Skipper Princely Perriera leads from the front with a majestic 6/33 in the semi-finals of the MCA Under/ 16 Inter School Tournament ‘18

Princely has been bowling well since a very long time, he has been consistent, bowling at good line and length in the right areas, taking heaps of wickets in almost every matches he gets to play plus he is equally valuable with the bat too. It was the all important semis where in the onus was on skipper Princely to fire and he rightly did that against R.H Save Vidyalaya, Tarapur at the Sainath Cricket Club, Virar.

National School who won the toss batted first scoring 210/7 in 45 overs which is not the best of the totals to defend in a high intensity semi-finals. Opening the innings, skipper Princely gave a good start with his 44 off 66balls (6fours) while Parth Naik at the middle order scored an unbeaten 43* off mere 24deliveries at a time when they lost quick wickets while Kshitij below him also played a crucial hand with his 46. From RH Save, Dhruv Tamore with 3/21 was the pick of the bowlers while Suraj More also took 2wkts.

Defending a modest total of 211 in the semis, skipper Princely once again came to the rescue with his amazing bowling. Perriera came up with match winning bowling figures of 6/33 in 10 overs which eventually restricted RH Save School to 161runs all out. National School won the semi-final match by 49runs where in Princely’s perreira played a big role. This is also his back to back 6wkt haul continuing his form from the quarter finals.

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