National Cricket Club opting to bat first at DPC Matunga Ground in Mumbai seem to be in a commanding position on Day 1 courtesy heroics by Sumeet Dhekale who produced a magnificent innings coming at no.9. The top and middle order consisting of opener Piyush Sohane (45 runs), Swapnil Pradhan (45 runs) and Vedant Murkar (45 runs) contributed with crucial cameos but it was their surprise package at no.9 which raised the eyerbrows DPC Sports Club bowlers.
Sumeet went on to score a brilliant 100 in mere 45 balls and he continued his onslaught scoring overall 143 runs in mere 68 balls which consisted 12 fours and 11 sixes covering almost every corner of the ground. National CC scored a total of 309/10 in 52.1 overs while DPC has batted only one over at the end of the game’s play.
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Rohit Singh Sisodia, a n impactful bowler takes his team Holyhans Wellness to victory against the Choudhary Group in the Talent Premier League 2022 and the losing team selected to field as they triumph in the toss. The Holyhans Wellness group scored 172 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 25 overs with Shahrukh Khan and Vinod Rebari scoring 58 and 30 runs respectively for their team!
As the Choudhary Group came out to bat, they had started to pressurize their opponents as their best batsman Sattar Khan who was standing on the field till the end scored a massive total of 104 runs out of the 165 runs scored by them in 20 overs! It was only when Rohit Singh Sisodia came to bowl, he took 6 wickets in only 4 overs giving 25 runs resulting in an economy of 5.56 runs! Two other bowlers including Vinod Rebari and Shahrukh Khan took 2 wickets each for their team resulting in the loss of Chaudhary Group!
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On April 10, SKCC took on Umelmaan Cricket Club at Vasai during the late Dayanand Mhapankar Smruti Chashak. This is an MCA affiliated cricket tournament.
Batting first, SKCC posted a respectable score of 7-147 in 20 overs. Middle order batter Adarsh Singh top scored with a useful 34. Early in the day, the opening pair of Ayush Vartak (20) and Kshitij Terwankar (16) provided a steady start. The duo put together 41 runs for the first wicket. On the other hand, for Umelmaan Cricket Club, Kanak Kini was the pick of the bowlers. Kini scalped 3-26 in four overs.
In reply, Umelmaan Cricket Club fought hard as they piled up 132 runs. However they were bowled out to lose the match by 15 runs. Opening batter Dhruv Brid’s 48 and middle order batter Siddhesh Gharat’s 56 went in vain as the rest of the batters failed to contribute. For SKCC, Ayush Vartak starred with the ball as he picked up 4-27 in four overs. Vartak opened the bowling with Prasad Patil and bowled well with the new ball.
Ayush Vartak was the top performer of the match. Vartak powered SKCC to a 15-run win over Umelmaan Cricket Club in the late Dayanand Mhapankar Smruti Chashak, an MCA affiliated cricket tournament.
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On April 3, SKCC locked horns against Sportsmen Cricket Club at Vasai during the late Dayanand Mhapankar Smruti Chashak. This is an MCA affiliated cricket tournament.
Batting first, SKCC posted a competitive score of 3-187 in 20 overs. Opening batter Ayush Vartak top scored with a brilliant 92. Vartak set the tone with his clean hitting and was well supported by his opening partner Kshitij Terwankar (37). The duo put together 72 runs for the first wicket. On the other hand, Sportsmen Cricket Club had an ordinary outing with the ball as they had no answers to the questions posed by SKCC.
In reply, Sportsmen Cricket Club scored 134 as they were bundled out, losing the match by 53 runs. Adarsh Singh wreaked havoc with the ball as he scalped 4-18 in his four overs. Pratik Patil chipped in with 2-5 in two overs, while Hitesh Chorge and Vismit Raut accounted for one wicket each. Opening batter Vivek Pandey top scored with 44 runs however he kept losing partners at regular intervals.
SKCC registered a 53-run win over Sportsmen Cricket Club in the late Dayanand Mhapankar Smruti Chashak, an MCA affiliated cricket tournament.
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C & D Division
Bohra Cricketers batting first were least aware on what was about to hit them as they were bundled out for 49 runs in 12.2 overs. It was a huge batting collapse from Bohra Team with only one player i.e their opener managing to score in double digits. Left-arm Spinner Yash Chavan was simply exceptional with the ball as he returned with amazing bowling figures of 5/6 in 3.2 overs including a maiden. Spinner Bharat Patil also bowled well taking 3 wkts for 11 runs in his spell of 3 overs.
Chasing 50 runs was a mere formality for Sainath Team as they finished off the match in the 13th over winning the finals by 8 wkts. Shikhar Thakur at no.4 remained unbeaten on 25* off 23 balls.
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Mumbai: The Oriental Insurance Sports Club will be organizing the 10th Insurance Shield T20 Inter-Office Cricket Tournament, under the aegis of MCA (Mumbai Cricket Association) starting from April 19, 2022.
Jitendra Ingle, Joint Secretary of Oriental Insurance Sports Club in a media release mentioned that a total of 20 Senior (Plate Group) and Junior (Elite Group) office teams will be participating in this tournament, which will be played on a league-cum-knockout basis.
“In the Plate Group only players employed with the particular office will be eligible to represent their respective teams. The main intention of organising the Elite Group is to motivate office clubs to provide a platform to young talented players of Mumbai. The offices have the liberty to select upcoming talented players, either through scholarships or on a contractual basis to represent their respective office teams,” explained Ingle, who is the Chairman of MCA Office Clubs Sub-Committee..
All the Matches will be played as per the New Model Rules of the Mumbai Cricket Association.
Mumbai: Leading by example, Captain Jemimah Rodrigues batted confidently and scored 80 runs and Simran Shaikh contributed an unbeaten 61 runs, which helped Team Red record a commanding 108-run victory against Team Pink in a semi-final match of the Women’s T20 Cricket Tournament 2021-2022, organised by Victory Cricket Club in association with Pulse Sports Events Entertainment and Eagle Thane Strikers, and played at the Mumbai Police Gymkhana ground.
Jemimah decision to bat first proved beneficial as Team Red dominated the rival bowlers and amassed a huge total of 200 for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Aachal Valanju 24 runs and Janhvi Kate 22 runs made useful contribution to the total. Team Pink batters failed to rise to the challenge were restricted to 92 for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Tanisha Gaikwad was the lone batswoman who managed to score an unbeaten 31 runs.
In the first semi-final, Team Purple’s Jeeya Mandrawadkar bowled well to claim 3 wickets for 8 runs to restrict Team Purple to a low total of 93 runs for 4 wickets. In reply, Team Purple riding on Manali Dakshini 31 runs and Siddheshwari Pagdhare 23 runs comfortable reached 93 for 4 wickets to complete an easy win and set up an interesting clash with Team Red in the final.
Brief scores: Team Orange: 92 for 7 wickets, 20 overs (Sayali Satghare 39; Jeeya Mandrawadkar 3/8) lost to Team Purple: 93 for 4 wickets, 17.3 overs (Manali Dakshini 31, Siddheshwari Pagdhare 23; Sayali Satghare 3/18). Result: Team Purple won by 6 wickets.
Team Red: 200 for 5 wickets, 20 overs (Jemimah Rodrigues 80, Simran Shaikh 61*, Aachal Valanju 24, Janhvi Kate 22) beat Team Pink: 92 for 7 wickets, 20 overs (Tanisha Gaikwad 31*). Result: Team Red won by 108 runs.
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Mumbai: Amit Sharma was in great batting form and smashed a 99-ball 106 runs (10x4s, 5x6s) and brilliant bowling performance from Deven Shah 6 for 20 runs were the highlights of Shivaji Park Youngstars (SPY) CC’s huge 213-run victory against Mazagon Sports Club in a Group-H match of the MCA Under-19 Cricket Tournament 2021-22, organized by Mangrol Sports Club in association with Pulse Sports Events Entertainment and played at the M.B. Union ground, Cross Maidan.
SPY batting first piled up a challenging score of 272 runs for 4 wickets in 40 overs. Besides Amit’s heroics, Deepak Verma made an unbeaten 64 runs and Tanishq Panikeveetil scored 54 runs to boost the SPY innings. The Mazagon SC batsmen struggled against the disciplined SPY bowlers and were bowled out cheaply for just 59 runs in 15.2 overs. Vishal Prasad 3 for 31 played a good supporting role. The pick of the lot was Devam Shah who returned with stunning bowling figures of 6/20 in 7 overs in 7.2 overs. Devam provided timely breakthroughs not allowing the opposition team to settle.
In another match, Bombay Gymkhana defeated Crescent Cricket Club by 5 wickets and Apollo CC did well to defeat Young Mohammedan CC by a narrow 3 runs.
Meanwhile, Shivaji Park Gymkhana also enjoyed a successful day defeating Victory CC by a comfortable Victory Cricket Club by a fluent 7 wickets and John Bright Cricket Club also succeeded in managing to pull off a close 21-run win against Regal Sports Club in another well-contested encounter.
Brief scores: Dadar Union SC: 146 all out, 36 overs (Ayush Vartak 61; Vedant Patil 4/26) beat Crescent CC, Andheri: 130 all out, 33.2 overs (Madhusudan Odhekar 46; Vedant Haridas 3/11, Rahul Kankarwal 3/24, Ayush Vartak 2/39). Result: Dadar Union SC won by 16 runs.
Apollo CC: 246 all out, 40 overs (Devansh Kaj 67, Ryan Castelino 60, Sarvesh Nerulkar 36; Yusuf Wadiwala 3/29, Bhuvan Patil 2/2) beat Young Mohammedan CC: 243 for 9 wickets, 40 overs (Atif Khan 60, Manav Khuman 36; Prasanna Shukla 2/35, Ryan Castelino 2/41). Result: Apollo CC won by 3 runs.
Payyade Sports Club: 189 for 9 wickets, 40 overs (Roneet Thakur 78*; Vedant Ghadi 4/39, Azim Shaikh 2/31) lost to Fort Vijay CC: 190 for 6 wickets, 38.5 overs (Husain Shaikh 77*, Perminder Singh 31; Sarthak Bafna 2/20, Sidhant More 2/28). Result: Fort Vijay CC won by 4 wkts.
John Bright Cricket Club: 231 for 9 wickets, 39 overs (Prem Lingre 68, Meet Jain 62, Shubham Mestry 31; Manas Mukadam 2/31, Chinmay Patil 2/35) beat Regal SC: 210 all out, 35.3 overs (Chinmay Patil 59, Pratham Pawar 39; Shubham Mestry 3/26, Moin Khan 2/35). Result: John Bright CC won by 21 runs.
Victory CC: 132 all out, 40 overs (Prateek Yadav 29; Aurojyti Biswal 4/25, Pallav Dandekar 3/34, Omkar Karandikar 2/17) lost to Shivaji Park Gymkhana: 135 for 3 wickets, 35 overs (Atharva Ghosalkar 44, Nilay Pawar 34). Result: Shivaji Park Gymkhana won by 7 wickets.
Shantibai Memorial CC: 89 all out, 24.5 overs (Shakib Shaikh 3/22, Jaykumar Prajapati 3/27, Soumil Mhatre 3/30) lost to Sind SC: 91 for 6 wickets, 32.3 overs (Chirag Dathia 27; Kunal Vatari 3/17). Result: Sind SC won by 4 wickets.
Dr. D.Y. Patil SA: 146 all out, 36.5 overs (Atharva Pisal 59, Tanish Shetty 31; Abhiyanshu Jha 3/17, Yash Tarfe 2/22, Vansh Akbari 2/24) lost to Parkophene Cricketers: 149 for 7 wickets, 34.5 overs (Kesar Upadhyay 33; Sidhhant Gadhave 3/30). Result: Parkophene Cricketers won by 3 wickets.
Shivaji Park Youngstar CC: 272 for 4 wickets, 40 overs (Amit Sharma 106 (99-balls, 10x4s, 5x6s), Deepak Verma 64*, Tanishq Panikeveetil 54) beat Mazgaon SC: 59 all out, 15.2 overs (Deven Shah 6/20, Vishal Prasad 3/31). Result: Shivaji Park Youngstar CC won by 213 runs.
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Left-arm Spinner Nishit Bhalla displays an impressive bowling performance. Parsee Gymkhana who won the toss and elected to field first got into a commanding position courtesy Nishit who took 5 wickets in 5 overs, putting a halt to Mangrol Cricket Club’s innings to restrict them to only 71 runs in 20 overs in the quarter finals of U-19 Mangrol Invitation tournament! The only player to score the highest was Parshad Bhodke smashing 44 runs from the losing team.
Nishit Balla showed impressive bowling skills as he provided timely breakthroughs including a game changing hat-trick to his name. Nishit was also assisted by Hardik Yadav who took 3 wickets in 3 overs! The modest total of 71 was chased down by Parsee Gymkhana in mere 7 overs at the loss of only one wicket, Tanmay Buram and Nutan Goel contributed 10 and 59 runs respectively as Parsee Gym clinched a dominating victory!
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A Triple Hundred on a Ranji Debut ! Looks like a fairy tale beginning to a cricket career, isn’it it? But in most of the cases there lyes an underlying success story of hardwork and struggles before one attains that fairytale moment!
“Where there is no struggle, there’s no chance of success.” Sakibul Gani, a boy from Motihari district of Bihar, son of a farmer whose family was fighting with economic issues climbs up his way all throughout to the Bihar Ranji Team where he scored a triple century against Mizoram! The game of cricket employs bats which have price range between Rs 30,000 to 35,000 and his family like other middle class families was unable to afford it, but as they say “when the family is supportive, there’s not much that a person cannot do “ and so was the case with Gani as his mother always used to mortgage her jewellery to ensure Sakibul’s requirements are fullfilled & money does not ever come in between her son’s dreams!
There were times when his father also had to mortgage their fields in order to provide their son with the best cricketing facilities! The place and the conditions they were living in was not adequate for Sakibul to practice and reach higher levels of the game and so they decided to send him to Delhi. However, that plan was also dropped due to financial crisis. However, a turf pitch was made near the house so as to let the young lad practice more effectively!
Sakibul did not have any proper coaching facilities, but was guided at every stage of his life by his elder brother Faisal Gani who also plays division level cricket. Faisal helped his younger brother to learn more of the skills and techniques! Sakibul Gani dedicated all his success to his elder brother who guided him and assisted when required. Gani after being a part of Bihar Under-23, Mushtaq Ali (20-20) cricket tournament and Vijay Hazare (50-50) trophy and now finally Ranji Trophy where he caught the attention of the masses by scoring a triple century on Ranji Debut scoring 341 runs in his very 1st match & creating a world record! Sakibul now aims to play in the Indian Premier League tournament and also is the biggest fan of the Indian legend Virendr Sehwag!
Sakibul’s story is certainly an inspiration for aspiring cricketers and youngsters to follow their dreams. Here’s wishing Sakibul all the luck for a great cricketing career ahead
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