Spartan won the toss and elected to field first in bowling friendly conditions. Highflyers got off to a breezy start scoring 32 in just 3rd over but lost 3 wickets at the same score. They went from 32 for no loss in 2.3 overs to 36 for 4 by the end of the 4th over. Tarun Kapoor scored well composed 22 runs off 22 deliveries. It was bowlers day as Chetan Rai, Saurabh Korgaonkar and Ashish Jain picked up 2,3 and 2 wickets respectively. But the day belonged to Nirbhay Kahar. Coming to bat at number 9, he batted fearlessly scoring handy 30 runs in just 18 balls hitting 2 maximums and 3 boundaries. Highflyers posted a modest 125 all out without finishing their quota of 20 overs.
Spartan’s chase anchored around 1 down batsman Arnab Bhujbal, who scored a brilliant half century in bowling friendly conditions. Arnab scored 56 while Nishant Chaudhary scored 25 runs. These were the only 2 batsmen from Spartan to score double digit apart from 23 extras. Nirbhay and Chandan Jha, each took 4 wickets. Spartans too failed to bat their full quota of 20 overs and fell tantalizingly short by 1 run of Highflyers total. Credit should go to Nirbhay and Chandan along with some excellent fielding.
Nirbhay was declared Man of the Match!!!
Batting first on a flat deck, Giants came out all guns blazing against Superior in the KSG 40 over tournament.
Giants top 4 scored heavily against Superior. Openers Vishal Sanghavi and Monish Parekh scored 69 and 37 respectively. Karan Mehta scored 89 off 63 balls. But it was Maulik Mehta and Neel Chitalia who put the icing on the cake. Maulik scored at a strike rate of 200 (91 off 45 balls) while Neel had an eye popping strike rate of almost 300 (75* off 27 balls). Ankit Mehta took 3 wickets but gave away 93 runs. Giants posted 394 for 6 in 40 overs taking the game out of reach of Superior.
Superior needed a blinder from all of their top order batsmen. But it was Karan Mehta again with the ball this time who broke Superior’s back. Karan Vora, Karan Mehta, Sagar and Pratik Modi all took 2 wickets each. Chintan Kanakia scored 26. Superior folded for 139 in the 26th over thus handing a huge 255 run victory to Giants.
Karan Mehta was named MoM for fine display with both bat and ball!!!
It was a low scorer T20 thriller played between Mycroyance and R.C.C at Elphinstone Cricket Club pitch at Oval, Churchgate in the inaugural edition of the Kurukshetra Cup Season 1.
It ended up with a tie with both teams earning a point and solace of not losing a closely contested game with many twists and turns.
This was the first match of the first edition of the Kurukshetra Cup. This tournament is organized by Beyond Infinity, a company formed by 2 brothers, Piyush Rai (COO) and Devashish Rai (CEO), who are passionate about cricket.
Mycroyance chose to bat first. Their innings got off to a shaky start and they kept losing wickets regularly. It was fine knock by their last recognized batsman Rishikesh Kore batting left hand made big difference. Rishikesh played a sensible knock with the lower order batsman to take his team to a score for their bowlers to bowl at. Rishikesh scored 43 off 41 balls and helped Mycroyance reach 120 runs exhausting full quota of wickets and balls. The Shaikhs 6 wickets with Imran taking 3, Bilal 2 and Shadab 1 for RCC.
120 was a tricky chase on a tricky surface. Similar to the innings of Mycroyance, RCC too kept loosing wickets regularly but it was the steady partnership between Bilal Shaikh and Farooq Qureshi that took the game away from Mycroyance. But the run out of Bilal Shaikh in the last over by Aniket Karwarkar got the game in balance again. Aniket accounted for one more run out in the last over. Needing 3 to win on the last ball, Farooq could manage to get a brace and thus tie the score. Rishikesh Kore of Mycroyance was named MoM.
A match to remember!!!
Here are some moments in pictures from the match:
Winning the toss DNA chose to put Zee batsmen to make first use of the L.I.C. pitch at cross maidan. Zee lost 2 quick wickets but the ice and fire partnership between opener Amir and 2 down Alok Ratnaparkar sealed the deal for Zee. Amir batted patiently for his 46 runs while Alok was on fire, hitting 12 fours and a maximum in his 54 balls 86 runs. Zee ended up with a score of 168 for the loss of 2 wickets at the end of their 20 overs.
DNA’s batting completely collapsed against sharp line and lenghts of Zee bowlers. Highest score in DNA’s innings was that of extras. None except one could reach a double digit score such was the discipline of the Zee bowlers. DNA folded for 72 handing a 96 run victory to Zee. For Zee, Dev bowled excellent spell in which he took 4 wickets for 11 runs in his 4 overs while Akhil took 3 and Atul took 2.
Alok Ratnaparkar was declared Man of the Match for a great knock!
The West Zone and All India University Woman’s Cricket tournament 2015 – 2016 under the auspicious of A.I.U. New Delhi & Mumbai Cricket Association Organized by University of Mumbai and Rizvi College was held between 8th December to 21st December 2015.
The tournament concluded with two important matches. One for the position of 3rd and 4th and the other for the ultimate winner and the runners up.
Match for 3rd and 4th position was played between VBSPU – Purvanchal and M.D.U. Rohtak at the P.J. Hindu Gymkhana:
This match turned out to be an one sided affair. Purvanchal batting first could manage to score 131 for the loss of 8 wickets in their allotted 40 overs. Sarita Yadav top scored with 33. Minali Yadav of Rohtak took 3 wickets for 10 runs.
In reply, riding on a fine knock of Shital Rana who scored a brisk 52 not out and Renu Bharadwaj who scored 40 runs, M.D.U. Rohtak chased down the target only in the 25 th over loosing only one wicket. Thus winning by 9 wickets and 15 overs to spare.
Match for the first place was between Mumbai University and Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar.
The strong batting line up of Gurunanak was too much to handle for Mumbai. Batting first Gurunanak, Amritsar compiled a decent 185 for 6 in their 40 overs. Neelam Bisht was the star for Amritsar as she sent Mumbai bowlers on a leather hunt by scoring 79 not out. She was well supported by Nikita Chouhan (41) and Parveen Khan (32). For the Mumbai team Mughda Joshi took 2 wickets for 46 runs.
Mumbai’s chase got to decent start but they kept loosing wickets at regular interval and that hurt Mumbai university in the end. They gave a good fight but were all out for 140 runs in 35 overs, thus loosing by 45 runs. Mughda shone with the bat too, scoring 42 runs while Bhakti Tamore scored 41. Parveen Khan took 2 wickets for 21 runs.
It was a great and successful event organized by Mumbai University in collaboration with the Rizvi college of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bandra Mumbai encouraging women cricket.
Congratulations to all the Winners!!!
Tata AIG batted first against Liberty Videocon in the last weekends Dreamz Trophy match. An excellent bowling performance by Liberty Videocon saw only 2 batsman reaching double digit runs. Nagesh Kadam top scored with 32 runs while the second best runs accumulated was by Extras. Nilesh of Liberty took 4 wickets while Abhay contributed with 2 wickets.
Liberty’s chase was a walk in the park as Tejas Newale scored an unbeaten half century, scoring 51 off 47 balls. He was excellently supported by Rohan. Liberty thus won easily by 6 wickets with 13 balls to spare.
It was a tough call between bat and ball for Man of the Match but finally the award went to Tejas.
Batting first D.Y. Patil scored 380 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in their allotted quota of 70 overs. Subramanian Doraiswamy of DYP played an excellent knock hitting 21 boundaries for a well crafted 167 runs in 195 balls. He was well complemented by M. R. Srinivas who scored 42 runs.
Shivaji Park Gymkhana chased beautifully but fell short by just 21 runs. Ninad Kadam of Shivaji Park Gymkhana too scored a century (103 runs off 121 balls) but failed to cross the final hurdle. Shivaji Park were all out for 359 and they still had 4 overs to spare. Only if they had few wickets in hand they could have achieved the target.
Chintamani team chased down modest target of 132 runs in 16 overs against ACT in the Friends Premier League.
Gautam Patkar was named Man of the Match for an opening knock of 43 runs off 30 balls hitting 6 boundaries.
In the ongoing Omtex Cup, Terabyte defeated PD Fashion by 3 wickets in a closely contested game.
PD Fashion posted a respectable target of 188 batting first. Terabytes achieved the desired target loosing 7 wickets in the process. Kapil Thakkar anchored the chase and was awarded the best batsman award. There were other awards given away as follow:
Toss was won by Bombay YMCA who chose to put the opposition into bat. Total Securities innings got off to a poor start, loosing their first wicket for 16. Deven Joshi and Rajgopal steadied the innings but got out when they looked slated for a big score. It was their lower order bat Darshan Rave who compiled a breezy 44 off 21 balls helping his team post a target of 173 runs. For YMCA, Ajay took 3 wickets while Niyaz took 2.
In reply, Bombay YMCA lost the top 4 wickets for just 20 runs ending all their hopes of a successful chase. Jay Sachdev was the chief destroyer claiming top 3 wickets. The innings was finished off by Man of the Match Anthony Nadar picking up 4 wickets for just 23 runs.