IndiaFirst Life Insurance faced Hindustan Unilever Ltd. in their 3rd League Match of The Corporate T10 Cricket Shield 2018-19 on 05-Jan-2019.
IndiaFirst won the Toss and elected to Bat first at the Dadar Parsee Colony Gymkhana Cricket Ground, Matunga, Mumbai. Openers Babli Sharma (23 in 14 Balls; two 4s & one 6) & Pushkar Sharma got their Team to a quickfire start. No. 3 Kunal Bambardekar, promoted up the order, came in and started blasting away. One huge six off pacer Varun Sabharwal towards the Covers, who had castled Babli earlier, went out of the ground off the longest part of the field. He eventually remained unbeaten on 41 scored off just 21 Balls that comprised of 4 Fours & 3 Sixes. Pushkar at the other end was blazing away and carried his Bat through the Innings scoring 66* in just 27 Balls. The knock consisted of 3 Fours and 6 nicely times Sixes.
IndiaFirst ended up scoring a mammoth 137/1 in 10 Overs.
During the Chase, Opener Mario Fernandes (16 in 6 Balls) seemed in murderous mood after hitting 2 Sixes and a Four off the first 5 Balls that he faced from Pace Bowler Dharmendra Gupta. It was a sweet revenge when the Bowler had him, while going for the kill off the last ball of the over, brilliantly caught by Pushkar who covered huge ground running from the Deep Long Off fence. The other Opener Rajesh Jadhav seemed in no different mood either, having his Team at 51/1 after 3.5 Overs after carting Pushkar for 21 in the 4th Over. The Bowler had only conceded 2 in his first Over.
Pacer Sanket Teli then came up with a superb spell of 2-0-5-1 that effectively sealed the fate of the Match, a period where he completely neutralised Rajesh, beating him completely on several occasions. The nail in the coffin was when Skipper Ajish Abdul Rehman (1-0-1-1) eventually got Rajesh (43 in 25 Balls; 4 Sixes) Caught Behind with his sheer pace. IndiaFirst Won the match by 53 Runs. Pushkar was named Man of the Match for his brilliant Innings.
With this, IndiaFirst Life Insurance tops the Pool that consisted of strong Teams (the other two being Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd. & Owens Corning India Pvt Ltd.) with all 3 Wins. They would be playing the Semis once the other League Matches are over.
Keep watching this space for more updates.
Anjuman Islam School batting first posted a 1st innings total of 249 runs at the Elg Vengsarkar Ground where in Ayush Samant was the pick of the bowlers taking 7/61. Don Bosco in reply were all out for 135 runs thanks to a magical spell of spin bowling by Abdullah Sani.
Abdullah came up with envious bowling figures of 8/41 with his wily off-spin as he kept on giving breakthroughs without allowing any batsman to settle down at the crease. Anjuman were 18/4 in their 2nd innings at the end of the game’s play where Ayush Samant took 4/4 taking his tally of wickets to 11 in the match. Anjuman Islam School the match on 1st innings lead as they qualified for the crucial semi finals.
VK Krishna Menon Academy batting first notched up 231 runs in their 1st innings where in Kavya Gori bowled a stunning spell of 6/42 in the 1st innings being the pick of the bowlers. Al-Barkaat in reply declared their innings at 352/1 thanks to their run machine Tushar Singh who slammed his 3rd consecutive hundred. Tushar scored a match winning 202* in mere 170 balls laced with 36 fours as he set the ground on fire with his attacking display of batting.
Tushar also stitched a brilliant 336 run stand with Yasin Saudagar who scored an equally impressive 120*off 181 balls. Yasin was solid giving support from the other end as Tushar tore apart the bowlers.
Vk Krishna Menon in their 2nd innings collapsed badly for just 43 runs all out in 28.2 overs as Kavya Gori came up with one of the best spells of the tournament taking 7 wkts for mere 6 runs. Kavya took a total of 13 wkts in the match as Al-Barkaat won the match outright by an innings qualifying for the semi-finals.
Rizvi after batting first at the Matunga Gymkhana Ground scored a defendable 294 runs in their 1st innings while Bombay Scottish School in reply were bundled out for 88 runs in 36.3 overs. Left-arm Spinner Nishit came up with a brilliant spell running through Bombay Scottish’s line up taking 6/16 being the pick of the bowlers for his team. It was on the back of his match winning bowling performance Bombay Scottish received a follow on where they were again 89/9 in 62.2 overs before the end of the game’s play. Nishit took another 3/25 in 2nd innings taking his tally in the match to 9/41 as Rizvi won the match in a commanding manner on 1st innings lead.
With this win, Rizvi has qualified for the semi finals of the Giles Shield where in they will clash with Anjuman Islam at the Matunga Gymkhana Ground while Al Barkaat will take on IES VN Sule at Cross Maidan for two interesting semi-finals on January 17-18 2019.
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Into the all important finals of the Masters Cup Tournament, SVIS and Santosh Sports Cricket Academy took on each other with SPCA A winning the toss and electing to bat first notching up 199/5 in 20 overs. Shardul Khanolkar opening the innings scored a brilliant 82* off 83 balls while Abhigyan Kundu went on to score a swashbuckling 62 ball 99*(12 fours, 3 sixes). Abhgyan batted till the end keeping the scoreboard ticking falling just one run short of a very deserving ton.
SVIS in reply managed only 162/6 in 25 overs with SPCA bowlers doing an impressive job. Santosh Sports Cricket Academy A won the finals and win the U10 Masters Tournament with dominance. Borivali Chief Guest Commissioner of Income Tax Mr.Bharat Nayak, Mr.Dinesh Lad Coach of Indian Cricketer Rohit Sharma, Mrs.Geeta Dutt Madam along with Director of Verna group of industries Mr.Gurucharan Verma and Vinay Verma were the Guest of Honors for the finals.
Played between Tarapur Vidyamandir Dahisar and Dr. MG Parulekar School at the Sainath Ground, Virar, Tarapur Vidyamandir won the toss and elected to bat first.
However, their decision to bat 1st seemed to have fallen flat as they suffered a batting collapse getting all out for 132 runs in 28.1 overs. Off-Spinner Adwait Palsule who had taken 6/33 in his previous outing vs Holy Cross School continued to impress with the ball taking 4/31 in 8 overs while Aryan Sharma bagging 3 wkts.
Tarapur Vidyamandir could have been all out under 100 runs had it not been their in-form opener Prateek Yadav doing the rescue act. Prateek scored a match winning 85 off 134 balls (11 fours) at a time when no player from his team managed to score in double digits. Tarapur Vidyamandir eventually crossed the victory line winning the match by 2 wkts in a thriller of a match.
Prateek on the other hand has displayed amazing form scoring 76, 88, 51, 42, 54 in semis while chasing & a memorable 85 in the finals amassing 396 runs in 6 matches.
Tvacha electing to bat first at Belapur Sports Association notched up a massive total of 217/4 in 20 overs. Aggressive opener Ganesh Samant displayed impressive power hitting scoring 99 off 46 balls laced with 11 fours and 6 biggies at a strike rate of 215.22 falling just a run short of what could have been a very deserving ton. Sameer Shaikh coming at no.6 gave the finishing touch smashing one of the quickest fifties of the tournament smashing 54* off mere 18 balls (5 fours, 4 sixes).
Worli in reply managed 95/9 in 20 overs with Amir Khan and Fahad Jajral coming up with brilliant spells. Amir took 3/12 in 4 overs while Fahad took 2 wkts with just 6 runs in 4 overs as they helped Tvacha win by 122 runs
IDBI Federal after electing to bat first at Dadar Union Ground notched up a very heavy total of 204/5 in 20 overs. Opening the innings, Vicky Patil simply entertained the spectators with his blazing batting as he went on to score 133* off mere 65 deliveries. Vicky single handedly changed the game smashing 14 fours and 6 sixes at a healthy strike rate of 204.55 as he brought his team into a commanding position.
CSPL chasing 205 did gave a tough fight with Priyank and Danish scoring quick half centuries but they eventually fell short by 11runs managing 193/9 in 20 overs where in Vicky was the best bowler too taking 3/24 in 4 overs.
IDBI won the match by 11 runs and Vicky Patil was declared ‘man of the match’
Zooter International School Dad’s Tournament featured AIS Spark and JNS Jaguars locking horns against each other on Sunday at Air India Sports Club, Mumbai. Winning the toss and electing to bat first, AIS Spark had a horrific start to their innings as they lost their first three wickets inside three overs. The opening pair of Vikesh Bhutani and Suneer Kotian made their way back to the dressing room without troubling the scorers. In the middle order, Aditya Jain (26) and Abhishek Javeri (34) tried to consolidate and helped their side put up a decent score on the board. AIS Spark scored 120-9 in 20 overs. JNS Jaguars’s opening bowler Rohit Saraf was the wrecker-in-chief as he scalped 4-6 in his four overs. The right arm medium fast bowler was sharp, accurate, and yielded rich dividends for his stellar effort.
In reply, JNS Jaguars chased down the target quite comfortably as they scored 121-4 in just 12.3 overs, winning the match by six wickets. Atul Ganeriwal (23) and Pratik Chitalia (19) provided a solid start to the chase, and ensured that there was no trouble for the batsmen to follow. Coming in at no. 5, Hemal Chitalia played a delightful innings of 47 that came off just 29 balls. Hemal’s unbeaten knock comprised of seven boundaries and a six. For AIS Spark, Rajesh Saluja was the pick of the bowlers accounting for 2-25 in his four overs. Aazaz Khan and Viswamitra Hariharan bagged a wicket each.
For his splendid bowling performance, JNS Jaguars’ Rohit Saraf was presented with the Man of the Match. Rohit averred, “I am happy with my today’s performance. In the first half an hour of the game, the wicket was very good to bowl on. I extracted good pace and bounce from the wicket. The fielders supported me with their electrifying effort on the ground. It was a marvelous experience playing at Air India Sports Club. Many thanks to Zooter for organizing such a wonderful tournament”.
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Skipper Parag Khanapurkar confidently elected to bowl first to put the powerful DY Patil under pressure at the MIG Ground and his decision ticked off successfully too. DY Patil who have a very dangerous batting line up full of hard hitters and consistent batsman choked up in the crucial finals getting all out for 132 runs in 19.5 overs. Left-arm fast bowler Royston Dias rose to the occasion coming up with a beautiful spell of 4/27 in 3.5 overs while Atif and Shardul coming up with 2 wkts each.
Payyade SC in reply chased down the score thanks to their solid in-form opener Akhil Herwadkar scoring back to back fifties. Akhil scored 65 off 47 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes while the rest of the batsman batted around him as Payyade won the match by 5 wkts and 1.3 overs to spare.
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