US Masters T10: New York Warriors beat Morrisville Unity as Richard Levy shines
Lauderhill, Florida (IANS). New York Warriors defeated Morrisville Unity by six runs in the US Masters T10 League here on Friday. New York Warriors scored 124/3 in their 10 overs before restricting Morrisville Unity to 118/5.
Morrisville Unity could not get their batting going from the start of their innings and Parthiv Patel was dismissed by Dhammika Prasad for 3 runs in the third over. Chris Gayle and Corey Anderson were also dismissed in quick succession, leaving Morrisville Unity in deep trouble at 33/3 in 5 overs.
Thereafter, Obus Pienaar scored a brilliant 35 off 12 balls and Shehan Jayasuriya scored 28* off 10 balls, but they could not take their team to victory.
Earlier in the day, Morrisville Unity won the toss and put New York Warriors in to bat. Tillakaratne Dilshan got the Warriors off to a flying start by hitting Kelvin Savage for consecutive fours in the second over. However, in the very next over, he was dismissed lbw by Obus Pienaar. But Richard Levi ensured that the Warriors kept the momentum going by hitting two fours and two sixes off Rahul Sharma in the fourth over.
After this, Levi hit Sreesanth for three consecutive sixes and the Warriors’ score was 73/1 in five overs. He sent the ball across the boundary line twice before becoming the victim of Kelvin Savage in the ninth over, playing a brilliant innings of 66 runs off 25 balls. Corey Anderson conceded just eight runs in the last over, helping New York Warriors post 124/3 in 10 overs.
Brief Scores: New York Warriors 124/3 (Richard Levy 66, Kamran Akmal 24, Obus Pienaar 1/18) beat Morrisville Unity 118/5 (Obus Pienaar 35, Shehan Jayasuriya 28*, Umaid Asif 3/22) by 6 runs .
