After ruling the roost in the Ontario Masters Softball Cricket Club’s (OMSCC) Over-50 Division for the past five years, defending champions Toronto Blizzards reign came to a screeching end at the Ashtonbee Reservoir ground, Scarborough, Canada last Saturday.
Billed as a showdown between the numbers one and two teams in the division, the game lived up to expectations, with new winners Pegasus Storm holding their nerve to come out victorious with four balls to spare in the nail-biting finish.
Set 164 for victory after Toronto Blizzards reached a challenging 163 for six from their allotted 20 overs, Pegasus `stormed’ to 165 for three in 19.2 overs, sparking wild celebrations among their players and supporters. The new winners suffered an immediate setback in the second over when their captain and leading batsman, Troy Gobin, was brilliantly taken at long-on by Abdool Azzeez off the wily Jesh Parasnauth for one and the scoreboard reading one for one.