Bombay Gymkhana were found wanting against Karnataka SA in the Police Shield as the latter won a competitive game of cricket. Bombay Gymkhana scored a subpar total of 229 in 66 overs as they were bowled out. Bhupen Lalwani scored 86 and was the major contributor with the bat for Bombay Gymkhana. Karnataka SA’s Aishwary Surve claimed 5 wickets, helping Karnataka get closer to victory.
Ex-Mumbai Ranji player Eknath Kerkar played an incredible innings of 74 at the top of the order. After shining with the ball, Aishwary Surve hammered an unbeaten half century to seal the game for Karnataka in the 44th over with 3 wickets in hand.
Toss: Karnatak Sporting Association won the toss and elected to field
Result: Karnatak Sporting Association won by 3 wkts
Bombay Gymkhana- 229/10 in 66 overs
(Bhupen Lalwani 86, Rushikesh Jadhav 38, Sujay Thakkar 33,
Yashhraj Malaap 31, Aishwary Surve 5/78)
Karnatak Sporting Association- 231/7 in 43.2 overs
(Eknath Kerkar 74, Aishwary Surve 51*, Shaun Rodrigues 33)
MIG CC won by 84 runs against Cricket Club of India in the ongoing Police Shield. Batting first, MIG scored a competitive 269 in 70 overs at the loss of 9 wickets. Kaushal Valsangkar scored 57 as Arjun Tendulkar chipped in 41. Vishant More (43) and Sheesh Shetty (39) had crucial contributions as well. All-rounder Akash Parkar claimed 4 wickets.
CCI had a tough time against the MIG bowlers. Chinmay Sutar scored a fighting 60, Saksham Parashar stayed unbeaten 50 and Arya Satpute contributed 44 but that was it. No other batsmen could score major runs to take the team to victory. Left arm spinner Shreyas Gurav’s incredible spell of 6/28 dismantled the batting prowess of CCI. Arjun Tendulkar also claimed 3 wickets of his own. MIG bowled CCI out for 185 as they wont the game by 84 runs.
Toss: Cricket Club of India won the toss and elected to field
Result: M.I.G. Cricket Club won by 84 runs
M.I.G. Cricket Club- 269/9 in 70 overs
(Kaushal Valsangkar 57, Vishant More 43, Arjun Tendulkar 41,
Sheesh Shetty 39, Akash Parkar 4/55)
Cricket Club of India- 185/10 in 49.4 overs
(Chinmay Sutar 67, Saksham Parashar 50*, Aarya Satpute 44,
Shreyas Gurav 6/28, Arjun Tendulkar 3/38)
If there ever was a case of a one man army, this was the game for Ayush Vartak. New Hind SC comfortably won the game but the fighting spirit of Vartak was much appreciated. After MCA Colts elected to field, New Hind SC scored a mammoth 357 in 70 overs. Siddhant Adhatrao and Pranav Kela, both notched up centuries in their form-filled season so far. Karan Shah chipped in with a quick 42 as More scored 32. Ayush Vartak was the pick of the bowlers as he claimed 4 wickets giving away just 74 runs.
MCA Colts were bowled out for 271 in the final over of their innings, thanks to an epic spell from Parikshit Valsangkar who took 6 wickets. Ayush Vartak shined with the bat again as he was unbeaten on a stranded 60. New Hind SC won by the game by 86 in the first round of the Police Shield.
Payyade SC convincingly won against Sind SC in the Police Gymkhana. Payyade SC won the toss and elected to field first. This move proved to be crucial as they were able to bowl out Sind for just 163. Sumit Meher tried his best by contributing 56 towards the total but it wasn’t enough. Badrey Alam claimed 3 wickets in the innings.
Sind SC had no defense as Payyade SC chased down the target in the 31st over itself. Japjeet Randhawa and Fenil Soni both scored 59 a piece to take their to victory.
A low scoring encounter between DY Patil and Islam Gymkhana saw the former prevail in a close game of the Invitational Police Shield. DY Patil elected to bat first and managed only 167 runs on the board as they were bowled out with almost 25 overs in hand. Ex- IPL player Iqbal Abdullah scored crucial 51 in the process as Hitesh Kadam claimed 3 wickets in the first innings.
Islam Gymkhana were put in hot water by Iqbal and Prashant Bhoir who bowled emphatic spells in an attempt to defend the subpar total. Bhoir picked up 3 wickets but it was Iqbal’s 4/17 which secured the game for DY Patil by just 21 runs. Islam had no reply to the incredible bowling of the pair of them.
Islam Gymkhana vs DY Patil
Toss: Dr. D.Y. Patil Sporting Association won the toss and elected to bat
Result: Dr. D.Y. Patil Sporting Association won by 21 runs
Dr. D.Y. Patil Sporting Association- 167/10 in 45.4 overs
(Iqbal Abdullah 51, Hitesh Kadam 3/37)
Islam Gymkhana- 146/10 in 36 overs
(Bhavesh Patel 39, Ameya Dandekar 30, Iqbal Abdullah 4/17,
Prashant Bhoir 3/42)
Parsee Gymkhana narrowly edged out Shivaji Park Gymkhana in the first round of the Invitational Police Shield. After electing to field, SPG bowled out Parsee to a modest 200 in 54 overs. Sachin Yadav high scored with 49 as the middle order collapsed. Yash Dicholkar contributed crucial 45 runs down the order to push the total. An exceptional display of spin bowling saw Mairaj Khan claim 5 wickets, giving away 67 runs in the process. Sumit Markali supported him by picking up 3 wickets.
With a chaseable target in bounds, SPG’s star batsman Sahil Gode scored an emphatic 87 and took the game as deep as possible. Unfortunately, he ran out of partners as SPG was bowled out for 190, 10 runs short than Parsee’s total. Mumbai Ranji Speedster SIddharth Raut claimed 4 wickets as Omkar Mandrekar took 3 SPG wickets.
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Shaurya Sharan produced an emphatic knock of 158 runs playing a mammoth 202 balls by himself to take Swami Vivekanand International School, Kandivali to victory against IES, Mulund in the Elite division of the Harris Shield.
Batting first, SVIS declared the innings with 352 on the board. This huge total was orchestrated by none other than Shaurya Sharan who batted for almost 6 hours to score his runs. With the middle order collapsing, it was him and skipper Swayam Sail’s responsibility to rescue the sinking ship, and they did. Sail notched up a century of his own, scoring 114 in quick time. Mann Koli scalped 4 wickets for the IES in that innings.
Chasing, IES were bundled up for mere 216 runs as Swayam contributed with the ball as well, picking up 3 wickets. With a healthy lead, SVIS sealed the game with a first innings lead in the 2 day contest.
Shaurya’s incredible innings was the result of him training hours to prepare. Apart from the renowned school of SVIS, Sharan trains at the Winz Cricketgraph Academy in Borivali under Coach Vikrant Gupta.
You must know Lockie Ferguson, yes? Big, nippy and wicked Kiwi fast bowler? Imagine hitting him for 3 consecutive sixes in the final over of the innings…. that’s what Shashank Singh did on his first outing for the 2016 IPL Champions, Sunrisers Hyderabad against the recent title holders, Gujarat Titans.
Singh has been in the IPL circuit for almost 5 years now, previously with Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals. Unfortunately after sitting on the sidelines for such a long time, the all-rounder finally got the chance to showcase his skills and prove himself worthy. Making his debut for the Sunrisers Hyderabad against the mighty Chennai Super Kings, Shashank wore the orange jersey on the field but didn’t bat.
SRH was to play the Gujarat Titans on 27th April, 2020. From that day, everyone knew who Shashank Singh was. With well set Aiden Markram, Abhishek Sharma and Windies monster Nicholas Pooran departing under 3 overs, Shashank Singh finally walked in with the bat. With Sundar also finding himself short of the crease, it was up to the pair of Marco Jansen and Chhattisgarh-born Shashank.
At his batting position, Singh is dealt the devil’s deal to face the least number of balls with the responsibility to cause the most carnage. Battling with his nerves, he faced Alzarri Joseph’s 3 balls and scored 7 including a boundary. After facing his much awaited first ball in the IPL, Singh had his nerves calmed and lost in the zone.
With Marco facing the first two balls and changing the strike on the third one, Shashank faced the challenge of hammering one of the fastest bowlers in international cricket, and he did with courage…. pulling the first ball Ferguson bowled for a far maximum over the square leg region!
As if just reacting wasn’t enough, the finisher got creative, walking across his stumps and scooping a ball over fine leg boundary for another six. The New Zealander missing his length as Singh just effortlessly laps the ball.
With two back-to-back sixes, Lockie Ferguson was under pressure to deliver the final ball of the innings. Bowling a half volley, Shashank lofted the ball over the fielder at long off for 3 consecutive sixes! Singh provided the finishing kick which his team desperately needed to reach a competitive total.
Unfortunately, Gujarat sealed the game in a thriller of an IPL contest on the final ball of the game but, who would’ve thought a 4-year benchwarmer could hit 25 runs in just 6 balls by himself against 2 of the best bowlers in the world?
Singh definitely made his mark.
Watch here how Shashank finished of the SRH innings in style:
https://www.iplt20.com/video/43859/m40-gt-vs-srh–match-highlights?tagNames=2022
The highly anticipated Mumbai Cricket Association’s Member’s Premier League Season 3 will commence from the 13th of February in 2023. The tournament is exclusively for the members of the MCA Club at BKC who will compete in competitive games at the Somaiya Cricket Ground. The 2023 league will be harder, better and fiercer than prior seasons.
After the immense success of the previous two editions of the elite competition, the organizing committee are looking to take things to even a higher level this season with more participation from members, awards and much more. The first two seasons were immaculately popular but the upcoming season is tipped to be the best of the lot.
Member’s Premier League Season 3’s Organisers:
- Vijay Singh
- Karan Sharma
- Jitendar Divan
- Vatsal Shah
- Arun Madhu
- Bayside Sports
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