Mumbai after being put to bat first gave a really strong batting performance declaring their innings on 517/6 in 115 overs. Bhupen who opened the innings continued his regal form this season smashing 7th ton in last 3 months. Bhupen laid the foundation for the innings smashing 167 off 268 balls (23 fours, 1 six) while also stitched a brilliant 240 run stand with Hardik Tamore who also scored a solid 109 (183 balls). Arman Jaffer (87), Shams Mulani (67) and Siddarth Akre (87) chipped in with impressive half centuries at the middle order as Mumbai were in command.
Tripura in reply were all out for 319 runs in their 1st innings receiving a follow on and again getting collapsed for 112 runs thanks to a match winning spell by Anjdeep Lad who came up with 5/28 to rattle Tripura’s batting line up.
Mumbai won the match outright by an innings and now qualify for the Quarter-Finals of Col CK Nayadu Trophy’19
Into the all important finale at the Bombay Gymkhana in Fort, it was a battle between two impressive teams. One was Al-Barkat who are always considered a strong team and favorites while on the other hand was IES New English who have been simply outstanding in this tournament giving tough fights to major teams to reach the finals.
Al-Barkaat after being made to bat first were at one point 76/4 and the odds were simply high on IES winning the match by restricting them to a low total. However, Al-Barkat stayed true to its reputation of being a formidable unit as their middle order consisting of Saumil Malandkar & Harshvardhan Pandey stitched a match winning 195 run stand for the 5th wicket. Saumil went on to score a brilliant 111 off 176 balls at no.5 laced with 15 fours while Harshvardhan scored a rock solid 121 (306balls) with 17 fours reminding everyone of Pujara’s grind in the test format as Al-Barkaat MMI English School from 76/4 declared their innings on 371/7 in 127.4 overs.
IES New English School were on the other hand in a better situation than Al-Barkaat in their first 30 overs however left-arm spinner Anurag Singh who is always a trump card for Al-Barkaat in pressure situations came up with 5/74 in a marathon spell of 51.4 overs. Himanshu Singh also bowled well taking 3 wkts as IES were all out for 217 runs with Manan Bhatt the only one to score a 50+ score smashing 63 runs.
Al-Barkaat MMI English School is the crowned champion of 125th year of Harris Shield cricket tournament beating IES New English on 1st Innings lead at BOMBAY GYMKHANA. Chief Guest Mr. Farooq Engineer who was a Former Test Cricketer and Wicketkeeper awarded the Al Barkaat MMI team with the prestigious title. The highlight of the day was Al Barkaat Spinners Himanshu Singh and Anurag Singh coming up with tight spells while the 195 run stand was simply crucial as well as epic for the Al-Barkaat School.
What a journey for New Horizon School it has been as they have performed consistently well throughout the tournament with various boys rising up to the occasion and giving impressive performances under their coach Ajay Bhagat.
Into the all important finals at the NMSA Ground, New Horizon and St. Xaviers took on each other for the final battle where in St.Xaviers electing to bat first were bundled out for 91 runs. Medium pacer Aaryank Shetty delivered right into the finals in a high pressure game as he came up with match winning bowling figures of 5/21 in 10.5 overs troubling the Xaviers batsman to the core.
It was a mere formality for New Horizon Public School as they chased down the score with ease winning the match by 7 wkts. Openers Tanish Shetty (34*) and Tanuj Hemdev (32) were the highest scores as New Horizon Public School won the finals and the tournament with dominance.
Highest wicket taker in tournament he took 16 wkts– Vihang Dighe
Highest Run Scorer-Tanish Shetty 174 runs
Best fielder-Vansh Faria
This same team had won DSO Tournament and various other tournaments in last one year. NHP team which had participated for the 1st time in NMSA won on its debut outing & is certainly a team with good reckoning force in Navi Mumbai
Teleperformances after being made to bat first at Central Maidan Thane scored 222/3 in 30 overs with their opener Priyank Patel setting the base for their team’s innings. Priyank was the highest scorer as he went on to smash a timely 109* off just 92 balls batting till the very end anchoring the innings at a healthy strike rate. Priyank smashed 7 fours and 2 sixes while all-rounder Neil Narvekar (44) and Sunily Lingayat (34) chipped in with crucial cameos.
Greater Mumbai Police in reply were bundled out for 202/10 in 29.3 overs as the bowlers did an excellent job. Spinner Farhan Kazi, Kalpesh Sawant and Deepak Shetty came up with 3 wkts each as they did not allow Mumbai Police batsman to convert their good starts into match winning knocks!
Intelenet Global services won by 20 runs thanks to some really tight bowling and an anchoring ton by their opener Priyank Patel.
IES VN Sule after electing to bat first at Parsee Gymkhana posted 334/8 in 90 overs thanks to their in-form batsman Raj Desmukh who currently averages a magical 602.00. Rajsingh Desmukh and Shubham Shinde stitched a match winning 243 run stand for the 2nd wicket where in Raj smashed 142 off 156 balls with 18 fours and 1 six while Shubham Shinde scored an equally impressive 139 runs as IES were put in a strong position by these two batters. Raj scored his 4th ton in 5 innings while Shubham has also been amongst the runs this season for IES.
Rizvi in reply were 337/6 at the end of the game’s play where the match ended in a draw.
Raj so far in Giles Shield-175*, 30*, 148*, 119* and 142, Batting Average-614.00 so far!
Route Mobile after being made to bat first at Cross Maidan were hardly deterred as they notched up a big total of 399/7 in 70 overs. Vishal Dhagaonkar was the highest scorer as he crafted a well made 107. It was an overall good batting performance with Shrideep Mangela (71), Sumeet Dhekale (82*) and Saeed Shaikh (55) smashing crucial half centuries.
Defending a good total of 399, the pressure was definitely more on the batsman than the bowlers and left-arm spinner Hitesh Parmar who is an experienced campaigner took full advantage of that coming up with timely breakthroughs. Hitesh came up with 6/97 taking crucial wickets as RBI were all out for 243 runs.
Route Mobile won the match by 156 runs and it was indeed a cumulative team domination.
Our body is built in such a way that it has more pushing strength rather than pulling. That’s the reason why mentally & physically our body chooses to push a object &throw forwards rather than back. This makes our back muscles comparatively weak compared to our chest & shoulder muscles. Due to this phenomena we see more injuries on our posterior (back) part compared to anterior (front) part of the body. This is the reason why many of us learn push-ups more quickly compared to pull-ups. Even at this moment many of us have got good pushing strength but weak to moderate pulling strength.
This makes the pull up challenging & important exercise to learn & master. Doing pull ups regularly is beneficial not only in sport but to improve your overall posture & keep you strong as well as injury free for a long time.
Here are my 5 simple ways with which you can start/improve your pull ups:-
1) Hang on the pull-up bar:-
This is the beginner way to start and challenging also if you hold the bar for a long period of time. If you are just someone who is about to start then prefer hanging with the help of a resistance band. This will decrease the resistance by helping you lift your body up against the gravity. Once you are able to hang for
20-30 seconds you can add a new progression to it.
2) Australian pull-up :-
Also known as the inverted rows are a good way to develop strength in your back muscles which will eventually help you with achieving pull ups. One more advantage of this exercise is that you don’t need to have any other assistance
equipment such as resistance bands (although they are a must have for any person according to me). A parallel bar with some motivation will do the job for you.
3) Pull-up negatives:-
Even if you cant pull yourself up you can at least stop yourself from coming down quickly from the top position of the pull up. This is called the negative pull up. This exercise will build you the strength to achieve even higher number of pull ups. To perform this exercise you would require a box, chair or table so that you can get to the highest position on the pull up bar.
Progress with just lifting your leg up and come down till your arms are totally straight. Just as a guideline it should take your 5 seconds to reach the bottom most position from the top most
position of the exercise.
4) Pull ups with resistance bands:-
Some individuals cant get more than 3-5 pull ups in one set. This is where resistance bands come very handy to us (most versatile equipment available on the market). You can achieve more repetitions using the resistance band and
slowly your muscles would adapt to doing more number of repetitions without the band or with lower level of resistance band than earlier.
5) Pull up to a next level:-
You can certainly start doing more advanced variations which are amazing to watch and are quite challenging to the body. One thing to remember before you try these variations is that you must be able to do at least 10 to 12 repetitions in one set of the standard pull ups.
My favourite picks for advance pull up exercises are archer pull-up, typewriter pull-up, L sit pull-up, clap pull-up, etc. That’s all for this article, I hope that this article turned out to be helpful for you and I have been successful in encouraging everyone of you to start/improve with the pull-up exercise.
Double hundreds are always special at a young age as they mark an introduction of a player in the cricketing world and helps you kickstart your career with a high. Such was the case with this youngster Arpit who scored a brilliant double hundred as his innings came into notice of everyone in the cricketing circle.
Shantibhai Seth CC after electing to bat first at Oval Maidan notched up 457/5 dec in 94.1 overs out of which their opener Arpit Dhadve scored more than half of the team runs. Arpit smashed 235 off 279 balls laced with 28 fours as he kept the scoreboard ticking batting confidently while Kunal Vatari who came at no.6 scored an unbeaten 107* off 123 balls (15 fours) further solidifying his team’s position in the match.
Payyade SC in reply were bundled out for 141/10 in 43.4 overs as Shantibhai Seth boys grabbed a big win by 316 runs.
As it has been for many chapters over the last 12 months, the last chapter which was held at Umesh Patwal sir’s ithink Sportz Academy at Mahavir Nagar, Kandivali West witnessed a similar footfall of enthusiastic participants with many even coming from Kalyan and other parts of Mumbai. There were also a few participants in the last chapter who were so pumped up about the event that they attended all the chapters of the 2nd Edition.
The last chapter started at 8:30 am in the morning and as expected there were hundreds of young boys from schools and colleges registering their names to win the coveted contest. Afghanistan Team’s National Batting Coach Umesh Patwal who is also the head coach of ithink Sportz Academy & Sanjay Dogra former Ranji Player and one of the State teams’ chief advisor were the Guest of Honors in the last chapter of Mumbai ka Accurate Bowler.
From the College category, fast bowler Mohit Meena from Thakkur College of Science and Commerce was spot on with the ball maintaining impressive accuracy with good line and length as he won all the 3 rounds surpassing numerous participants. Mohit became the “Nataraj Pens-Mumbai Ka Accurate Bowler” for College Category in the Kandivali chapter where he was awarded a Trophy, Certificate, Spike Shoes by SASA & a Nataraj Pens set.
16yr old Shubham Inkar who studies at Shivaji Vidyalaya won the School Category Round of “Nataraj Pens-Mumbai ka Accurate Bowler”. He had a tough fight from the other boys but he eventually went on to bag the coveted title. 16yr old Shubham was also awarded a Trophy, a winners Certificate, Spike Shoes by SASA and Nataraj Pens Set.
The last weekend witnessed a thriller of semi-finals between DY Patil vs MIG and Payyade vs Fort Vijay. All the 4 teams who have been impressive in the tournament and have some in form players to boast of.
In the match between Payyade and Fort Vijay at the MIG Ground, Payyade after being made to bat first scored a decent total of 158/8 in 20 overs. Payyade perennially had suffered a collapse had it not been their opener Akhil coming up with a blazing 67 runs. Akhil opening the innings took only 28 balls smashing 5 fours and 6 sixes as his 67 proved to be very crucial as the 2nd highest score in Payyade’s innings was 23*. All-rounder Pankaj Jaiswal came up with 3 wkts being the pick of the bowlers. Fort Vijay in reply managed only 140/9 in 20 overs thanks to some really tight bowling by the Payyade bowlers as they won the semi finals by 18 runs.
On the other hand, DY Patil dominated MIG on their home ground, MIG after being put to bat first could not muster more than 134/7 in 20 overs which was chased down with ease by DY Patil batsman as their experienced campaigner KP anchored the chase with a 61* off 50 balls (8 fours, 1 six) opening the innings. DY Patil won the semis by 8 wkts and 3 overs to spare and it will be an interesting battle to watch as Payyade and DY both seem to be very strong units.