one to sweeper cover and scampered back for two.