Day of Defenders CC at Dubai Cricket Council’s DCC XI Rapid Fire Division One tournament with a double triumph as DCC Starlets down Lyari Kings
By K.R. Nayar
Defenders Cricket Club recorded a double triumph on the third day of the DCC XI Rapid Fire Division One tournament defeating VTAC Volts by nine wickets in the first match of the day on Sunday and then defeating DCC Starlets in the third match. DCC Starlets, playing their second match defeated Lyari Kings by 51 runs.
DCC Starlets' Dhruv Parashar receives the Player of the Match award from Qais Farooq DCC member
The hero of the day was Defenders Cricket Club’s Wajid Khan who emerged as the
player of the match in the first match against VTAC Volts cracking 51 runs as
well as in the third match against DCC Starlets scoring 37 and bowling tightly
to take a wicket too. Druv Parashar was the star of DCC Starlets’s win over
Lyari Kings top scoring with an unbeaten 40 off 19 balls.
Wajid Khan’s sparkling half
century spurs Defenders
In the first match of the third
day, Defenders Cricket Club won the toss and elected to field. Defenders’
skipper Yasir Maharvi took the prize wicket of VTAC Volts opener and star
batsman Mazhar Hussain trapping him leg before for a duck. One-drop Darshan
Pagarani got run out to a Wajid Khan throw. At the score of 10, opener Rejee
Mohan got bowled by Saqib Manshad for 7.
Wajid Khan removed skipper Vinan
Nair for 6. Sherdian Hadfield kept the scoreboard moving hitting 19 runs but
Moahmamd Nadeem removed Mohammad Ajmal for 8 and also Sheridan to restrict VTAC
Volts to 73 for 6 in 10 overs.
Defenders CC captain Yasir Maharvi receives Wajid Khan's Player of the Match award from Gopal Jasapara, Tournament Director & Head of Administration
Defenders, who have a strong
batting line up, found the target easy to get. Opener Wajid Khan unleashed his
strokes with his partner Abdullah Azhar playing second fiddle. Wajid Khan got
bowled by Darshan Pagarani when Defenders were four short of the target. His
knock of 51 came off 26 balls with three boundaries and five sixes. Adullah
Azhar (17n.o) and Umer Dogger (6n.o) ensured an emphatic nine wicket win in 6.5
overs.
Brief
scores:
Defenders
CC bt VTAC Volts by 9 wkts. VTCA Volts 73 for 6 in 10 overs (Sheridan
Hadfield 19, Mohammad Ajmal 19, Muhammad Nadeem 2 for 13) Defenders CC 76 for 1
in 6.5 overs (Wajid Khan 51)
Player of the Match: Wajid Khan
Druv Parashar’s
breezy 40 lift DCC Starlets
In the second match of the day,
DCC Starlets outplayed Lyari Kings by 51 runs. DCC Starlets elected to bat
first with the aggressive opening pair of skipper Ronak Panoly and Punya Mehra,
They put on 35 runs before Panoly got bowled to Krish for 14. At the score on
44, Punya Mehra too departed falling to Ghanim Feroz for 23. Four runs later
Ahaan Fernandes too got out to Ghanim Feroz for 4.
Shrey Sethi and Dhruv swelled the total to 92 when Shrey got out to Manal Siddiqui for 15. When four balls were remaining in the last over, Aditya Shetty too fell to Manal Siddiqui for 5. Dhruv, through his unbeaten 40 made. off just 19 balls had three boundaries and two sixes, ensured a total of 105 for 5 in 20 overs.
Lyari Kings’ chase got off to a
disastrous note. They lost opener Nael to the first ball to Sailles Jaishankar.
Opener Saad Naeem too fell to Ronak Panoly for 3. When Ronak Panoly trapped
Manal Siddiqui leg before for a duck, Lyari Kings were reeling at three wickets
down for seven runs. Adithya Shetty made it tougher by clean bowling Aziz
Ansari for 6. Saqib Ashfaf got out to Saad Abdullah for 1 and
Adithya Shetty struck again to dismiss Emmi for 9. Their challenge ended when
Haroon Ghaus got run out for 21 and when Amaan Ali dismissed Nikhil Pancholi
for 2. In the end Lyari Kings could muster only 54 for 8 in the 10 overs.
Brief
scores:
DCC
Starlets bt Lyari Kings by 51 runs. DCC Starlets 105 for 5 in 10
overs (Punya Mehra 23, Druv Parashar 40n.o, Manal Siddiqui 2 for 21, Ghanim
Feroz 2 for 19) Lyari Kings 54 for 8 in 10 overs (Haroon Ghaus 21, Ronak Panoly
2 for 2, Adithya Shetty 2 for 6)
Player of the Match: Druv Parashar
Wajid Khan turns match winner
again for Defenders
In the third match, Defenders
Cricket Club snapped the victory run of DCC Starlets by 7 wickets. Defenders
after winning the toss elected to field like they did in the first match of the
day against VTAC Volts. DCC Starlets openers Ronak Panoly and Punya Mehra went
for their runs was usual. At the score on 34, Punya Mehra got out trapped leg
before by Muhammad Nadeem for 11. Ronak Panoly too fell four runs later to
Wajid Khan for 24.
Dhruv steadied the innings with
Shrey Sethi and took the score to 87 in nine overs before Dhruv got run out for
33. Shrey Sethi hit an unbeaten 23 to ensure a challenging total of 103 for 3
in 10 overs.
Muhammad Imran got a good partner in Farhan Babar and they took their team to the target in 9.2 overs. Imran remained unbeaten on 33 off 17 balls with two boundaries and two sixes. Farhan Babar remained unconquered on 22 off 12 balls with a six and two boundaries.
Brief
scores:
Defenders
CC bt DCC Starlets by 7 wkts. DCC Starlets 103 for 3 in 10
overs (Ronak Panoly 24, Dhruv Parashar 33, Shrey Sethi 23n.o) Defenders CC 106
for 3 in 9.2 overs (Wajid Khan 37, Muhammad Imran 33n.o, Farhan Babar 22n.o,
Adithya Shetty 3 for 16)
Player of the Match: Wajid Khan
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