Dubai: Maxtalent Global Sports team emerged champions of the ICC Academy organised Sprite Cup Inter-academy Cup for Boys under 16 with an emphatic 30-run win over GMA (Sharjah) at the ICC Academy Oval Ground last week.
For Maxtalent, it was a special win as they were runners up last year in the same tournament and hence to emerge as the champions was very rewarding. They lost to ICC Academy by a run and got the better of Desert Cub in the semi-finals. This two-day league cum knock-out tournament of eight overs per innings involved eight teams including ICC Academy, Sharjah Cricket Academy, GMA, Cricket Spear and Maxtalent Global Sports Academy
Maxtalent opted to bat after winning the toss. The opening partnership yielded 38 runs in four overs. Ronak Panoly hit an unbeaten 32 while captain Shifran Mulla hit an unbeaten 18, followed by Mukul Jayaraj with 16 runs as the team managed 78 for 3 wickets in eight overs. With GMA having to score nearly 10 runs per over, the lads succumbed to some tight fielding and accurate bowling. They could muster only 48 runs in 7.2 overs with Abdullah 12 putting up some resistance. For Maxtalent Mukul Jayaraj, Chris, Eldred took two wickets each.
“To win MGS Aktiv Nation Cricket Super Big Bash Indoor title and this win in a span of one month is a big boost for the team,” said head coach Sudhakar Shetty.
Brief scores
Maxtalent Global Sports bt GMA (Sharjah) by 30 runs Maxtalent Global Sports 78 for 2 (Ronak Panoly 32n.o, GMA 48 in 7.2 overs (Abdullah 12. Mukul 2 for 7, Chris 2 for 9, Eldred 2 for 5).
Player of the Match: Ronak Panoly.
