MARGAO
Margao Cricket Club beat a fighting Chowgule to lift the 2nd Karapurkar Trophy by 10 runs, at the SAG Fatorda ground.
MCC won the toss and elected to bat. It was a teamwork where all gave their contribution which revolved around topscorer (Yash Kaswankar 48). Rishikesh Ugale (36) and Vaibhav Naik contributed to the MCC fighting total of 161 for 6 in 20 overs. Shubham Desai took 2 wickets.
Chowgule lost Rajat Shet early but Shubham Gajinkar (60) tried to hold the innings together with strokes all over the ground. Till he was there it looked like Chowgule would win a big way. However, the fall of Shubham turned the tables and Chowgule started losing wickets regularly till Saish Kamat and Rohit Naik brought them back into the game. A brilliant catch by Saif Ali who ran nearly 30 yards to pick up a skier from Rohit put end to the chase as Saiesh Kamat followed soon after. MCC bowled the Chowgule side out in 19.5 overs and clinched the trophy by 10 runs.
Vipul Phadke, President of GCA was the chief guest and with Rupesh Naik Jt Secretary GCA gave away the prizes in presence of Chirag Naik, Director of Commonwealth Developers and the Sponsors of this tournament , organiser Hemant Angle and Gurudas Kudalkar from Zaino Sports and Welfare Club, Velim.
