Trio of Parth Tolia, Vishal Shah and Nirav Bheda steer Osian’s CC to a title win of the ‘D’Div Times Cricket Shield ‘18

Osian’s CC and Valuable Sports Club took on each other for the all important finale of the D Div Times Shield at MIG Cricket Club where in Valuable SC won the toss and elected to bat first with an aim of making a big 1^st innings total.

Valuable SC were however in for a shock as they were restricted to just 152 runs all out in 39.1 overs on the back of Osian CC’s tight bowling. While they were struggling at 25/4 at one point but Bharat Patil who came at no.6 scored a match recovering knock of 69 off 90 deliveries. Bharat smashed 11 fours and smashed a solid fifty to take the team total to atleast 152. Without Bharat’s knock, it would have been difficult for them to reach a team total in 3figures. Right arm fast bowler Parth Tolia was again impressive with the ball coming up with tight bowling figures of 3/18 in 6overs(1maiden). Off spinner Nirav Bheda and left arm spinner Vishal Shah were also equally effective with the ball bagging 3wkts each. It was a collectively good bowling perfomance by these 3 where they did not allow the batsman to score runs freely while kept on taking wickets at regular intervals.

Chasing 153, Osians CC received a tough fight from Valuable CC bowlers where in left arm spinner Tejas Mankar took 4/30 not allowing them to win easily. It was not before Osians lost 7wkts but eventually they crossed the victory line with pacer Parth Tolia chipping in with match winning 26* at no.9 which did the job for his team. Consistent and talented batsman Megh Adhwaryu at no.4 top scored with 44 runs while chasing for Osian’s CC.

Osian’s CC lift the title on the back of collective team perfomance throughout the tournament and they are certainly the deserved winners with bowlers Parth, Vishal and Nirav delivering in the finals too.

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