A Finals to remember as Vishal Chitrakar & Hitesh Parmar lead Route Mobile to a Finals Win in the Thane Vaibhav Tournament

Thane City Police & Route Mobile faced each other for a crucial final match of the Thane Vaibhav Tournament (B Div) at the Dadoji Kondev Stadium, Thane. Winning the toss, Route Mobile who have a good batting line up elected to bat first and put the opposition under pressure from the word go.

Batting first, left handed opener Vishal Chitrakar played one of the finest innings of the tournament stitching a great century at the top of the order. Vishal scored a blazing 143 coming off just 95 balls at a strike rate of almost 150 which included 16 boundaries and 3 big sixes. Vishal was very comfortable and kept on hitting the balls at will. He hardly looked troubled against any bowlers & kept the scorecard ticking for Route Mobile. The rest of the batsman chipped in with 20’s and 30’s with Ajinkya Beloshe & Vishal Dhagaonkar scoring 44 & 30 respectively. Route Mobile managed to reach a more than healthy total of 355/7 in 33 overs with Prashant Suryavanshi & Hemant sonawane picking up 2 wickets each.

Chasing 356 in 35 overs is like chasing 200+ target in T20’s, it was never going to be easy & such was the case with Thane Police too as they succumbed to some wonderful bowling by the Route Bowlers. Left-arm spinner Hitesh Parmar yielded magic with the ball and scalped stunning figures of 7/19 in 7 overs. Hitesh was the primary destroyer for Thane City Police & he completely made the batsman clueless with his puzzling spin. Thane City Police was all out for 96 runs and Route Mobile won the finals by 259 runs.

Some players are made to perform at the big stage during crunch situations & Hitesh Parmar and Vishal Chitrakar just proved their worth by firing from all the cylinders in the finals. They both were adjudged ‘man of the match’ & cricketgraph wishes their good form continues for a long long time.