All-Rounder Rakesh Naik continues his prominence in Kanga with 58 & 7wkts for Borivali CC in G Div Kanga League’19

Borivali CC after being put to bat first at MB Union, Cross Maidan managed to score a total of 162/9 dec in 61 overs. Borivali team which was struggling at one stage with 6/74 reached a respectable total thanks to their skipper Rakesh Naik scoring a 103 ball 58 at no.7 pushing the team towards a respectable total. From Shree Lad Club, Bhavik Patel with 4/72 in 22 overs was the pick of the lot.

Shree Lad Club in reply struggled a bit vs the Borivali CC bowlers as they suffered a batting collapse with team getting all out for 42 runs in 33 overs. Rakesh Naik who first rescued the team with the bat also came up with a sensational bowling spell taking 7/13 in 12.3 overs with 4 maidens. The left arm spinner made the batsman’s life miserable as he hardly gave any players the room to score runs freely. Borivali CC won the match on 1^st innings while it was essentially a one man show by the skipper Rakesh Naik leading from the front.

Probably a decade down the line, players like Rakesh Naik will be remembered as one of the prolific kanga all-Rounders of Mumbai. Since the last 3years he has been topping various charts of Kanga whether scoring the fastest hundreds to taking maximum fifers in a season to becoming one of the top wicket takers in his division. Rakesh has been impressive with his all-round consistency and it’s just a matter of time he gets opportunities at the higher levels of cricket.