Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 12: Outplaying their respective rivals convincingly today, New Challenger Cricket Club (NCCC), Jammu qualified for the semi-finals and Rainawari Cricket Club (RCC), Srinagar sealed berth in the quarterfinals of the ongoing 3rd Jammu Tawi Premier T20 Cricket Tournament, being played at GGM Science College Hostel ground, here.
Earlier, in the quarterfinal, New Challenger Cricket Club defeated Krishna Cricket Club by 9 wickets in an easy contest.
Batting first, Krishna Club scored a modest total of 103 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Sunny Saini top scored with 33 runs, while Bhanu and Bablu contributed 17 and 11 runs to the total respectively. Deepak took 3 wickets, while Soumay Jain bagged 2 wickets for New Challenger. Sumit and Sahil also claimed one wicket each.
In reply, New Challenger scored the required runs in 14.3 overs by losing one wicket and won the match by 9 wickets. Vimarsh Kaw top scored with unbeaten 44 runs, while Gourav Khajuria scored valuable 30 runs. Bansi Lal was the only wicket to fall at his individual score of 8 runs. For his brilliant knock of 44 runs, Vimarsh Kaw was adjudged as man of the match.
In the pre-quarterfinal, RCC Srinagar thrashed Rising Star Cricket Club by 54 runs. Batting first, RCC scored a decent total of 161 runs in the allotted 20 overs by losing 5 wickets. Satish Kumar played a brilliant innings of 55 runs, while Rakesh Koul and Puneet Kumar contributed valuable 42 and 41 runs to the total respectively. Yogesh Sikka took 2 wickets for Rising Star, while Surjeet and Paras claimed one wicket each.
In reply, Rising Star managed to score 107 runs in 20 overs, thus lost the match by a big margin of 54 runs. Guggu top scored with 34 runs, while Mohit contributed 20 runs to the total. Sachin and Lokesh chipped in with 12 and 11 runs respectively. Akash Choudhary took 2 wickets for RCC, while Rakesh Koul, Kuldeep Kumar, Dilbag Singh and Puneet Kumar claimed one wicket each. Rakesh Koul and Satish Kumar were jointly adjudged as men of the match.
The matches were officiated by Saleem-ur-Rehman, Sadiq Hussain Malik, Rajinder Singh, Sandeep Manchanda and Vinod Kandyara.
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