Mumbai Under-14 Talent Search begins at D.R.A.C.T. organized by CPCC | Mumbai

What a great thought giving a tribute to Dronacharya Ramakant Achrekar Sir in the form of his beloved game Cricket and that too with Under-14 Tournament!!!! This tribute was started 15 years back by Shri. Chandrakant Pandit Sir organizing Under-14 Cricket Tournament identified as D.R.A.C.T. 2015-2016 (Dronacharya Ramakant Achrekar Cricket Tournament) which is now also renowned as Mumbai Under-14 Selection Tournament in alliance with Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA). The tournament was started to motivate the Under-14 players.

This year the 15^th Edition of D.R.A.C.T. has begun on 3^rd November and like past previous years; a tournament is organized by CPCC (Chandrakant Pandit Cricket Clinic) with the help of sponsor CBCSL (Cawasji Behramji Catering Services Ltd).

The tournament is being played in 2 days test knock out Format with 5 ounce specific cricket balls and total 12 teams have participated to win the battle with all safety precautions for players.  Matches are being played at Sainath SC ground – Virar, Sachin Tendulkar ground – Kandivili (West), Prabhodhan SC – Goregaon (West) and Payyade SC – Goregaon (West)

Teams participated are Prabodhan SC, Amar Cricket Club, D. Y. Patil Sports Academy, Apollo CC, Payyade SC, Aiming Masters CC, Sainath Sports Club, CPCC, Sporting CC-Thane, Kurla Sports Club, Goregaon SC, Palghar Dhanu S.A.

Semifinals will be played on 9^th-10^th November’15 at Sainath SC and Final will be played on 16^th – 17^th November’15 at Goregaon SC.

Brief Scores:

3^rd & 4^th November’2015: (Venue – Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana Ground)

APOLLO CC

278/8 & 43/0 (2nd Inn.) – (Atharva Nigre 82 (4×12), Atharva Gadgil 52 (4×7), Ved Kharade 3/28, Manish Nadar 3/60)

D. Y. PATIL SPORTS A.

99/10 – (Ujwal Goyal 5/8, Shubham Chhag 2/9, Jay Jain 2/21)

Result: APOLLO CC won on 1^st Innings, MoM – Atharva Nigre

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 3^rd & 4^th November’2015: (Venue – Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana Ground 2)

PALGHAR DHANU S.A.

134/10 & 92/5 (2^nd Inn.)– (Sachin Gupta 42* (4×2), Sachin Shinde 4/31, Aditya Baviskar 3/24, Shantanu Chandorkar 4/18 (2^nd Inn.))

AIMING MASTERS CRICKET CLUB

157/10 – (Aniket Pawar 81 (4×6), Kanhaiya Thakur 4/42, Sachin Gupta 4/35)

Result: APOLLO CC won on 1^st Innings, MoM – Aniket Pawar

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3rd & 4th November’2015: (Venue – Our’s Cricket Club Ground)

PRABODHAN SC

185/10 & 81/5 (2^nd Inn.) – (Niel Patade 56 (4×3), Siham Gawde 25 (4×2), Omkesh Kamath 3/26, Omkar S. 2/43 & 2/13 (2nd Inn.))

KURLA SPORTS CLUB

72/10 – (Vinayak Singh 5/25, Rishi Shah 3/8, Mihir Ambhire 2/10)

Result: PRABODHAN SC won on 1^st Innings, MoM – Vinayak Singh

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 3rd & 4th November’2015: (Venue – Our’s Cricket Club Ground 2)

SAINATH SC

259/5 – (Mukund Tyagi 105* (4×13), Aryan Patni 2/32)

GOREGAON SPORTS CLUB

81/10 – (Durvesh Pitale 3/4, Karan Patole 2/7, Aditya Patel 2/3, Adarsh Singh 2/32)

Result: SAINATH SC won on 1^st Innings, MoM – Mukund Tyagi

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  5th & 6th November’2015: (Venue – Payyade Sports Club Ground)

AIMING MASTERS CRICKET CLUB

110/10 – (Musheer Khan 4/43, Siddhesh Jadhav 2/8)

PAYYADE SPORTS CLUB

144/3 – (Ayush Jethwa 61 (4×8), Siddhesh Jadhav 51* (4×4), Shantanu C. 1/18)

Result: PAYYADE SC won on 1^st Innings, MoM – Musheer Khan

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 5th & 6th November’2015: (Venue – Sainath Sports Club Ground)

CHANDRAKANT PANDIT CRICKET CLINIC

157/10 – (Aryan Jadhav 48 (4×7), Aditya Patel 3/18, Adarsh Singh 3/33)

SAINATH SPORTS CLUB

163/5 – (Adarsh Chavan 43 (4×5), Siddhesh P. 38 (4×4), Harsh Adsul 2/29)

Result: SAINATH SC won on 1^st Innings

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  5th & 6th November’2015: (Venue – Prabhodhankar Krida Sankul Ground)

SPORTING CC

155/10 & 65/10 (2^nd Inn.) – (Harsh Shinde 50 (4×9), Ujwal Goyal 4/43 & 4/22 (2^nd Inn.), Atharva Gadgil 2/20 & 4/17 (2^nd Inn.), Jay Jain 1/19 & 2/9 (2^nd Inn.))

 APOLLO CC

150/10 & 73/9 (2^nd Inn) – (Kaushik Bharadwaj 4/26 & 4/24 (2^nd Inn.), Atharva Jadhav 3/20)

Result: APOLLO CC won by 1 wkt., MoM – Kaushik Bharadwaj

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 5th & 6th November’2015: (Venue – Jivdani (2) Ground – Virar)

AMAR CC

333/6 – (Suryansh Shedge 51 (4×4), Ganesh Masurkar 53 (4×7), Saurabh Singh 76 (4×5), Aryan Shetty 74* (4×8), Vinayak Singh 2/36)

 PRABODHAN SC

131/10 – (Abhishek Waghela 55 (4×8), Ganesh Masurkar 3/35, Farhan Shaikh 3/34, Aryan Shetty 2/17)

Result: AMAR CC won on 1^st Innings, MoM – Ganesh Masurkar

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Article by Sachin Rajput, Sr. Editor – Cricketgraph.com