Islam Gymkhana opting to bat first at on their homeground notched up a more than decent total of 314/10 in 67.4 overs. Despite some early setbacks with 2 quick wickets, it was Hashir Dafedar at no.4 scoring a brilliant 139 off 186 balls. An innings where he displayed a lot of composure, hashir smashed 15 fours and 2 sixes while also stitched a crucial 112 run stand for the 4th wicket Mihir Agarwal who scored 68 off 79 balls. Fast bowler Harshal Soni was bang on taking 5/75 in 16.4 overs coupled with 2 maidens. Krutik Hanagawadi with 4/93 was also impressive.
CCI (Cricket Club of India) on the other hand despite two solid half centuries by Nishad Gabhawala (73) and Ajinkya Patil (83) lacked support from the other end with as many as players getting out in single digits. From the bowlers, it was their left arm quickster Irfan Mallick cleaning up the middle to order with a fiery spell of 6/67 in 13 overs. While Javed and Harsh Mishra bagged some important top order wickets, it was Irfan doing the job perfectly in removing the middle and lower order of CCI team restricting them to 244/10 in 46.3 overs.
Result-Islam Gymkhana won by 70 runs
JOLLY FRIEND SPORTS MATUNGA 1 PREMIER LEAGUE 2019-20: Team OSM played consecutive matches on 28th and 29th of December 2019. On 28th they were up against ALL Stars, where they were put to bat first. No.4 batsman Patrick Allen scored a fiery knock of 63 runs off 28 balls but the real star was No.7 wicket keeper batsman Rohan Dsouza who bludgeoned the bowlers with a rocket innings of 80 runs off just 28 deliveries. He scored 6 sixes and 7 fours. They scored 225 runs in 20 overs. All stars also competed very well and came very close to the target. The OSM bowlers lacked the effectiveness on the day but still won by 13 runs.
Click here for OSM VS All Star Match full scorecard ….
On 29th, they locked horns with AACRO. Once again they were put to bat first. Opener Ketan chaudhari turned the National cricket club ground into hunting ground and in the course plundered the bowlers, scoring an unbelievable 108 runs off 41 balls. He along with Sadanand Poojary (73 off 39) and Sandeep Gadiyar (56 offr 20) butchered the AACRO bowling attack. Despite a damp wicket, the two openers Ketan and Sadanand maintained the positive flow. They scored a mammoth total of 282 runs in 20 overs.
AARCO batting line up failed to put up a credible fight except Ritesh who scored 49 runs off 45 balls. Leaving aside one decent score it was a bad day for the AARCO players. OSM experimented with a lot of bowlers courtesy the huge cushion of runs. Nadim picked up a 3-wicket haul. They restricted the opposition for 138 runs and picked up 7 wickets.
Result – OSM won by 144 runs.
Click here for OSM VS Aacro Match full scorecard ….
Tournament conducted by Suraj Samat- President of the SKP Athletic Club
We often miss the fact that there are very few professional T20 Tournaments at the corporate level. There should be more tournaments conducted in a professional manner which would indirectly give more opportunities and platform to perform for the players while improve the standard of local and corporate level cricket. Amidst all that, here comes Suraj Samat who has taken the initiative to host a Corporate T20 Tournament with a big Cash Prize of Rs 6,00,000/-. This is for the 1st time, a big T20 Tournament at Corporate level is conducted with such a big cash prize which will be conducted in the most professional manner.
Samat T20 Cup will soon begin from 15th of January 2019 and it’s bound to witness some exciting matches and individual performances. It’s a knockout T20 Tournament approved by MCA and the finals will be played on 6th of February.
The tournament is open for all the 77 registered Corporate Office Clubs who play in Times Shield & other corporate tournaments. The matches will be conducted on various grounds of Mumbai.
The winning team wins a whopping cash prize of Rs 6,00,000/- and the Runner Up Team wins a cash prize of Rs 3,00,000/- . The Best Bowler and the Best Batsman will be awarded INR 50,000/- while there is a 25,000/- Cash Prize for the catch of the tournament. The Man of the series wins a whopping Rs 1 lakh + Trophy. The icing on the cake will be the live Youtube streaming of the semi-finals and finals. Playing T-shirts to be provided by the organizers while 2 helmets and 2 pair of Cricket pads will be provided to every team during the matches.
WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TOURNAMENT? Click on the link below-
Only Clubs/Team from this list can Participate
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Mumbai Municipal Kreeda Bhavan |
| Municipal Co.op Bank Emp, Rec. Club |
| National Textile Corpn. Sports Club |
| New India Assurance Sports Club |
| Oriental InsuranceSports Club |
| Mumbai Port trust Sport Club |
| N. Jamnadas & Co. Group Sports Club |
| Oriental Fire & General Insurance Co. Ltd., (Unit: Jupiter S.C.) |
| Reserve Bank Of India Sports Club |
| Shipping Corpn. Of India Ltd., |
| Sachivalaya Gymkhana |
| Standard Charted Bank Sports Club |
| Mafatlal Cricket Club |
| Tata Motors Cricket Club |
| Western Railway Traffic Sports Club |
| Zandu Sports Club |
| Chowgule Sports Club |
| Canteen Stores Department Sports – Club Adelphi |
| Tata Power Co. Ltd. |
| The Saraswat bank Kala Krida Mandal |
| Times Of India Sports Club |
| United India Sports and Rec. Club |
| Western Railway A/cs S. Club |
| Tata Sports Club |
| Times Of India C.S.T Committee |
| Union Bank Sports Club |
| Western Railway Sports Association |
| Life Insuarance Corporation of India SC |
| M.S.R.T.C Sports Club |
| Maharashtra State Co. bank SC |
| Mumbai Customs Sports Club |
| Acountant Generals Office |
| B ArunkumarSports Club |
| Bank of Maharashtra Sports Club |
| Bharat Petoleum (M) Sports Club |
| Bank of India Sports Club |
| BEST Arts and Sports Club |
| Bombay High Court Sports Club |
| Central Bank Recreation Club |
| Central Railway Sports Association |
| Dena Bank Sports Club |
| Bombay Mercantile Co-p bank LTD |
| Century Rayon Cricket Club |
| Construction Emplyee’s Rec. Club |
| Shapoorji Pallonji Group S.C |
| Hindustan Petroleum Club |
| Income Tax Sports& Rec. Club |
| Indian Navy Sports Control Board |
| General Insurance Corporation S. C |
| HDFC Sports Club |
| IDBI Sport Club |
| Naval Dockyard Cricket Club |
| P.D. Hunduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre |
| State Bank Of India Sports Club |
| RCF Sports Club |
| Air Frieght Ltd. |
| Krushi Udyog S. C |
| Nirlon Sports Club |
| Mazagaon Dock Sports Club |
| Hindustan Unilever Sports Club |
| M.M.T.C. Recreation Club |
| Air India Sports Club |
| BARC Staff Club |
| Bhavishya Nidhi Staff Cricket Club |
| Air India Sports Club (WR) |
| Indian Oil Coorporation Ltd. S. Club |
SPORTSZONE T20 (JFSC) PUNE CRICKET TOURNAMENT 2019-20: MES cricket club played two consecutive matches on the 29th of December 2019, the first one was against EQ Technologies and second versus Rising vision. Both the matches were held at Verroc, vengsarkar, Cricket Ground, Pune.
The league match against EQT was a cakewalk for MES Cricket Club. After winning the toss, EQT scored mere 35 runs and the MESCC openers finished the job in 4.1 overs. Rehan Khan and Afroz Shaikh picked up 3 wickets each.
Result – MESSC won by 10 wickets.
Click here for MES Cricket Club VS EQ Technologic match full scorecard ….
The league match was followed by the quarterfinal encounter between MES Cricket Club and Rising vision. Rising vision won the toss to bat first and in fact they were also dominated by the MESCC bowlers. With the highest of 20 by Kesarsingh Thapa, Rising vision were reasonably able to put up 108 runs in 20 overs losing 9 wickets. They had 3 run outs in their innings. Hari Sawant picked up couple wickets for the MESCC.
MESCC had a decent opening partnership of 32 to lay the foundation. Opener Swapnil Walunj scored a responsible 34 off 35 and Rohit Hadake (41 0ff 38) was the highest scorer in the line up. They lost 3 wickets in the process. In the end, it was an extremely clinical performance by the MESCC bowlers and batsmen during the whole day.
Result – MESCC won the match against Rising vision by & wickets.
Click here for MES Cricket Club VS Rising vision match full scorecard ….
Thane Mahanagar Palika and Mumbai Cricket Association to jointly host the Mumbai vs Bengal game of the 44TH Col CK Naydu Tournament at the iconic Dadaji Konddev Stadium. It will be the Group B Elite Game where our Dadaji Konddev stadium will again come to light on India’s Map.
Dadaji Konddev Stadium which is completely renovated will be inaugurated by Former India Captain Dilip Vengsarkar and Thane Mayor Naresh Mhaske. The stadium was okayed by a BCCI inspection team and the wicket is prepared by none other than the experienced Nadeem Memon who is a Wankhede Stadium curator and MCA Apex Council Committee Member. This has also been possible because of MCA Apex Council Member Vihang Sarnaik who is the son of MLA Pratap Sarnaik from Thane. The ground was renovated under Thane Municipal Corporation with a budget of 5-6 crores.
The 1st Ranji Trophy Match at Dadaji Konddev Stadium was conducted on 4th to 6th December, 1982 between Mumbai vs Baroda and the scoring was done by Thane Friendship Cricket Club’s Vivek Morekar who manually maintained the scoring of a first class game without a single mistake!
About Col CK Nayadu Trophy-
The Indian Cricket Committee for the 1st time had organized U22 CK Naydu Tournament in 1974-75 and then it was directly conducted in 1986-87 where it was conducted in the U19 age group. Followed by that, CK Nayadu was made U22 in 2004 and now it is conducted in the U23 Format. Since the last 44 years, this prestigious tournament is conducted non-stop which has given our country many top first class and International Cricketers.
Dadaji Konddev Stadium Pics-
Tournament Supported by: IDBI Bank, LIC, Bank of India & Kalyandas Memorial Foundation
Into the all important finals between Evergreen SC and Mumbai Police Gymkhana the Shivaji Park Dadar, Evergeen SC opting to bat first declared their innings at 142/10 in 61.5 overs. With most of the batsman struggling, it was Meet Jain top scoring with 35 runs. From the bowlers, prime spinner Zentih Sachdev with 5/44 in 26 overs & 11 maidens was the pick of the lot while Rehan and Atif Khan bagged 2 wkts each.
Mumbai Police Gymkhana in reply declared their innings at 159/9 with opener Utsav Koti top scoring with 66 off 120 balls (13 fours) and all-rounder Atif Khan scoring 38 runs at the middle order. Kush Yadav bowled a brilliant spell of 6/59 in 23.3 overs with 6 maiden overs being the pick of the bowlers for Evergreen SC.
Evergreen SC in 2nd innings declared their innings at 105/8 in 31.4 overs with Zenith bagging another 4 wkts in the 2nd innings as Evergreen Club gave a target of 89 runs which Police Gymkhana chased down in just 19.3 overs. Utsav Koti (29*) & Hiral Panchal (59*) remained unbeaten as Police Gymkhana won the finals lifting the prestigious Sontosh Kumar Ghosh Trophy’19
Chief Guests who atteneded the finals- Dilip Vengsarkar, Sanjay Patil, Sanjay Naik, Unmesh Khanvilkar, Deepak Murkar, Deepak Patil, Abhay Hadap & Jaydeep Pal
Ground-Vengsarkar Academy, Mahul
DSP opting to bat first posted a total of 164/6 in 20 overs. Opener Hitesh Gurjar who is known for his aggressive brand of batting top scored with 45 off 27 balls. From the bowlers, Akshay Sawale (2/9) & Mehul Kanakia (2/30) were the pick of the lot.
Chasing 149, the foundation of the chase for Dynamites was laid down by openers Nauman Memon and Shahen Mistry who stitched an 83 run opening stand under 10 overs. Nauman scored a confident 31 ball 40 while Shahen scored 35 off 40 balls as Dynamites completed the chase successfully with Pratik Sheth (28*) & Aditya Gupta (19*) finishing off in style in 17.3 overs.
Result–Dynamites win by 8 wkts, Nauman Menon declared ‘man of the match”
Into the final match of the season, Kandivali Cricket Association batting first at Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana were all out for 120 runs. Mahesh Tamore’s 36 at no.9 was the highest score in an otherwise dismal batting performance. Wellington bowlers did well with almost every bowler chipping in right from Furquan Charolia (3/32), Vaibhav Patil (2/10), Sajid Shaikh (2/23) & Aniket Khadpe (2/26).
Wellington CC in reply chased down the 1st innings total with ease thanks to a brilliant 75* off 86 balls by all-rounder Vaibhav Patil at no.3. Wellington CC declared their innings at 135/6 in 28 overs winning the match on 1st innings lead. In the 2nd innings, Kandivali C.A were 91/8 at the end of the game’s play with Vaibhav Patil taking 4/20 and Aniket Khadpe taking 3 wkts.
With 19 points in 9 games, Wellington CC under skipper Sagar Shah sit at the top of the table becoming the winners of D Div Kanga League getting promoted to C Div in the next year’s edition of the prestigious Kanga League
Top Run Getters-
- Vedprakash Jaiswal (New Hindu CC)-344 runs in 8 innings @49.14
- Ninad Borkar (Matunga Gymkhana)-281 runs in 10 innings @28.10
- Pratik Patil (New Hindu CC)-256 runs in 8 innings @32.00
Top Wicket-takers
- Amol Patil (MB Union)-39 wkts in 15 innings @10.00
- Yogesh Dicholkar (Matunga Gymkhana)-38 wkts in 9 innings @10.00
- Digvijay Singh (Amar CC)-36 wkts in 9 innings @8.00
Ground-Bengal Club, Shivaji Park, Dadar
Friends Union CC opting to bat first posted a total of 230/10 in 43.3 overs. Even though most of the batters found it difficult to get going, it was Nirav Bheda at no.3 scoring a confident 91 off just 84 balls (10 fours, 1 six). Vishal Shah at no.6 also chipped in well scoring a quick 29 ball 47. From the bowlers, spinner Keval Vakhariya with 4/44 and quickster Prathamesh Mahale with 4/33 in 8.3 overs were the best bowlers from Young Friends CC.
Chasing 231, Young Friends CC did face a few hiccups with the top order back to pavilion with just 70-75 runs on board. However, it was a match winning partnership between of 103 runs for the 5th wicket between Rohan Kadam (60 off 62) and Kartike Savla (67* off 66) which changed the game for Young Friends CC. Kartike owned the day with all-round performance as he stitched another unbeaten stand of 57* with Hritik Jadhav (28*) as they successfully chased down the total in 40.5 overs with 5 wkts in hand.
Result-Young Friends CC win the match by 5 wkts
Venue-Yashwant Nagar Cricket Ground, Virar
After being put to bat first, Kings XI Virar posted a very healthy total of 160/4 in 16 overs. Opener Sumukh Pai top scored for his team scoring a quickfire 74 off just 45 balls (8 fours, 3 sixes) while he also had a good partnership with Mayur Mangela whose 22 ball cameo of 40 ensured the team reached a big total.
Defending 161, it was off-spinner Naresh Pardeshi leading the bowlers department as he came up with envious bowling figures of 6/17 in 4 overs restricting Dream Team Virar to 101/9 in 16 overs. Naresh was spot on in his spell as bowling figures like these are nothing but impressive in a T20 Format. Naresh also got support from his co-bowlers who ensured the opposition team was not allowed to score runs freely.
Result-Kings XI Virar win by 59 runs and Naresh Pardeshi declared “Player of the match”