25 Jul, 2024

Eliminator report: A tough night, and sadly, that will be it for 2024

By MI New York Media
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We tried. We fought. But it just wasn’t our night. This stings, and it will for a while, but we are super proud of all the memories our boys gave us this season. Let’s recap the evening.. 

Another game vs TSK, another Rashid-Monank special

MINY didn’t get off to the best of starts, with Dewald Brevis falling in the first over, and then Nicholas Pooran departing shortly after inside the powerplay. The stars against TSK in the previous game, Monak Patel and Rashid Khan, who’d had a promotion in the batting order this time around, got together at 67/3 in the 11th over. And suddenly, just like that, from a potential 150-run target, to the eventual 163. Rashid, with another quick fifty, upped the ante after Monank fell. Oh, he just loves it here!

Faf fifty takes it away

It was simply his night. Riding his luck, with missed run-outs, edges, and pretty much everything going TSK’s way, skipper Faf du Plessis and fellow opener Devon Conway were a little too clinical, notching up a 101-run opening stand. 

Nosh gives us a glimmer of hope

Although it seemed to be quickly slipping away from us with the asking rate well under control, Nosthush Kenjige got rid of the dangerous Faf, who was the aggressor in that opening partnership, and gave all us MINY fans a slight hope of their being a twist. Alas, it wasn’t to be, with Aaron Hardie shutting the door. 

“We’ll come back stronger next season”

Kieron Pollard, although disappointed at the end with the result, backed the boys to improve and come back as upgraded versions of themselves next year. Although the result might not be what we wanted, the fight was there, and while this loss will sting, it has been a season that we will look back at with pride. 

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