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Kanpur Superstars and Noida Super Kings are locking horns in the 16th match of the ongoing inaugural edition of the Uttar Pradesh T20 2023. NSK skipper Nitish Rana won the flip of the coin and asked Kanpur to bat first. Batting first, they posted a total of 165 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Noida’s veteran pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar shone both with the new and old ball in his brilliant spell. Bhuvi scalped 3 wickets at the cost of only 25 runs with an economy rate of 6.25. The veteran Indian pacer trapped the opening batter, Saurabh Dubey. Apart from that, he also picked the wickets of Pranjal Saini and Prashant Chaudhary.
Here’s the video of Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s wicket-taking spell against Noida:
Vintage Bhuvneshwar Kumar with new ball & old ball in UP T20.
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Speaking of the action of the match, Kanpur got the first blow just on the score of 1 run in the first over of the senior pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Following that, number 3 batter Sameer Rizvi and opener Ansh Yadav stitched a partnership of 52 runs for the second wicket before Rizvi fell prey to Kunal Tyagi. Ansh and Sameer contributed with the individual knocks of 32 and 37 runs, respectively.
Other than these two, the middle order batter Sandeep Tomar and skipper Akshdeep Nath also played the crucial knocks of 40 and 31 runs, respectively. Alongside Bhuvneshwar’s 3-fer, Kishan also claimed two wickets, including one wicket each picked by Naman Tiwari and Kunal Tyagi.
Moving to the current action of the match, Noida were looking quite strong towards their run chase of the target of 166 runs. They had scored 146 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 17.2 overs, having skipper Nitish Rana and number 4 batter Aditya Sharma there in the middle on the individual scores of 70 and 1 runs, respectively.
Other than Nitish, opener Almas Shaukat also scored crucial 55 runs, with 3 fours and 3 sixes to his name. The match was in very nerve-jangling mode at the time of filling this copy.