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Istanbul KSK win by 9 wickets with 4 overs and 3 balls to spare!
What should have finished well inside three overs had to take 5.3 overs to come to an end. What should also have been a 10-wicket ended up being a 9-wicket victory. But, the job was done in the end and that is all that matters.
Istanbul KSK sent out batters who would otherwise not have batted at the top. But they took things a bit too slow for their liking. For a batting side of their quality, 23 runs should have been chased down with authority.
Agyagul Ahmadhel bowled a good spell. Hristo Ivanov took a wicket in his over without giving away a run. And the batting from the Istanbul openers helped in stretching the innings.
However, with this win, Istanbul KSK register their seventh win in 8 matches. One was washed out. Barbarian CC stay on 11 points after 9 matches.
5.3 Mohammad Fayyaz to Abdullah Lodhi, SIX! GAME, SET AND MATCH! Finally, finally Istanbul KSK went over the line. Skips down the track for the length delivery and Lodhi POWERS it straight down the ground to seal the game.
5.2 Mohammad Fayyaz to Abdullah Lodhi, DROPPED! Length delivery on the fifth stump, Lodhi leans to defend but takes a healthy edge, fielder goes low but spills it and it goes down to third-man and they don't take the single strangely. What is happening?
5.1 Mohammad Fayyaz to Hesh Moghaddam, full and just outside the off-stump, Hesh lofted it over the cover region and they settle for a single. Scores are level!
Mohammad Fayyaz [1.0-0-9-0] comes back into the attack.
A maiden over! Well well! Istanbul KSK are trying to make life difficult for themselves or what? This is getting dragged a bit too much further than expected!
5
overs
21/1score
0
0
W
0
0
0
runs
Abdullah Lodhi*
0(3)
Hesh Moghaddam
2(10)
Hristo Boykov Ivanov
1
4.6 Hristo Ivanov to Abdullah Lodhi, back of a length on the fifth stump, Lodhi went back to punch it but misses, through to the keeper.
4.5 Hristo Ivanov to Abdullah Lodhi, back of a length on the fourth stump, Lodhi walks across off-stump to ramp it but makes no connection once again.
4.4 Hristo Ivanov to Abdullah Lodhi, full delivery on the off-stump, Lodhi walks down the track and yorks himself, digs it out towards covers.
Abdullah Lodhi, RHB, is at the crease.
4.3 Hristo Ivanov to Zohaib Iqbal, OUT! HOLES OUT AT LONG-ON! Length delivery on the stumps, Iqbal smacked it straight down the throat of long-on and perishes.
Zohaib Iqbal c Dimo Nikolov b Hristo Ivanov 13 (17b, 1x4, 1x6)
4.2 Hristo Ivanov to Zohaib Iqbal, short and well outside the off-stump, Iqbal sat back to cut that one away but misses, through to the keeper.
4.1 Hristo Ivanov to Zohaib Iqbal, DROPPED! Length delivery wide of off-stump, Iqbal reaches and smacked it down the ground, long-on gets around and settles under it, but shells a sitter.
Hristo Ivanov, right-arm medium, is into the attack.
Still two runs to go for Istanbul KSK and we are into the fifth over now! This should be the last one, surely!
4
overs
21/0score
0
1
5wd
0
0
1
0
runs
Hesh Moghaddam*
2(10)
Zohaib Iqbal
13(14)
Dimo Krasimirov Nikolov
0/7
3.6 Dimo Nikolov to Hesh Moghaddam, short on the middle and off, Hesh swipes it straight to backward square-leg for another dot.
3.5 Dimo Nikolov to Zohaib Iqbal, back of a length on the leg-stump, Iqbal clipped it down to fine-leg for a single.
3.4 Dimo Nikolov to Zohaib Iqbal, walks down a step for the full delivery, Iqbal decides to defend it into the off-side.
3.3 Dimo Nikolov to Zohaib Iqbal, length delivery on the stumps, Iqbal on the backfoot taps it into the off-side for no run.