Karnatak SA after being made to bat first at DY’s home ground batted really well posting a total of 303/10 in 70 overs with the help of Akash Parkar’s solid 92 at no.4. Medium Fast Bowler Prashant Bhoir was spot on taking 4/74 being the pick of the bowlers for DY Patil.
DY Patil though had a shaky start to the chase but Shubham Ranjane coming at no.4 ensured that the chase was taken care of. Shubham smashed a sparkling 121* (119 balls) hitting 11 fours and 5 sixes. Shubham seems to be back to what he does best as he took on the bowlers with confidence while also stitching a 156 run stand with Yogesh Takawale who scored an 84 ball 70 at no.5 as he once again came to the rescue.
DY Patil on the back of Shubham’s ton and a great partnership with Yogesh won the match with commanding ease by 5 wkts and 11.2 overs to spare.
After garnering tremendous success in the first season of Mumbai ka accurate bowler, NATARAJ PENS is all set to host its second season with cricketgraph. The first season witnessed participation from around 1000 plus students across various schools & colleges in Mumbai.
Mumbai’s favourite pen brand NATARAJ PENs is back with a bang to woo the cricketers of Mumbai in the coming days. There is seldom any need to introduce this brand as it is already become a household name. Just like food, clothing, and shelter are the basic necessities of a common man, NATARAJ PENS are the basic necessities of school-goers and adults alike. Just like to win a war you need weapons, to win a cricket match, a batsman needs a bat, whereas a bowler needs a ball. On similar lines, the importance of NATARAJ PENS during the school and college days cannot be emphasized more.
In the island city that has produced batting legends like Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar, NATARAJ PENS has come up with a novel idea in the form of “Mumbai ka Accurate Bowler” competition to hunt for an accurate bowler. It is a well-designed competition consisting of three rounds.
In the first round, all the three stumps will be visible to the bowlers, who will be required to hit them as many times as possible out of the three chances given to them. In the second round again, the bowlers will have three attempts to have a shy at the stumps, the only change being, one of the stumps (not the middle stump) will be taken away. This means that in the second round, bowlers will have to aim at two stumps only. In the third, only the middle stump will be standing its ground and the bowlers will have just one stump to aim at.
Like Arjuna who could see just the eye of the bird, the bowlers will be expected to emulate Arjuna’s concentration powers and hit the bull’s eye i.e. the middle stump. One of the most fascinating things about this competition is that the stumps that will be used will be no ordinary sticks but the NATARAJ PENS that will stand tall and face the bowlers.
NATARAJ PENS will be generously showering the winners with loads of goodies which include but are not restricted to trophies, certificate of appreciation, cricket merchandise and much more.
This year the NATARAJ PENS Mumbai ka accurate bowler will witness two chapters in Mumbai. The recently concluded Women’s World T20 has given a different momentum to women’s cricket. Capturing this, NATARAJ PENS will invite the budding women cricketers to participate in the competition.
So, all the budding cricketers of schools and colleges, pull up your socks to fight for the coveted title of “Mumbai ka accurate bowler” by NATARAJ PENS.
Few winners of the first edition of Mumbai ka Accurate Bowler were: 18 yrs, pranay gavande from kj Somaiya college- mulund chapter; 9yrs – yatharth yadav from goregaon model public school kandivali chapter; Omkar chettiar from jhunjhunwala college kharghar chapter; 8yrs – Risabh kotai from birla school kalyan chapter; 14 yrs Anmol sawant from Rainbow international school – kalyan chapter; 17yrs Pravin upadhyay – Nutan college kalyan – kandivali chapter; Rohan kataria form father Joseph high school – Bhayander chapter.
They were accurate and hit the bull’s eye all too often than their counterparts. It would be exciting to find out this season’s winners from schools & colleges across Mumbai.
The exact dates and venues will be shared soon on cricketgraph website & social media handles.
VickyPatil has been one consistent batsman for IDBI team where he has been scoring runs since a long time. In the recently held match between INbook and IDBI at the New Hind Ground, IDBI after being made to bat first were hardly affected as they notched up a massive target of 234/5 in 20 overs.
Opening the innings, Vicky Patil batted till the very end thrashing the bowlers as he smashed an aggressive 124* (60 balls). Vicky displayed some amazing power hitting as he smashed 8 fours and 9 sixes to enthrall his team mates as well as the spectators. The rest of the batsman batted around him giving starts as IDBI reached a match winning total.
InBook in reply managed to score only 150/8 in 20 overs on the back of some tight bowling by the IDBI Bowlers.
IDBI team won the match by 84 runs and it was Vicky Patil being adjudged ‘man of the match’ for his swashbuckling 124*.
In the Zooter International School Dad’s Tournament, OIS Tigers emerged victorious against Camp Rangers on Saturday at Air India Sports Club, Santacruz, Mumbai. Riding on Siddharth Sood’s brilliant bowling performance, OIS Tigers restricted Camp Rangers to 123-6 in 20 overs. Opening bat Amish Dani (31) got off to a solid start, however failed to receive any support from the other batsmen except for Anish Bhansali who scored run a ball 22. For OIS Tigers, Siddhart Sood was the star performer with the ball as he picked up 3-19 in his four overs. The right arm offie bowled a good line and length and reaped the sweet fruits of his hard work. Nitesh Bhasin and Nishith Parashar chipped in one and two wickets respectively.
In reply, OIS Tigers seemed to be in a jiffy as they chased down the target in just 11.1 overs winning the match clinically by six wickets. The opening pair of Vicky Sujan (25) and Anuj Gupta (29) set the foundation for the batsmen to follow. Ajit Virwani played a cameo scoring 20 off 15, smashing three boundaries. Jothi Krishnan was the pick of the bowlers for Camp Rangers scalping 2-21 in his two overs.
OIS Tigers registered a comfortable win over Camp Rangers, thanks to Siddharth Sood’s excellent bowling. Sood, who was awarded with the Man of the Match exclaimed, “Zooter International School Dad’s Tournament is a very innovative platform where cricket lovers get to relish their favourite sport. The facilities provided by Zooter are amazing and it is fun to be a part of this. Air India wicket has always been good and I love playing here. Today the wicket was really good for bowling and I am happy that I rolled my arm well to pick up three wickets”.
Click here for OIS Tigers VS Camp Rangers Match Scorecard ….
Ajish’s 98 & Wasim’s 5-for help IndiaFirst Life Insurance win convincingly against Tata in the Jolly Friends T20 Tournament 2018
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Skipper & Opening Batsman Ajish Abdul Rehman’s majestic 98 off 60 Balls and Left Arm Spinner Waseem Sayyed’s mesmerising Spell of 4-3-4-5 combined to provide IndiaFirst Life Insurance its second victory in as many Matches in the widely known Jolly Friends Sports Club T20 Cricket Tournament 2018 at Dadar Parsi Zoroastrian (DPZ) Pitch, Matunga Gymkhana on the 24th of November. The Match was against Tata International. 4 Teams each in the 4 Pools would be eyeing to top the Group in order to qualify for the Semi-finals.
Winning the Toss and electing to Bat on what looked like an underprepared Pitch, Captain Ajish started aggressively to put on 57 Runs in the first 6 Overs in an Opening partnership of 66 in 8.2 Overs with his deputy Ramana Meesala (25 off 23 Balls). But a tight Bowling Spell from Left Arm Slow Bowler Swapnil (4-0-20-2) and Medium Pacer Ramdas (4-0-23-2) saw a slight collapse of the Middle Order. Especially, the innocuous looking Bowling of Swapnil showed how an immaculate line & length combined with subtle movement in the air and off the Pitch could trouble the best of Batsmen.
Ajish kept going at the other end though, when during the period of 9.2 Overs 92 Runs were scored, with the other four Batsmen adding 18 Runs off 26 Balls. Rupen Chaurasiya gave a good stand with some quick running between the Wickets. Ajish’s Sixes just got getting bigger, with the first one, a short-arm Pull off Medium Pacer Dhaval barely touching the shortest Square Leg Boundary, the next, a slog Sweep against Off-spinner Vishal going out of the ground, and the last one, a monstrous hit off Medium Pacer Praveen K crashing into the 3rd Floor window of the building outside the Ground, still on its way up towards the Mid-wicket Boundary. Eventually, he got out caught at the Third Man Boundary, a mere 2 Runs short of a well-deserving Century, to a chest-high Full-toss that he was playing way ahead of the Batting crease. Both Umpires had a good Match for most part. Kunal Bambardekar played a little cameo at the end of the Innings (14 off 8; 3 4s) to finish IndiaFirst’s Innings at 177/6 in 20 Overs, that on the Pitch seemed to be a good total.
Left-arm Medium Pacer Pushkar Sharma started off proceedings with an exceptional spell of Swing and Seam Bowling with Figures of 3-0-8-0. Medium Pacer Mohsin Jethva proved to be an able ally (3-0-15-1) getting the first breakthrough and then Running Out the other Opener with Wicket-keeper Babli Sharma doing the rest with lightning speed. Mohsin also took a couple of good Catches, one of them after bouncing off Ajish’s hands with three people converging on a high Catch.
Great friends off the Field, Pushkar’s camaraderie with Babli showed on the Ground as well, with the latter standing up to the Wicket and making some great collects off some intelligent Bowling. Later in the Innings, he also stood up to an even quicker Praveen Malik with superb reflexes. That he gave away just 1 Bye in the whole Innings, and combined with Wasim to take one Catch & 2 Stumpings just summed up his performance.
In fact, the introduction of Waseem in the 8th Over really started the collapse for Tata, as he bowled with beautiful Flight & trajectory getting huge turn off the Pitch. The 5 Wicket haul for just 4 Runs, with 3 Maidens in 4 Overs was an enjoyable sight.
Pacer Praveen with his unique long Run-up during which he seems to detail off the track (good enough to be Bowling on the adjacent Pitch), before getting back on line, generated a few from giggles from the Players, Umpires and the few spectators. A tight Spell of 2-1-4-1 followed that though. Skipper Suyog tried to give some respectability to the Score with 18 off 12 Balls with 3 Fours before Sanket Teli Bowled the last Batsman to finish Tata’s Innings for 58 in 15.5 Overs, this IndiaFirst winning the Match by a huge margin of 119 Runs.
Wasim got the Man of the Match Award for his dream spell. In a Match that saw 108 Runs from 155 Balls (combined Strike Rate of 69.7; 12 4s) by the other 18 Batsmen, Ajish alone scored 98 in 60 Balls (Strike Rate: 163.3; 12 4s & 3 6s).
IndiaFirst Life Insurance was an unknown entity in the Cricketing arena a year back till Ajish & Ramana took up the responsibility with support shown by the Senior Management at IndiaFirst Life. Especially, their Chief People’s Officer Praveen Menon has been a keen proponent of the idea. Slowly but surely, the Team’s making great strides in the right direction towards repaying the faith shown by the Organisation, with having Employees like Pushkar Sharma, Babli Sharma & Aaraf Shaikh and Akhtar Shaikh who have also been well known talents in the Cricketing circuits in their ranks.
Yogi CC after being made to bat first at Oval Maidan notched up 206 runs on the board with their opener Amar Kulkarni top scoring for his team with a fluent 57 off 75 balls (8 fours). Left-arm spinner Rajas Raut was the pick of the bowlers with bowling figures of 5/75 in 22.3 overs.
New Amrit CC in reply were all out for 73 runs with spinners Rahul Sawant(SLA) and Saurabh Singh(LB) taking 4 wkts each. Yogi CC batted for 2overs in their 2nd innings before the game ended with them winning the match on 1st innings lead.
With this win, they also became the table toppers with 22 points winning the D Division of Kanga league and getting promoted to the C Division.
Crucial Contributors from Yogi CC throughout the Tournament-
Yogi CC Captain- Saurabh Singh
Meet Desai (RHB)- 228 runs in 10 innings at an average of 45.60 & strike rate of 84.76
Amar Kulkarni (RHB)- 244 runs in 9 innings at an average of 27.11 and strike rate of 89.71
Rahul Sawant (SLA)- 38 wkts in 11 innings at an average of 9.00 and econ of 2.55 (D Div Leading Wicket-Taker)
When it comes to the right nutrition there needs to be a balance of all nutrients combined such as
proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals & water (4-6 liters a day depending on a person’s daily
physical activity).
Before I tell, let me make it clear what kind of fats are unhealthy. There are good and bad fats in food.
Saturated and Trans fats are the bad fats which don’t go well with our body in a long run such as Pork,
Lamb, Beef, Processed meats such as Sausages etc. However people who eat less calories than
recommended are encouraged to eat these foods. But more dangerous are the Trans fats which
increase your LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) which may lead to diseases later in life. Trans fats include foods such as Doughnuts, Margarine, fried fast food, frozen pizza, microwave popcorn, cream filled candies, cakes, pies and cookies.
So what kind of fat is preferred above these?
They are unsaturated fats which the body requires for daily body functions about which we discuss later.
These foods include olives, peanuts, avocados, almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, flax seeds & fish.
Now there is a clear picture of what is good & bad, let’s look at why these fats are good for you.
1) As a source of energy:-
Unlike carbohydrates, fats do not provide great amount of energy to carry out high intensity activities. Rather fats provide low & steady source of energy which is perfect to carry out low & moderate intensity work throughout the day. Once body starts running out of carbohydrates the body starts getting its energy through fat. In a team sport such as cricket it is very necessary that your body has some amount of fat stored so that the body keeps functioning as it is at low & moderate intensity levels.
2) Good for your Hormones:-
The hormones in our body require fats as a wagon to spread throughout the body. If a individual is too skinny in his early days it may delay his puberty. Therefore, it is important to consume certain amount of fat so that hormones essential for bone growth, muscle growth & other physiology related growth so that the hormones can circulate throughout the body.
3) Fats Store Vitamins:-
Fat soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, D, E & K cannot be absorbed by the body. Low levels of these vitamins in the body can cause anemia, headaches, and blindness in children, blood thinning, and calcium deficiency etc.
Please note that excess consumption of fat soluble vitamins is also fatal to the body. To get a clear picture getting your blood checked is recommended. Otherwise, make sure that you follow a balanced diet.
4) Provides insulation & cushion to the body:-
Ever wondered why your fat friend doesn’t feel cold so easily?
Yes, because he has greater percentage of fat in his body which insulates his body from the extreme low temperatures. Although more than 15% body fat for men and 20% for women is not recommended if these individuals are looking for optimal performance in sports. Athletes are recommended to follow specific guidelines with regard to their respective sport. Different sport require different fat percent.
Fat also protects organs from contusive/external forces that is why players in high impact sport such as American football, wrestling have a greater amount of fat in their body compared to other sport.
5) Fat is Tasty:-
We all agree that food containing high amount of fat taste good. Remember anything in excess will have adverse effects this is also true when we talk about fat. It’s just important to have a balanced diet like I mentioned in the beginning. No diet is perfect and every food that you intake has different ways of adapting to your body.
Therefore, it becomes necessary that a good fitness & nutrition professional must be consulted who can understand your concerns and give you proper solution to your fitness related issues.
Please Note:- The article is intended to provide proper information and a experience of the writers work as a fitness professional.
In the match between Gyan Kendra and IES English School Charkop, Gyan Kendra made a healthy total of 285/5 in 45 overs. Thanks to Aashay Jadhav’s solid knock of 85 runs where he top scored in the match. IES in reply were all out for 129 runs with Ashay and Sunny Yadav taking 2 wkts each making it an all-round performance.
Brief Scores-Gyan Kendra-285/5 in 45 overs (Aashay Jadhav-85 runs,Raj Kanse-35,Sunny Yadav-36,Shubham Gaikar-34.) beat IES English Charkop-129/10 (Ajay Chavan- 75. Smeeth Cooper -25/3, Sunny Yadav-2wkt, Aashay Jadhav-2wkts
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In the match between Christ Church School and Hiranandani Foundation at the Shivaji Park, Christ Church School batting first gave a target of 96 runs which was successfully defended as Ayaan Shaikh came up with a match winning bowling spell of 7/12 in 10 overs. Those are amazing bowling figures for such a young talent as Hiranandani were bundled out for 70 runs.
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In the match between VN Sule and Billabong, VN Sule batting first posted a massive total of 410/1 in 45 overs. Yash Rajan played a captivating innings of 131* which had some brilliant shots while VN Sule’s reliable backbone Vedprakash Jaiswal churned out a fine century scoring 110 runs. Rajsingh Desmukh remained unbeaten with Yash on 70*. Billabong in reply were all out for an embrassing 21 runs with Aryan Padtare taking 4/6 as VN Sule won by a massive margin of 389 runs.
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In the match between IES Secondary School and Vibgyor High School Goregaon, IES gave a target off 224 runs to Vibgyor on the back of impressive fifties by Kshitij Rajwade (56) and Swayam Waghmare (77). Vedant Gadia was the pick of the bowlers taking 5/16. Vibgyor in reply collapsed for 71 runs with Vedant Gadia scoring 32 runs but his team losing by 152 runs. Swayam Waghmare who scored 77 also took 5wkts for 25 runs becoming the highlight performer of the match.__
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In the match between Don Bosco and Madhavrao Bhagwat School, Don Bosco opted to bat first amassing a mammoth total of 383/4 in 45 overs. A double century stand by Nilay Pawar(102) and Yuvraj Natalkar(113) helped Don Bosco dominate as both the boys batted aggressively with good technique. During the chase, Madhavrao’s batsman failed to give a tough fight as Chris D Britto who is still a mystery spinner spun a web around the batsman taking 5wkts for just 6 runs and restricting Madhavrao team to mere 25 runs all out. Don Bosco Matunga won the match by a big margin of 358 runs.
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In the match between RN Podar (Santa Cruz) and Cambridge School, Dhruv Thakker and Sanyam Jain batted brilliantly. Dhruv scored an unbeaten 69* while Sanyam opening the innings scored an aggressive 140* off mere 107 balls which had 19 fours which took Cambridge to a team total of 350 runs in 45 overs.. Sanyam impressed one and all with his attacking batting while he also took 4wkts with the ball and Dhruv taking 3 wkts as both the boys single handedly helped their school win the match by 130 runs.
MB Union after being made to bat first on their homeground at Cross Maidan were all out for 191 runs in 52.3 overs.
Young Friends CC in reply escaped a narrow defeat with just 3 wkts left before the end of the game’s play where they were 133/7 in 37 overs. Off-spinner Sandeep Naik bowled an impressive spell of off spin bowling taking 5/46 in 19 overs. Sandeep managed to trouble the batsman giving timely breakthroughs as he was the pick of the bowlers for Young Friends CC.
The match ended in a draw but it was Sandeep’s fifer which remained the highlight performance of the match.