GL vs NSK

So, that will be all from Green Park, Kanpur for today! You can switch tabs and find out what is happening in international cricket at the moment with two T20Is taking place. This is Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda! 

Nitish Rana (Noida Super Kings captain): I got the feeling that it would be difficult to bat on this wicket in the second innings. Because a lot of cricket had already been played on it. When we were batting, I felt that 150 or 160 would be a decent score but then Prashant and Aditya played really well to take it well over that mark. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is a class act! He will deliver the goods with the ball most times, I can be rest assured about that. That is the best thing about out team that we have young players there to showcase their talent and some priceless experience to mix it up. 

Aditya Sharma has been adjudged the Player of the Match! Here is what he has to say. 

Aditya: The wicket was slightly on the slower side I felt, and so, the idea was to take the innings deep as the set batter. The idea was to carry on rotating strike till the final few overs and cash in after that. Glad that it all came good. 

Abhishek Goswami (Gorakhpur Lions captain): I think we have a lot to learn from this game. We need to focus on our middle-order with the bat and also on our death bowling. Hope to get things right as we move along. 

Bhuvneshwar Kumar: I think we batted really well and bowled well as well, but, we have a lot of scope for improvement obviously. There are youngsters in the team, they are willing to learn and so, I'm sure things will improve as we move along. 

Noida Super Kings win by 43 runs! 

Aditya Sharma 70* (43) | Naman Tiwari - 2/34 (4)
Shivam Sharma 57* (31) | Dhruv Pratap Singh - 3/25 (4)

This was a clinical performance from the Noida Super Kings, barring their effort towards the end when Gorakhpur Lions' Yashovardhan Singh and Shivam Sharma got stuck into their bowling. 

During that phase, there were a few misfields and the bowling was not quite up to the mark in terms of hitting the right length. Shivam went on to score a fighting half-century and remained unbeaten. 

But the damage with the ball was done earlier on in the innings and the wickets kept falling and the runs hardly came in the first half of the chase. Some the shots played to get out were questionable and there seemed to be a lot of tentativeness in the approach with the bat. 

Each of the Noida bowlers who bowled at least 2 overs gave away runs at not more 8.5 economy. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's swing bowling came really good today and left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar, who did some damage to his left knee later on, gave away runs at an economy of only 3.00 RPO. Spin through the middle overs kept the runs at bay and did not allow the batters of the opposition to get going at all. 

So, the Noida team has now picked up two wins out of two and look a solid outfit. Gorakhpur, after their second loss, will have some thinking to do to get things right. 

19.6 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, FOUR MORE! BUT THE MATCH GOES TO NOIDA SUPER KINGS! Full and in the block hole on middle-stump. Shivam moved across and lapped it over the left of the keeper for a lovely boundary! 

19.5 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, over the wicket, FOUR RUNS! Good length slower ball around leg-and-middle. Heaved over the in-field from the back foot. Deep mid-wicket made a hash of it and gave away a boundary! Shivam Sharma moves to 50! 

19.4 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, FREE HIT! Good length ball around off-stump. A swing across the line from down on one knee and a miss! Dot ball. 

19.4 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, NO BALL FOR HEIGHT! Full toss way over the waist outside off-stump. The batter failed to connect with the ramp shot. 

19.3 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, FOUR RUNS! Full toss outside off-stump. This gets swung hard and the ball races away to the left of deep point for a boundary! 

19.2 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, full and in the block hole outside off-stump. Nicely drilled out over the in-field but down to long-off on one bounce for no run. 

19.1 Naman Tiwari to Shivam Sharma, hat-trick ball, round the wicket, full and wide outside off-stump. Slashed to the deep cover region from deep in the crease for no run. The fielder could have gone for the catch instead of taking it on one bounce! 

18.6 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Vijay Kumar, short and slow on off-stump. Knocked down to long-on off the back foot but Shivam refuses the single to stay on strike for the next over. 

18.4 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Shivam Sharma, SIX RUNS! Full and wide outside off-stump. Shivam goes right back, clears the front leg and clobbers it over long-on for a maximum!