One run. One ball. One wicket. It was that close between Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies & Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College. In the end it was SSCBS who held their nerve to clinch the nail biting thriller by 1 wicket in Delhi University inter college knock outs.
The match was reduced to 30 overs a side due to a delayed start due to wet pitch conditions. ARSD captain Deepswar Tyagi won the toss and opted to bat first despite the conditions favoring the bowling. ARSD managed 152 runs for the loss of 9 wickets at the end of their stipulated 30 overs. Captain Tyagi top scored with 41 (47 balls, 5×4) with good support from Abhishek Gosai (36 runs, 41 balls, 4×4) and Anil Thapa (30 runs, 35 balls, 2×4, 1×6). SSCBS captain Nikhil Yadav rotated his bowlers very well and ARSD could not really increase the tempo of their innings. Everyone chipped in with the wickets with 4 bowlers sharing 2 wickets each and a solitary wicket going to the captain.
The chase was never going to pose a big challenge against a strong batting line up of SSCBS but despite the efforts of their captain Nikhil (76 runs, 72 balls, 9×4, 2×6) and Samyak Jain (30 runs, 34 balls, 2×4), the match went to the last ball where anything could have happened. As many as 15 extras were given by ARSD bowlers. Viswajeet was the best bowler taking 3 wickets and giving away just 22 runs in his 6 overs.
The turning point of the match was when Nikhil Yadav was caught out on the boundary off the bowling of Akash Dubey off a NO Ball. He then smashed a six and four in the same over bringing the equation down to below 20 runs. SSCBS though did make their life difficult my losing wickets quickly towards the business end of the match but Anuj Rana of SSCBS held his nerve and got the ball through the infield and won the match for his team.
Sumanyu Jain
Regional Manager& Editor CricketGraph
After reading various articles on Cricket Graph about the Cricket Tournaments, Top Cricketers etc. we are bringing various other people who are behind the success of teams and the players.
Starting with the 1st edition of “People behind the Success of Local Cricket in Mumbai”, we are happy to introduce you with a Person who has faced many challenges in his life as a Cricketer; who is now a renowned Coach of a Corporate Cricket Team Mr. Chandrashekhar Karmalkar
Born on 1st August’1972, Sir Chandrashekhar has completed 42 years of his life. Started playing Cricket at the age of 13 years, he played various tournaments during his School and College days. He is proud today to mention that he has played under Captaincy of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar in 1987-88 for Under-15 Mumbai Cricket team. His other achievement is representing for Thane District Team in “Satkar & Sport Star Trophy”. He has played Club Cricket in “A” and “B” division tournaments.
Due to his enthusiasm towards Cricket, he started Cricket Coaching under name of Kwality Sports Club at Dadoji Konddev Stadium in Thane in year 2003. We are happy to mention that in today’s world of high cost towards Cricket Learning, Sir Chandrashekhar is giving a free of cost Cricket Training including Cricket Kits in his coaching camp to the financially deprived children’s at his own cost!
Sir Chandrashekhar feels happy to state that, from his Thane Coaching Club, 2-3 students has played Division “A” tournaments. His big achievement as coach is, his one of the student “Jaideep Pardeshi” represented as a Vice Captain for Under-16 & Under-19 Mumbai Cricket Team. In the present year, Jaideep has represented Under-23 Mumbai team.
His another Student “Vaibhav Mali” represented Under-19 Mumbai Team. Last year Vaibhav had made a record of scoring a fastest Century in 36 balls in MIPL Cricket Tournament at Bhiwandi. Recently Vaibhav has been selected for 2 senior T-20 practice match teams out of which, he has been selected in one of the team as player.
Sir Chandrashekhar has extended his high quality experience as a Cricket Coach to Corporate Cricket teams like “Piramal Enterprises” and “Abbott Healthcare Private Limited”.
Sir Chandrashekhar started his corporate coaching career with “Piramal Enterprises” in 2008. He receives full support during the cricket coaching camps from all his team members including top management members of Piramal Group; Mr. Anand Piramal (Executive Director) and Mr. R. Aravindan (General Manager) who are a team members. Another proud moment for Sir Chandrashekhar during coaching camps is receiving a respect “SIR” from the Top Management members (mentioned above) of the Piramal Enterprise Group. It clearly indicates the respect and sincerity towards Sir Chandrashekhar.
After starting coaching with “Piramal Enterprise”, Sir Chandrashekhar started coaching with “Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.” In 2011. From this team as well, Sir received complete support and respect from all the members including Mr. A. Rehman Siddiqui and top management members like Mr. Praveen Singh (General Manager).
Both the above corporate teams faced challenge of time restriction for practice since all employees were busy during the week days due to office work. Hence practice is done only on Saturdays & Sundays. Hence this was a big challenge for Sir Chandrashekhar considering the fitness requirement of players during the matches of 20 / 35 / 45 overs. But this difficulty is overcome by Sir, by guiding the players to maintain their fitness by doing day to day exercise for atleast 15 minutes. Also both the teams are doing the practice at Shivaji Park next to each other, it makes easy for Coach Sir to merge the players from both teams. This gives a good exposure and experience to players.
After starting the coaching to above corporate teams, the winning percent of the teams has increased from 10% to 75% because of the hard work performed by the team members with the help of Coach Sir. The hardwork of Sir Chandrashekhar is proving day by day!
That’s all for the Sir Chandrashekhar from Cricket Graph we have for our readers. We appreciate the efforts of Sir Chandrashekhar towards his enthusiasm for Local Cricket in Mumbai and we wish him a good luck to achieve his dreams!!!!
Venue : Lion’s Club Cricket Ground, Santacruz, Mumbai | Match Scorecard | Tournament Details
Every victory sounds sweet and every defeat painful, more so if you win a match from losing position or lose from a winning position. The proof of the same is the outcome of the match between R.C. Bombay club and R.C .Nariman Point on March 8th, 2015 at the Lions Cricket Ground, Mumbai.
It was good all round bowling performance by R.C. Nariman with Ravi R. the most successful bowler with 3 wickets and Mehul Gada and Mayur Maroo chipping with 2 wickets each to restrict their opponents.
Tournament – The Dreamz Champions Trophy White ball Regular| Venue :-Cross Maidan | Date : 7 Mar 2015
This was a match straight from a Bollywood thriller, wherein everyone was on the edge of their seats to witness an epic finish.
Toss was won by Hindustan Times and they elected to field first. Airtel team lost an early wicket which slowed down batting initially. Vishal K the classy lefty opener of Airtel team started off cautiously only to unleash his strokes for the later part of the game. Vishal K scored 67 off 51 balls. He was supported well at the other end by Jitesh Purabia 37(42) . Airtel managed to put an aggressive total of 174 on the board for loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. The only notable bowler from Hindustan Times was Hemant who finished with 4 overs 33 runs and 1 wicket.
When Hindustan Times came into bat, no one knew what was in store for everyone.Vijay from Hindustan Times played a sensible knock of 47 runs off just 20 balls with some powerful hitting . Airtel bowlers bowled a good line and kept a tight noose. Swapnil from Airtel finished with 4 overs 29 runs and 2 wickets , supported by Jitesh Purabia (4-33-1wicket).
Vivek from Hindustan Times who is well known for his hard hitting never lost control of the game scoring a gutsy 16 runs of 5 balls. Hindustan Times continued to claw their way right till the end requiring 14 runs off the last over off Mayurs. It all came down to the last ball of the match, wherein 3 runs were required. As luck would have it, a brilliant run out was engineered and HT fell short by 1 run.
It was a match where one would have paid to watch this match. In the end Airtel won the match by a run.
Vishal was adjudged man of the match however one would have also spared a thought for the gutsy performance by Vivek with his cameo performance.
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Article Courtesy – Raju Jaiswal (Official Scorer)
Tournament Details | Venue :-Payyade New Cricket Ground, Kandivali Mumbai | Match Scorecard
Date : 8 Mar 2015
Match was scheduled between strong contenders of the tournament, KSG Superiors against Bharma Kshatriya . Bharma Kshatriya won the toss and elected to field.
Having put KSG superiors to bat first, their batsman ensured a mammoth total of 193 on the board. Opener batsman Gaurang Parkeh showed no mercy with his hard hitting and seemed to be in good touch, scoring 36 runs off just 21 balls. Other batsmen who contributed were Parth Mathuria 37(33) and Neeraj Sheth 37(21) .
The only notable bowler who stood out was Urvish B who finished with 4 overs 26 runs and scalping 2 wickets.
Total of 193 was never a small total to defend on any kind of wicket or ground. And KSG superiors displayed their superiority in the bowling segment as well. In the end Bharma Kshatriya could only manage a paltry total of 116 in 17.5 overs.
Gaurang Parekh was in midas touch and everything he touched turned out to be in his favor. He bowled 3 overs and picked up 3 wickets with his medium pace bowling.
Gaurang was adjudged man of the match for his splendid performance.
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Tournament – Kanga League Knock Outs Plate Div | Venue :- Matunga| Date : 8 Mar 2015
Matunga Gujarati Seva Mandal won against Gay Cavelliers Club in a revised T20 overs format.
Batting first Matunga Gujarati seva mandal scored in excess of 150 in their stipulated 2o overs. Gay cavellier openers started cautiously but lost their opening batsman soon.
Ankeet Gandhi bowled a spell of his lifetime picking up a hat trick and scalped 4 wickets in the same over. He ended with figures of 4 overs – 27 runs and picking up 5 wickets. Most of his victims were either bowled or given out lbw which only goes to show the pin point accuracy and vigor he bowled with.
This terrific bowling spell by Ankeet ensured a complete stop on the flow of runs and put Gay Cavelliers batsman on back foot.
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Tournament Name : Kapole T20 | Venue :- Old Payyade Ground
First Match played between Bramha Kshatriya vs Gujar samaj
Bramha Kshatriya team won the toss and elected to field. Gujar samaj scored an imposing 195 for the loss of 6 wicketes in 20 overs. Batsmen who chipped in for Gujar Samaj were Nainesh who scored a brilliant 66 off 51 balls with 4 fours and 3 massive sixes. Dharmesh 25(10balls) and Divvyesh batted well for his 61 off only 42 balls. Divyesh hit 9 fours and 2 sixes. The only notable bowler from Bramha Kshatriya was Urvesh who bowled 4 overs giving away 30 runs and taking 2 wickets.
It was an mammoth socore to chase for Kshatriya batters and they ended up with a paltry score of 105/10 in 15.2 overs
In the end Gujar Samaj won by 89 runs.
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Second Match :- Mochi Samaj Vs Parajiya Soni Samaj
Parajiya Soni Samaj wins in a low scoring match
In the scond match of Kapole T20 cup, Soni Samaj won the toss and elected to bat first. Batting first they scored 101/10 in 12.4 overs. Notable performances by Soni Samaj were
Dilesh soni 32 (20) 3 fours and 2 sixes ; Deven 19(23) 4 Fours . Bhavesh Parmar from Mochi samaj team bowled 3.4 overs giving away 15 runs and picked up 4 wickets.
Mochi Samaj ended their innings on 71/10 in 15.5 overs.
Dilesh from soni team bowled less than 2 overs and picked up 4 wickets in no time. He was well supported by Devansh Soni who took 2 wickets in 3 overs.
In the end Parajiya Soni won by a comfortable margin against Mochi samaj.
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Tournament: – County Premier League | Venue:- Central Railway , Shivaji Park
Kolhoi Media won the toss and elected to bat first against Versatile team in the morning match of County Premier League. Batting first Kolhoi media scored a decent 151. Most of the batsmen chipped in collectively Rajdeep 29(19) ; Nikhil S 48 (48) and Shailesh 30(24)
The notable performances by Versatile bowlers were Kushal T – 4 overs – 25 runs – 2 wickets and Rajesh S – 4 overs – 36 runs – 2 wickets.
151 was a certainly a decent score on a unpredictable turning wicket of Central railway however Versatile batsman showed their class with a good batting display. Openers Indrajeet 82(69) played an amazing knock which was well supported at the other end by Jignesh 29(28)
In the end it was a comprehensive win for Versatile by 9 wickets.
Match info courtesy – Akshay Chavan (Official Match Scorer)
