Kharafi National cricket team won the prestigious Kuwait Cricket summer league trophy |
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Posted on 7/29/2012 |
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Kharafi National cricket team won the prestigious Kuwait Cricket summer league trophy by defeating Boom Boom cricket club by a margin of 64 runs in a closely fought tussle at Sulaibiya cricket ground. Kharafi National owes this victory for their splendid team work which fetched them the coveted trophy.
Winning the toss, Boom Boom send Kharafi Nationals team to bat first as openers Paresh Kumar & Vipin piled up 75 runs. Both the batsmen exhibiting some wonderful strokes as they drove & pulled with awesome power. Vipin departed after scoring a valuable 22 runs while Paresh Kumar along with the stylish Alwin Patel stroked handsomely to take the Kharafi National score to 160 runs in their allotted 20 overs. Paresh Kumar scored a marvelous 52 runs while Alwin Patel batted beautifully well to score 43 runs.
Boom Boom played positively in the initial stages but crumbled to some excellent bowling by Abdul Razzak who was supported well by Renil Raj & Santhosh which restricted the free scoring Boom Boom batsmen as they failed to take the initiative and they were all out for 96 runs in the 17th over. Waqar batted well to score 34 runs while Ansar stood firm with a painstaking 19 runs. Abdul Razzak took 4 wickewts for 20 runs while Renil Raj 3-23 & Santhosh 2-11 provide the much needed back up for National Kharafi to victory.
The winning trophy was handed over to Kharafi National captain by Mr. Saeed Mubarak, Board member, Kuwait Cricket & runners up trophy was presented to Boom Boom captain by Mr. Asad Baig, Director General, Kuwait Cricket. Man of the match trophy was presented by Umar to Paresh Kumar while Alwin Patel rightly took the Man of the series trophy from Mr. Saeed Mubarak. The match was officiated by Zahid Usman & Fareed Dalwai.
A prize money of $ 500 was given to the winning team while the runner up team received $ 250 along with individual prizes handed over by Mr. Mahboob Khan ( Director Women’s Cricket) and Mr. Iqbal Rajporkar the tournament coordinator while Mr. Riaz Choudhry ( Director Umpiring) was the master of ceremony. |
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