CSR vs R-Kings 3rd Match, Andhra T20 2022

That's it from today's APL match between Coastal Riders and Rayalaseema kings here at  Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. This is Saipavan Janaki taking your leave along with my fellow commentator Deepak and our Scorer/Analyst Ashok. We promise you to bring more action packed games from this competition in the coming days. Until then stay safe, happy and enjoy.

04.30 PM: Post-Match Summary: Rayalaseema Kings won this match by 28 runs.

Coastal Riders won the toss and opt to bowl first. Rayalaseema kings started innings with Abhishek reddy and Vamshi Krushna.  Abhishek Reddy and Vamsi Krishna both played well and put up a partnership of 47 runs for 1^st wicket in 6.4 overs. Rayalaseema kings scored 44 runs in the powerplay. After that Vamsi, Krishna went off at 17 runs. Shaik Rasheed joined with Reddy and built up a partnership of 64 runs for 2^nd wicket. Then Rasheed departs at 15 runs in 17 deliveries. on the other end, Abhishek Reddy plays a beautiful knock of 78 in 52 deliveries and he goes for a big one but couldn't time it well and caught at deep mid-wicket, after that, no one settled in middle, and Gontu reddy finished the innings with some boundaries and went off at 18. Rayalaseema kings scored 155 runs and lost 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Coastal Riders side, Harishankar Reddy was the pick of the bowlers for Coastal Riders he took 3 wickets and gave away 27 runs in her 4 overs. Munish Varma also bowled well and took 1 wicket. Stephen and Tapaswi finished with a one-one wicket.

In return, Coastal Riders started chasing with Gnaneshwar and Pranith, but they had a bad start with the early wicket of Gnaneshwar at 1 in the third ball of the inning. Munish Varma joined with Pranith and they put up a partnership of 34 runs for the 2^nd wicket. then Pranith hit some good shots and again he goes for big but edge and straight to the keeper. Pranith departs here at 24. Munish Varma also lost his wicket in the 5^th over at 11. Coastal Riders scored 50 runs and lost 3 wickets in the powerplay.

Lekhaz Reddy and Tapaswi, both played the spinners pretty well and they spent some time in the middle and built a partnership of 23 runs for the 4^th wicket, then Tapaswi went off at 17 in 15 deliveries, as he tries to defend but misses and hits on his pad, huge appeal from the bowling side, and the umpire raises his finger. After that, no one settled in middle. On the other end, Lekhaz Reddy played well and departed as the last wicket after scoring 44 in 37 deliveries. 

From Rayalaseema kings side, Girinath Reddy bowled well and took 2 wickets gave away 15 runs in 3 overs, alongside Jagarpudi Ram and Sudhakar finished with two-two wickets each. Santosh Kumar bit expensive but he also get 2 wickets.