Wonder kid Shardul Joshi, not yet nine even, was the cynosure of eyes of those watching this tiny boy capturing five wickets to bring the MCC ‘B’ a fine victory over Kaustab Pawar Crickeet Academy by six wickets in the MCC Talent Search under-12 cricket league (Season-1), co-hosted by Jwala Sports Foundation at Santacruz’s Air India Sport Cub at Kalina.
SHARDUL JOSHI
Electing to bat, KPCA boys struggled and were dismissed for 119 with Shardul Joshi returning with figures of 5-0-23-5. Chasing 120 to win, MCC junior sring were home with six wickets in hand.
Brief scores: Kaushtab Pawar Cricket Academy 119 all out (Arham Jain 47; Shardul Joshi 5/23, Arav Agarwal 2/22) lost to MCC ‘B’ 120/4 off 22.2 overs (Yuv Shah 28, Darsh Singhania 3/12). Player of the match –Shardul Joshhi.
Brain-4 Sports 63/7 off 25 overs ( Praveer Singh 29; Advait Bhat 3/10, Devang Tandel 2/8) lost to Pro Talent CA66/1 (Yash Rawat n.o. 27, Aryan Pawart 27) by nine wkts.