Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, July 31: Cemtac Stars registered their first win of the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Corporate Premier League, defeating Jumbo Gladiators by a big margin of 65 runs at MA Stadium, here today.
Earlier, winning the toss and batting first, Cemtac Stars scored a modest total of 130 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, losing 7 wickets in the process. Jatin Wadhawan was the top scorer with 31 runs off 30 balls including 2 massive sixes, while Naseer and Usman Pandit contributed 30 and 29 runs to the total respectively, hitting 2 sixes each. Sameer contributed 16 runs with 2 boundaries. For Jumbo Gladiators, Raman Dutta took 2 wickets, while Kuldeep Kumar, Soumay Jain, Sahil Aggarwal and Ramdayal Punia claimed one wicket apiece.
In reply, Jumbo Gladiators, bundled out for paltry 65 runs in 18.1 overs, thus lost the match by 65 runs. Parveen Singh was the top scorer with 30 runs, while Soumay Jain contributed 14 runs to the total. For Cemtac Stars, Waseem Raza, Rafiq, Mehraj and Owais bagged 2 wickets each, while Imtiyaz claimed one. Rafiq was adjudged HDFC man of the match, while Jatin got the TCI maximum sixes award. The awards were presented to them by Vivek Bharadwaj, Deputy Director CII, Gagandeep Singh, another representative from CII and Riyaz Ahmed, owner of Cemtac Stars.
The match was officiated by BCCI Panel umpire Amit Bansal and Amit Gupta, while Dheeraj and Mohsin acted as the scorers. Former International umpire SK Bansal was the match referee, while the matches were organized under the supervision of Farooq Amin, CEO of JKCPL, Hilal Rather, provincial chief, Abdul Qayoom, general secretary and Rajesh Dhar, joint secretary of JKCPL.
The remaining matches of the league will be played at the two venues of Bijbehara and Kashmir University in the Valley after the festival of Eid.
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