MES College varsity cricket champs
HERALD SPORTS DESK
PANJIM, FEB 9
MES College, Zuarinagar won the inter-college cricket championship defeating Caculo College in the final.
Caculo College winning the toss chose to bat and scored 149 for 5. Kiran Pednekar scored 52 in just 27 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes, Rohan Belekar 33, Sajji Vernekar 15, Vivian Castelinho 13. Kalesh Passi 2 for 29 and Mahadev Parwar 1 for 16. MES College reached the target in the 18th over with 4 four wickets in hand.
Sayed Badiuzzama hammered 76 in 55 balls with 12 fours and one huge six. Siddharth Khatri 18, Samman Shaikh 17 and Yeshwant Raikar 12 contributed in their victory. Vivian Castelinho took 2 wickets for 33, Vithal Gawas and Gaurav Naik 1 wicket each.
Sayed Badiuzzama of MES College was declared the Man of the Match, Sumeeran Amonkar of Damodar College the Best Batsman, Sanjil Sail of Rosary College Best Bowler and Rohan Belekar of Caculo College Man of the Series.
Bhaskar Nayak, director of Higher Education, was the chief guest at the finals and gave away medals and trophies to the winners.
Dr R V Hajirnis, principal of MES College, Dr Santosh Patkar, principal of Caculo College and Milton Fernandes, assistant director of Physical Education and Sports of Goa University, were present on the occasion.
Datta Betkar, university sports organiser, welcomed the guests and later on proposed vote of thanks.
