Dragons win the SPL tournament
Source In an exciting final, Dragons won he match by 2 wickets. Riders was captained by Mehboob Alam. The captaincy of Pushpa Thapa was successful and hence Dragons won the tournament. The winning team won a sum of rupees 2 lakhs while the runner up received the sum of rupees 1 lakh only. Rahul Mandal was declared as the player of the series and he was rewarded with the sum of rupees fifteen thousand rupees only. Sonu Ansari was declared as he best batsman of the tournament and Robin Singh was declared as the best bowler of the tournament. Thet received the sum of rupees ten thousand rupees only. Anuj Yadav was declared as the emerging player of the tournament who received a pair of cricket kit. Riders gave the target of 116 runs to the Dragons. Chasing the target, Dragons won the match in last ball by losing their 8 wickets. At a stage in the match, Dragons needed 34 runs in 24 balls. Pushpa Thapa hit 3 sixes in 9 balls. When thapa was out, the match was more interesting. Dragons needed 14 runs to win in last over. First ball was hit for four runs by Avinash. Second ball was hit for two runs. Umpire cancelled 1 run by declaring that as a short run. He hit 2 runs in 3rd ball. Fourth ball was hit for a six. Now, Dragons needed 1 run to win in 2 balls. But, Avinash was out in the next ball. In the last ball of the match, Dragons needed 1 run to win. Udit hit the ball for four runs and Dragons won the match by 2 wickets. Bishal top scored the innings with 38 runs. Thapa scored 21, Avinash scored 20 and Rahul scored 15 runs. Ansari took 3 wickets, Anoj Yadav took 2 wickets, Pradeep Paswan and Mehboob Alam took a wicket each. A total of 5 teams participated in the tournament and Pushpa Thapa was declared as the man of the match.