The Group leaders in the points table in the four groups have started to put themselves in a comfortable position to advance to the quarter-finals stage of Houston Open T20 tournament at the end of action on the 2nd day of the competition, being played at Prairie View cricket complex in Texas.
Several USA national squad players put up their hand on the 2nd day for their respective franchises and produced match-winning performances to win the group stage matches. The likes of Monank Patel, Timil Patel and Elmore Hutchinson played leading roles for their team’s, while International stars in Rahkeem Cornwall, Basant Regmi, Rohan Mustafa, Sami Aslam and Trevon Griffith contributed majorly for their team’s overall performance in the group stage matches.
All the matches are being played simultaneously at the six ovals at the Prairie View cricket complex (PVCC), which has announced a joint-venture partnership with USA Cricket, which will see the six-field facility become a top cricket training and playing facility. Major League Cricket (MLC) and PVCC have been collaborating on the development of the facility over the past year, which recently saw the facility host USA Cricket Men’s Under 19 National Championships.
Houston Open T20 Day 2 Brief Scores
Panthers 88 all out in 17.5 overs (Sharmin Karbhari 25, Anirudh Jonnavitulla 19, Zaid llyas 4/11, Mohammad Esa 3/10, Zakiullah Sultani 1/16) lost to Virginia Wolves 89/4 in 13.3 overs (Hiram Shallow 42, Waqar Ahmed 18 n.o, Hamid Masood 2/13, Ritesh Patel 2/30) by 6 wickets
Nepali Rhinos 161/6 in 20 overs (Elmore Hutchinson 46 n.o, Rayyan Khan Pathan 27, Sushant Modani 26, Rohan Mustafa 24, Joshua Kind 2/25, Hemanth Mandle 1/24, Sidharth Trivedi 1/29) beat St. Louis Americans 47 all out in 16.2 overs (Joshua Kind 12, Basant Regmi 3/12, Karthik Gattepalli 2/12, Elmore Hutchinson 1/5, Rohan Mustafa 1/8) by 114 runs
PV Hurricanes 165 all out in 18.2 overs (Rameez Raja Jr 57, Josh Dascombe 27, Majjid Jubair 21, Willem Ludick 15, Vivek Ravichandran 3/35, Raj Rocky Nannan 2/20, Adil Bhatti 2/29) lost to NJ Blackcaps 166/3 in 18.4 overs (Trevon Griffith 95, Monank Patel 44, Josh Dascombe 1/27, Shadley van Schalkwyk 1/33) by 7 wickets
CricMax 139/6 in 20 overs (Raj Bhavsar 36 n.o, Yash Kangura 26, Dominik Rikkhi 24, Aaron Jones 21, Timil Patel 2/17, Saurabh Netravalkar 1/28) lost to LA Master Blasters 141/1 in 18.4 overs (Saideep Ganesh 91 n.o, Cody Chetty 41 n.o, Manoj Acharya 1/35) by 9 wickets
Houston Stallions 253/3 in 20 overs (Hammad Azam 82 n.o, Rahkeem Cornwall 74, Sami Aslam 53, Awais Zia 21, Sherfane Rutherford 19 n.o, Preet Shah 2/52) beat CricLanes 113/8 in 20 overs (Preet Shah 41 n.o, Harsh Ramani 39, Rahkeem Cornwall 3/7, Ali Shiekh 3/19, Muhammad Ilyas 1/13) by 140 runs
NJ Blackcaps 150/6 in 20 overs (Andre McCarthy 45, Savan Patel 27, Monank Patel 24, Karthik Gattapeli 3/20, Rohan Mustafa 2/27) lost to Nepali Rhinos 154/8 in 19.5 overs (Rohan Mustafa 48, Prithu Baskota 24, Rayyan Khan Pathan 18, Tapash Baishya 4/27, Raj Rocky Nannan 1/20) by 2 wickets
Virginia Wolves 207/5 in 20 overs (Ritwik Behra 99 n.o, Gourav Bajaj 32, Hiram Shallow 28, Babar Arshad 1/24, Haris Latif 1/34) beat Orlando Galaxy 157/9 in 20 overs (Babar Arshad 46, Nathan Stanislas 29, Shabaka Mathlin 24, Hiram Shallow 2/10, Ritwik Behra 2/16, Zakiullah Sultani 1/25, Gourav Bajaj 1/27) by 50 runs
PV Hurricanes 142/9 in 20 overs (Josh Dascombe 47, Willem Ludick 25, David White 20, Navin Stewart 3/36, Jermaine Blackwood 2/15, Shawn Findley 1/6, Nosthush Kenjige 1/9) lost to Houston Stars 146/5 in 18.2 overs (Saqlain Haider 41 n.o, Shawn Findley 27 n.o, Gajanand Singh 26, Jermaine Blackwood 23, Sanjay K 2/17, Shadley van Schalkwyk 1/23, Josh Dascombe 1/34) by 5 wickets
CricMax 184/5 in 20 overs (Dominik Rikkhi 62, Akshay Homraj 51, Aaron Jones 31, Shehan Jayasuriya 1/10, Steven Taylor 1/29, Rusty Theron 1/34) lost to SAMP Army 186/2 in 18.3 overs (Jaskaran Malhotra 72, Steven Taylor 57 n.o, Shehan Jayasuriya 32 n.o, Yasir Muhammad 1/19) by 8 wickets
