CITY KNIGHTS – Champion of Bengal Premier League 2018
DREAM CHASERS -
RUNNER UP - Bengal Premier League 2018
Brijesh Damani, Malkeet Singh starrer team CITY KNIGHTS has
won the 3rd edition of Bengal Premier League held at The
Silver Spring Club, Kolkata. City Knights defeated Dream
Chasers lead by Kamal Chawla and Divya Sharma 4-3 in the
scintillating decider.
Last night four teams qualified for the knockout stage where
Dream Chasers topped the points tally followed by City
Knights, Cue Magicians and Green Warrior.
For knockouts Dream Chasers played City Knights in the semi
finals and defeated them almost in one-sided affair 4-1.
Because of that lose, City Knights played one more match
against Cue Magicians who had earlier defeated Green Warrior
in another semi-final.
In that match City Knights knocked out Cue Magicians 4-2 to
get berth for final. Though Cue Magicians gave a good start
but failed to maintain that tempo and lost.
For City Knights, the start of final was not very good as
their both marquee players, Brijesh and Malkeet, lost first
two frames. However, they both controlled the situation well
and won next two Doubles frame with their partners as Wangchuk
Bhutia with Brijesh and Shyam Jagtiani with Malkeet Singh.
At level score, City Knights local flavor and former National
Champion Shyam Jagtiani took the guard and defeated Siddharth
Casyab in sixth frame keep the team’s hope alive.
In the deciding frame, Dream Chaser’s Kamal Chawla and Divya
Sharma got initial chances but they failed to convert them in
to big score. They struggled and missed the shots quite often,
which Brijesh and Malkeet capitalized and kept scoring.
The last miss by Divya on green ball was crucial as Brijesh
and Malkeet shown great potting skills and potted till the
pink to win the league.
Faisal Khan of Shooting Stars got highest break award for
scoring 99 in Singles Marquee category, Manan Chandra and
Manish Jain got highest break prize for their break of 96 in
doubles category and Shoaib Khan for his break of 64 in Local
Players category.
Shyam Jagtiani was adjudged as Player of the League.
RESULTS
DREAM CHASERS -
RUNNER UP - Bengal Premier League 2018
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