3rd qualifying match of CLT20 2014 was played between Northern Knights vs Lahore Lions at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur. Northern Districts with all round performances won the match by huge margins of 72 runs. Tim Southee was man of the match for his 3 wickets of 22 runs.
Earlier Lions won the toss and put Districts into bat first. Express middle order batsmen played superb cricket and put 170 runs for Lions in 20 overs. Skipper DR Flynn and wicketkeeper BJ Watling played well and contributed 53 runs each.
Following target of 171 runs Lions top orders kees down against Districts pace attack and 9 out of 10 batsmen could not score in double figure. Only Saad Nasim played good inning of 58 runs but not enough to reach huge target of Districts. Lions all out on 98 runs and lost the match by huge margin of 72 runs.
Tim Southee declared man of the match for his superb bowling with 3 wicket in 22 runs.
Points - Northern Districts 4, Lahore Lions 0
