CRICKET | Sutar and Awais fireplace Maratha Royals to T20 Mumbai league glory

Over the moon: The MSC Maratha Royals workforce celebrates its win over SoBo Mumbai Falcons within the ultimate of T20 Mumbai 2025.
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For the second consecutive week, a workforce led by Shreyas Iyer ended up dropping a serious T20 ultimate. On Thursday on the Wankhede Stadium, MSC Maratha Royals did a Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Shreyas’ SoBo Mumbai Falcons to elevate the T20 Mumbai league’s coveted trophy.

Using on impression participant Chinmay Sutar’s excellent anchor function (53, 49b, 2×4, 2×6) and teen Awais Khan’s cameo (38, 24b, 3×4, 2×6), the Royals overhauled the Falcons’ complete of 157 for 4 with 5 wickets and 4 balls to spare.

When Awais joined Sutar — dropped by wicketkeeper Angkrish Raghuvanshi off offie Harsh Aghav on 15 within the eighth over — within the center, the Royals required 75 runs off 9 overs. Whereas Sutar continued to rotate strike, Awais swept the spinners to perfection, clearing the boundary at will along with his calculated dangers.

When medium quick bowler Akash Parkar was launched within the sixteenth over, he used the tempo nicely to clear brief fine-leg for a 4. Each fell to Kartik Mishra within the penultimate over — Awais stumped off the third ball after successive fours off the primary two balls, courtesy misfields at long-off and long-on, and Sutar miscuing a heave off the final ball.

However veteran allrounder Rohan Raje completed the sport with two sensible strokes off Parkar within the final over.

Earlier within the night time, Siddhesh Lad received the toss and inserted the Falcons into bat. The Royals stifled the Falcons after the batting unit cantered to 60 for 3 in 10 overs. The onus was then on captain Shreyas to chop unfastened.

However Shreyas missed an tried reverse-sweep off spinner Vaibhav Mali and at 72 for 4, Aghav (45 n.o., 28b, 1×4, 4×6) took guard with Mayuresh Tandel (50 n.o., 32b, 3×4, 3×6) for firm. The duo took time to get going however lusty hits within the final 5 overs meant they added 85 runs off 49 balls to assist the Falcons cross the 150-run mark.

In the long run, it wasn’t sufficient!

The scores: SoBo Mumbai Falcons 157 for 4 in 20 overs (Mayuresh Tandel 50 n.o., Harsh Aghav 45 n.o.; Vaibhav Mali 2/32) misplaced to MSC Maratha Royals 158 for 5 in 19.2 overs (Chinmay Sutar 53, Awais Khan 38) by six wickets.