PANJIM: Fine all round performance by Amey Kossambe (50 and 2 wickets) and a fifty by Sujay Kamat (58) enabled Sportsweek Cricket Cclub from Margao beat a star-studded New Vaddem Sports Club by 36 runs in the Goa Cricket Association’s South Zone B Division final, at Sanguem, recently.
Winning the toss and electing to field, the New Vaddem pacers could not get the breakthrough as Nagappa Konnur (28) and Sujay Kamat stitched a 68-run opening partnership. With this base Amey Kossambe and Vasudev Kundaikar (39 of 28 balls) stepped up for Sportsweek to finish at 213 for 7 in 40 overs, losing three wickets to three balls giving a hat-trick to the Pune bowler Shripad Nimbalkar (3 for 29).
Rohan Fund and Tirokar took a wicket a piece.
Sportsweek fast bowler Heramb Parab started with a bang by bowling out opener Pradeep Dabholkar on the very second ball but the Pune pair of Shripad Nimbalkar (25) and Akshay Padval (37) steadied the New Vaddem innings with a 67-run second wicket partnership.
But Vasudev (3 for 27) struck by inducing an edge from Akshay which was caught at slip by Vicky Nevgi. After the wicket of the third, Pune player Rohan Fund (33), New Vaddem lost steam and finished at 177 for 9 in 40 overs.
Schoolboy Anish Mhaddolkar (1 for 37) scalped Nimbalkar while Amey Kossambe (2 for 34) and Karan Dongre (3 for 18) bowled well for Sportsweek.
Sportsweek now await the winner from North Goa for the State final.
