Edifice CC yet again wins the AT20 Season 4 Championship
The Finals of the AT20 Season IV was played on 15th Jan 2016 Friday, at The Dilip Vengsarkar Academy at Mahul , Chembur.
It was between this season’s two good teams SSA and EDIFICE
Naveen of Edifice won the toss and invited SSA to bat.Mahesh and Naveen bowled a tight first 5 overs and SSA were 8 runs in 5 overs . Hitesh Gujar of SSA cut loose subsequently and in a matter of 3 overs SSA’s score dramatically jumped to 42/1 . Hitesh held on to one end and Team Edifice kept knocking at the other end.
Heth of Edifice changed the game dramatically in the 13th over ….he picked up wickets in 3rd , 4th and 6th deliveries and SSA were reduced to 74 for 6 at the end of 13th . In the last ball of the 16th over Ravi picked up Hitesh Gujar who was caught well in the deep by Sandeep and SSA were tottering at 85-9 and their innings folded at 93 in 17.3 overs with Sandeep picking up the last man
Heth had a dream spell of 4-1-9-5 and the other bowlers had the following figures :
Ravi 4-1-24-2 | Mahesh 3-1-8-0 | Naveen 4-1-27-0 | Sandeep 2.3-0-22-1
Hitesh Gujar was the top scorer with 54 runs in 45 balls with 6 boundaries and 3 towering 6s.Mr.Extras was the second highest for SSA 20 runs (w 15, nb 2, lb 3)
None of the other batsmen in SSA scored more than 6 runs individually. SSA set a target of 94 runs in their allotted 20 overs and an average of 4.7 runs per over.
Tushar Koli and Mahesh Hirpara opened for Edifice and Mahesh in his 7 ball inning went berserk and scored 17 runs with 2 boundaries and a towering 6 . He perished early to a lofted shot and could have curbed his shot . At this moment ECPL were 22/1 .At 5.1 overs Tushar got bowled by their left hand bowler D Redij and the scored read 38 / 2 and Tushar in his brief stay of 12 balls scored 12 runs with 3 boundaries. At the end of 7th over Sumeet perished and he contributed 5 runs in his 16 ball innings with one hit to the boundary. The score at this point read 44 for 3 . Ravi and Amit later steadied the innings.
Ravi got out to an individual knock of 11 in 18 balls with two boundaries and at that point the scored read 79 for 4 . Sandeep had a short stay at the wicket and perished early scoring 6 runs in 5 balls with one boundary . Fourteen overs had been bowled then and the score read 86 for 5 .Naveen finished the match in 15.3 overs with a towering 6 and Edifice piled up 98 .
Naveen remained unbeated with 7 in 5 balls with a towering six of the last ball and Amit remained unbeaten with 32 of 30 balls with six boundaries. H Gujar and D Redij were the pick of the bowlers for SSA.
H Gujar finished his quota with 4-1-11-1 and D Redij with 3-0-19-1
Gaurav Koli ( ECPL ‘s Tushar’s brother and playing for SSA ) did not have a great match . He was bowled for a duck by Heth and in his bowling finished with 3-0-32-2
Great Team Effort by Team ECPL to pick the cup consecutively for two years
They also won a cheque for Rs.4,00,000.00 as winners .
This tournament would not have happened if there was no support from all of the sponsors . A big thank you to all of you personally .
Article Courtesy – Mr. Ramji Sarangan
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