Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 16: Quick fifties by Rohit Choudhary (50 runs off 29 balls) and Mukesh Sharma (51 runs off 35 balls) powered Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Club (SKCC) to a four-wicket win over Idea-Vodafone XI in a friendly Cricket match played at Phallian Mandal Cricket Ground, here today.
SKCC needed 44 runs off 12 balls and the duo of Rohit and Mukesh managed to seal an unbelievable victory by getting past a mammoth 192 runs target with 2 balls spare.
In the last over SKCC needed 26 runs in 6 balls. Rohit hit consecutive sixes to surpass the target.
Earlier, Idea Vodafone XI, winning the toss and batting first managed to score a mammoth 192 runs, despite early hiccups. Avinash (49 runs off 27 balls) was the top scorer, while Sandeep chipped in with quick-fire 40 runs off 28 balls.
Rohit Kallah from SKCC scalped two wickets, while Parth, Karan and Mukesh Sharma shared wicket apiece.
In their run chase, under pressure SKCC kept losing wickets on regular intervals as the asking rate remained over 10 runs per over. But the power-packed hitting by Mukesh and Rohit helped their team to register a thrilling victory.
For IVCC, Jagdish took 2 wickets while Tarun and Sourav shared wicket apiece.
Mukesh Sharma of SKCC was declared as man of the match.
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