Wipro makes it to Semis

Match Summary:
Date: 17-Dec-2011
Ground: Swamy Narayan Gurukul
Teams: Wipro vs Honeywell

Honeywell won the toss and chose to bowl first to use the morning dew and seaming conditions.
Sree and Mehul opened the innings for Wipro. Honeywell openers Sai and Lenin bowled to perfection, not giving away any runs in each of their first over by swinging the ball either way.
However from 3rd over Wipro took control and Sree hit a huge six and followed it up with a boundary. Mehul at other end also started hitting boundaries, by the end of 5th over, Wipro went into 30s. But in a space of few balls, both Mehul and Sree departed. It was turn of Rajesh and Sahoo to take control. Both took some clean singles and opened up after settling down. Sahoo hit a six followed it up with a beautiful boundary. Rajesh at other end was steady and continued his form, hitting odd boundary every now and then. Just like opening pair, both got out in few balls span and it was now turn of next pair, Dr.Gopal and Mohit to continue the innings. Dr.Gopal played some beautiful flicks. He top scored the innings with 21. Mohit at other end scored a clean 17 runs.
By the end of innings, Wipro had reached 130 runs. All top 6 batsmen made useful contributions of 15+ to 20 runs.

Ganga and Sree opened the bowling attack for Wipro. Chinni and Arun took guard from Honeywell in the run chase. Chinni got out to a beautiful direct hit from Jawahar in the second over of the innings. 1 down batsman also did not last long and holed out to long on in Sree’s bowling.
Then Arun joined with Raghavendra and both steadied the innings. They took calculated risks and ensured that Honeywell was well within the required rate.
But Wipro bowlers ensured that they did not give any easy boundaries and slowly built up the pressure on the required rate. In the quest of upping the run rate, Honeywell started losing wickets and was finally bowled out by 19th over.
Honeywell got all out for 95.

Dr.Gopal, Rajesh and Ganga picked up 2 wickets each. Arun and Sree picked up 1 wicket each.
With this win, Wipro became the third team to make it to Semi-Finals.

Dr.Gopal was adjudged Man of the Match for his contributions of 21 runs in Wipro innings and picked up 2 wickets in 4 over spell.