LSG vs WW

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Match summary:

Lisbon Super Giants win by 5 wickets with two balls to spare

Amandeep Singh 20(26) | Nilesh Suryawanshi 2/6 (2)
Kashi Ram 31(25) | Muhammad Tabish 3/10 (2)

If the Werewolves' batting effort wasn't abysmal enough, we saw the Lisbon Super Giants put up a batting display ten times worse than that. While the outfield was slow and the boundaries are longer than usual at the Estádio Municipal de Miranda do Corvo, it took 58 legal deliveries for the Super Giants to get past the line. They had 10 wickets in the back for a large part of the run-chase - a bonus point was there for the taking.

Credit to the Werewolves bowlers as well, though - they stuck to their task of bowling hard lengths and found some movement off the air to deter the batters. The standard of fielding went up as the innings progressed - while the odd catch was going down earlier, the Werewolves latched on to most chances later on. With 10 to get off the last over, Gagandeep might have backed himself to defend this, but Suryawanshi saved the day for LSG instead. 

9.4 Gaganpreet Singh to Nilesh Suryawanshi, SIX!!! Fuller ball and Nilesh goes for a big hit down the ground. The man at long off stretches an arm out and gets a hand to it. But he cannot close the fingers down on it. Instead he ends up parrying the ball over the ropes. He was infact, standing a couple of feet inside. Had he been back on the fence. It would have been gone. But instead, the Lisbon Super Giants have won the match with that. 

9.2 Gaganpreet Singh to Nilesh Suryawanshi, looks to flick it and ends up closing the face too early. The ball flies off a leading edge to point. They run one. 

9.1 Gaganpreet Singh to Nilesh Suryawanshi, MISSES THE YORKER!!! The batter flicks it to midwicket who fumbles. They run two on the misfield and the bowler fails to collect the throw. Misses an obvious run out. 

8.6 Muhammad Tabish to Nilesh Suryawanshi, switches to around the wicket and bowls a full ball. Suryawanshi drives it to long off with a straight bat and runs one. 

8.5 Muhammad Tabish to Nikhil Chand, MISCUED!! Fielder from midwicket comes running in but cannot reach the ball. It falls safely and they run one. 11 runs to win off 7 balls.

8.3 Muhammad Tabish to Nikhil Dhingra, BOWLED!! Angled in. Dhingra looks to play the cross batted swipe. He misses the ball and the bails go flying.

Nikhil Dhingra b Muhammad Tabish 2 (3b 0x4 0x6)

8.1 Muhammad Tabish to Amandeep Singh, MISCUED AND GONE!!! Length ball around the 4th stump. Amandeep was looking to hit on the leg side. He gets the top edge. The man at third dives forward to take a stunner.

Amandeep Singh c Amritpal Singh Jr b Muhammad Tabish 20 (26b 1x4 1x6)

At last! At long last, we've seen one disappear over the boundary. Given the flow of proceedings, you'd think that was never a possibility. 13 needed at just over a run-a-ball. Two big hits will do it, but given the course of events so far in the game, this is going down to the wire, isn't it?