Vartak’s all-round show and Aditya’s fifer helps Virar Center win in the U16 Kalpesh Koli Tournament’19

Virar Center after opting to bat first could have suffered a batting collapse had it not been a fighting knock by opener Ayush Vartak. Virar were all out for 174 runs thanks to a brilliant spell by Neel Sawant taking 5/42 with the ball. Ayush fought it out alone waging a lone battle as he went on to score a classy knock of 93 runs off 97 ball (13 fours) scoring more than half of the team’s runs single handedly.

PDTSA Center in reply were all out for 68 runs thanks to 3 wkt hauls by Akshad Pathak and Ayush Vartak. Receiving a follow on, PDTSA were again wrapped up for 109 runs and this time it was Aditya Chaurasia coming up with a match winning bowling spell of 5/20 in 12 overs with 3 maidens. With a lead target of just 4 runs, Virar Center finished it off in 1.2 overs winning the match by 10 wkts.