Mumbai emerge Champions of U16 Vijay Merchant Trophy’19

Punjab after being put to bat first were all out for 142 runs in 64.5 overs. Mumbai bowlers were spot on with their line and length coming up with timely breakthroughs. Young prodigy Musheer Khan was the pick of the bowlers coming up with 5/42 in 17.5 overs alongwith 8 maidens.

Mumbai team in reply scored 343/10 in 121.2 overs snatching a big 1^st innings lead of 201 runs. Opener Swayam Waghmare scored a very solid 64 off 176 balls while Aditya Pawar at no.6 top scored with a brilliant 86 off 179 balls. The icing on the cake for Mumbai was their lower order where in Anurag Singh at no.9 scored 46 & Prince Badiani at no.10 scored 49 pushing Mumbai towards a big total.

With a 2^nd innings trail of 201 runs, Punjab were all out for 151 runs thanks to a match winning spell by Musheer Khan who again came with a fifer taking 5/59 in 23 overs coupled with 7 maidens. Ayush Jethwa also bagged 5 wkts in the match as Mumbai became the winners of the Under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy’19,

In captainship of Aayush Jethwa Mumbai emerged the Champions. Aayush overall scored 405 runs and took 18 wkts with 2 centuries and 1 half century under the coaching of Dinesh Lad sir. Mumbai’s batting has always been a strong point but in this season the bowlers including the likes of Musheer Khan (30 wkts in 4 matches), Prince Badiani, Zaid, Anurag, Arjun have all been effective as it has been a complete team performance throughout the tournament.