Gaurav Kurkute’s quickfire 87 helps Achievers SC defeat Vijaychandra Club in the Kurla Bapat Tournament

It was a competitive encounter between Vijaychandra Cricket Club vs Achievers Cricket Club at Bengal Cricket Ground, Shivaji park in Mumbai. Achievers SC won the toss and elected to field first as they have good bowlers in their arsenal and put VCC under pressure.

Batting first, Vijaychandra Club were off to a great start where Rohan Bhosale and Aman Suraiya stitched a great partnership. Rohan & Aman gave a good start where both the batsman scored 37(25) & 38(29) respectively. Both the openers were outright aggressive and counter attacked the bowlers at will. However, the rest of the batsman could not capitalize the good start given by the openers. Vijaychandra eventually reached 143/9 in 20 overs whereas they could have easily reached 170/180 if the other batsman had fired. Praful Devkate (2/22) and Sumedh kamble(2/8) were the pick of the bowlers taking 2 wickets each. Ashwin & Abhay also bowled well taking a wicket each.

Chasing 144, Achievers Cricket Club chased wonderfully and won the match by 9 wkts & 8.5 overs to spare. Opener Gaurav Kurkute was the pick of the batsman who scored an entertaining 87* coming off just 39 balls. Skipper Gaurav Kurkute played a captain’s knock & was hitting the ball nicely in all the parts of the ground. It was a complete knock which had every shot in the books right from pulls, cover drives, hooks & lofted shots to enthrall his team and the spectators. Gaurav also got good support from Hitesh who scored a quick 39 which included a massive six over midwicket off a medium pacer.

Achievers SC won the match comfortably in style & Gaurav Kurkute was adjudged ‘man of the match’ for his fabulous batting. Cricketgraph wishes Gaurav keeps batting like this & continues his good form with the bat for a lot more matches to come.