Aarav Thakar’s unbeaten 50 helped Abhiveera Boys beat Achievers Academy by nine wickets for their third successive win from group ‘A’ to make the semi final of the MCC U-10 Cricket Tournament 2019, played at Young Maharashtra ground (Shivaji Park), here today. After bowling out Achievers for 103, Aarav steered Abhiveera Boys to reach their target with nine wickets to spare.
Rakshit Gore
While Rakshit Gore’s five wicket haul featured in Sawant Academy’s thrilling five runs win over Teamwork SC from the same group.
Batting first, Sawant Academy did well to make 149 for five in the allotted 25 overs with Bhupendra Waghela top-scoring with 53. In reply, Teamwork SC tried their best and looked like overhauling their target, but Rakshit’s fine spell (4 for 6) saw them failing short by five runs.
Aarav Thakar
Brief scores:
Group ‘A’: Sawant Academy 149/5 (Bhupendra Waghela 53, Rakshit Gorde 32; Atharva Londe 2/25) bt Teamwork SC 144/7 (Yuvraj Gupta 33, Tanmay Shinde 26; Rakshit Gorde 4/6) by 5 runs. MOM- Rakshit Gore.
Achievers Academy (Chembur) 103 (Kedar Malsure 21, Yousuf Rumani 2/1) lost to Abhiveera Boys 104/1 (Aarav Thakar n.o. 50, Hriday Shah n.o. 25) by 9 wkts. MoM: Aarav Thakar .