Five-star Sheridan helps NAS clinch League of Mammoths
dubai — Sheridan Hadfield’s miserly spell of five-wicket for 11 runs haul highlighted Nad Al Sheba’s (NAS) win over Jumeirah Mammoths in the final of the Dubai Cricket Council’s 8th League of Mammoths tournament.
Put into bat NAS piled up a fighting 176 from 24.2 overs and did extremely well to bowl Jumeirah all out for 130. Although they lost opener Sunil Raheja (0) and Sangit Gopinath (6) early in the innings Devrajan Srinivasan (28) and Vinay Tolani (31) steadied the rocking boat of NAS.
Vijay Mehra (39) and CTK Mashood added 45 runs for the sixth wicket but NAS were not yet out of the woods until man-of-the-match Sheridan’s 16-run blitz from 9 balls (1x6, 1x4) came as a blessing in disguise and propelled them to
176. Jumeirah’s chase was lukewarm. Apart from Sandeep Raina’s 32 none of the other batsmen could take charge of the match against a disciplined NAS bowling attack.
After Sunil Rajeha and Kapil Gandhi removed the openers CTK Mashood claimed two middle order
batsmen and Sheridan Hadfield cleaned up the tail.
Nakheel finished third and Zabeel finished at the bottom among the four teams but they won two awards. Deepak Patel bagged the best bowler award and Lucky Abbas was declared the Player of Tournament.