Excelsior Sports Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 21: The Biba Cricket Club (BCC) defeated Holiday Inn Café Cricket Club by three wickets in the finals of the 2nd Chill-out T20 Cricket Tournament, played at Pictures TRC Ground, here today.
The tournament was organised by the Cricket Fraternity Dalgate and sponsored by United Imports and co-sponsored by Biba Cricket Club.
Holiday Inn won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 139 runs for the loss of five wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Manzoor Elahi scored 53 runs and Muneeb Manaf scored 28 runs. From the bowling side, Owais Shah and Hilal took two and one wickets respectively.
In reply, BCC chased the set target in just 17.5 overs and registered a win over their opponents. Owais Shah and Asif scored 49 and 28 runs respectively. From the bowling side, Gowhar and Muneeb took one wicket each.
Commissioner Secretary Tourism, Sarmand Hafiz was the chief guest of the occasion. He said that there is no shortage of talents among the Kashmiri youth and in future the sportspersons here would be given ample opportunity to prove their mettle at national and international level.
About 32 teams participated in this tournament.
Later, Owais Shah was declared as Man of the Match for his all-round performance while Umar Nisar was awarded with Man of the Series for his outstanding performance during the tournament.
The winning team was given a trophy as well as cash prizes Rs 30,000 while the runner-up team was awarded with cash prize of Rs 15,000 along with a trophy.
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