Video: Akhilesh Yadav wins nail-biting cricket match against IAS officers – man for the match for fourth time in last 4 years

The Uttar Pradesh IAS officers kept up with the cherished tradition of letting the CM’s team in the annual cricket match (video below)

March 21, 2016, NewsCrunch

Akhilesh Kumar Yadav’s team won a nail biting cricket match against IAS officers in Lucknow on Sunday.

Put to bat first his team scored 127 runs in 20 overs. Playing second, the bureaucrats fell short of the target by 1 and got out for only 126.

NDTVreports that the match was fixed to keep the CM in good humour.

Spectators were quoted saying the officers were chucking slow balls to the CM to let him hit 6s and 4s, which he did obligingly, and scored 65 runs, with 11 fours and a six, before being bowled.

The officer, who bowled the Akhilesh Yadav, was visibly appalled at what he had done. He was seen holding his head in dismay, notes NDTV.

There was more proof that the match was fixed.

In the last two overs, the IAS officers needed only three runs to level and four to win. But they managed to score only two runs.