Swami Vivekanada International School took on Rizvi Springfield High School in the Harris Shield Elite Division match on 19th Jan. Winning the toss and electing to bat first, Swami Vivekanada school could only manage to score 172 in 61.4 overs, with Manan Zatakia (42 runs off 85 balls) being the highest scorer. Slow left arm bowler Nabeel Aziz of Rizvi created magic by picking up a fifer and rattled the Swami Vivekananda batting line-up.
In response, Swami Vivekananda bowlers came in hard at Rizvi and dismissed them for 170, taking a small but useful lead of 2 runs. Shoaib Siddique scored a half century but did not receive much support from other batsmen. Swami Vivekananda skipper Hem Patel picked up a five wicket haul and put his team in a strong position.
Anjuman Islam school (English medium) showed their prowess in the Harris Shield when they took on Matunga Premier school on 19th Jan. Three centuries in Anjuman’s innings helped them to post a formidable 497-7 in 71 overs. Patient knock from a blistering performance by Owais Ahmed (117 runs off 75 balls) and an aggressive innings from Shivam Singh (126 runs off 123 balls) was a treat to watch. They smashed the Matunga Premier school bowlers all around the park. Undoubtedly, Anjuman Islam had a wonderful day at office.
First with the bat and then with the ball, Anjuman Islam bowlers had their tails up and ran through Matunga Premier’s batting line-up in no time. Matunga Premier school was bundled out for 160 in 50 overs, thanks to Musheer Khan (3 wickets) and Ravi (4 wickets). Anjuman boys enforced follow-on as they were ahead by a huge margin of 337 runs. At the end of Day 2, Matunga Premier school was 16 for no loss in 6 overs.
Team KCD lost tamely to Lohana holidays in the final league match making way for Vardaan Warriors to the semifinals.
Winning the toss and electing to bat Team KCD once again did not bat the full quota of 40 overs and were all out for 211 runs in 37.5 overs .Nainesh Parikh (26 runs in 35 balls ) at top of the order gave them a decent start but none other batsman could stay at the wicket and build on decent partnerships. Nishant Mahidhar was pik of the bowlers for Lohana Holidays picking up 4 wickets
The Highlight of the innings was the batting of Jai jethwani who batted brilliantly for his 67 runs in 73balls (10 fours)and his partnership with Amish Modi (34 Runs of 38 balls ) which help Team KCD put up a decent score of 211 runs .
Chasing the total lohana holidays opening pair of Nitesh shah and Amit Shah got the team of to a steady start ..but lost quick wickets further into the game ,Captain nikhil Dodhi played a quick fire 23 runs but could not last for more than 14 balls and soon lohanas seemed to be in trouble and were 109 runs for 06 in 18 overs .
A 104 runs partnership between Khalid Mulani (61 runs ) & Rajesh Mehta 40 runs sealed the fate for Team KCD and lohana holidays won the match with 4 wkts and reached the target in 35.1 overs
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The semifinals are lined up as follows
1st Semifinal – 23 Rd Jan 2016
Lohana holidays vs Team Omtex
2nd semifinal – 24th Jan 2016
Terabyte Infosys vs Vardaan Warriors.
Ycc – Symbol of Unity! !
Put into bat first ..Ecm logistics posted a defendable total of 304 in the stipulated 40 overs. Opening the batting Tushar Gandhi ( 57 runs ) and dipesh goradia (27 runs ) gave the team a solid start and was was followed by a brilliant century by Jay Bhatt 109 runs of 82 balls with 10 fours and 5 sixes who set the momentum to put up a big score .Dipesh thakkar( 34 runs of 24 balls ) ,Anir Thakkar(29 runs of 16 balls )& Bhagwaan pania (14 runs of 4 balls) Ambrish Mehta 10 runs of 3 balls too contributed in setting up the 303 runs in the 40 overs with the loss of 6 wickets .
Chasing 304 to win ..Terabyte lost Opening batsman Satyen to Ambrish Mehta in the 4 th ball of the innings .Umesh vaghasiya with Sandeep Bharucha steadied the innings before Sandeep got out to Anir thakkar stumped by Dipesh behind the wickets after scoring 28 runs .Vimal (65 runs of 52 balls )who came in to bat at no 4 had a long partnership with man of the match Umesh vaghasiya(83 runs of 83 balls) before both of them got out in the same over to Kishore jethwani with score close to 200 runs . Varun (18 runs of 10 balls ).Jigar Shah (16 runs of 06 balls ) Chintan (23 runs of 11 balls ) all three played little unexpected camoes and scored 53 runs amongst them before getting out to take the score closer to the winning mark…With Front line batsman Kapil sota captain Mitesh Rawal and Rahul khicha yet to bat it seemed a catwalk to score run a ball ,but not before few hiccups as Captain Mitesh and Rahul khicha got out very cheaply towards the end ,but Kapil being an experienced player took the team to victory in the last over to qualify for the semifinals. ..
Ycc -Symbol of Unity! !
Jitendra Panchal’s 49 – ball -69 runs was the major stand out in the match between Capgemini and Orange Adevertising in the Milan Cup.
Requiring 155 to win, Cap boys were off to a good start mainly due to brilliant knock by their opening batsman, Jitendra Panchal who looked in great touch. When it looked like Jitendra will take his team to a victory he was out, 6th wicket to fall in the Capgemini’s innings with 145 on board. Capgemini lost 2 more wickets as the match got tensed. But finally they managed to achieve the target for the loss of 8 wickets with 2 balls to spare.
Rakesh Puthran gave a solid performance with both bat and ball as Hav solution defeated Global connect easily by 86 runs in the Milan Trophy here in Mumbai.
Batting first, Hav Solution scored massive 187 in their 20 overs, mainly due to Rakesh’s 29 ball 50 and Saurabh Mehta’s 53. Rakesh also did well with the ball picking up 3 wickets for just 22 runs in his 3 overs. Global Connects innings lasted just 14.4 overs and bundled out for 101 runs.
Rakesh was declared Man of the Match for 4 wickets haul to go with a fine half century.
There were some fireworks at Multiply Ground (Cross Maidan) on Saturday when Airtel boys smashed Assets Management Services all over the park in one of the T20 matches of the on-going Milan T20 Mega Corporate Cricket League 2015-16. Winning the toss and electing to bat first, Airtel put on board a formidable 256-3, courtesy Jitesh Purabia’s splendid innings of 108 (Fours:5 and Sixes:11) coming off just 48 balls. Kalpesh Mehta (43* off 19) and Mayur More (45* off 18) also joined the party with quick cameos towards the end of the innings. There was nothing to cheer about for Assets Management Services bowlers, apart from Huzefa who picked up two wickets.
In response, Assets Management Services managed to score 141-5 in their 20 overs, falling short of a mammoth 115 runs. Manish (49) and Seemar (41) looked in good touch but did not receive much support from the rest of the batting line-up. Sharad Gandhi (2-33) and Mayur More (2-10) shined with the ball providing regular breakthroughs to Airtel. Jitesh Purabia was adjudged as the man of the match for his scintillating century.
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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The run machine Sujit Nayak, stayed true to his reputation and scored second consecutive century in the ongoing Purushottam shield. It was a swash buckling performance by Sujit that saw boundaries and sixes being scored at all corners of the ground.
M.I.G won the toss and decided to filed first or in other words M.I.G team involuntarily decided to watch Sujits batting performance. Cricket Club of India (CCI) scored 310 in allotted 70 overs which saw Sujit score another unbeaten 163 off only 169 balls with 13 fours and 8 Sixes. Vinit Indulkar performance was slightly overshadowed who chipped in with valuable 45 runs.
M.I.G team scored 297 /7 in 67 overs . Though this match was technically drawn however M.I.G club won on better quotient.
The day and the tournament belonged to Sujit whose performance in Purushottam has been incredible so far and has scored 413 runs in the entire tournament.
VS Karnatak Sporting Association – 55 Runs | VS Parel Sporting Club – 95 Runs |
VS DY Patil Sports Academy 100 Runs | Vs MIG – 163* Runs
The 2nd Tikalal Taploo tournament finale took place between two of the best teams of the tournament, Koshur Cricket Club and Vytesta Cricket club.
It was a deserving final match as it had many ups and downs. Chasing a good target of 165 runs set by Koshur Cricket Club, Vytesta Cricket club lost 4 early wickets but it was Sandeep Kaul who not only steadied the ship but also kept up with the required run rate. Vinny gave very good support with valiant 36. Sandeep Kaul remained unbeaten on 80 off 63 balls as he saw his team through with 4 balls and 4 wickets remaining.
Vytesta are the new champions of the Taploo Tournament.
Sandeep Kaul was not only adjudged Man of the Match but he also grabbed awards for best bowler and Man of the Series:
Nikhil Raina was the best Batsman and best wicketkeeper scoring 200 runs and accounting for 12 dismissals:
Best Fielder was Amit Qazi :
Runner up team :
