Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador’s 20-20 Summer League got underway this Saturday at the RCAF field off Torbay Road (the former provincial recreation centre field). Sixty players are registered for the league and have been allocated into three equally balanced teams- the Thunderbolts, the Newfoundland Champions and the St. John’s Superkings. Each team will play the others five times, with the tournament culminating in a final tentatively scheduled for the Labour Day weekend with the Atul Ahuja trophy to be awarded to the winning team.
In the opening match, the Thunderbolts made 110 runs in 20 overs, led by Waqas Hanif’s 32. The Champions were all out for 73, thanks to some excellent bowling from man-of-the match Pawan who took four wickets for 18 runs.
In the second match, captain Rakesh Negi’s 52 led the St.John’s Super Kings to 105 and the Champions fell 22 runs short in their reply.
Scorecard and some photos thanks to Colin Squires follow:
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First match: Thunderbolts scored 110 and Champions 73 all out.
Waqas Hanif from Thunderbolts scored 32 and Pawan took 4/18 and was the MOM.
Second Match: St.John’s Super Kings scored 105 and Champions scored 83.
Rakesh Negi-52 and Gurman 32.
MOM: Rakesh Negi
Newfoundland 20-20 League 2012
NL Champions vs St. John’s Superkings
RCAF Field, Torbay
9 June 2012Result: St. John’s Superkings won by 18 runs
Toss:
St. John’s Superkings innings
*Rakesh Negi run out 52
Asim Kamran b Riaz 4
Senthill Selvamani run out 9
Nick Baxter b Shaifan Ahmed 7
Kamal st Dias b Golam Moula 4
Bharat Shetty b Shaifan Ahmed 7
Ashwin Gupta b Shaifan Ahmed 0
Prateek Dongare not out 4
Extras (b 1, lb 5) 6
Total (7 wickets, 20 overs) 105DNB: +Alex Dias
FoW: ?
Bowling O M R W
Saquib 4 0 23 0
Dhawan 4 0 11 0
Riaz 4 0 20 1
Luftor Rahman 2 0 18 0
Golam Moula 4 0 23 1
Shaifan Ahmed 2 0 10 3NL Champions innings
+Gurman Khurana b Kamal 30
Neelav Dhawan b Gupta 5
Talha Riaz b Gupta 0
*Golam Moula b Baxter 6
Ali Dawood lbw b Negi 5
Shakeel run out 0
Saqiub c ? b Kamal 0
Neamun Nasir Shovon b Kamal 7
Shaifan Ahmed not out 3
Fahad run out (Kamal/ Dias) 0
Luftor Rahman b Kamal 3
Extras (lb 6) 6
Total (all out, 19 overs) 87FoW: ?
Bowling O M R W
Selvamani 4 0 12 0
Baxter 4 0 11 1
Negi 4 0 19 0
Gupta 3 0 20 2
Kamal 4 0 25 4Newfoundland 20-20 League 2012
Thunderboltz vs NL Champions
RCAF Field, Torbay
9 June 2012Result: Thunderboltz won by 30 runs
Toss: ?
Thunderboltz innings
Kaivallya Kulkarni c ? b Golam Moula 16
Karim b Shaifan Ahmed 7
Surya lbw b Dhawan 3
Alpesh Patel c ? b Riaz 2
Waqas Ali not out 32
*K Chenthilnathan b Saquib 6
Shameem Islam run out 4
Pawan b Saquib 0
Kranti b Saquib 1
Sarawana run out 0
Subhav lbw b Shaifan Ahmed 0
Sridhar not out 4
Extras (b 1, lb 2) 3
Total (all out, 19 overs) 110FoW: ?
Bowling O M R W
Shaifan Ahmed 4 0 34 2
Dhawan 4 0 16 0
Golam Moula 4 0 13 1
Riaz 3 0 25 1
Neamun Nasir Shovon 2 0 12 0
Saquib 2 0 10 3NL Champions innings
+Gurman Khurana lbw b Pawan 0
Ayaz Ghani c ? b Pawan 0
Tahla Riaz b Pawan 9
*Golam Moula c ? b Pawan 0
Luftor Rahman b Subhav 9
Shakeel st ? b Kranti 6
Ali Dawood b Chenthilnathan 7
Neamun Nasir Shovon not out 1
Saquib b Chenthilnathan 0
Shaifan Ahmed c b Shameem Islam 1
Neelav Dahwan st ? b Kranti 6
Extras (?) 32
Total (all out, 16.2 overs) 71FoW: ?
Bowling O M R W
Pawan 3 0 17 4
Kulkarni 2 0 6 0
Kranti 2.2 0 9 2
Chenthilnathan 4 0 13 2
Sarawana 2 0 12 0
Subhav 1 0 8 0
Shameem Islam 2 0 7 1
