It was the all important finals at the Sainath Sports Club where in National School Girls and St.Xaviers took on each other with NHS winning the toss and opting to bat first.
National High School girls made 136/10 in 19.2 overs with their openers Sara Sampat and Prapti Nibde scoring crucial cameos of 38 & 30 runs. Medium pacer Jayshree Bhutiya was the pick of the bowler taking 4 wkts for 60 runs in 10 overs.
St.Xaviers were made to face some really tight bowling as NHS girls successfully defended a low total restricting the opposition to 114/6 in 20 overs. Left-arm bowler Vedashi Patil was simply spot on with the ball coming up with a match winning spell of 4/44 in 10 overs.
National School girls won the finals and win the prestigious tournament for their school on the back of great team performance. Even in the Semi-finals, National School Girls created history by scoring 224 runs for no loss in 20 overs against John Cannon School. Opening pair made an unbeaten partnership of 224 runs where in Prapti Nibade scored 89*& Sara Samant 77*.
Way to go for the girls as Women’s Cricket keeps on growing leaps and bounds.
RIAMS after opting to bat first Chereshwar Club Trombay notched up a very healthy total of 188/5 in 20 overs. All the batsman from RIAMS gave starts and quick cameos which took them to a defendable total.
VK Architects in reply were all out for 148/10 in 17.4 overs, thanks to some wonderful bowling by Huzefa Mehsaniya. Huzefa took 5/25 in 3.4 overs which are anyday commendable bowling figures in the 20 format as he was spot on with is line and length giving timely breakthroughs. Rehan Khan with 4/26 was equally impressive for RIAMS as they won the match by 40 runs where in Huzefa was declared ‘man of the match’
SVIS Borivali has truly been one school which can be called as the temple of cricket. Suved Parkar, Ayush Jethwa, Siddhesh Lad, Rohit Sharma, Shardul Thakkur, Harmeet Singh and so many more names often do the rounds in the cricketing world who have been products of SVIS School. One more boy who has achieved impressive bowling figures from SVIS is Karan Patole with a 9 wkt haul vs St.Anne’s.
St.Anne’s after electing to bat first at the Khar Gymkhana Ground were all out for mere 67 runs thanks to a stunning spell by Karan coming up with envious bowling figures of 9/39 in 7 overs with 2 maidens. Karan remained just a wicket away from the elite record of taking all 10 wkts in an innings as he completely dismantled St.Anne’s batting line up with perfect line and length.
It was a mere formality for SVIS to chase down the paltry score of 67 as their openers did the job with ease as SVIS Borivali won the match by 10 wkts with Karan surely standing out with his impressive bowling performance.
Played between IES VN Sule and Bombay Scottish School at the Islam Gymkhana Ground, IES VN Sule opted to bat first winning the toss and went on to score a big total of 363/3 in their 1st innings. Tanay Khandeshi scored a magnificent 163* smashing 16 fours and 2 sixes as he continues to be one consistent batsman for IES VN Sule. Shubham Shinde who is another in form player of along with Raj chipped in with 103 and 64 runs respectively as IES were in a commanding position.
Bombay Scottish School were bundled out for 192 runs and the one boy who won the hearts of many was Aditya Giri. Aditya reminded everyone of Dravid and Puajra as he single handedly fought alone to score 152* out of the team total of 192 runs. Aditya Giri who had taken 6/23 just some time ago in Giles now impressed everyone with the bat. Parth Ankolekar was the pick of the bowlers taking 5/50. Bombay Scottish recivieving a follow on were 10/8 with Tanay Khandeshi taking 4 wkts in the 3rd innings taking his tally of wkts to 5 in the match.
IES VN Sule won the match on 1st innings lead and Tanay Khandeshi, Aditya Giri and Shubham Shinde stood out with their individual performances.
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Just fresh from a 53 ball 92 in the Dreamz T20 Trophy for RBL vs HP Enterprises in the last weekend, opener Ravi Parmar seems to be on a roll with his aggressive batting at the top of the order.
RBL after being put to bat first by Mahindra at Cross Maidan were least affected to bat first as they batted very strongly posting a huge total of 251/3 in 20 overs. The bowlers apart from being haywire with their ling & length also conceded 30 extras which resulted in a huge total for RBL. Ravi Parmar opening the innings scored half of the team runs as he went on to score a brilliant 56 ball 119 laced with 17 bounadries and a strike rate of 200+. Pranesh who came at no.3 also scored a crucial 35 ball 71 which further accelerated RBL’s run rate.
Mahindra in reply were all out for 85 runs thanks to some brilliant bowling by Jigar, Ronesh and Ashwin as RBL won the match by 168 runs while Ravi Parmar was declared ‘man of the match’
Titans after electing to bat first at Western Railway Ground could not muster a big total on the board managing 140/7 in 20 overs. Star India bowlers did a good job bowling on point with a control on their economy rate.
Chasing 141, opener Mandar Todankar just made it look so easy finishing off the match for Star India in just 16 overs. The aggressive opener smashed 100 runs off mere 47 balls laced with 14 fours and 5 sixes as the match simply slipped out of Titans in a matter of few lusty blows by Mandar who played at a strike rate of 212.77
Star India won the match by 7 wkts and Mandar was rightly declared ‘man of the match’ for his ravishing 100 runs.
Played at the New Era Cricket Ground, Azad Maidan, Omni Global took full advantage after winning the toss and opting to bat first as they simply enjoyed hitting on the New Era Ground.
Openers Rounak Kulkarni and Vishal Pendurkar gave a flying start of a mammoth 187runs in mere 14 overs which simply took the game away from the opposition. Rounak played the supporting role to Vishal scoring 37 Ball 52 laced with 8 fours while Vishal Pendukar who is known to be an aggressive batsman played at a strike rate of 231 smashing 18 fours and 5 sixes as he scored 118 off mere 51 deliveries. Vishal plonked the bowlers with disdain as Omni Global reached a big total of 243/6 in 20 overs.
Future Generali in reply were bundled out for mere 58 runs thanks to a stunner of a bowling spell by Sanjay Dalvi who took 5/7 in 4 overs with 2 maidens. Bowling figures like this are not only commendable and difficult but they are also rare to see in the T20 Format. Sanjay ripped apart FGEN’s batting line up as Omni Global won the match by 185 runs where in Vishal was declared ‘man of the match”
It was Day 1 of the prestigious and highly competitive Progressive Cup 2019 organised by Cricket Club of Dombivali (CCD). IndiaFirst Life Insurance was pitted against CCD Blasters at the Sonale Cricket Ground, Bhiwandi, Kalyan on the 5th of January 2019. Blasters is one of the 3 Teams from CCD participating in the T20 Tournament. With 4 Teams each in 3 Pools, the Top 4 Teams based on a single Points Table (for the 12 Teams) would move on to the Qualifier/Eliminator Rounds à la the IPL.
IndiaFirst Life won the Toss and elected to Bat on a Pitch that looked hard and was devoid of any grass. The first Ball lofted Boundary by Skipper Ajish Abdul Rehman to the Covers fence was a sign of things to come. The second Over saw a sequence of 6, 4, 4, 4, launching IndiaFirst onto a rousing start. Though the other Opener Pushkar Sharma got out for 7 after the Score was 37/0 in 2.5 Overs, Vice Captain Ramana Meesala (20 off 12 Balls, 4 Fours) put on a Partnership of 53 with his Skipper. Akhtar Shaikh scored a quickfire 36 in 18 Balls with 4 Fours and a Six to put together 54 Runs with Ajish before getting out Lbw. All the while Ajish was blazing his way through with some exquisite Shots. Eventually he got out after scoring 82 off just 44 Balls that consisted of as many as 14 Boundaries along with a Six.
IndiaFirst’s Run Rate was around 11 per Over throughout. But the last 16 Balls saw a Partnership of 60 Runs from Babli Sharma (25 in 13; 2 4s, 2 6s) and Wasim Sayyed (29 in 8; 2 4s, 3 6s), before the Innings was inexplicably declared closed by the Umpires as Blasters could only complete 17 Overs in the stipulated time. IndiaFirst finished at 215/4 in 17 Overs, looking good to score at least 270 had the full quota been completed. The 17th Over had yielded 35 Runs. Between all the carnage, Sunil Mane (3-1-20-1) bowled really well. Though Swapnil Patil took 2 Wickets, he went for 57 Runs in his 3 Overs.
In reply, needing almost 12.7 Runs per Over, Blasters were never in the game after being 11/4 in 4.2 Overs and 37/6 in 8.5. No. 8 Vaibhav J played a lone hand, being unbeaten on 53 from 33 Balls that consisted 8 Fours and 2 Sixes, while the IndiaFirst Skipper tried out his non-regular Bowlers in the latter half. Nitin J (18) and Prasad Surve (17) provided some resistance.
Pacer Dharmendra Gupta was the pick of the Bowlers with a spell of 4-1-13-2 with twice rattling the Stumps. A bullet throw by him from the deep got Prasad Run Out with a Direct Hit. The other Opening Swing Bowler Imtiyaz Khan also bowled well taking 2 for 14 in 3 Overs. Medium Pacer Sandeep Shetty also took 2 Wickets for 21 Runs in 3 Overs. Wicket-keeper Babli bowled tidily for a short spell of 2-0-11-1. Finally, Blasters ended up with 113/9 in 17 Overs, thus losing by a high margin of 102 Runs to IndiaFirst Life. Their Innings consisted of 4 Ducks. Ajish was adjudged Man of the Match for his superb Innings.
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Western Railway Accounts Team after electing to bat first at Cross Maidan suffered a batting collapse getting all out for 151/10 in 42.3 overs. The bowlers did an impressive job with as many as 4 bowlers chipping in with 2 wkts each.
On the other hand, DTDC despite losing openers early won the match chasing it down successfully with the help of Yogesh Poojari and Sushant Kadam. Both the batsman- Yogesh 50* (8 fours) and Sushant Kadam 58* (8 fours) batted confidently as they anchored their team to a commanding win.
Played at the Shivaji Park, Dadar between Oxford Public School and Don Bosco, Don Bosco won the toss and opted to bat first with an aim of making a big total.
However, little did they knew about the bowling havoc they will have to face as they were all out for 81 runs in 36 overs. The pick of the bowler was Mayuresh Shelar tormenting the batsman with his impressive line and length as he came up with envious bowling figures of 5/16 in 13 overs with 6 maidens. Mayuresh was simply accurate with the ball not allowing the batsman to open their arms while the rest of the bowlers chipped in with a wicket each.
Chasing 82 was a mere formality for Oxford School as they chased down the score in 18 overs winning the match by 7 wkts with Harsh Aade remaining unbeaten on 40*