Played between Bombay Mercantile and Western Railway Teams, Western Railway batting first posted a handsome total of 182/3 in 20 overs. Opener Deepak Kumar went all guns blazing hitting a brilliant 128* off mere 70 balls. Not only was this the 1st ton of the Samat T20 Cup, this knock was also quite blazing as he tore apart bowlers with quite some confidence smashing 14 fours and 6 sixes.
Deepak shared with Cricketgraph– “I usually bat lower down the order but thanks to the faith and support instilled by our team Captain Chandras Manchekar, i was promoted to open the innings and it worked quite well”
Skipper Manchekar further quipped- “Deepak is one hard working player who specially travels from Haryana to pursue cricket in Mumbai. The amount of hard work and consistent performances he puts made him worthy to get promoted up the order & i personally believe in supporting young talents. Hence sending him to open the innings worked wonders for the team & what better way than to get the 1st hundred of Samat Cup! “
Bombay Mercantile in reply managed to score only 148/4 in 20 overs as Western Railways won the match by 34 runs while Deepak Kumar declared “Man of the Match”
Played between Gokuldham High School and Don Bosco at the Cross Maidan Ground, Gokuldham team posted a total of 274 runs in 45 overs. No.3 batsman Roneet Thakur top scored with 69 runs while Mitra Parab at the middle order scored 45 runs. From the bowlers, Subodh Salgavkar was the pick of the lot with 4/29 in 8 overs.
Don Bosco School in reply were all out for 94 runs thanks to a superb spell of spin bowling by Khush Jain. Khush provided wickets at regular intervals coming up with excellent bowling figures of 6/15 in 8.1 overs coupled with 3 maidens.
Result: Gokuldham School won the match by 180 runs
Played between KES College and Nirmala College at the Elphinstone Ground (Azad Maidan), KES team batting first posted a big total of 283/5 in 40 overs. Opener Mihir Agarwal was the top scorer for KES scoring an impressive looking 119* off 100 balls. Mihir looked confident as he kept the scoreboard ticking wile batted till the very end. Darab K at no.5 also played a good innings of 69 runs stitching a good partnership with Mihir before he faced an untimely run out.
Nirmala College in reply were all out for 115 runs thanks to a some tight bowling by the KES bowlers who provided a collective good performance helping KES win by a big margin of 168 runs.
Kiran Desai who is the HOD for Cricket Department at Vibgyor High School was already an ICC Level 1 Certified Cricket Coach and more recently he has also successfully completed ICC Level 2 Coaching Certification.
Speaking with Cricketgraph, Kiran shared “On achieving this success i can now aiming to deliver cricket coaching sessions and provide directions to other upcoming coaches where in we can plan, establish and maintain a safe coaching environment and with our support we can also deliver appropriate activities for our players, this will also help us understand how to evaluate our own coaching practice.
Therefore in future if at all any guidance or support required for any type of training sessions or to plan domestic or international tournaments, cricketers can reach out to me”
Mumbai, January 24: Jude Singh knock of 69 runs was the feature of Mumbai Customs 78 runs victory against Naval Dockyard in a first round match of the Samat T20 Cup cricket tournament and played at the Goregaon Sports Club on Friday.
Electing to bat first Mumbai Customs scored 233 for the loss of five wickets from their 20 overs. Besides Jude Singh classy innings, Vikrant Auti (49) and Parag Khanapurkar (46) propped the total.
Naval Dockyard were restricted to 155 for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Rajesh Gohil (49) and Shilkesh Sakhalkar (40) were the only batsmen to get some runs, while Customs bowler Shivaji Yadav (3/22) was responsible for restricting the opposition batsmen.
Jude Singh was later declared “Man of the match”
Brief scores: Mumbai Customs 233 for 5 in 20 overs (Jude Singh 69, Vikrant Auti 49, Parag Khanapurkar 46; Prashant Jadhav 2/37) beat Naval Dockyard155 for 6 in 20 overs (Rajesh Gohil 49, Shilkesh Sakhalkar 40; Shivaji Yadav 3/22) by 78 runs. Man of the match: Jude Singh (Mumbai Customs).
Central railway 174 for 3 in 20 overs (Sanjog Binkar 74, Vinit Dhaka 50) beat E-Merc Sports Club 104 all out in 15.1 overs (Atul Nevarekar 31; Vinit Dhulap 3/18) by 70 runs. Man of the match: Vinit Dhaka (Central Railway).
T20 MASTERS CUP (PINK) 2019-20, 19 January 2020 in Mumbai : Johnson and Johnson VS Greensole TITANS, played at ELF Vengsarkar Oval on 19th January. Titans won the toss and elected to FIELD first. It was better of a batting pitch.
Opener Sumedh Tare was very productive with the bat, he provided a solid base for the innings to grow. He scored 45 runs off 35 balls. He had an outstanding partnership with No.4 batsman Nishant Shivalkar and they piled on a partnership of 74 runs. Nishant also played with a very positive mindset, both of them kept the tempo of their innings up. Nishant scored a classy innings of 66 runs off 48 balls that consisted of 10 fours. Providing the final touch, Safal sood played a quick 39 off 16 balls. Eventually, they reached to a score of 192 runs losing 4 wickets in 20 overs.
The batting performance by Titan was a near debacle. They lacked big run scorers on the day and eventually were not able to nurture partnerships in the middle Abhimanyu Khanna scored a decent 33 off 19 balls, except him no other batsman looked promising. They were all out at the score of 97 runs in 14.4 overs. For Johnson and Johnson, Keyur Pawaskar picked up a figure of 3 for 13 and other bowlers were also eye catching. The pick of the bowlers and the star performer of the day was left arm spinner Hari Mohan Kandari who was extremely prolific with the ball. He bowled an incredible spell of 6 for 17 in 3.4 overs. He stuck to his basics and trapped the opposition batters with his orthodox turners. Overall, it was a 360 degree performance by Johnson & Johnson.
Result- Johnson and Johnson won by 95 runs.
MAN OF THE MATCH- Hari Mohan Kandari
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In the match between St Mary’s vs Cathedral, St Mary’s winning the toss chose to bat first scoring 81 runs in 20 overs. Raadnya Apte scored 48 of 39 with 7 boundaries when wickets tumbled at the other end, Kush Attawala down the order scored some handy runs to take his team to 81 of their 20 overs. From Cathedral Amey Sanghvi bowled a brilliant spell of 5/06 and Arnav Bakshi taking 2/13.
It was a difficult task for St Mary’s to defend such a low total but their left arm bowling attack managed to defend it. Pacer Raahib Fatehi took 3 wickets while Harsh Sonawala chipped in with 2 as well. Arnav Rawte gave only 5 runs of his 4 overs & it was Kush Attawala towards the end who bowled with Mir Tawde in the death to pull the game to a tie.
The superover was played to decide the match
Kush Attawala bowled from Mary’s where in Arnav Bakshi started off well on his first 3 balls but couldn’t get much in the second half of the over where Kush bowled his left arm tweakers. Mary’s had to chase 13. Raadnya Apte started with a boundary and doubles kept coming and all the last two winning runs were pulled of by Raahib as St. Mary’s romped into the finals.
Played at the Matunga Gymkhana ground, Ajanta Pharma team after being put to bat first by BEST Arts & SC were all out for a modest total of 146 runs in 32.2 overs. Opener Omkar Rilkar and Hanumant Matkar were the highest scorers for Ajanta with scores of 51 and 33 respectively. Amongst the bowlers, it was Suresh Wadekar who turned out to be the Best bowler for BEST team as he came up with bowling figures of 5/45 in 9 overs.
Defending a low total, Ajanta Team were certainly in more pressure than BEST as it wasn’t a threatening total to defend. Also with the start which BEST team had with 30-35 runs on the board for the loss of no wicktets, it required someone to change the game in the final sessions.
Eventually, Ajanta Pharma bowlers made a strong comeback doing excellent job of restricting BEST team for just 94 runs all out in 27.1 overs. All-rounder Prashant Prindavankar’s bowling spell changed the course of the match as he provided quick breakthroughs with envious bowling figures of 5/9 in 8 overs coupled with 2 maidens. As Ajanta Pharma coach Sameer Gawas shared with Cricketgraph-“It was an extra ordinary bowling performance from Prashant and such bowling figures are very commendable”
It was on the back of those stunning bowling figures, Ajanta Pharma team won the match by 68 runs. Even though it was a low scoring encounter between both the teams, the game did produce a lot of excitement with fair share of ups and downs.
IndiaFirst Life Insurance won their last league Match against All Star XI, thereby topping their Group with all 3 wins and marching into the Quarters of the prestigious CCD Champions Trophy 2020. The Match was played at the All Saints Cricket Ground, All Saints School, Bhiwandi.
After winning the toss, IndiaFirst elected to bat on what seemed to be a good pitch. Israr Shaikh provided him Team an explosive start by thumping 20 runs off the 2nd Over of the Match. He scored 21 off 9 balls (2 Fours & 2 Sixes). But it was the other opener, Ajish Abdul Rehman who held one end up. Battling a broken finger and a hamstring injury that he had picked up during their last Match, he scored a magnificent 79 off just 64 balls (14 Fours) before unfortunately getting Run Out in the penultimate Over. Rohit Shetty scored 27 in a partnership of 94 with his captain. For All Star XI, Shailam Borkar was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4-0-27-1. IndiaFirst scored 167 in their allotted 20 Overs.
All Star started their chase rather shakily with Dharamendra Gupta picking up 2 wickets in the first Over of the Innings. He ended up with figures of 4-0-23-2. Sanket Vaidya (43) and Rajhans Shere (29) provided some resistance. Babli Sharma (4-0-14-2) was the pick of the bowlers with some intelligent Off-spin bowling, varying his place and flight. Swaminathan GK finished the proceedings with an excellent Hat-trick and a spell of 3-015-3. Ajish was declared the Man of the Match.
Earlier, in their 2nd league Match, IndiaFirst Life had beaten Reliance RCP Cricket Club by 33 Runs after setting a target of 150. There too, Ajish had top-scored with 45 before Retiring Hurt due to a hamstring injury. For Reliance, Mangesh Makde’s uneaten 56 went in vain. For IndiaFirst, Anil Kumar, Vikash Sharma and Babli Sharma bowled pretty tight spells. But it was Pushkar Sharma, for his all-round performance (23 & 4-0-13-2), who won the Man of the Match award. In their first league Match, IndiaFirst had beaten VCC Tara by 7 Wickets with 6 Overs to spare. They had got VCC all out for 88, after them being 34 for no loss after 3.3 Overs. Dharamendra and Sagar Nehete bowled pretty tight spells. Akshay Gaikwad (28 n.o.) and Pushkar (20) found the chase easy. Babli was adjudged the Man of the Match for his excellent bowling performance (4-0-15-3).
With the latest Win, IndiaFirst Life were scheduled to play NK XI in the Quarter-finals.
Entering this game, no doubt SVIS have a great legacy of cricket and they are a powerful team but when you talk about Giles and Harris Shield, teams like Rizvi, Al-Barkaat have all been uncontested with numerous titles to their name.
Hence an exciting competition was bound to happen, the odds were favoring at Al-barkaat looking at their past records and how strong the side is while in no case you can under estimate the promising XI of SVIS boys who time and again come up with spectacular performances.
Even though it was an U14 Competetion, this 3 day Test match turned out to be as exciting as any senior level test match would be. A match which witnessed fair share of ups and downs, a match which had both the teams dominating at one stage and no one could makeout a probable winner till the very last day.
Al-Barkaat after being put to bat first at the iconic Brabourne Stadium were all out for 167 runs in 58.1 overs. With a shaky start , it was their no.3 batsman Aryan Badhane scoring 71 off 120 balls while Shourya Desai scoring an unbeaten 29* down the order. SVIS bowlers were quite spot on with all rounder Aayush Vaity and Pranay Kapadia bagging 3 wkts a piece.
SVIS in reply were struggling with scoreboard reading 5/56, 6/65 and 7/93 at one stage. However make no mistake, the fire was still burning and this is one match which SVIS will remember for years to come. SVIS boys Aaayush Vaity and Soham Gondkar dodged 359 deliveries together surviving tough sessions as well as putting their team out of trouble with a defendable 1st innings total. Aayush who came at no.7 showed excellent composure scoring 95* facing 214 deliveries. It was not the natural game for Aayush as he himself confessed but the situation of the game demanded him to bat with a cool head. Soham Gondkar who came at no.9 was equally supportive as he batted for 145 deliveries scoring 27 runs. Getting a chance to bat only for the 2nd time in the tournament, Aayush pumped him up time and again to keep the hopes alive reaching a 1st innings total of 196 in 107.3 overs. Aryan Kumar from Al-Barkaat was fantastic with the ball coming up with a 5 wkt haul.
Al-Barkaat in the 2nd innings declared at 186/1 with Aryan Badhane (74) and Yaseen Shaikh (76*) scoring solid half centuries. With 177 to chase in the 2nd innings, SVIS were 91/2 in 36 overs before the end of the game’s play at Day 3 where they were declared winners on the basis of 1st innings lead. With this, the 15 years of wait for SVIS gets over as the last time they won this prestigious title was in 2004-2005.
Aayush Vaity was certainly the man of the finals while Al-Barkaat’s Yaseen Shaikh with 269 runs at an average of 69.25 was adjudged the “Best Batsman”. Off Spinner Rudra Tank of SVIS with 28 wickets was declared the “Best Bowler”
While talking to Cricketgraph, SVIS School founder and Director Mr.Yogesh Patel said that “I am extremely delighted and on cloud nine as this win has come at a great time.
We are in Silver Jubilee year and school is about to complete 25 Glorious years of excellence in Education. SVIS has turned into a sort of an ever flowing faucet that provides an unceasing stream of promising cricketers for India. It was a long wait of 14 years to win the Giles Shield and I am proud of the boys. With their dedication and brilliant team effort along with the coaches, they made this possible.
SVIS has produced great cricketers like Rohit Sharma, Shardul Thakur & Siddhesh Lad who have made the Country and School proud and have put the School on the International map. We have aspiring cricketers coming from different parts of the world to get enrolled in the school. I am proud of the team and I hope SVIS keeps on the tradition of producing such great Cricketers”.