There were many stars for Swami Vivekanand school of Kandivali in their Harris shield plate group D final against the Gundecha school.
Batting first Swami Vivekanand school posted massive 483 runs in the first innings. Chief tormentors with the bat were Mihir Agarwal, Satyam Parkar, Yatendra Jangid and Ganesh Masurkar. Mihir was just brilliant, playing bowling on it merit. He hit just 9 boundaries but string the innings together. He was out on 138 off 142 balls.

Satyam Parkar too scored a great ton, 104 runs hitting 16 boundaries.

Gundecha were made to follow on after their first innings was wrapped for just 74 runs. Gundecha showed some spine in the second innings as they scored 218 runs still falling way short of Swami’s first innings total.
Vinayak Patil was the pick of the bowlers for Swami, who took 8 wickets in the match while Aryan contributed with 7 and Ganesh Masurkar took 4 wickets.

It would be remember as captain’s match!
Both the captains, Siddhesh Jadhav of St. Marys and Vinit Pasad of VPM played great knocks for their schools in the Harris Shield Plate Group ‘C’ final match. While Siddhesh dazzled with a great knock of 182 runs in the second innings, Captain Jinit Pasad showed his class with both bat and ball and great temperament in chasing stiff target.

Requiring 344 to win in the second innings, VPM gave a scare to St. Marys but fell short by 22 runs when the play was called off. VPM were 321 for 5 when the play ended after 67 overs. Jinit Pasad scored an unbeaten 142 off 143 balls. VPM Mulund had one more centurion, Deepesh Hemdev who scored 109 runs.

Earlier in the day it was the other captain, Siddesh Jashav who scored scintillating 182 runs in his schools score of 267. Even though the match ended in a draw, St. Mary school was declared the winner based on the first innings lead.

It was on of the great matches of Harris Shield plate division which will be remembered as a captains match for a long time to come.



In last weekend’s TMBB match between Bamna and Bankhor, Bamna won the toss and chose to bat first.
The Harris Shield Elite group league match between Don Bosco Matunga school and Parle Tilak Vidyalaya, English school witnessed team performance from Don Bosco that had 2 centuries and a fifer.
Hrithik Ankush started the show with 5 wicket haul in the first innings of Parle Tilak. This allowed Don Bosco to restrict Prale for an average score of 161 runs.
Don Bosco’s first innings saw two centuries one by their captain Rohit Desai and other by Akshat Jain. Rohit took just 152 balls for his 165, Akshat got out for 104 runs off 96 deliveries. Don Bosco declared their first innings for massive 400 for 9, a lead of over 200 +.
Hrithik Ankush was at it again picking up 4 wickets and restricting Parle Tilak for 192. Om Joshi scored 60 runs batting lower down the order.



Balmohan Vidyamandir, Marathi has won the Plate group B final match of the Harris Shield. In the final they defeated the Dhirubhai Ambani School by 10 wickets.
Dhirubhai Ambani school gave a good fight in the first innings but could not repeat the same performance in the second innings. Their second innings got wrapped up for just 57 runs. Sameer Parkar and Bhooshan Kastur were stars for Balmohan as the accounted for 14 wickets from 2 innings. Balmohan knocked off the required 17 runs in just 3 overs without loosing any wickets, registering a big 10-wicket win.
Balmohan is coached by renowned player and coach Nilesh Raut Sir, who has played for Railways and represented various teams in Kanga.

SENIOR WOMEN’S T 20 TOURNAMENT
11-15 JANUARY 2016
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
PLATE GROUP
SEMI FINAL 1
MUMBAI 126-7-20
Sulakshana 55 (56), Jemimah 25(21)
Manali 13*(5)
Kanwar 4-21-3
beat HIMACHAL 100-9-20
Rana 14(10) Kanwar 27(27) S Kumari 20*(23)
Nancy 4-22-2
MUMBAI WON BY 26 RUNS
SEMI FINAL – 2
UPCA 123-6-20
Deepti 44 (49) Shashi 9(12) Bhavana 9 (11)
Shefali 11 (13) Aditi 13*(10) Malik 23 (16)
Saranya 3-18-2 Bhavana 4-25-2 beat ANDHRA 80-9-20 Anusha 29 (34)
Jhansi 20 (27) Saumya 4-13-4 Deepti. 4-13-2
UPCA WON BY 43 RUNS
Final will be played between upca and Mca on 15th Jan at 9 am.
Omtex Cup : Match between vardaan warriors vs terabyte
More than 700 hundreds runs were scored on Sunday at Payyade Sports Club in Kandivali it was a run feast and spectators who watched ..are a part of history of Youth cricket club ..
Put into bat first Terabyte Infosys put up a mammoth total of 365 runs in the stipulated 40 overs .Terabyte got off to a flyer with openers Kapil sota(54 runs of 49 balls ) & Rahul Khicha(68 runs of 39 balls ) scoring at 10 runs an over , followed by Jimit 54 runs of 51 balls .. KP 34 runs of 31 balls ….and back in form , Captain Mitesh Rawal scored a quick fire 83runs of 42balls and a equal contribution at the end from wicket keeper batsman Vimal 34 runs of 17 balls set up the massive score of 365 runs ..None of the bowlers from Vardaan Warriors could contain the flow of Runs as most bowlers gave away more than 50 runs in their than stipulated quota of 7 overs. ..
Chasing a nearly impossible target of 365 runs Warriors were 72 runs in 10 overs. Vishal Mervana who walked in at the crease at no 4 in the 10th over & scored 69 runs of 24 balls (3 fours and 8 sixes) had a lot in store for the spectators , he went Berserk after Off spinner Satyen who gave away 57 runs in his 2 overs .Satyen was smashed for 34 runs in the 11th over ( 6.6.6.4.6.6) & 23 runs in the 13th over (6.6.4.6.1.0) which set the momentum for the evening run chase .Warriors scored 106 runs in next 10 overs .The platform was all set for Man of the match & Captain Sameer Thakkar who came in to bat at no 7 and hammered the bowlers all over the park and scored 128 runs of 54 balls with l6 fours & 6 sixes as the Warriors galloped towards the target of 365 runs , scoring 189 runs in next 15 overs as they reached their target in 35 overs to complete a historic run chase at Payyade Sports Club .
Team Terabyte Infosys will have to improve their field their fielding if they wanna win their final league match against ECM logistics in 16th Jan 2016 as their ‘ELECTRIC ‘ fielders gave away not less 12 to 15 boundaries as ‘VARDAAN’ to the Warrior ….
Jinit Pasad led VPM Mulund school from the front against St Marys school in the knock out match in the Harris shield plate group.
Jinit is captain of VPM and opens the bowling for his school. Out of the 60 overs bowled by VPM school, majority of overs, 28 to be precise were bowled by captain Jinit. He bowled 13 maidens and gave away only 64 runs accounting for 7 wickets.

For St. Marys, Chinmay Pathade fought a lonely battle scoring 96 runs, missing a well deserved century by just 4 runs. His knock helped St. Marys post 175 all out. By the end of first day VPM were 70 for 3. Their hopes would be pinned on Deepesh Hemdev who is batting on 32.
