The second Match of CPS T20 inter school tournament was CPS junior vs Noble International at Shikarbadi ground at 3:30 pm on 2/5/2011. CPS junior made it for the victory by placing target of 140 runs and winning by 4 runs. So it can be called a close match.

Here is the description of the innings.

CPS junior inning

CPS junior won the toss and chose batting.

Opening batsmen were Dheeraj Dewda & Harshnain Raja. Dheeraj easily got wiped out at just 18 runs in 20 balls which included 3 fours by him. Harshnain maintained the balance and made maximum run (30) out of 39 balls with 5 fours.

On the other side, opening bowler of noble international was Vikas Dawe who bowled 4 overs with 27 runs and took 1 wicket.

Other bowlers included Intaaf Khan, who bowled for 4 overs with 28 runs and got to manage 2 wickets. Rajnikant bowled the maximum overs of 24 with 28 runs and wiped out 2 wickets. Lokesh bowled 1 over with 8 runs 0 wickets. Kalpesh bowled 4 overs with 25 runs and took 2 wickets.

Vishwajeet managed one wicket in 3 overs with 14 runs.

Finally a target of 140 runs on the loss of 9 wickets in 20 over was placed for the rival team-Noble International. CPS junior won by 4 runs.

Noble International inning

The partnership of opening batsmen Kalpesh & Shubham could not work out as the first batsman was bowled out after just 2 balls without any scores. Shubham too could only score 5 runs on 10 balls.

After the end of this partnership of opening batsman, the team seemed to like collapsing. Prashant Kumawat got out on 2 balls and zero runs. Manish Bandwal also could not make it more & was clean bowled on 2 balls and 2 runs.

The scenario threw whole pressure of the team on the last wicket partnership of Vikas Dawe (from left in photo) & Raghav.

Raghav entered after 6 wickets were down, and injured his hand by ball and sat out for a while. He had to come back as the whole team was being blown out. He started playing with one hand.

Vikas Dawe played well and had taken the team few steps ahead to increase the marks on score board. He played marvelous shots of 7 fours & 5 sixes and made 71 runs in 43 balls. Raghav was giving his best at the opposite side.

The best bowler of CPS was Meet who took 3 wickets. CPS gave 34 extra runs to opposite team. Noble International managed 136 runs in 19.4 overs.

Man of the match was Vikas Dawe from Noble International, who made 71 runs in 43 balls.

report by Sayeed Ahmed