Srinivasan stars in Farooq’s victories

dubai — Nikhil Srinivasan was the toast of Farooq’s back-to-back wins in the Dubai Cricket Council’s Weekend Slammer.

In the first match he claimed two wickets as Farooq reduced The Warriors to 143 for 7. Nikhil later struck an aggressive unbeaten 64 which contained five sixes and an equal number of fours to guide his team to an eight-wicket victory in 14.1 overs in this 25over tournament being played at the ICCA Dubai Sports City Grounds.

Nikhil was well supported by Tahir Ali who helped himself to an unbeaten 45 from 26 balls with three sixes and four fours.

In the other match, Nikhil was again in the spotlight with the ball scalping four wickets for 16 runs as Friends, chasing 178 to win set by Farooq, fell short by 20 runs.

Brief scores

Farooq beat The Warrriors by eight wickets Warriors 143 for 7 in 25 overs (Sahil Jain 35 n.o., Azeem Siddiqui 27, Kunal Rupani 23, Muzaffar Ali 23, Ajay Joshi 21; Chethiya 2-23, Nikhil Srinivasan 2-13) Farooq 144 for 2 in 14.1 overs (Nikhil Srinivasan 64 n.o., Tahir Ali 45 n.o., Nabil Iqbal 24). Man of the match: Nikhil Srinivasan. Dubai Mammoths beat The Cricketers by 131 runs Mammoths 209 all out in 25 overs (Abid Chaudhury 89, Javed Siddiqui 30, Atiq Mahmood 27, Shadab Khan 27; Sultan Khan 2-58, Ali Anwar 2-29, Lee 2-40) The Cricketers 98 all out in 18.3 overs (Syed Haider 29; Ambey Parwatkar 3-29, Shiva Pagarani 3-20, Lucky Abbas 2-16). Man of the match: Abid Chaudhury. Farooq beat Friends CC by 20 runs Farooq 177 for 7 in 25 overs (Vinan Nair 49, Yuvraj Jaising 36; Basheer Nadaf 3-30, Harish Pai 2-28) Friends CC 157 all out in 23.2 overs (Ali Raza 47, Jaffer Kookat 27; Nikhil Srinivasan 4-16, Ahmed Tariq 2-32, Yuvraj Jaising 2-17). Man of the match: Nikhil Srinivasan.