Navdurga win Ponda Youth
U-14 cricket title
HERALD SPORTS DESK
Panjim, Feb 5: Navdurga High School, Madkai won the top honors winning the under-14 finals of Ponda Youth Inter-Schools Cricket Tournament beating Symbiosis organized by Sports Excell to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of GVM’s GGPR College, Ponda.
Navdurga won the toss, elected to bat and scored 48 for the loss of 4 wickets in their allotted 8 overs with opener Diptesh scoring 11 and their consistent performer Vikrant scoring 13 not out with 2 boundaries.
Siddanth, Saiesh, Satyam and Pranesh claimed a wicket each of Navdurga. Symbiosis had Siddanth scoring 11 runs and was the only player who put some resistance to Navdurga.
The strong bowling line up of Akshay, Vikrant, Sarvesh and Sanket helped the Shiroda boys from scoring at will as in their previous matches. Navdurga won by 6 runs and rightly Vikrant was declared the man-of-the tournament in the junior category while Siddanth of Symbiosis was the man-of-the finals.
In the semi-finals of under-16 category, MIBK Khandepar got the better of Government High School, Bethoda to meet Dada Vaidya HS Curti who defeated Pragati Vidyalaya Borim.
Ramnath and Sunny of MIBK put together an opening partnership of 36 runs in the overall total of 77 for 4 at the end of their stipulated overs. In reply, Nilesh (15), Suraj (18) and Vinay (16) tried to overcome the MIBK boys. However, they fell short by 9 runs in which Sunny claimed 2 wickets and was declared the man-of-the match.
In the second semi-final, Dada Vaidya had to sweat it out to make it to the finals beating Pragati Vidyalaya in an exciting encounter.
Initially, the match ended up in a tie and then the super over was applied do decide the winner to enter the finals. Dada Vaidya had scored 73 for 5 with Chandresh scoring 16. Anwar scored 15 not out and the successful bowler was Yogesh for Pragati who claimed 2 wickets. Pratap scored 24 and Kunal 15 for to tie the match. However, in the supper over Pragati won the toss and elected to bat and could muster only 10 runs while the winning team Dada Vaidya scored 11 runs with one ball to spare.
Pradeep Gaonkar, secretary of Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandal was the chief guest and distributed the prizes alongwith Principal Kamat of GVM Higher Secondary School. Principal P. M. Bhende welcomed. Director of Physical Education of GVM GGPR College, Betty D’Silva proposed the vote of thanks.
