St Mary’s school won 2nd semi final of Bombay gymkhana tournament and enter finals

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.