STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Media -XI trounced Aircel-XI in Fifth Aircel Media Cup 2016 by a margin of 15 runs here at KC Public School Ground , here on Saturday.
The match was organised by the Chander Pruthi, Markrting Head, Aircel J and K circle.
After winning toss, Media- XI team, led by skipper, Mir Imran elected to bat first and made 129 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs. Jagdeep Singh scored highest 30 runs off 39 balls while Faheem Tak scored 28 off 25 balls.
For Aircel-XI, Rakesh Jamwal took three wickets by giving 22 runs in four overs while Ajay Jamwal took two wickets by giving nine runs in two overs. Nikhil Dev and Anand Tripathi took one wicket each in their four overs spell.
Chasing the target, Aircel-XI, led by Anand Tripathi could make only 114 run, thus losing the match to Media-XI by a margin of 15 runs.
Anand Tripathi played highest 40 runs’ inning in 37 balls while Kewal Kotwal scored 38 runs off 33 balls. Ranjeet Singh, Yash Khajuria from Media -Xi took three wickets each in four overs. Fine two overs spell of Vivek Suri taking two wickets turned the match to the basket of Media-XI. Ashu Mehra and Ashu Srivastav took one wicket each in their two overs spell.
Ranjeet Singh was adjudged as the Man of the Match for his overall performance with three wickets and 19 runs to his credit. Complementing Media-XI for promoting sports and initiating the movement against drug, team head said such associations need to be boosted and government should financially help such sports club for larger cause.
Later, the Guest of Honour, Jaswinder Singh distributed trophies among the players of both teams.
Rajinder Singh and Ashok were the umpires while Altaf Janjua and Varun Gupta maintained the scoreboard.
Sachin Singh, Manager, Dinesh Mahajan and Ajay Raina, coordinators were also felicitated on the occasion.
