Tournament : Police Shield Trophy Venue : MIG
Match : Karnataka Sporting Association Vs. M.I.G.
Playing on home ground, M.I.G. captain chose to bat after winning the toss. M.I.G. openers proved their captain right by giving a good opening stand of 48 runs but introduction of bowler Moondip Mangela changed the complexion of the game. Moondip took 3 wickets of the top 4 M.I.G. batsmen. Moondip was superbly supported by Akshay Girap who took 3 wickets as well. M.I.G. s innings folded for a partly 200 runs in the 69th over. Akash Parkar top scored with 62 for M.I.G.
In reply, Karnataka sporting did not get off to a good start but their opening batsman Kausub Pawar showed resilience against some top class bowling. Kaustub scored brilliant 69 off 109 balls. He shared an excellent partnership with No. 4 batsman Eknath. But there was a mini collapse towards the end of the Karnataka innings but Karnataka managed to achieve the target keeping 3 wickets in hand.
Brief Scores:
Toss : MIG batting first 200 All out in 68.2 overs ( Akash Parkar 62, Kevin D’Almeda 29, Moondip Mangela 3-33, Akshay Girap 3-39, Vinit Sinha 2-41)
Karnataka Sporting Association 203-7 in 48.4 overs (Kaustub Pawar 69, Eknath 76, Dabholkar 3 wickets)
Result: Karnataka won by 3 wickets
AFS Cricket League
Bhawani Fire Protection edged out the home team, AFS Cric Club by just 2 runs in their second match of the tournament and kept their hopes alive for the knockout stages.
BFP won the toss and elected to bat first. They put up a moderate 152/7 in 20 overs. In reply, Abhishek Verma played another gem for his team- 57 runs (39 balls, 4×7, 2×6) but could not cross the line, succumbing to second successive defeat.
Man of the Match: Hitesh Sharma (16 runs, 2/26); Best Batsman: Abhishek Verma (57 runs); Best Bowler: Kishan Singh (3/29); Best Fielder: Kartar Singh
AFS Cricket League
In their second match, Bimla Devi Cricket Centre looked a different team as they completely dominated the home team, AFS Cricket Club, eventually defeating them by 10 wickets and opened their account in the tournament.
BDCC won the toss and elected to field first, a decision later on proved correct. All they had to do was to overcome Abhishek Verma‘s superb knock of 70 runs (47 balls, 4×4, 6×7) and they were successful in doing so as they didn’t allow any other batsman to flourish. As a result, AFS Club were restricted to just 135/8 in 20 overs.
In reply, BDCC chased down the total rather comfortably by 10 wickets thanks to Swapnil R. Tiwari‘s unbeaten knock of 69 runs (56 balls, 4×11, 1×6).
Best Bowler: Alok Singh (2/06); Best Fielder: Saurav Chauhan
Played at Ibrahim Cricket Club
Riding on a scintillating century by opener Vikas Bhati (126 runs, 100 balls, 4×13, 6×4), garg Cricket Academy defeated Ghaziabad Cricket Academy in a match of 40 overs, played at Ibrahim Cricket Club.
Ghaziabad Academy won the toss and opted to bat first and put up a challenging 247 runs on the board. But the target was decimated and easily chased thanks to Vikas Bhati’s superb knock.
AFS Cricket League Season 2
Friends Club continued their winning run in the ongoing AFS Cricket League by defeating Bhawani Fire Protection by 42 runs in the second match of the tournament.
Friends Club won the toss and decided to bat first. They put a total of 161/8 in their allotted 20 overs thanks to Kishan Singh‘s 21 ball 35 that included one boundary and 4 sixes.
In reply, BFP could not come even close to the target, ending the innings on 119/9 with Shivang picking up 4 wickets for his team.
National Inter-School
Uttaranchal continued their purple patch as they defeated Telangana in the final and lifted the title of National Inter-School Cricket Championship. Uttaranchal all-rounder Anoop bagged the man of the tournament award while Yathartha Bhardwaj walked away with bowler of the tournament prize.
Telangana won the toss and opted to bat first. They were skittled for mere 69 runs thanks to 4 wickets by Anoop and 3 wickets by Yathartha. In reply, Anoop shone with the bat as we scored an unbeaten 34 runs and along with Nishant Sharma’s unbeaten 31 runs, guided his team to victory.
Tournament : Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy
Match : Mumbai vs Madhya Pradesh
Opening day of the Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy was completely dominated by Mumbai batsmen. Mumbai compiled a huge score of 451 for 4 on the first day against Madhya Pradesh.
Prithvi scored at brisk pace (107 off 99 balls) while Arman played a patient knock of 149 off 203 balls and is still unbeaten. Giving him company is another dasher batsman, Khizar Dafedar.
Source: TOI, 22nd November
Tournament : Police Shield cricket tournament | MCA
Match : National CC Vs Islam Gymkhana
Riding on a fine century by their star batsman Swapnil Pradhan, National Cricket club scored a formidable 270 for loss of 5 wickets on the first day of the match. This was group ‘A’ match.
The second day will be interesting to watch as Islam Gymkhana has battery of strong batsmen in their line up. It would be interesting to observe when would national declare and whether they have appetite to go for crucial points on basis of first innings lead.
Source : Loksatta, 22nd Nov 2015
Tournament: Dreamz Trophy 2015 – 2016
Match : Tata Communications vs. FSS
Having won the toss, Tata Communications chose to bat first against formidable bowling line up of FSS. FSS bowlers put up a great show to restrict Tata for 128 runs in 20 overs. Opener Chandan Patil carried his bat through scoring a well made 61 runs off 60 balls on bowling friendly conditions.
In response, FSS could muster 123 runs for 7 wickets by the end of 20th over. Interesting fact to observe is FSS gave away 17 extras while Tata bowlers gave away only 7 extras and therefore even after scoring more runs with bat than their opponents, FSS lost by a narrow margin of 5 runs.
Tournament : Milan T20 Corporate cricket Venue : L.I.C. (Cross Maidan)
Match : Tikona Digital Net Pvt. Limited vs. Asiatic Engineering
In a match played Saturday afternoon at L.I.C. pitch between Tikona and Asiatic engineering witnessed an all round show by Guru Yadav.
Batting first Tikona scored a healthy 177 for 5, mainly due to a fine innings of 74 not out in just 55 balls by opener Guru Yadav. He was well supported by Rakesh Naik who scored a brisk 55 in 30 balls.
In reply, Asiatic could manage only 146 runs for 9 wickets. Imran Patel was lone performed with 70 runs. Guru Yadav contributed with the ball as well picking up 2 wickets. He also happens to be opener bowler for Tikona, a rarity these days to open with both ball and bat.
Brief scores:
Tikona : 177 for 6 (Guru 77*, Rakesh Naik 55*)
Asiatic: 146 for 9 (Imran 70, Guru 3-0-8-2, Sandeep Naik 4-0-21-3)
Tikona wins by 31 runs