Tons by Swapnil and Anish alongwith Shamit’s fifer ensures a win for Young Comrade CC in the Purshottam Shield ‘18
On a wicket which was termed as a batting paradise by Young Comrade Skipper Shamit Shetty, the batsman did enjoyed batting at the Mumbai Police Gymkhana Ground.
Young Comrade CC batting first relished the wickets with openers giving a solid start while left handed Swapnil Bivalkar going on to score a solid 125 (175 balls) opening the innings. Swapnil who is an aggressive batsman showed that he has the temperament to play solid cricket too while he got excellent support from no.3 bat Anish Chaudhary with whom he stitched a 140 run stand for the 2nd wkt. Anish who came at no.3 was equally impressive smashing a quick 123 (135 balls) to keep the scoreboard ticking as Young Comrade reached a decent total of 359/7 in 70 overs.
Mumbai Police Gymkhana who had a patchy start with 4 wkts down for 93 runs got back into the game with their middle order specialists Shrikant Limbole & Swapnil Kulaye hitting tons at no.5 & 6 & stitching a 141 run stand for the 5th wicket. At one point both Shrikant (109 off 109b) & Swapnil (100 off 114b) were looking dangerous to finish the match before Comrade Skipper Shamit & Mayuresh gave breakthroughs by taking shrikant & Swapnil’s wickets. Shamit Shetty was the pick of the bowlers in a very close match taking a crucial 5/56 in 17 overs as Mumbai Police were all out for 309 runs.
It was a good win by 53 runs for Young Comrade while the whole team led by Shamit and his boys fired well.
Shamit Shetty speaking exclusively with Cricketrgaph also added- “One of our player Mohmmed Sayyed last month lost his life in a bike accident, He played his last Kanga league match for our club & wanted to dedicate this victory and my performance to him”
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