Zooter International School Dad’s Tournament witnessed a lopsided knockout match that was played between BD Smashers and AIS Spark on February 9 at RCF Sports Club, Mumbai. Winning the toss and electing to bat first, BD Smashers packed a punch by putting up a daunting 223-7 in 20 overs. Riding on opening batsman Suchit Shah’s (61 off 40; 4*7 and 6*1) fabulous batting display, BD Smashers piled up a mammoth score. With the ball for AIS Spark, Abhishek Javeri and Rajesh Saluja picked up two wickets apiece. Between the two, Saluja (2-40) was on the expensive side, whereas right arm medium pacer Javeri (2-28) was economical. Opening the bowling for AIS Spark, Abhishek tried to pitch in right line and length to tame the blitzkrieg of BD Smashers.
224 was always going to be a difficult target to chase. Opening the batting for AIS Spark, Abhishek Javeri (63 off 46; 4*3 and 6*3) was the solitary warrior as he held on to the innings till the 13th over. However against the run of play he fell to Ambish Shah (1-32). Rajesh Saluja (19), Harmeet Chawla (19 not out), and Aditya Saraf (17) got off to starts but failed to capitalize. AIS Spark was reduced to 147-7 in 20 overs, falling short of 76 runs, thanks to a disciplined bowling performance put up by BD Smashers. Nikhil Singhi was the pick of the bowlers for BD Smashers as he finished off his wonderful spell with figures of 2-17.
Abhishek Javeri was bestowed with the Man of the Match for his scintillating performance with both, bat and ball. Abhishek elucidated, “It was a good cricketing wicket. I could generate good bounce from it. The outfield was quick as well. The square boundaries were big, whereas the straight boundaries were relatively small. Running 2’s and 3’s was crucial. I enjoyed batting today. However would have liked to have the last laugh “.
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Zooter International School Dad’s Tournament saw an interesting knockout match that was played between Mount Litera and DAIS Aces on February 9 at RCF Sports Club, Mumbai. Winning the toss and electing to field first, Mount Litera bundled out DAIS Aces for 141 in 18.3 overs. Riding on Shreepad Khedekar’s (4-23 in 3.3 overs) heroic bowling performance, Mount Litera wrecked havoc. Shwetal Sakaria and Neil Dhankani bowled well in tandem scalping two wickets apiece. The right arm medium pacer Dhankani particularly was exceptional with the ball as he bowled an economic four over spell giving away just 18 runs. For DAIS Aces, Kalp Parikh (26) and Siddharth Gopalkrishnan (27) were among the top performers.
Chasing 142 on a good batting wicket, Mount Litera achieved the target in 19.1 overs, keeping three wickets in hand. First with the ball and then with the bat, Neil Dhankani was the standout performer. The right hand bat top scored with an unbeaten 61 off just 41 balls, consisting of six boundaries and two sixes. Coming in at no. 6, Neil looked in a fantastic touch and was the protagonist of Mount Litera’s win. Rabindra Jhunjhunwala was the pick of the bowlers for DAIS Aces accounting for 2-13 in four overs.
Neil Dhankani bagged the Man of the Match for his stellar performance with both, bat and ball. Dhankani expressed, “I enjoyed bowling today. My plan was simple. It was to bowl stump to stump. Early morning start helped the bowling and as the day progressed, the pitch became good to bat on. I was timing the ball well and was determined to bat aggressively to up the run rate. Iam elated to have contributed to my team’s win”.
Avinash Salvi Foundation after electing to bat first scored a very decent target of 172/1 in 20 overs which is quite defendable. Opening the innings, Abhigyan Kondu scored a swashbuckling 132* off 82 balls batting till the very end. Abhigyan thrashed the bowlers in every corner of the ground smashing 18 fours and 5 sixes at a healthy strike rate of 161.00!
Mumbai Sporting Union Thane in reply were all out for 84 runs with Vedant (3/11) and Aditya (2/5) being the pick of the bowlers.
It was a big win for Avinash Salvi Foundation by 88 runs while Abhigyan Kondu was declared ‘man of the match’
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Mumbai Sporting Union after opting to bat first were all out for 64 runs in 16.4 overs. They suffered a batting collapse thanks to a match winning bowling spell by Shardul Dalvi who came up with impressive bowling figures of 6/15 in 3.3 overs. Shardul bamboozled the batsman and took wickets at regular intervals.
Vasant Vihar High School in return chased down the score in 14.4 overs winning the match by 6 wkts where in Shardul was declared ‘man of the match’
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Santosh Sports Cricket Academy after opting to bat first scored a very healthy total of 188/3 in 20 overs. Openers Raj Patil and Shardul Khanolkar stitched an impressive opening stand of 182 runs in 115 balls. Raj scored a 54 ball 87 laced with 10 fours and 3 sixes while Shardul Khanolkar remained unbeaten till the end scoring an anchoring 88* off 66 balls (14 fours).
Thanks to some really tight bowling by the SPCA bowlers, Kalyan Sports Foundation were bundled out for 50 runs.
SPCA won the match by 138 runs while Shardul was declared ‘man of the match’ for his solid half century.
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MG Kashi University after being made to bat first at the KIIT Ground Bhubaneshwar were all out for 218/10 in 44.5 overs. Sawan Singh with 50 off 56 balls was the highest scorer while Atif Shaikh from Mumbai team was the pick of the bowlers coming up with a brilliant spell. Atif came up with envious bowling figures of 5/47 as he kept on taking wickets at regular intervals.
Mumbai University on the other hand chased down the score in just 38.4 overs winning the match by 4 wkts with Shreeraj Gharat top scoring the innings with a match winning 64* off 68 balls.
BARC Staff Club after electing to bat first at the Bharat CC ground managed to score 250/9 in 45 overs. Vikas Pol with 69 runs and Kalpesh Keni with 53 runs were the highest scorers for their team. From ICICI, Karan Sonavale, Kiran and Aniket chipped in with 2 wkts each.
ICICI Bank on the other hand were all out for 237 runs despite a brilliant fight by Karan Sonavale. Karan coming at no.4 scored a solid 87 off 93 balls (6 fours) waging a lone battle as he lacked support from the other end.
Barc Staff Club won the match by 13 runs while Karan’s all-round show did proved to be the highlight performance of the match.
RR Education batting first at Islam Gymkhana notched up a massive total of 174/2 in 15 overs vs SVIS Gorai. Palak Dharamshi with 51* was the highest scorer as she upped the run rate with his quickfire knock hitting some brilliant shots.
SVIS Gorai in reply managed to score only 74/4 in 15 overs where in Palak Dharamshi with 4/37 was the pick of the bowlers taking all the 4 wkts which SVIS lost. Palak simply owned the match with his all-round performance as RR Education won the match by 98runs.
Teleperformance after being made to bat first at the Central Maidan Thane scored 286/5 in 29 overs where in 68 runs were penalty runs awarded to Teleperformances. All the batsman from top to middle order chipped in with 40’s and 30’s while they lacked any batman crossing crossing half century.
Datamatics on the other hand managed to score 193/3 in 33 overs where in Dishan Rane opening the innings scored a brilliant 106*. Dishan remained unbeaten till the end in his run a ball ton smashing 9 fours and 3 sixes.
Teleperformances won the match by 93 runs while Dishan’s 106* remained the highlight performance of the match.
CIPLA after being put to bat first at the Kamat Ground (Dadar) managed to score 245/9 in 43.3 overs. Bipin Waghela coming at no.3 scored an aggressive 82 off 70 balls laced with 7 boundaries. Bipin brought back the positive momentum for CIPLA while also received good support from A.Patil who scored 65 runs off 63 balls (5 fours).
AIR India in reply were all out for 185 runs in 39.4 overs as CIPLA bowlers did an excellent job. A Desai with 3/30 was the pick of the bowlers while Bipin who scored 82 runs also chipped in with 2 wickets alongwith J, Mali (2/26).
CIPLA won the match by 60 runs and qualify for the semi finals of the Times Shield Tournament ‘19