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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Plipdeco into SIS semis

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Plipde­co pulled off an as­ton­ish­ing su­per over vic­to­ry on Wednes­day in a low scor­ing thriller against Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices Lim­it­ed as the quar­ter­fi­nal leg of the SIS In­dus­tri­al Crick­et League bowled off at the Plipde­co Ground.SIS would rue their de­ci­sion to bat first af­ter win­ning the toss as Que­si Grif­fith had Di­nesh Ram­ba­jhan com­pre­hen­sive­ly bowled in the sec­ond ball of the in­ning and fel­low open­er Roger Williams went caught off the bowl­ing of Kenya Lea­cock, go­ing for a big hit to the longest bound­ary on the field.

That set the tone for the rest of the in­nings as wick­ets fell con­sis­tent­ly in every over to Plipde­co's pre­ci­sion bowl­ing. Af­ter five overs, SIS man­aged just 19 runs and knew they were in trou­ble with five wick­ets down. Shiv­al Sakawat hit the lone six of the in­nings be­fore he was al­so bowled by Grif­fith. SIS was even­tu­al­ly bowled out for 28 runs just in­side 9 overs. An­tho­ny Ram­roop was Plipde­co's best bowler, end­ing on fig­ures of 2 for 3 in his on­ly over while Kenya Lea­cock (2/5) and Z. Mo­hammed (2/5) al­so bowled well to re­strict SIS to such a low to­tal.

Plipde­co's con­fi­dence was shak­en ear­ly on when Ram­roop was beat­en by a de­liv­ery from Roger Williams that trick­led on to the stumps in the third over af­ter Lea­cock was caught for just one. Plipde­co went from 1 for 10 in the sec­ond over to 4 for 12 in the fourth over as SIS re­al­ly showed their met­tle in de­fend­ing their low score. It took Plipde­co three overs to score ten runs with­out a wick­et falling be­fore A. Mo­hammed got the break­through. Star bats­man An­to­nio Az­iz was caught for a top score of six with the score on twen­ty two in the eighth over and Plipde­co's heart sunk when an all too fa­mil­iar crum­ble fol­lowed. Three more wick­ets fell with the ad­di­tion of just one run and Plipde­co were reel­ing at 23 for 8 af­ter nine overs.

The ten­sion was thick and an­tic­i­pa­tion high as SIS cap­tain Di­anand Ma­hase took on the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of de­fend­ing six runs in the last over. Af­ter the first ball went for no run, one could sense the re­solve of the bats­men at the wick­et to run at any­thing and so they did. They man­aged five sin­gles in the fol­low­ing five balls that saw the in­nings end with scores tied at 28 af­ter ten overs.Plipde­co showed their poise in the re­sult­ing su­per over as SIS was on­ly able to take three runs off Az­iz's tight bowl­ing. In Plipde­co's turn at the crease Az­iz crushed any hope SIS had of de­fend­ing their three runs, blast­ing a six in the very first ball to com­plete a nail bit­ing vic­to­ry. Plipde­co will now play three time champs T&TEC in a mouth­wa­ter­ing semi­fi­nal fix­ture on Fri­day while un­der­dogs Nu Iron, fresh off an im­pres­sive vic­to­ry over pow­er­house PCS Ni­tro­gen, will have to ne­go­ti­ate a tricky AUM out­fit in the sec­ond semi­fi­nal on Mon­day.

Sum­marised Scores

Plipde­co Ground

SIS 28 all out (8.5 overs) (S. Sakawat 7, A. Ram­roop 2/3, K. Lea­cock 2/5)

vs Plipde­co 28/9 (A. Az­iz 6, A. Ram­roop 5, A. Mo­hammed 2/4, S. Sakawat 2/5)

Re­sult: Plipde­co won in Su­per Over (Scores: SIS � 3/0/6 balls, Plipde­co 6/0/1 ball)

Man of the Match: An­to­nio Az­iz

Thurs­day June 13

T&TEC vs IP­SL MX (Plipde­co Ground)

Sum­marised Scores

Plipde­co Ground

T&TEC 45/8 (M. Sir­ju 22, A. Sa­hadeo 11, M. Pus­tam 3/10, A. Singh 2/4)

vs IP­SL MX 35 all out (A. Singh 12, D. Kan­gal 2/3, M. Sir­ju 2/3)

Re­sult: T&TEC won by 10 runs

Man of the Match: Manoj Sir­ju

Fri­day June 14

PCS Ni­tro­gen vs Nu Iron (Plipde­co Ground)

Sum­marised Scores

Plipde­co Ground

Nu Iron 43/5 (J. Samuel 14, J. Siew 10no, N. Clifton 3/5, H. Ram­per­sad 1/4)

vs PCS Ni­tro­gen 32 all out (E. Sagram 10, Y. Sook­lal 7, K. Mo­hammed 3/3, D. Dass 2/3)

Re­sult: Nu Iron won by 11 wons

Man of the Match: Kendall Mo­hammed

Mon­day June 20

IP­SL AUM vs Pro­man (Plipde­co Ground)

Sum­marised Scores

Plipde­co Ground

AUM 62/5 (S. Ma­haraj 20no, B. Ramkissoon 20no, T. Har­riper­sad 3/10)

vs Pro­man 44/8 (L. Ghourlal 12no, B. McOwen 12, S. Goolcha­ran 2/4, S. Ma­haraj 2/12)

Re­sult: IP­SL AUM won by 18 runs

Man of the Match: San­jeev Ma­haraj


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