SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2016 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Confident India ready for Chance for fringe players Maruti Suzuki Nagrota Premier League Tournament to impress selectors Nagola Knight Riders outplays Bangladesh challenge in final MUMBAI, Mar 5: injured and replaced by Ankit Rajpoot and Anureet Singh, MIRPUR, Mar 5: against Sabbir Rahaman's con- Bangladesh: Mashrafe The domestic season-ending according to their coach Ashish ventional yet dangerously attack- Mortaza (Captain), Tamim Iqbal, five-day Irani Cup game Pounthal Chalana Rockets Unstoppable so far with clin- Kapoor. ing batsmanship or Rohit Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahaman, between newly crowned Ranji The team has Andhra's K S ical performances, a formidable Sharma's artistry against Taskin Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib-Al Trophy champions Mumbai and India will square off against a Bharat, who can open the *Pargalta Friends outclasses Panjgrain Phantoms Ahmed's youthful exuberance the Rest of India, commencing innings, as the second keeper passionate and sprightly can also be a spectator's delight. here tomorrow, will provide Excelsior Sports Correspondent tributed 29 runs to the total. Department of Youth Services Bangladesh in their quest for Final should be and Vidarbha's Faiz Fazal as his In reply, Panjgrain Phantoms and Sports, J&K. The only missing link will be fringe players a good opportuni- likely opening partner. BAJALTA, Mar 5: Nagola continental supremacy in the Mustafizur Rahman, out with a treated as just another ty to stake claims for the nation- failed to chase the target and Besides cricket lovers from final of the Asia Cup Twenty20 The batting appears a bit Knight Riders defeated Grade I side strain. al team. weak and would be dependent Pounthal Chalana Rockets and cricket tournament, here tomor- India captain Mahendra game: Shastri The first class match is the row. mainly on the experienced trio Pargalta Friends trounced Singh Dhoni will be looking at a MIRPUR, Mar 5: last occasion for hopefuls from of Ojha, Karnataka's Karun Nair Panjgrain Phantoms in the bigger picture as the Asian title both ranks to impress the five- and Saurashtra's Sheldon Maruti Suzuki Nagrota Premier will mark the perfect preparation The excitement of being in India are clear member national selection panel Jackson. League Tournament, an initia- before the ICC World T20 at the Asia Cup final might be pal- headed by Sandeep Patil before The spin attack looks thin favourites: Mashrafe home. pable in the Bangladesh camp tive of MLA Devender Singh attention shifts totally to the T20 with Jharkhand left-arm spinner His opposite number but for India, tomorrow's sum- Rana at Bajalta Playfield in the MIRPUR, Mar 5: format, commencing with the Shahbaz Nadeem and Haryana Mashrafe Mortaza is not at all mit clash would be just another Nagrota Assembly ICC World T20 Championships. off-spinner Jayant Yadav to man looking that far ahead as an game in the tournament, says Constituency, here. Bangladesh captain With the country expected to it though there is Akshay Asian title will mean a watershed Team Director Ravi Shastri. Earlier, winning the toss and Mashrafe Mortaza today con- play over 15 Test matches post Wakhare in the squad as the moment for T20 cricket in the "They (Indian players) are batting first, Pounthal Chalana ceded that India are the clear Indian Premier League till the other off spin option. country and a solid boost before experienced players and they Rockets managed to score 90 favourites to lift the Asia Cup end of next season, this match is Rival squads (from): they face the Netherlands and should treat this as another runs only after losing 8 wickets T20 cricket trophy and only the ideal platform for these play- Mumbai: Aditya Tare Ireland in the qualifying round of gamer. Our approach to every in the stipulated 14 overs. the familiarity with home con- ers to strengthen their claims for (Capt.), Abhishek Nayar, the marquee event in picturesque team and every game has been In reply, Nagola Knight ditions could tilt the balance in the long Test haul. Dhawal Kulkarni, Shreyas Iyer, Dharamsala. the same," Shastri said during Riders scored 91 runs after los- his side's favour in the summit Mumbai, who clinched the Suryakumar Yadav, Akhil It will be a battle between a the shortest press conference ing 5 wickets in 11 overs, thus clash here tomorrow. Ranji crown for the 41st time Herwadkar, Siddhesh Lad, Winners posing alongwith officials and organizers at Bajalta, team full of T20 specialists conducted by the Indian team won the match by 5 wickets. India have been in rampag- against a team which has learnt last week by defeating Sufiyan Shaikh, Nikhil Patil Nagrota in Jammu. on this tour that lasted less than Arun Jamwal of Nagola Knight ing form with four convincing to consistently punch above its Saurashtra by an innings, have a (Jr.), Iqbal Abdullah, Shardul five minutes. Riders was declared as man of managed to score 90 runs in 13 Nagrota and Jammu, the match- wins in the tournament, weight. settled combination led by wick- Thakur, Balwinder Singh "Right from the start, we the match for his all-round per- overs, losing all wickets, thus es were witnessed by Sarpanch including the 45-run thumping And with the most partisan et keeper batsman Aditya Tare. Sandhu (Jr.), Badre Alam, have approached every game as formance. He scored valuable lost the match by 27 runs. Nikhil Nagola Ragubeer Singh. of Bangladesh in their opening 25,000 supporters creating an They appear to be better pre- Bhavin Thakkar, Vishal a knock-out game. The final 19 runs and took 2 important was declared as man of the Both the matches were league match, and Mortaza awful din, it will not be an easy pared than the motley bunch of Dabholkar, Jay Bista. will be no different for us," he wickets. match. played under the overall supervi- made it clear that "there was job for Dhoni and his men when Rest of India, being led by Rest of India: K S Bharat, added. (PTI) The second match was The matches were officiated sion of Faheem Tak, Vice no debate" on who are the Mortaza's boys try to put them Madhya Pradesh stumper Faiz Fazal, Karun Nair, Sheldon played between Pargalta Friends by Sadiq Hussain Malik, Madan President Take-1 Channel and favourites in tomorrow's final under the pump in a floodlit Naman Ojha. Jackson, Naman Ojha (Capt.), and Panjgrain Phantoms. Mohan and Suresh from the Member Organizing Committee. at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. Sher-e-Bangla stadium. Hasan, Mahmudullah Riyadh, However, they would take Stuart Binny, Shahbaz Nadeem, Winning the toss, Panjgrain "We all know that Indians For Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh and Mohammed Mithun, Arafat the Rest of India lightly at their Jayant Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Phantoms decided to field first. Salute & Tribute to Siachen Martyrs Cricket Tournament are clear favourites in the final. Virat Kohli -- playing a big final Sunny, Taskin Ahmed, Al-Amin own peril as the latter have a Krishna Das, Sudeep Chatterjee, Pargalta Friends managed to Let there be no debates or dis- is not new. They have been there Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Abu good bowling attack at their Ian Dev Singh, Akshay score 117 for 6 in the stipulated cussions on that," Mashrafe and done that before. Hider, Nurul Hasan, Imrul Kayes. command even without original- Wakhare, Ankit Rajpoot, Gokul's power-packed fifty 14 overs. Nikhil top scored with said at a packed match-eve For Mashrafe, Shakib Al Match starts 7pm (IST). ly named Barinder Sran and Anureet Singh. (PTI) press conference. (PTI) Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, the taste (PTI) Nathu Singh who have been 36 runs, while Koushal con- of a title win is something alien. takes NCC to quarters On paper, India are over- whelming favourites as the ICC They came very near to it in 2012 Kanuyian XI, YCC Little Champs Play Way School Excelsior Sports Correspondent Manish Dogra and Rakesh rankings (India's 1st vs when Pakistan crossed the final Kumar also chipped in with 21 hurdle as Mahmudullah Riyadh JAMMU, Mar 5: Gokul and 15 runs respectively. For Bangladesh's 10th) suggests. But Baru's quick-fire 53 runs helped it counts for little in the shortest choked in the final overs. Mendhar register wins celebrates Annual Day Shahenshah Cricket Club, Titas The same Mahmudullah is a Excelsior Correspondent show based on theme Indian National Cricket Club (NCC) to was the pick of the bowlers, who format, wherein the complexion Excelsior Sports Correspondent 92, thus won the match by 5 'man of big occasions' for Forces. Other students of pre- thrash Shahenshah Cricket Club scalped 3 important wickets, of the game can change in a mat- wickets. JAMMU, Mar 4: Little Bangladesh as he has more than nursery presented fancy dress and seal berth in the quarterfi- while Orange bagged 2 and ter of one over. POONCH, Mar 5: In the In another match played Champs Playway School, New A master plot always has sub- redeemed himself with that ongoing Police Martyrs T-20 show based on various cartoon nals of the ongoing Salute & Manpreet claimed one wicket. between Young Cricket Club, plots and this final will be no dif- boundary off Anwar Ali to take cricket tournament organized by Tribute to Siachen Martyrs In reply, Shahenshah Club Mendhar and Challenger ferent. There will be little testing his team to the final. District Police Poonch under Cricket Tournament, being managed to score 86 runs in the battles, which promise to make it Teams: Civic Action Programme at Cricket Club Poonch, YCC organized by Parade Cricket allotted 20 overs by losing 6 an intriguing summit clash.