11 June,2026 09:22 AM IST | Mumbai | G Krishnan
Mayuresh Tandel celebrates a wicket. Pic/Ashish Raje
SOBO Mumbai Falcons (SMF) put it across North Mumbai Panthers (NMP) in their last league match by seven wickets to finish with six points at Wankhede on Wednesday.
After bowling out NMP, who have already qualified for Thursday's semi-finals, for 157, SMF chased the target with 11 balls to spare.
Earlier, the SMF spinners spun a tight web around the opposition batters when left-armer Yash Dicholkar (2-17), offie Mayuresh Tandel (4-30), and teen leg-spinner Vedant Gore (2-33) bowled in tandem in the middle overs.
When opener Anish Choudhery (32) and India Under-19 World Cup winner Abhigyan Kundu (45) scored at a brisk pace to share 78 for the second wicket in just 38 deliveries, NMP were going at over 11 an over in the first seven overs.
But, after Tandel dismissed Anish and Ayush Vartak to catches in the deep within four deliveries of each other soon after his introduction in the eighth over, NMP could not get the boundaries regularly.
In direct contrast to their scoring rate in the first seven overs when they posted 79-1, NMP managed only 78-9 in the next 12.2 overs, scoring at 6.33 runs per over.
In the last league match, powered by Ayaz Khan's 87, MSC Maratha Royals defeated ARCS Andheri by five wickets to complete the semi-final line up along with NMP, AA, and Aakash Tigers MWS.
