CCL4 Semi Finals: Karnataka Bulldozers Beat Mumbai Heroes By 79 Runs, Enter Finals

By Sandesh

Updated: Sunday, February 23, 2014, 0:26 [IST]

In the second semi-final match of Celebrity Cricket League (CCL 4), Karnataka Bulldozers representing Kannada film industry has won by 79 runs against Mumbai Heroes. The team headed actor Kiccha Sudeep had given the target of 184 runs to Mumbai Heroes.

At the end of the second innings Mumbai Heroes were all out for 105 runs in 18.1 overs. Bollywood team had an initial shock by loosing back to back wickets of Shivadasani, Raja Bherwani, Saleem and Purohit.

Karnataka Bulldozers, who won the toss had elected to bat first and scored 184 runs with the loss of 6 wickets in the first innings. With the back to back to victories, Karnataka Bulldozers, who were champions of CCL3, are likely to create the previous year's magic this time too. By beating Mumbai Heroes in the semi-finals, Karnataka Bulldozers are all set to take on Kerala Strikers in the final match of CCL 4, which is scheduled tomorrow at the same stadium. The match will be held at 7.00 pm in the evening. Kerala Strikers representing Malayalam film industry are also showing good performance in CCL 4. They defeated Bhojpuri Dabanggs in the first semi-final match, which was also held today and qualified for finals.Continue reading the story on slide show...

Man Of The Match

Man of the Match award has been awarded to none other than Karnataka Bulldozers dashing opener Pradeep. He scored 69 runs from 45 balls with six boundaries and one six.

Karbon Kamal Catch

Karbon Kamal Catch has been felicitated to Mumbai Heroes skipper Varun Badola. His catch in Raja Bherwani's over was responsible for the dismissal of Karnataka Bulldozers Captain Kiccha Sudeep.

Power Player Of The Match

Shabir Ahluwalia of Mumbai Heroes team was felicitated with the Power Player of the match award. Batting for his team he scored 32 runs from 20 balls with one boundary and three sixes.

Disappointing For Sudeep’s Fans

It was a big disappointment for Sudeep's fans in Hyderabad to see the actor getting out for 0 runs. They all wished the actor to do well in the final match.

Karnataka Bulldozers Score Card

The batting score card of Karnataka Bulldozers is as follows - Pradeep 65 runs from 49 balls; Rahul 28 runs from 25 balls; Rajeev 34 from 17 balls; Bhaskar 15 runs from 11 balls; Captain Sudeep 0 run from 1 ball. Dhruv Sharma 19 runs from 13 balls; Vice-captain Karthik Jayaram aka JK 4 runs from 3 balls and remained not-out.

Mumbai Heroes Score Card

The batting score card of Mumbai Heroes is as follows - Sameer Kochhar 16 runs from 20 balls; Shivadasani 9 runs from 7 balls; Bherwani 1 run from 2 balls; Saleem 6 runs from 9 balls; Purohit 4 runs from 11 balls; Badola 19 runs from 20 balls; Shabeer Ahluwalia 32 runs from 20 balls; Lakhia 9 runs from 6 balls; Indraneil 2 runs from 2 balls; Bobby Deol 2 runs from 2 balls; Rohit Roy 4 runs from 8 balls remained not-out.

Karnataka Bulldozers Bowling

It was Abhimanyu and Dhruv Sharma of Karnataka Bulldozers to get the equal number of wickets. The duo took 3 wickets each. Apart from Abhi and Dhruv, Mahesh, Pradeep, Tarun Chandra, Bhaskar and Sudheer also showed wonderful performance in bowling for Karnataka Bulldozers.

Mumbai Heroes Bowling

For Mumbai Heroes it was Bherwani, who took two wickets in 4 overs by giving 29 runs. Lakhia, Badola and Ahluwalia were successful in getting one wicket each.

Fall Of Wickets Karnataka Bulldozers

1-66 (Rahul, 8.1 overs); 2-137 (Rajeev, 14.3 overs); 3-148 (Pradeep, 15.6 overs); 4-171 (Bhaskar, 18.3 overs); 5-171 (Sudeep, 18.4 overs); 6-180 (Sharma, 19.5 overs).

Fall Of Wickets Mumbai Heroes

1-15 (Shivdasani, 2.3 overs); 2-16 (Raja Bherwani, 3.1 overs); 3-27 (Saleem, 5.2 overs); 4-37 (Kochhar, 7.6 overs); 5-37 (Purohit, 8.1 overs); 6-78 (Ahluwalia, 13.3 overs); 7-95 (Lakhia, 15.1 overs); 8-97 (Indraneil, 15.3 overs); 9-101 (Badola, 17.1 overs); 10-105 (Bobby Deol, 18.1 overs).