An excellent team perfomance by Crescent CC led by Ryan Thomas’s 90 helps them clinch a win in the Summer Shield ‘18

Played at the Azad Maidan, it was a crucial clash between two promising teams namely Crescent Cricket Club and Navroz CC where in Navroz CC won the toss and elected to field first with an aim of restricting the opposition to a low total.

Crescent CC batting first managed to score a fairly decent total of 227/9 in 45overs. Left-handed opener Shreyas Pathak gave a good start opening the inning with a solid 44 while another talented southpaw Ryan Thomas played a brilliant innings of 90runs. Ryan who took only 93deliveries smashed 7fours and a six while also rotated the strike brilliantly engaging in good running between the wickets. It was on the back of promising Ryan, Crescent CC reached 227 as the rest of the batsman below him collapsed with directly no.10 Vishal Bhoir chipping in with 33*. From Navroz, Sandeep Badsiwal was the pick of the bowler taking 3/42 in 9overs.

Defending a moderate total of 227runs, Navroz cc were bundled out for 129/10 all out in 30.2overs  with Hitesh Badgujar at no.8 top scoring with a valiant 46*. The bowlers did an excellent job and especially their off-spinner Sunil Punjabi who came up with excellent bowling figures of 4/21 in 6.2 overs. It was good to see 46yr old Sunil playing with excellent spirit and passion towards the game. He who bowled in the right areas which fetched excellent results while medium pacer Vinay Singh was also quite impressive taking 3/21 in 5overs.

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