Day 4: Coca-Cola Cricket Cup U-16 Inter-School Tournament, Delhi-leg

Samyak Jain’s Fiver Helps Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Defeat Sachdeva Public School

New Delhi, 15^th November 2013: Samyak Jain’s lethal bowling helped Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ITO beat Sachdeva Public School, Rohini by two wickets in a Group G league match of the Coca-Cola Cricket Cup U-16 inter-school tournament, played at Bharat Nagar ground today.

Sachdeva Public School won the toss and opted to bat first. However, they failed to materialise the opportunity and the whole team were bowled-out at a meagre score of 71 runs.  Samyak Jain spearheaded the bowling attack with his five-wicket haul to rattle the opponents’ batting line-up. From the other end, Piyush Dondiyal claimed three wickets to restrict them in 26.2 overs.

Batting second, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan achieved the target in just 14.5 overs after losing two wickets. Shashank Kohli led the batting line-up with his unbeaten knock of 34 runs.

Samyak was adjudged Man-of-the Match for his bowling performance.

The Delhi-leg of the Coca-Cola Cricket Cup 2013-14 involve participation from 64 leading under-16 teams with matches being played at various grounds across the Capital. The tournament has commenced from the second week of November and will run for around 3 to 4 weeks. Matches until the quarter-finals will be played on a knock-out format, the 8 quarter-finalists will then play a league.

The teams and players performing will stand a chance to win prizes at each stage post the quarter-final round. The winners and runners up of the Delhi-leg will be awarded prizes worth Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 35,000 respectively.

Brief Scores

SPS: 71 all out in 26.2 overs (Rishabh Jain 17; Samyak Jain 5/6, Piyush Dondiyal 3/4).

BVB: 72 for 2 wkts in 14.5 overs (Shashank Kohli 34 not out; Sahil Atri 1/1, Shubham Tomar 1/23).