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MATCH NO. 1 MATCH NO. 2

CriCket begin
This Year’s Pune IT Cup started with bang on TCS inning was played around saleemuddin who Now As we have gauged the Pitch from
opening ceremony by the hand of Mr. Shashi scored steady 56 runs from 46 balls all the other Morning 1st Match we have started second Let the
Kate&Mr. Raju Kotwal Sir, after the wonderful players chipped in from other side. Running on match between Varitas & Cognizant. As
opening ceremony it was a time for some real action Mayank Jasore and Saleemuddin TCS has been able we all know cognizant was last year’s runner
from Champion of Pune IT Cup-2016 “Team TCS” to score a competitive score of 160 for the loss of five up so it was always going to be the interesting
who has got the opportunity to play the first of the wicket. encounter between both the teams.
league match against Citi Corp. the match started Now was the time for Citi Corp to start their Cognizant won the toss and invited Varitas to bat,
with power pack hitting from Mayank Jasore who inning where they needed a run rate of 8 RPO but it was a dream start for Rahul Bhat as he has scalped
has played shots all over the ground while from it Citi Corp never looked comfortable against the two wickets in his first spell and given his team an early
other side Gaurav Singh put the anchor to the heavyweight champions of last year, where the advantage, Robin choudhary and Shailesh Sant tried to steady
inning by giving maximum strike to Maynak bowler of TCS run throughCiti Corp team, the inning from there but it was lasted till 5th over where Rakesh
when Mayank got out TCS was on the score singh got better of Robin Choudhary, Ranvir and Sumit got some
of 44 where Mr. Mayank score was 39 Both the opener got out cheaply to the TCS captain start but was not able to convert them into something which can put
from 18 balls which include 4 sixes Sunil Babar, After which Ankesh Maradia & pressure on bowlers and even scoring rate of Shailesh also gone down
and 3 fours. After fall of Mayank Qutubuddin Sheikh are the only players who was as he is seeing wickets falling from other side, hupping and puffing Varitas
Rahul Garg was on ground and able to reach the double digit score where Ankesh Shailesh riched to his 50 but was bowled immediately in search Vs
started with boundary but has tried to score fast in his small cameo of 21 ball
TCS was plumbed by Ankit Jain 23 the captain Qutubuddin who was in nice touch of big hits, varitas was all out by 19.5 overs at the score of Cognizant
109, target for last year runner up was below par as it was
Vs on his third delivery in 2016 season was looking off color and was not merely 110 to be scored in 20 over’s and they have got
able to middle the ball during his painful stay on
which was tailing in.
City Corp Next man in was ground for 13 runs in 28 balls. Siddharth got the the good start from both their openers Prathmesh
and Digvijay though prathmesh and Digvijay after
Saleemuddin wicket of both the key players of Citi Corp Ankesh getting good start fails to capitalize and falls
Mohammad & Qutubuddin in his wonderful spell, where he has in succession, it was vaibhav who was on
where given away only 14 runs in his quota of 4 overs. the crease and keeping his same tempo to
rest of After which Citi corp team was not able to give any the previous seasons he continued to milk the
the fight and was 100/8 at the end of the match where varitas bowling and boundaries started coming
TCS has won the match out rightly. to him at will it take Cognizant 15.4 overs to chase

Saleemuddin was the Nimble- I Player of the Match down the target at the loss of four wickets
for his wonderful inning of 56 Runs Vaibhav Rajurkar was the Nimble- I Player of the Match for
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