Lucknow’s Sports College - New Champion of
Coca-Cola Cricket Cup

Stun Al Barkat Malik School of Mumbai in Final Match

Mumbai, 20^th April 2014: Sports College, Lucknow defeated Al Barkat Malik M. I. English School, Mumbai by 24 runs in the final match and become champion of the 3^rd edition of the Coca-Cola Cricket Cup under-16 school tournament, played at HPCL Ground in Mumbai on Sunday.

Sports College won the toss and opted to bat first. However, Al Barkat Malik School bowlers Jahangir Ansari and Shubham Singh’s three-wicket hauls rattled top order batsmen and clinched four wickets in initial overs. It was middle-order batsmen Vijay Yadav and Nitin singh, who stabilised the situation and scored runs patiently. Their 50-run partnership in 70 balls for fifth wicket took their team’s score to respectable 188 runs.

In reply, Al Barkat Malik failed to keep their winning spree and were bowled-out at 164 runs. All credit goes to Sports College’s acute fielding as they managed to run-out the openers Rayjan Khan (duck) and Pushkar Sharma (1). Bowlers Shahid (3/22) and Ankit (2/21) did rest of the job and helped their team to bundle-out the opponents in 42.2 overs.

Captain Shoeb Khan held one end with his inspiring knock of 61 runs. He received commendable support from Jahangir Ansari (25) but rest of the batsmen failed to build stable partnerships with them.

Shoeb, skipper of the losing team, was adjudged Man-of-the-Match for his all-round performance (61 runs & 2 wkts).

Brief Score

SC-L:  188 all out in 43.5overs [Vijay Yadav 38 (41 b 3x4), Nitin Singh 29 (46 b 4x4), Ashutosh Maurya 23 (35 b 3x4), Govind Yadav 22 (26 b 1x6, 3x4), Mohsin Ali 21 (31 b 4x4); Jahangir Ansari 3/46 (7.5 ovrs), Shubham Singh 3/25 (8 ovrs), Shoeb Khan 2/45 (9 ovrs), Arslan Khan 2/35 (9 ovrs)].

ABMMIES-M: 164 all out in 42.2 overs [Shoeb Khan 61 (103 b 2x4), Mohd Aman 23 (32 b 4x4), Pratik Mhatre 24 (32 b 4x4), Jahangir Ansari 25 (30 b 1x6, 3x4); Mohd Shahid 3/22 (5.2 ovrs), Ankit Singh 2/21 (9 ovrs), Ankur Baliyan 1/30 (5 ovrs), Vijay Yadav 1/25 (7 ovrs)].