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”.
JOLLY FRIENDS SPORTS SHIVAJI PARK PREMIER LEAGUE 2019, 18 January 2020, Mumbai : The match between JP Corporation (JPC) and Kotak Mahindra Sports Club (KMSC) was played at Dadar union cricket ground, Matunga on 18th January 2020. KMSC won the toss and elected to field first. The pitch was damped for the first half an hour but it got better with the roll of play.
JP Corporation openers were unable to give them a decent start, No.3 Sivanandan took charge and yielded a good partnership with Pratik. Starting from ball one Sivanandan slammed the opposition bowlers and played with a very positive intent. Out of the first 147 runs, he alone scored 83 runs off just 51 balls. With a collective effort at the end, JP Corporation reached to a total score of 172 runs in 20 overs losing 6 wickets. KMSC bowlers had a decent outing except Nishikant sawant who went wicket less in 4 overs and gave away 50 runs. Mayur Ghag was impressive with the ball as he picked up 3 wickets for 18 runs.
KMSC’s Mayur Ghag and Manish telge were very promising during their stay at the crease. Mayur scored a handy 41 runs off 34 balls before getting out lbw to Gopi kumar. Middle-order batsman Subhraman C (26 off 21) and Sagar Khatri (26 off 11) tried their best but fell short by just 6 runs. Indeed it was an intense and a tight match and eventually JP Corporation won. JP Corporation also experimented with lot of bowling options that might have let the match drag too far.
RESULT- JP Corporation won by 5 runs.
MAN OF THE MATCH – Sivanandan
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Played between Kotak Mahindra SC and DTDC Express Ltd at the Azad Maidan Ground, DTDC batting first posted a total of 301/5 in 45 overs with Siddarth Ghule scoring 94* for DTDC while Rakesh Naik and Sushant Kadam scoring half centuries.
Chasing 302, it was Rugved Chaudhary scoring a brilliant 117 off 99 balls laced with 11 fours and 4 sixes. Coming at no.3, Rugved displayed quite some confidence but he lacked support from the other end which resulted in his team Kotal getting all out for 238 runs. DTDC won the game by 63 runs while Bhavik Patel with 3/30 in 7.5 overs was the pick of the lot.
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Into the all important semi finals of the match, DTDC took on HPCL at the Dadaji Konddev Stadium in Thane where in DTDC opting to bat first posted a handsome total of 245/3 in 35 overs. Sushant Kadam who has been a consistent player scoring good amount of runs even in Kanga and Times since the last 2yrs once again came good with a knock of 85 runs in 106 balls (7 fours , 1 six) opening the innings. Siddarth Ghule at no.3 was also quite impressive scoring 62 off 71 balls as DTDC were in a commanding position to defend.
HPCL in reply were all out for 166 runs with all-rounder Sushant Kadam leading the bowling department too with a 5 wkt haul to his name. Sushant bamboozled the batsman with his spin taking 5/31 in 7 overs while the rest of the bowlers also maintained discipline as DTDC won the semi finals by 79 runs.
The tournament is Mumbai Cricket Association affiliated.
Played between UMELMAN CC and UDAY CC at the Vasai 2 Plot, Umelman CC batting first posted a handsome total of 273/9 in 45 overs. After a decent opening start, it was Chinmay Mohite at no.3 top scoring with 81 runs. It was a confident knock where century was certainly cards before he faced an untimely run out. Ihsaan Amin at the middle order once again played an impressive knock of 60 runs showing his reliability at the middle order.
UDAY CC in reply were bundled out for 91 runs thanks to a match winning spell by their all rounder Chinmay Mohite. Chinmay who stood out with bat also turned out to be the star bowler coming up with envious bowling figures of 6/10 in 9 overs coupled with 4 maidens. It was on the back of his spell, UDAY CC despite Omkar Sakhre’s 51* were all out for 91 runs.
Result: UMELMAN CC won the match by 182 runs