An-nadil Jamaly & Ngara Sports Club B hit the ground running as T20 Division 2 title race hots up

CRICKET An-nadil Jamaly & Ngara Sports Club B hit the ground running as T20 Division 2 title race hots up

Joel Omotto 11:34 - 16.03.2024

An-nadil Jamaly and Ngara Sports Club B will faceoff in Qualifier 2 ahead of Nairobi Cricket Association T20 Division Two final.

An-nadil Jamaly and Ngara Sports Club B will come up against each other in Qualifier 2, the third playoff before Sunday's eagerly-awaited final of Nairobi Cricket Association (NPCA) T20 Division Two.

The two teams are expected to unleash their best cricket at Sikh Union ground on Saturday afternoon as only the winner will progress in the competition and take on the fancied Legends Cricket Club team in Sunday's eagerly awaited Final.

Jamaly topped the Group A log of the league season, winning six of their seven group-stage matches.

Legends Cricket Club on the other hand, also won six out of seven and finished first on the Group B log.

But Legends secured passage to the final by defeating An-nadil Jamaly by seven wickets at Ruaraka Sports Club in last weekend's Qualifier 1.

Both Ngara B and An-nadil teams know full well the magnitude of Q2 as it will be end of the journey for the team that loses on Saturday.

An-nadil got a lifeline after their loss to Legends in Q1 but now hope to vent their spleen on the Ngara B side.

Ali Asghar, Hussein Shabbir and Yusuf Jainuddin are expected to spearhead An-nadil's top order and so will Jitesh Patel, Murtaza Abass and Bharat Panchasara from the Ngara side.

Whatever's up their sleeves will be known at the conclusion of Saturday's match which starts at Sikh Union ground, which also hosted the Super League T-20 Finals last weekend.

Ngara B proceeded to Saturday's Q2 after defeating Stray Leopards Cricket Club B by five wickets at Ruaraka grounds also last weekend.

The conclusion of Division Two T20 season will also see several standout players rewarded for their exemplary performances across the board.

Ajay Hirani of Meru Cricket Club A Team currently tops the Run Scores table with 342 ahead of Navpreet Singh with 284 runs.

Lokesh Anand of Legends CC has the most wickets at the present, having managed 16 wickets in 8 innings.

The race for the Most Valuable Player is also taking shape with Navpreet Singh of Legends and Joms Joy in the lead with 44.938 and 43.166 points respectively.

The MVP is calculated and generated automatically by the CricHeroes App introduced by NPCA last year, taking into account various facets of the game like the number of wickets, batter's strike rate, bowler strike rate and fielder contribution.

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