UP T20 League Swastik Chikara Against Gorakhpur Lions: The 27th match of Uttar Pradesh T20 League 2024 was played between Meerut Mavericks and Gorakhpur Lions. Which was a very exciting match. In this, Meerut managed to win this match by one run against Gorakhpur. Young batsman Swastik Chikara played the biggest role in the victory of Rinku Singh’s team. In this match, Swastik played a brilliant innings and remained unbeaten. Apart from this, Swastik Chikara hit 13 sixes in his innings.
Swastik Chikara’s explosive innings against Gorakhpur Lions
After opening batsman Akshay Dubey was out on zero, Swastik Chikara handled the innings of Meerut Mavericks very well. Swastik scored an unbeaten 114 runs in 68 balls at a strike rate of 167.65. Which included only 3 fours and 13 sixes. Captain Rinku Singh also supported Swastik well. He also scored 44 runs in 35 balls, many other batsmen of Meerut could not even cross the five-run mark.
Meerut beat Gorakhpur by one run
Meerut Mavericks’ innings was good only due to Swastik Chikara. Meerut, who came to bat first after winning the toss, did not have a good start. Also, except Swastik and Rinku Singh, no batsman could score five runs. Meerut Mavericks managed to score 175 runs after losing five wickets in 20 overs.
In response, Gorakhpur Lions had a good start. Opener Abhishek Goswami scored 43 runs in 38 balls and captain Akshadeep Nath scored 59 runs in 49 balls. Gorakhpur Lions scored 174 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. After this, Meerut Mavericks defeated Gorakhpur Lions by one run in this match.
Meerut Mavericks vs Gorakhpur Lions Team
- Meerut Mavericks: Divyansh Joshi, Divyansh Rajput, Madhav Kaushik, Manu Kashyap, Nalin Mishra, Rinku Singh, Rituraj Sharma, Swastik Chikara, Akshay Sain, Kovid Jain, Prashant Yadav, Rajat Sanserwal, Shubhankar Shukla, Akshay Dubey (wicketkeeper), Uwais Ahmed (wicketkeeper), Dipanshu Yadav, Jamshed Alam, Shivan Malhotra, Vasu Vats, Vijay Kumar, Vishal Chaudhary, Yash Garg, Yogendra Doyla, Yuvraj Yadav, Zeeshan Ansari
- Gorakhpur Lions: Akshdeep Nath, Hardeep Singh, Kartikey Singh, Siddharth Yadav, Yash Pradhan, Abhishek Goswami, Saurabh Kumar, Shivam Sharma, Vineet Dubey, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Abdul Rehman, Ankit Chaudhary, Ankit Rajput, Ansh Dwivedi, Rohit Dwivedi, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Yash Dayal
Also read:
Vinesh Phogat will contest Haryana assembly elections from Congress, these five Olympians have also tried their hand in elections