Shivamogga Lions vs Bengaluru Blasters, the rain-infected 9th match of the ongoing KSCA’s Maharaja T20 Trophy 2025, has ended with the Blasters securing a comfortable victory by 8 wickets, proving our prediction right. Due to the rain, the game was reduced to 6 overs per side. Thanks to the amazing bowling performance from captain Shubhang Hegde and Mohsin Khan, Blasters gets their second victory of the season in four matches. On the other hand, Shivamogga Lions lost their third match in a row. Check out the Shivamogga Lions vs Bengaluru Blasters highlights.
Shivamogga Lions vs Bengaluru Blasters highlights
Bengaluru Blasters captain Shubhang Hegde won the toss in the 9th match and elected to bowl first against Shivamogga Lions in a reduced game of 6 overs per side.
Shivamogga Lions Playing XI: Nihal Ullal (c & wk), Dhruv Prabhakar, Rohit Kumar K, Aneeshwar Gautam, Aniruddha Joshi, Avinash D, Hardik Raj, Tushar Singh, MB Darshan, Vasuki Koushik, Vidhwath Kaverappa
Bengaluru Blasters Playing XI: Rohan Patil, Mayank Agarwal, LR Chethan, Shubhang Hegde (c), Suraj Ahuja (wk), Siddharth Akhil, Naveen MG, Rohan Naveen, Mohsin Khan, Prateek Jain, Vidyadhar Patil
Aneeshwar Gautam and captain Nihal Ullal come out to open for Shivamogga Lions. However, the opposition captain Shubhang Hegde strikes early to send Gautam back to the pavilion on 1 run off 5 balls.
After failing in the first two games, Nihal finally comes back to form in an important game by scoring 31 runs off 12 balls, including 3 fours and 3 sixes. However, the middle order fails, but thanks to MB Darshan’s finishing touches, the Lions scored 62 runs in 6 overs with the loss of 6 wickets. MB Darshan scored an unbeaten 14 runs off 5 balls, including two important sixes. Hegde took 3 wickets, while Mohsin Khan got 2.
While chasing the target of 63 in 6 overs, Bengaluru Blasters openers LR Chethan and Rohan Patil started well with some boundaries. However, Anand Doddamani dismissed Rohan on 12, and V. Koushik got Chethan on 16. The next batters, Mayank Agarwal and Shubhang Hegde, continued the attack, and in the end, Bengaluru Blasters won the match comfortably by 8 wickets with 1.4 overs remaining. Mayank scored unbeaten 18 runs off 10 balls and Hegde also remains not out on 14 runs off 4 balls.
