VN Sule Guruji batting first at MIG Cricket Ground were all out for 118 runs in 61.5 overs thanks to a terrific spell of spin bowling by the young Shubham Kharat. Shubham who played well this season in Kanga too where players were quite senior to him brought in his club cricket experience which came in handy for his school as he bagged 6/29 in 18.5 overs. Shubham eroded the entire middle and lower middle order coming up with timely breakthroughs.
IES New English School, Bandra in reply scored 197/5 in 72 overs on the back of Anurag Nair’s 50 and opener Aditya Pabalkar’s 41. The match eventually ended in draw with IES New English School winning the match on 1st innings lead.
MILAN MEGA CORPORATE T20 LEAGUE 2019-20 – Capgemini VS Lanxess, Capegemini won the toss and elected to bat first. The match was played at Cross Maidan on 21st December. The match was organised by Milan cricket club.
Capgemini openers did a splendid job with the bat, Jitendra Panchal (79 off 62) anchored the innings diligently throughout the period and opener Jayesh played the aggressor in the partnership, scoring 57 runs in 31 balls which interestingly included 11 fours. They had an opening partnership of 100 runs and with small contributions here and there, they reached a huge score of 199 runs in 20 overs losing 6 wickets. Lanxess used 8 bowlers in their innings and that might have proved counter productive, Darshan Bange picked up 2 wickets.
Lanxess loosed wickets regularly in the middle and no batsman really put up a big buck for his wicket. The highest scorer was Ashish k who scored 29 runs. Eventually, they crumbled at a score of 107 runs in 15 overs. Capgemini’s Yogesh Chehulkar
Picked up 3 scalps for 21 runs. Pinakin,Rahul Sardar, Shivaram yadav also picked up couple of wickets each.
Result – Capegemini won the match by 92 runs.
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Mumbai, 26, December, 2019 : India’s dashing batsman Rohit Sharma, who has caught the attention of young budding cricketer with his flamboyance and explosive batting style, spent quality time interacting with young trainees at the the Rohit Sharma-CricKindom Cricket Academy, at Islam Gymkhana on Thursday afternoon.
The Mumbai-based Rohit shared his experience with the upcoming cricketers and offered them advice on different aspects of the game.
When a trainee informed him that he could not handle short-pitch bowling and was afraid of being hit, the batting genius promptly told the youngster that there was nothing to get scared about.
“If you are frightened of being hit and getting injured this game or any other sport is not ideal for you. Every cricketer, batsmen or bowlers faces injuries while playing, but you have to learn how to cope with it. Australian batsman Steve Smith was badly hurt and suffered a concussion in the Ashes series in August, but he took a break from the next Test, but came back to resume scoring heavily,” Rohit pointed out.
The dashing opener Rohit believes that there is no harm in attempting the big shots or trying to play a flamboyant cover drive. “If the guy is giving you results by playing the big shots, there is nothing wrong in that. Playing shots is not a crime, but, what we need to be careful of is, if the player is repeating the mistakes, then he needs to be told how he should go about it the next time,” Rohit stressed.
“I would encourage a batsman to play shots if they want to, but at the same time they need to understand that they need to produce results. You may score 100 off 50 balls or 200 balls, it doesn’t matter, it is still a hundred. I mean if the guy is confident in his skills, I would back that skill. There should not be any restriction on how these young players want to bat. They should be allowed to bat freely, that’s how they will produce results,” he further stated.
The Rohit Sharma-CricKingdom Cricket Academy in Mumbai currently has 110 active students training under renowned coaches and trainers.
Besides Mumbai, the academy has training programs conducted in Pune, Hubli, Chennai and Vellore with three more soon to be launched in Vizag, Surat and Bangalore early 2020 and a few more lined up in other parts of India and overseas.
Valuable Sports Club batting first at United CC wicket posted a total of 283/10 in 59.4 overs. Siddhesh Gavande (46) and Omkar Rahate provided a brilliant opening start while Omkar went on to convert his good start into a sparking 117 runs. However, batters below these two could not capitalize or else even a 350+ total was quite possible on the cards. From Naval Dockyard, Amit Kumar with 4/30 was the pick of the bowlers.
Naval Dockyard in reply gave a tough fight almost coming close towards a successful chase but fell short by just 13 runs. Opener Sachin Katkar (44), Mangesh Vaity (69) and Devidas Koli (51) ensured a tight competition however the bowlers got the better of the opposition with Prathamesh Golatkar picking up 4 timely and crucial wickets. Prathamesh with 4/42 in 16 overs was the strike bowler as Valuable SC won the game by 13 runs.
Played between Reliance Group SC and RBI SC at the Youth’s Own Union wicket at Cross Maidan, RBI Sports Club batting first posted a total of 262/10 in 58 overs. With openers Sumit Ghadigaonkar (48) and Ameya Dandekar (33) giving good starts, it was Saurabh Singh at no.6 top scoring with a crucial 81 off 68 balls laced with 9 boundaries and a six. It was an important knock which pushed the team towards a 250+ total, From Reliance, A Ayyar with 5/60 in 16 overs was the best bowler.
Defending a total of 263, it was RBI’s left arm spinner Jay Nayak coming up with a match winning spell of 5/52 in 16.3 overs which restricted Reliance to 194 runs all out. Spinner Jay has been spot on this season while he had also recently taken 3 wkts conceding just 1 run vs PJ Hindu Gymkhana in the Cosmopolitan Shield. From Reliance, Bhushan Mankar at no.7 scored 72 runs though he lacked support from the other end as RBI went on to win the quarter finals by 68 runs.
Tournament supported by IDBI Bank, LIC and Bank of India and Kalyandas Memorial Foundation
Match Report-
Police Gymkhana after being put to bat first at Shivaji Park mustered a total of 245/10 in 20 overs. With 3 down for 27 runs, they required someone at the middle order to resurrect the innings back and luckily for them it was Atif Khan and Khush Jain stitching a 74 run stand for the 5th wicket. Atif coming at no.5 scored 68 off 73 balls while Khush Jain scored an equally solid 51 off 60 deliveries to push their team towards a competitive total.
SPG’s spinner Omkar Karandikar bagged his 2nd fifer of the tournament coming up with bowling figures of 6/90 in 23.5 overs coupled with 5 maidens.
Chasing 246, Shivaji Park Gymkhana were all out for 229 runs despite the good fight given by their no.3 batsman Varun Ragji (95 off 136) and no.5 batsman Pratik Konkar who scored 55 off 207 balls. Left arm spinner Zenith Sachdev who just bagged a fifer in his previous match too in the same tournament continues to bamboozle batsman as he came up with match winning bowling figures of 5/69 in 38 overs including 12 maidens. Akash Dube with 3/71 also proved to be quite effective as Police Gymkhana won the semi finals by 16 runs in what turned out to be an exciting neck to neck encounter.
Tournament supported by IDBI Bank, LIC and Bank of India and Kalyandas Memorial Foundation
In the semifinals of U16 Sontosh Kumar Ghosh trophy played between Evergreen Sports Club and United CC. at Shivaji Park Dadar . Evergreen won the toss and elected to bat, despite the early loss of wickets Evergreen managed to put a score of 276 on the back of their captain Sumit Mishra’s brilliant 101 runs off 132 balls (18 fours).
In return, United CC could manage to score 123 runs while Sumit Mishra was declared “Man of the Match”. In this tournament, this was Sumit’s second century signaling his ominous form with the bat. In other semifinal which took place, Police Gymkhana defeated SPG to enter the finals.
Finals will be played at Shivaji Park Gymkhana on 2nd and 3rd January 2020
Body, Balance and Technique are the trio of ingredients for making a proper batsman. These are the run-of-the-mill cricketing sermons fed to us by coaches, our favorite cricketers and even commentators since we know cricket. It’s seldom we and the pundits discuss and acknowledge the importance of a player’s “arsenal”. In a batsmen dominated sport like cricket, we appreciate and research more about the man but neglect the bat that in fact greets the ball and help the batter earn accolades.
The dynamics and components of a bat are the equivalent of the batter’s bio mechanics, they combined make a ‘batsman’. A tall lanky guy would prefer a long handle with the sweet spot pulled down a bit whereas a bulky and more balanced batter would want a short handled bat, its about the preference and comfort. This beguiling fact is indeed the crux, it’s more than preference, rather its more the cog around which the aesthetics of a batter rotate. Surprisingly, in a country where every cricket lover is a self-proclaimed guru we actually lack the scientific and logical reasoning. The drive to choose the proper bat in India is inspired by the financial standard and mainly by the cricketer we admire. A talented batsman with an illiterate brain to choose the correct bat can be very critical in professional grounds.
Z bats is a brand and bat clinic where scientific analysis, algorithms and bat sensors determine the race of bats apt for a particular individual. Z bats, the brain child of Samir shah and Harshal shah was created with an endeavor to ameliorate the bat standards and the dynamics for an individual. To add experience to ideas, Mr G Ramchandran joined them as mentor who is a veteran in the domain. In an interview the founder claimed that there could be 344 different types of batters in the age of 8-80, this fact for an uninformed player would be an eye opener. Their concept is heavily backed by numerous surveys, international technical support and brilliance and mainly practical illustrations.
Their motto is “body meets balance” and reasonably it’s the perfect one because before the inception of Z bats, the two words were abstract but now they have science backing them. The colossal impact they might have in the future is inevitable because in a very silent manner, the scientific lobby is grasping the cricket domain; starting from computing graphics to video analysis etc. in addition to sponsor the technicalities of batting and bats, they also impart ways to avoid injury with body dynamics detection.
Discussing their mechanics, they have a 0 to 0 model (online to offline). It is essentially a model where online based on certain body type and measurements introduced in the website by the potential customer. 3 bats are thrown up for the customer and a specific slot is allotted to come at the offline center to evaluate the bats, then the best bat is selected based on sensor capturing the various strokes over a 60-80 session and the based on results.
The idea and the working behind Z-bats may seem very lucid and interesting but the endeavors and intelligence put forward by the trio of Sameer, Harshal and GR remains in the backdrop.
Their determination and belief towards their idea is a hallmark and an inspiration. Today, a batter can avail and grab the right bat for him at prices ranging from 3999-25000 rupees – INR. The founders have high hopes and have also laid their plans which suggests opening of 10 Z bat clinic in the next 6 months.They have truly blended their brains, passion and vision to a masterpiece of a technology that in the future would be a necessity in the cricketing world.
Brothers Club batting first at Cross Maidan posted a total of 241/9 in 44 overs. Opener Akash Suryavanshi top scored hitting a classy 82 off 93 balls (7 fours, 4 sixes) while all-rounder Rakesh Naik at the middle order scored 58 off 58 balls. From the bowlers, Padmanabhan Mudaliar with 4/41 in 9 overs was the pick of the lot.
Defending a total of 242, medium fast pacer Balwant Dodake came up with a match winning spell of 5/28 in 9 overs. Balwant was spot on with the ball providing timely breakthroughs as he plucked crucial top order wickets. Himank Gupta (61) & Akshad Redekar (85) scored fighting half centuries but that did not seem to be enough to chase down the total as Brothers Club restricted KRP XI to 206 runs all out winning the match by 36 runs.
Anjuman Islam after being put to bat first at Azad Maidan’s Parsee Cyclists wicket posted a total of 275/9 in 45 overs. Opener Abhigyan Kondu who came fresh from a very quick 175 in the Little Champs tournament smashed a brilliant 106 runs to anchor his team towards a respectable total. Apart from him, Sujit Dalvi and Nikhil Bhagat chipped in with 30’s. From the bowlers, Roshan Gupta with 3/71 was the pick of the lot.
Defending a total of 275, Oxford Public School were all out for 63 runs in 33.4 overs. Mumbai U14 Probables this year Mann Bhanushali bowled a tight spell of 3/30 in 15 overs which included 6 maidens. Mann in his previous game also bowled just a single over where he came up with two wickets for his school.
Manas Mukadam on the other hand was the pick of the bowlers for Anjuman as he bagged 4/6 in 9.5 overs including 6 maidens as both these bowlers made life difficult for the Oxford School players.
Anjuman Islam School won the match by a margin of 212 runs.