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By K.R. Nayar Hrithik Haridas Hareesh of Tellicherry Cricket Academy and Ahmed Khudadad of Victoria Cricket Academy carried their brilliant form into the quarterfinals of the Sharjah CBFS juniors 2022 tournament at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Hrithik, who had recently hit 74 against MS Cricket Academy and 59 against Sharjah Cricket Academy, cracked a brilliant unbeaten 60 against Hidayat Cricket Academy to carry Tellicherry Cricket Academy into the semi-final of the Under-12 event. Ahmed Khudadad of Victoria Cricket Academy, who had hit an unbeaten 101 against Tellicherry Cricket Academy and scored 44 against MS Cricket Academy in recent matches, hit an invaluable 27 runs in his academy’s exciting 15-runs win over MS Cricket Academy in the Under-14 quarterfinals. Maxtalent’s Hrishnan Majumdar’s fine spell of 3 for 16 against Tellicherry Cricket Academy ensured his team a slot in the Under-14 semi-final.  Desert Cubs’ Lokesh Reddy Kasireddy scored a valuable 20 runs in ...

By K.R. Nayar Jinay Shah steered Simply Cricket Academy through two successive match winning performances against Victoria Cricket Academy and Hidayat Cricket Academy in the last of the six league round matches of the  Sharjah CBFS juniors 2022 Under-12 tournament at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.  Hrithik Haridas Hareesh’s brilliant knock of 74 steered Tellicherry Cricket Academy to a 39-runs win over MS Cricket Academy in another Under-12 match. Among the bowlers who sparkled in the last six matches are Arnav Bharath who ensured Tellicherry Cricket Academy a 30-run victory over Sharjah Cricket Academy with a spell of 3 for 21 and Varun who bagged two wickets for just eight runs in Victoria Cricket Academy’s eight-wicket win over MS Cricket Academy by 8 wickets. There was also a fighting unbeaten knock of 50 from Sharjah Cricket Academy Salar Khan in the same Under-14 match that went in vain. Maxtalent Cricket Academy’s Jaidev Gattani produced a fine all-round show hitting 25...

By K.R. Nayar (KIOC) Karnataka Institute of Cricket’s nine-day tour of the Dubai ended on a successful note. For the visiting boys it was a good exposure while for the teams that played against them it was an experience against a well-groomed team from India. G Force Cricket Academy had organized this nine-day tour for KIOC, and it was made up of seven matches. What makes KIOC a special team is the fact that it is an Institute of Cricket that has groomed some of the finest cricketers in Indian cricket such as Robin Uthappa, Mayank Agarwal, Manish Pandey, Devdutt Padikkal and many more. KIOC coach Naseeruddin and captain Karan Gowda receives the tour trophy from Gopal Jasapara and yours truly.   KIOC arrived in Dubai on May 18 and played two matches against G Force Cricket Academy, one match against Desert Cubs Cricket Academy, and another against the Tellicherry Cricket Academy. Freddy Sidhwa, UAE’s veteran cricketers and passionate lover of the game, too organized a match...

By K.R. Nayar  Sharjah CBFS juniors 2022 tournament produced a century, a near century, two half centuries, an allround show, and a four wicket-wicket spell in the last six matches of this mammoth event. Aashman Bhanu Bali of MS Cricket Academy stood out with an unbeaten century in his team’s 74 runs win over Sharjah Cricket Academy in the Under-12 event. There would have been a second century-maker too but Mohammad Ahmed Usman of Legends Cricket Academy fell short by seven runs to reach the three-figure mark as his team ran out of overs in the Under-14 event. In the under-12 event, Legends’s Guruvansh hit an unbeaten 52 to ensure his team a 51-runs win over Victoria Cricket Academy. Swayam Basu of Simply Cricket Academy produced a fine spell of 4 for 18 to ensure his team a 12-run win over Desert Cubs B team. In the Under-12 event, Aarush Kajaria knock of 25 runs and two wickets gave Desert Cubs a 14 runs win over Spring Sports Academy. Sarang Anilkumar of Desert Cubs A continue...

By K.R. Nayar Gundappa Vishwanath’s autobiography 'Wrist Assured' is one of the finest cricket books released recently. So what prompted me to write about this book? Vishwanath's words were transformed into a book by someone very close to me - R. Kaushik, a brilliant cricket writer in India. Kaushik has a deep passion for the game, something that I have personally experienced while travelling with him for almost all the World Cup matches and numerous cricket series' around the world spanning three decades, staying with him in the same hotel. It was a delight to read his narration of Vishwananth’s cricket journey.  Secondly, this book was given to me by Shyam Bhatia, another passionate lover of the game. Bhatia, an Indian businessman based in Dubai and who has created a cricket museum here, was presented with this book by Vishwanath himself. This book travelled from India to Dubai soon after it was published with a personal note from Vishwanath.   Shyam Bhatia'...

By K.R. Nayar Ten-year-old Karthik Krishnan, who has often shown tremendous maturity much beyond his age in playing many match-winning knocks in junior cricket, displayed it once again in the Simply Cricket Club’s seven wicket win over Legends Cricket Academy in the Sharjah CBFS Juniors 2022 Under-12 tournament at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Legends Cricket Academy, opting to bat first, had scored 93 for 6 in 20 overs. Though they lost opener and captain Tony Daison and Sameer Salman for 8 and 9 runs respectively, one-drop Parth Yadav hit 20 runs. Umar Salman was run out for a duck but Guruvanshi chipped in with 16 runs. Simply Cricket Academy began their chase of the moderate total, but it required intelligent batting. Karthik Krishnan and Daylen Ethan D’Souza opened the batting but D’Souza fell for 1. One-drop Abhinav Madhu too got out for 8. Captain Arjun Rattan got run out for 10. After this, Karthik Krishnan scored an unbeaten run-a-ball 31 and took his team to the target a...