Skipper Kunal Patel gives his best but Jay Rawal and Ambrish Mehta steer AV Live Events to a finals win in the ON Toes Cup ‘18

The 10th year of Youth Cricket Club season ended with a nail biting finish in a T20 match of ‘ YCC ON TOES CUP 2018 between team A V LIVE EVENTS & GARDEN STUDIO at Payyade Sports Club Kandivali.

Winning the toss and batting first Team Garden Studio got off to a flying start with their opening batsman & captain Kunal Patel & Mitesh Mehta putting up a partnership of 81 runs in 9.0 overs . They were well on course for a big total before the purple cap holder & highest wicket taker in the tournament – Amit Sheth of A V LIVE EVENTS struck thrice in the 10th over of the innings sending back Mitesh Mehta , Vice captain Sagar Pania and all rounder Khalid Mulani reducing the score to 82-3 in 10 overs which proved to be a big dent in their innings. A decent partnership of 42 runs of 23 balls between Dipesh Goradia and Kunal Patel steadied the innings before Dipesh was out with the score on 124 in 13.5 overs.

But captain Kunal Patel smashed a brutal 95 runs of 56 balls giving his best while taking the bowlers apart along with all rounder Maulik Doshi who scored 58 runs in 23 balls engaging in 74 runs stand in 5.2 overs taking the score to 217 in 20 overs inspite of good bowling by Ambrish Mehta who took a 5wkt haul for 39 runs in his 4 overs.

Chasing the score of 217 team A V LIVE EVENTS were struggling at 81 for 4 in 8.3 overs as the batsman got starts but were not able to capitalize. Match winner Naynesh Shetty who walked in & smashed a quick fire 38 runs of 17 balls before getting leg before wicket to captain Kunal Patel with score reaching 131 runs in 12.5 overs. Next batsman Jay Rawal walked in to join Ambrish Mehta with A V LIVE EVENTS required to score an impossible target of 86 runs in 43 balls. Jay started cautiously playing on the merit and soon got into the groove and smashed Sagar Pania 3 boundaries in the 14th over which shifted the momentum in favor of A V LIVE EVENTS. With still 52 runs needed 24 balls Jay decided to shift the gears in the 17th over as he scored 26 runs in that over (4 ,W, 6,4,4,6,1 ) which was the final nail in the coffin for Team Garden studio .Jay scored a match-winning  54runs off mere 22 balls to take his team to victory and lift the ON TOES CUP 2018 which also won him the Man of the Match award.

You can watch the finals on YOU TUBE courtesy A V LIVE EVENTS

YCC – SYMBOL OF UNITY!!

 Man of the Match  – Jay Rawal

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