The group A final of the Harris shield plate group witnessed a hattrick by Krish Shah of Cathedral School.
Krish Shah, a left arm spinner, not only took the hattrick but also took 6 wickets in total in his 11 overs giving away only 22 runs.
Krish’s heroics helped Cathedral wrap up Swadhyay innings in just 102 runs. Neel Anjaria top scored with 30 runs.
Raju More was in his elements in their team, Mahindra Tractor’s match against Marcura in the Milan T20 tournament.
Marcura would have ruined their decision to bowl first. They failed to take even a single wicket of Mahindra. Mahindra openers piled up the misery for Marcura as they accumulated 195 runs without giving away their wicket in 20 overs. Raju More was the aggressor of the two openers as he scored 102 runs off just 62 balls. He hit 15 fours and 2 sixes.
Marcura gave a good chase, thanks to Hardik who scored 60 off 45 balls. But once he was out Marcura were all out falling short by 53 runs.
In the Semifinal 2 of the Architects T20 Championship trophy, Hellbenders played against the SSA Strikers.
Confident of their chasing abilities, SSA Strikers chose to field first winning the toss. Hellbenders had a pretty good start hitting 50 in the seventh over. Once their openers Khatri (52) and Barpujari (23) were out and Hitesh Gujar was introduced in the bowling attack, Hellbenders lost their way. They regularly kept loosing wickets and could mange 133 for the loss of 9 wickets. Hitesh Gujar and Shedge both took 3 wickets a piece.
Hitesh Gujar is in excellent touch with the bat this season and it showed in Strikers chase. Hitesh scored brilliant unbeaten 79 in just 52 deliveries. Strikers achieved the target in just the 18th over. Aptly Hitesh was declared MoM.
Date – 9th Jan 2016 – P D FASHIONS VS LOHANA HOLIDAYS – Payyade Cricket Ground, Kandivali, Mumbai
‘Three out of Three’ Lohana Holidays Tops the Table with all round performance of Nishant Mahidhar. Lohana Qualifies for the semis beating P D fashions by 1 wicket.
Man of the match Nishant Mahidhar s all round performance takes Lohana holidays to top of the table and Qualifies for the semifinals spot in the on going Omtex cup .
Batting first after losing the toss P D fashions made a defendable total of 258 runs in 38.4 overs with good contributions from Kartik doshi 52 runs of 55 balls ,Maulik Doshi – 26 & Naynesh Shetty – 34 runs & Extras ’35 ‘ runs
Chasing 259 runs to win soon lohana holidays were 75/ 5 in 10 overs with few top batsman back in the pavilion . Partnerships are the key to win matches & that is what exactly Lohana Holidays did right , Match winning knocks by Deep thakkar 59 runs & 70 runs by Nishant Mahidhar and patient partnerships of 103 runs between them and 63 runs between Sachin parekh and Nishant set the road for victory for lohana holidays and they reached the target in 37.5overs and registered the 3rd consecutive victory & are unbeaten team in Omtex cup 2015- 2016 .However P D fashions gave away not less then 7 to 8 boundaries due to poor ground fielding and made the target that much easier.
Mumbai Woman showed great maturity in the all important quarterfinal game against Haryana.
Team Haryana posted a decent 109 for the loss of 6 wickets in their 20 overs batting first. Joshi scored a brilliant 51 while Khatri remained unbeaten on 31. For Mumbai, Fatima was the pick of the bowler picking up 3 wickets for just 7 runs in her 4 overs.
Mumbai’s chase was anchored around the 2 S, Mumbai captain Sunetra (41) and wicketkeeper batsman Sulakshana (47). They showed tremendous maturity while chasing the target and ensured Mumbai win with 5 wickets and 3 balls to spare.
Mumbai will be playing Himachal in the semifinal on Wednesday, 13th January.
Jigar Shah of the Highflyers is in the form of his life. After scoring scintillating 98 in the previous game (Click here for previous match scorecard) he continues his great form scoring a century against Pitchers. He was not out in the previous game and continued from where he left. His century was studded with 14 hits to the fence and one maximum.
His knocked helped Highflyers post 205 runs enabling a 30 run victory over Pitchers who relentlessly pursued the huge target but fell short by 30 runs.
When contacted by Cricketgraph, Jigar was very proud of his knock and dedicated his knock to his school coach Mahesh Raut of the Swami Vivekanand School. Unfortunately Mahesh Sir expired last week. He sure would have been proud of his student’s progress.
With back to back performances Jigar sure has put the Friend’s premier league on fire and a player to be watch out for all opponents.
A T20 match and a team defends a score of 97, that too in the Quarter final match. Thats what took place in the match between Deutsche Bank and Vinayak Marines in the Masters Cup Edition 2 played at picturesque Mahul ground.
Batting first Deutsche were all out for just 97 runs in 19th over. It seemed like a bowlers paradise as only 3 batsmen reached double figures. Man of the Match Rahul Jain top scored with 34.
Vinayak Marines chase got off to a disastrous loosing first wicket on the first ball and 2 wickets in the first over. They never recovered from this start and were all out for just 25 runs in the 10th over. E Bacha of Deutsche was awesome picking up 4 wickets for 13 runs in his 4 overs. Other opening bowler Rahul Jain picked up 2 wickets in his 4 overs conceding only 4 runs. Their innings had 5 ducks.
It was one of the strangest quarterfinal in the corporate circuit that shows team winning by 72 runs with winning team scoring 97 runs.
Masters cup, another reputed corporate tourney in the city of Mumbai organized by well known One World, saw a close semifinal match between Multi screen media and Standard Chartered Bank.
It was team efforts of MSM that enabled them to win but Prathamesh chipped in nicely with both bat and ball. In this semifinal clash, SCB batted first, putting up 152 for the loss of 9 wickets. At least 4 top order batsmen got starts but couldn’t carry on. Arte and Siddiqui both scored 28. Opening bowler Gangan took 3 wickets while Prathamesh was economical in the dying stages and also picked up a wicket.
Prathamesh almost saw his team through with well compiled 43 but was out on the last ball of the 19th over still needing 5 runs to win. Surve ensured no further loss and took just 3 deliveries to hit winning run thus winning by 5 wickets.
Prathamesh was chosen MoM in this important encounter.
It was a high scoring semifinal thriller between team Diamond Brite and team Airtel in the Dreamz T20 Champions Division Cup.
Airtel’s star batsman Jitesh Purabia was in his element and a victory for Airtel seemed eminent. Needing 8 runs to off the last 2 deliveries, Jitesh went for a big one and was out caught. He missed his century by 2 runs and also missed the winning target by 5 runs.
Diamond Brite team batted first, posting a challenging 171 runs in the allotted 20 overs. Bhupen Lalwani top scored with 54 runs and was unfortunately run out. The flamboyant and aggressive Vishal Jain scored rapid 45 runs. Khalid too chipped in with 33 runs. Jitesh Purabia starred with ball to picking up 2 wickets.
It was the team effort of Diamond Brite that paid off in the end over the one-man heroics by Jitesh Purabia as Airtel scrambled home by 5 runs.
In one of the prestigious corporate tournaments in Mumbai, The Dreamz trophy, first quarterfinal of 40 overs was played between 2 of the best corporate teams, Reliance Money and LnT.
As is a norm these days, teams often bat first in a knock out tournament. LnT chose to bat first with intention of putting up a decent total on board. But they lost first 4 wickets quickly and the match threatened to be over quickly but Ajit Nayar (46) and Nishit (25) stitched a good partnership to stop the slide and earn runs. But it was strikes by lower order batsman Ameya Joshi that made a huge difference. Ameya scored a quickfire half century helping LnT put up 164 in 38 overs. Reliance money bowlers did a good job. While Munna picked up 4 wickets, Sunil struck with 3 blows.
Reliance Money’s openers Sunil Somrajan and in-form bat Amrut Shetye were right on the money. Both played a great knock without any pressure of the quarterfinal. While Sunil scored a sublime 64 not out, Amrut scored brisk 74 not out. The target was achieved in 28th overs, Reliance winning by massive 10 wickets and 12 overs to spare. LnT played well but it was Sunil’s day.
