DSP BlackRock, ICICI Prudential, Motilal Oswal and SBI won their respective matches in this knockout tournament and reached semifinals of the first T20 cricket tournament of the mutual fund industry called ‘T-20 Corporate Challenge Cricket Cup -2015’.
In the semi-finals, SBI MF will take on Motilal Oswal MF and DSP BlackRock will faceoff ICICI Prudential on October 31.
Nagesh Thakur, former Mumbai cricketer and coach, Jayesh Dadarkar, Selector, Ladies Mumbai Cricket Association and Sharad Sarang, former-A Division Cricketer jointly inaugurated this tournament by distributing uniforms to fund officials.
Match statistics
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Match outcome |
Man of the Match |
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SBI beats HSBC by 60 runs |
Amit Patil |
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Motilal Oswal beats Religare Invesco by 8 wickets |
Amit Dasani |
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DSP BlackRock beats Kotak by 4 wickets |
Bhavesh Lakhani |
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ICICI Prudential beats Axix by 7 wickets |
Darshit Jhaveri |
In the second match of the first day, Motilal Oswal defeated Religare Invesco by 8 wickets. Religare Invesco batted first and piled up 125 runs. Only Anish Surve and Nitin Gosair of Religare Invesco MF managed to score over 25 runs. Later, the spectacular inning of Motilal Oswal MF’s star batsman Amit Dasani added to team Religare Invesco’s woes. Dasani scored a whopping 63 runs in just 19 balls and became Man of the Match.
On the second day i.e. October 25, DSP BlackRock MF played against Kotak MF. After winning the toss, DSP BlackRock opted to field first and managed to restrict Kotak MF’s batsmen in the initial overs. However, Kotak MF managed to finally set a decent target of 147 runs. Parthipan Nadar of DSP BlackRock MF took 3 wickets. While chasing, DSP BlackRock scored 150 runs in the 18th over to win the match. Bhavesh Lakhani of DSP BlackRock became the Man of the Match for his all-round performance.
In the last knockout match of this tournament, ICICI Prudential MF defeated Axis MF by 7 wickets. ICICI Prudential MF won the toss and elected to field. Axis MF was bowled out in 90 runs. ICICI Prudential MF required just 7.4 overs to reach their target. Darshit Jhaveri of ICICI Prudential MF scored 39 runs in 13 balls and became the Man of the Match.
This four-day-long tournament (spread over two weekends) started on October 24. The final match is scheduled to be held on November 01 from 1.30 pm at Naman Payyade Cricket Ground, Borivali, Mumbai. Sarang Sports is organizing this event
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