Pattan:- Tanveer struck a half-century before Warrior’s bowlers come out with a stupendous performance to defeat Shaheen’s by 7 runs and win the maiden Wanigam Twenty20 Premier League 2018.In the final played at the Wanigam Sports Feild, the Warrior’s successfully defended the total of 164 runs against Shaheen’s on Sunday here.
A fearsome burst of pace bowling from Khaleef (Bhat Warriors) at the end consigned Shaheen’s to a horror 7 run defeat at Wanigam Sports Field on Sunday as Bhat Warriors won their maiden Wanigam Premiere League 2018 title.
After winning the toss Bhat Warriors opted batting first and with help of Tanveers’s half-Century (58) and Gulzar’s (35) set a total of 164 runs for the loss of 8 wickets on board in alloted 20 overs.
Umar remains leading wicket taker for Shaheen’s with 4 wickets while Shioab took 2 wickets.
In reply Shaheen’s chasing allotted target of 165 runs played superbly till 15th over of the second innings.Once Shaheen’s were 149 runs in 17 overs for the loss of 5 wickets . Warriors never lost the control even Salman , Ashiq and Kamran launched into their bowlers. Khaleef bold a dream over when Shaheen’s were 14 runs away from Victory with 2 overs left. Khaleef bold 19th over and wiped out the victory dream of Shaheen’s with clever use of seam and length in a short boundary ground and gave just 4 runs and Scalped 2 important wickets for his team and Shaheen’s fell short of 7 runs to lift the title of Wanigam Twenty Premiere League 2018.
Khaleef was adjudged Player of the final for his match winning bowling performance.
Mohammad Altaf with 306 runs and Umar with 21 wickets throughout the tournament were jointly declared as players of the tournament.
Zeeshan Pervaiz And Khalid Altaf Hussain Magray attended the ceremony as guest of honors on the occasion and distributed prizes among the players.The tournament was organised by Wanigam Cricket Association.
Khaleef Stars beat Shaheen’s by 7 runs, lift Wanigam T20 Premier League title
