Samruddha Bharat Sangh organized SBS corporate Cricket tournament 2015. All league matches completed last weekend. Click here to view the journey so far.
Coming weekend would be various knock out games as displayed below. SBS cordially invites one and all cricket lovers to grace the occasion with your presence and cheer the cricketers as they look to win the finale.
Date : 27th December 2015
Venue : Purandare Stadium, Opposite Chitra Cinema, Dadar (East)
Tennis Cricket Tournament :
1st Semifinal : 10 AM: Boehringer Ingelheim Vs. Intelliswift
2nd Semifinal : 11 AM: Sodexho Vs. Onida
Final : 12 PM
Leather Cricket : 1:30 PM: Sodexho Vs. Hindustan Times.
Presentation Ceremony : 5 PM
Wishing good luck to all finalist!!!
Anjuman Islam Allana Public school, CST easily beat well known Shardashram school by 128 runs in their opening match of the Harris Shield Cup
Rohit Purabia first scored 77 runs while batting enabling his school, SKI Jain high school(marine line ) post a decent 224 all out against Dr. Ambedkar high school ( Vikhroli).
He was not done yet as he took 6 wickets of Dr. Ambedkar’s. Dr. Ambedkar were all out in just 39 runs within the 12 th over. Rohit missed out on a hattrick but managed to get a over hattrick (3 wickets in an over)
SkI school won by 179 runs against Dr.Ambedkar schools
Oxford public school – Kandivali batting first against Dyankendra school Andheri in the Harris Shield tournament scred a healthy 318 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 43 overs.
Gyankendra batting simply collapsed against a decent attack scoring only 29 runs all out lasting only 9 overs. Thus Oxford school won by handsome margin of 289 runs.
There were many stars for Oxford as displayed below:
Well known school for Cricket Fatima played their first match of Harris shield 2015 -16 against Madhavrao Bhagvat school ( vile parle)
Madhavrao school scored a poor 79 runs all out lasting only 26 overs. Nekh Karkal of Fatima was the chief destroyer, picking up 5 wickets in his spell of 8 overs conceding only 20 runs.
Fatima achieved the desired target in just 14 overs but losing 5 wickets in the process. Yash Suvarna scored 37 not out while Nirav Kanchan scored 14.
Nekh of Fatima was chosen MoM.
Hanumant Matkar of Ajanta Pharma scored a classy century in the Dreamz 40 over tournament against CEX. Batting first Ajanta Pharma, riding on 110 of Hanumant Matkar 262 for 5. Hanumant took only 84 deliveries for his 110 and remained unbeaten accelerating innings at the right time. He was well complemented by Haresh Jadhav.
CEX reply was lackluster. Apart from Nitesh Lund and Zul. Shaikh none could even cross 10 runs. Nitesh scored 45 while Shaikh contributed with 14. Hanumant showed what he is capable of with ball, picking up 5 wickets giving away just 5 runs.
Hanumant was declared MoM !!!
Match 1: Arch Mavericks Vs Avengers : Mavericks win by 1 run
The first match of Super 8 stage between Arch Mavericks and Avengers. It was a low scorer and the team holding their nerves finally won in the nail biter.
Arch Mavericks scored below par score of 98 runs all out in 17 overs. Both Khushru Irani and Malushte scored 20 runs each while others couldn’t cross the 10 digit mark. For Avengers Chavda took 4 wickets while Kulkarni accounted for 3.
Khushru bowled his heart out claiming 5 wickets giving away only 17 runs and thus derailing Avengers chase. Avengers needed 4 runs off last over with 2 wickets in hand but could score only 3 runs and lost the remaining 2 wickets, handing a narrow 1 run victory to Arch Mavericks.
Khushru was declared MoM.
Match 2: SSA Strikers Vs. Sankalpan : Strikers win by 19 runs
Brief Scores: SSA Strikers : 140 for 8 (Gujar 40, Hiremath 29, Nakhwa 3 wickets for 17)
Sankalpan : 121 for 8 ( Nakhwa 48, Joshi 22, Redij 3 wickets, Koli 2 wickets)
Man of the Match: Gujar from Strikers
Match 3: Hellbenders Vs. United XI : Hellbenders win by 16 runs
Brief Scores : Hellbenders : 156 for 9 (Khatri 71, Chavda 26, Vineet 4 for 26)
United XI : 140 for 8 ( Kamlesh 49, Vineet 23, Kansara 2 for 28)
Man of the Match: Chinmay Khatri from Hellbenders
ICICI batted first against Deutsche in the first semifinal of Woods T20 Mega Corporate trophy. ICICI lost their opening batsman Aniket Mane for a naught. But it was the other opener Anant who remained unbeaten scoring 92 runs, hitting 12 boundaries and 2 sixes. ICICI posted healthy 184 for 4.
180 + was always a difficult chase in a semi final. Deutsche got a good opening stand but it was Anant again, this time with the ball who was the chief destroyer. Anant claimed fifer in his 3 over spell. In the end Deutsche gave a good fight but fell short by 15 runs.
There were no surprises as Anant from ICICI was named Man Of the Match for classy all round show.
Click here for complete scoresheet.
The run out of Ritesh Somani at a crucial stage cost the game for Standard Chartered Bank. The quarter final played at Venus ground between Standard Chartered and Route SMS turned out to be one sided once Ritesh who hit 4 blistering sixes got run out.
Having put in to bat Standard could manage to post only 102 runs on the board and failed to finish their quote of 20 overs. Ritesh Somani top scored with 28 while Vaibhav Sane scored 21. For Route Bhavik and Siddharth took 3 wickets each.
Standard fell short by at least 40 runs and Route batsmen didn’t show any signs of nervousness of a quarterfinal as they easily achieved the target in the 14th over.
Please click here for complete scorecard.
Bhavik Patel of Route was declared MoM for fine bowling spell.
A solid batting display by Captain Hemang Shah of Kcd group , Steady innings by Krunal Sheth and cameo by Yatin Oza Help KCD set up a defendable total of 219 runs in 39.1 overs at Poisar Gymkhana.
Ecm never got going with captain Hemang Shah bowled out Kishore jethwani & Bhagwaan pania cheaply .Dipesh thakkar & Jay bhatt tried to steady the ship but all in vain as they were bowled out for 121 runs in 26 overs ….
Hemang Shah all round performance 74 runs of 54 balls and 3 wickets won him the man of the match award .
Click here for complete scorecard of the match.
Here are some pictures from post match ceremony.
