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The Finals of the AT20 Season IV was played on 15th Jan 2016 Friday, at The Dilip Vengsarkar Academy at Mahul , Chembur.
It was between this season’s two good teams SSA and EDIFICE
Naveen of Edifice won the toss and invited SSA to bat.Mahesh and Naveen bowled a tight first 5 overs and SSA were 8 runs in 5 overs . Hitesh Gujar of SSA cut loose subsequently and in a matter of 3 overs SSA’s score dramatically jumped to 42/1 . Hitesh held on to one end and Team Edifice kept knocking at the other end.
Heth of Edifice changed the game dramatically in the 13th over ….he picked up wickets in 3rd , 4th and 6th deliveries and SSA were reduced to 74 for 6 at the end of 13th . In the last ball of the 16th over Ravi picked up Hitesh Gujar who was caught well in the deep by Sandeep and SSA were tottering at 85-9 and their innings folded at 93 in 17.3 overs with Sandeep picking up the last man
Heth had a dream spell of 4-1-9-5 and the other bowlers had the following figures :
Hitesh Gujar was the top scorer with 54 runs in 45 balls with 6 boundaries and 3 towering 6s.Mr.Extras was the second highest for SSA 20 runs (w 15, nb 2, lb 3)
None of the other batsmen in SSA scored more than 6 runs individually. SSA set a target of 94 runs in their allotted 20 overs and an average of 4.7 runs per over.
Tushar Koli and Mahesh Hirpara opened for Edifice and Mahesh in his 7 ball inning went berserk and scored 17 runs with 2 boundaries and a towering 6 . He perished early to a lofted shot and could have curbed his shot . At this moment ECPL were 22/1 .At 5.1 overs Tushar got bowled by their left hand bowler D Redij and the scored read 38 / 2 and Tushar in his brief stay of 12 balls scored 12 runs with 3 boundaries. At the end of 7th over Sumeet perished and he contributed 5 runs in his 16 ball innings with one hit to the boundary. The score at this point read 44 for 3 . Ravi and Amit later steadied the innings.
Ravi got out to an individual knock of 11 in 18 balls with two boundaries and at that point the scored read 79 for 4 . Sandeep had a short stay at the wicket and perished early scoring 6 runs in 5 balls with one boundary . Fourteen overs had been bowled then and the score read 86 for 5 .Naveen finished the match in 15.3 overs with a towering 6 and Edifice piled up 98 .
Naveen remained unbeated with 7 in 5 balls with a towering six of the last ball and Amit remained unbeaten with 32 of 30 balls with six boundaries. H Gujar and D Redij were the pick of the bowlers for SSA.
H Gujar finished his quota with 4-1-11-1 and D Redij with 3-0-19-1
Gaurav Koli ( ECPL ‘s Tushar’s brother and playing for SSA ) did not have a great match . He was bowled for a duck by Heth and in his bowling finished with 3-0-32-2
Great Team Effort by Team ECPL to pick the cup consecutively for two years
They also won a cheque for Rs.4,00,000.00 as winners .
This tournament would not have happened if there was no support from all of the sponsors . A big thank you to all of you personally .
The run machine Sujit Nayak, stayed true to his reputation and scored second consecutive century in the ongoing Purushottam shield. It was a swash buckling performance by Sujit that saw boundaries and sixes being scored at all corners of the ground.
M.I.G won the toss and decided to filed first or in other words M.I.G team involuntarily decided to watch Sujits batting performance. Cricket Club of India (CCI) scored 310 in allotted 70 overs which saw Sujit score another unbeaten 163 off only 169 balls with 13 fours and 8 Sixes. Vinit Indulkar performance was slightly overshadowed who chipped in with valuable 45 runs.
M.I.G team scored 297 /7 in 67 overs . Though this match was technically drawn however M.I.G club won on better quotient.
The day and the tournament belonged to Sujit whose performance in Purushottam has been incredible so far and has scored 413 runs in the entire tournament.
VS Karnatak Sporting Association – 55 Runs | VS Parel Sporting Club – 95 Runs |
VS DY Patil Sports Academy 100 Runs | Vs MIG – 163* Runs
The 2nd Tikalal Taploo tournament finale took place between two of the best teams of the tournament, Koshur Cricket Club and Vytesta Cricket club.
It was a deserving final match as it had many ups and downs. Chasing a good target of 165 runs set by Koshur Cricket Club, Vytesta Cricket club lost 4 early wickets but it was Sandeep Kaul who not only steadied the ship but also kept up with the required run rate. Vinny gave very good support with valiant 36. Sandeep Kaul remained unbeaten on 80 off 63 balls as he saw his team through with 4 balls and 4 wickets remaining.
Vytesta are the new champions of the Taploo Tournament.
Winners Vytesta Cricket Club
Sandeep Kaul was not only adjudged Man of the Match but he also grabbed awards for best bowler and Man of the Series:
Sandeep Kaul MoS, MoM and Best bowler
Nikhil Raina was the best Batsman and best wicketkeeper scoring 200 runs and accounting for 12 dismissals:
Best Batsman and wicketkeeper Nikhil Raina
Best Fielder was Amit Qazi :
Amit Qazi Best Fielder
Runner up team :
Runner up Koshur Cricket Club
It was an extraordinary semifinal match between Bankhor and Bamna teams in the TMBB cup. The reason being it saw a total of 10 run outs from both sides. More than half of the wickets to fall were caused by run outs.
Amongst this mayhem of run-outs, one batsman that stood out was Pankaj Trivedi of team Bankhor. Coming to bat at one down, Pankaj showed lot of maturity and patience as he guided his team to a respectable total with 77 balls 75 runs. He hit only 5 boundaries but rotated the strike well and had good partnerships with Ashish and Dharmesh. Bankhor put together a score of 201 in 35 overs. Bankhor team had 7 run outs, Pankaj was one of them.
Bamna boys put up a good fight but fell short by 37 runs. Notable contributions from Bamna were Kashyap and Mayank.
VFCL won the toss against Chintamanis in the Friends Premier League and decided to bowl first.
Thanks to run-a-ball 48 by Shamim S. and late burst of 11-ball-21 by RajKrishna, Chintamanis put together 146 for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs.
MoM Aman and Mitul gave excellent start to VFCL’s chase scoring 51 and 30 respectively. Aman hit 5 fours and 2 maximums. After a wondreful start the winnings runs were hit by pair of Rushabh and Vishram. VFCL won by 5 wickets and 10 balls to spare.
Aman Shaikh VFCL team
The first match of The Saqib Rizvi Memorial tournament was played between Vasant Vihar College Thane against St.Xaviers college Vile Parle.
Vasant Vihar college batted first and put up a dismal performance posting as little as 73 runs . Richie Misquitta Mehul Kank ripped through the entire batting order of Vasant Vihar college.
Richie M picked up 4 wickets in 3 overs whereas Mehul Kank bowled 8 overs and picked up 2 top order batsman. It was a good disciplined bowling performance by St.Xaviers bowlers.
It was an easy ask for openers Mehul Kank (34) and Sabie Gonsalves (25) and St.Xaviers chased the target without losing any wicket.
St. Xaviers college have announced their presence in a loud way by winning this one sided battle.
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Sumedh Kamble scored brilliant 164 not out for his school V N Sule against Parkar Vidyalaya that set up massive an innings and 160 run win in the Harris shield.
Batting first Sule school declared innings at 394 for 7 with Sumedh on song. Sahil Jadhav too scored 83 but it was Sumedh who hit 28 boundaries helped Sule bowlers massive backing of runs and ample amount of time to bowl out opposition twice.
Patekar Vidyalaya were bundled twice for 140 and 88 respectively. Shantanu kadam claimed 7 wickets in the match
Mumbai Women gave a clinical performance to clinch the Women’s T20 plate group championship.
UPCA batting first against Mumbai eves could only manage 64 runs in 18.2 overs. For Mumbai, Sheral and captain Sunetra took 2 wickets each while Fatima returned with figures of 3 wickets for just 13 runs.
After such a great bowling performance, Mughda and Jemimah completed the winning formalities loosing just 2 wickets. Jemimah top scored with unbeaten 30 runs off 41 balls.
Congratulations to the winning Mumbai Women!!!
MUMBAI WON THE PLATE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIP BY 8 WKTS
The reputed and prestigeous inter-collegiate tournament, The Saqib Rizvi Memorial tournament started today. The inauguration ceremony took place at Dadar Parsee Colony Sporting club ground in Matunga.
Many dignitaries graced the inauguration with their presence. Of which were Arvind Kadam( tournament secretary – Mumbai Cricket association ), Javed Rizvi sir , RM Suradkar ( vice principal Dr. Ambedkar college ), P P Patil sir ( Jr college sport association secretary) , Ashok Kuvar ( joint secretary – Mumbai Jr college sports association ), Sunil Desle ( sports director KG Mittal college executive Jr college sports association ) , Nisar Hussai ( Tolani college Andheri – executive member of Jr college sports association )
Rizvi Opening ceremony Dignitaries
All matches would be that of 45 overs
Matches played today:
1st match : Vasant vihar Jr college vs St Xavier’s Jr college vile parle – venue – dadar parsee sporting club ground matunga
2nd match: Matunga gymkhana venue – Maharashtra jr college Mumbai central vs SK somaiya college Vidyavihar
3rd match – venue – new hind ground matunga – bhaosahe hire Jr college tardeo vs siws jr college wadala
SWAMI VIVEKANAND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL won the match by an Innings and 204 runs against C.N.M School.
SVIS won the toss & elected to field.
In the first inning, the opposition was bowled out for 66 runs. Hem Patel took 6 wickets in 6 overs giving 19 runs.
Hem Patel has so far taken 25 wickets in 2 matches – swami Vivekananda school Borivali
