ASKARI STRIKES, INCREDIBLES CRASH

Incredibles CC vs Chicago United | BPL 30/30
By Dhruv Patel

After losing an experimental close match in BPL against Cardinals, Chicago United (CU) were ready for the challenge against a rebuilt Incredibles. As expected, CU players were at the ground well ahead of time for their routine warm ups. CU continued to present exploratory opportunities to develop local cricketers. The coin flips to CU and they elected to bat.
Yaseen and Ahmed Quraishi opened for CU. Yaseen (45) and Ahmed (31) helped CU get off a good start. After losing couple of few wickets and small cameo from Paul Singh, CU was 116/2. Paul held his nerve and directed the ball towards maximums. Incredibles continued to pick up wickets at regular intervals. Talah, Moin and Fahad bowled well to cap the CU runs and picked up wickets at regular intervals. CU skipper Sami jumped in to build the innings with his valuable 39 runs. Although, CU scored a decent 196 runs; seemed like they could have scored an additional 35 to 40 runs.
Going into bat, Incredibles opened their batting with Fahad and Hammad. Huge expectations were lingering around the Incredibles camp. Ahmed Askari and Abdul Khader opened the bowling for CU. Askari picked up both the opening batsmen and then wickets started tumbling for Incredibles. Paul Singh tried out his hands at keeping and was decent for a start. CU continued experimenting with the ball. This time with Askari who was glanced to maximums by Moin. No damage done. For CU, skipper Sami took three wickets, Khadar and Ayub Patel picked up two wickets each.
CU won with a huge margin of 70 odd runs, getting them back into winning momentum.