CU DIMS GALAXY BY 166 RUNS!

Spotlight: Nikhil kanchan 94 in 68 balls, Dhruv Dugaal 32 in 24 balls, Sachin Veeraswamy 31 in 22 balls, Deepak Paulswamy 5.1-0-15-3, Najam Bakshi 5-0-11-2 , Sami Khan 6-0-22-2) Cricket perfect weather, clear blue skies and 76F welcomed the mighty Galaxy United to face Chicago United (CU) for their must win match for a possible playoffs spot. Chicago United won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Anirudh Jonnavitula and Venkatesh Naidu took on Galaxy’s bowling attack of Syed Mustafa and Akhil Khan Pathan . Ani’s delightful maximum to Syed Mustafa over extra-cover was an early innings highlight. At regular intervals, Akhil put his experience for the batsmen to keep guessing. Nikhil Kanchan (94), Dhruv Duggal (32) and Sachin Veerasammy (31) led CU’s technical batting. Veteran Altaf Khadry clean bowled Dhruv to a smart delivery. Nikhil and Sachin demonstrated aggressive batting to post 243/7 in 30 overs. Going into bat, Galaxy openers Safder Syed (11 in 30) and Hasan Hashmi (29 in 51) were challenged by CU’s bowlers, speedster Koti Vanga and spinner Najmi (Najam Iqbal) with 30/2 in 10 overs, Galaxy’s batting faced an uphill task. The experienced Sami M Khan and Afrooz-ul-Haq spun the ball to lock the wrist of Galaxy batsmen. While, CU’s upcoming medium pacer, Deepak Paulswamy picked up three wickets to wrap up Galaxy for 77 runs in 23.1 overs. With this 166 runs massive defeat, 2019 semi-finalist Galaxy were excluded from 2020 playoffs of iconic league American Cricket Conference.