Akshar A Cruise into Finals

Two half centuries and some inspired bowling saw Akshar A breeze past their B team and into the final of the Akshar league on Sunday. Akshar B won the toss and decided to field first. They got off to a good start with Ramesh bowling line and length resulting in the removal of both openers in the third over. Unfortunately for the B team, their fielding then let them down as they dropped Pardeep at least three times allowing him to make a quick 53 not out in 55 balls before he retired hurt. Though Ramesh is an excellent bowler to right handed batsman, he just could not bowl against left handed Pragnesh, and ended up bowling 6 wides in the same over he removed the two right handers. Jogesh chipped in with 36 before being trapped lbw by Hiren, but it was Dilip's 51 that put the icing on the cake for Akshar A. They went into the break having scored 266 for the loss of 8 wickets and would have been confident of being able to defend that total.

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Akshar B in truth never looked like being able to get even close to the target as the top order were terrorised by Ghanshayam, who despite his age has still shown himself to be the pick of the tournament's bowlers. Jogesh then got in on the act to destroy the middle order and it was pretty much all over. Raju provided brief resistance at the death to finish top scorer for Akshar B with 17*, but it was too little, too late and they were bowled out for 97. Akshar A will now play Kericho in the final of the tournament to be held at the NAC grounds on Sunday from 10am.

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SCORECARD:
Akshar A Innings:

Harshil............Ct..Kalpesh...........Ramesh.......10
Divyang...........Ct..Viral................Ramesh.......00
Pardeep..........Retired Hurt..............................53*
Pragnesh.........Ct..Hiren...............Kalpesh.......23
Jogesh............LBW.......................Hiren..........36
Aku.................Bowled...................Samrat........05
Dilip...............Ct..Viral.................Ramesh........51
Deval..............LBW........................Hiren..........20
Ketan.............Bowled...................Kalpesh........01
Raju................NOT OUT...................................15
Ghanshyam....NOT OUT..................................00
Extras.................................................................52
Total..for..8..wickets........................................266
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Akshar B innings:
Trushit.............Bowled...............Dilip...............07
Viral.................Bowled..............Ghanshyam....08
Sunil.................Bowled..............Ghanshyam....05
Kalpesh............Bowled..............Ghanshyam....02
Hiren..............Ct..Divyang.........Ghanshyam...02
Rakesh............Ct..&..B...............Jogesh.............13
Samrat............Bowled...............Jogesh.............01
Jalo.................Bowled...............Jogesh.............00
Ravi................Ct..&..B...............Harshil............10
Raju................NOT OUT...................................17
Rameash........St..Deval.............Harshil............10
Extras.................................................................20
Total...All..Out....................................................97

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FINALS TO BE PLAYED ON 10 SEPT 2006 KERICHO v/s AKSHAR A at NAC FROM 10 am