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| Sunday, 29 March 2009 00:26 | |||
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Montgomery College (MD) took home the Chanderpaul Trophy when they captured the Inaugural American College Cricket Spring Break Cricket Championship played at the Broward Regional Park last weekend. They captured the title when they defeated University of South Florida (USF) by 55 runs in a lopsided final. Montgomery College won the toss and opted to bat first and surprisingly found it difficult to score against a tight University of South Florida bowling attack. After 7 overs Montgomery had only scored 29 runs, this from a batting lineup that had averaged 11 runs per over in their previous matches. USF Captain Harsh Baddepalli, one of Florida's young stars, opened the bowling with Nirav Shah and both kept great line and length, frustrating the Montgomery batsmen. Montgomery’s consistent and elegant stroke player Danish Ashgar went for only 7 and Sadiq Naseer and Sehgal spent some time steadying the ship before they both fell, at 60 and 67. Ben David made the breakthrough for USF and Montgomery looked vulnerable for the first time in the Championship. Captain Adit Bhatti, a talented all rounder came in at number four and Mohammed Khamran joined him to put on a 108 run fourth wicket partnership. Bhatti held his end down scoring 36 runs while Khamran took charge of the innings punishing any errant ball and pulled and hooked 6 sixes en route to scoring 63. Khamran's sixes soared well over the boundary line, and the scorers and spectators seemed in danger a few times. The left-handed Khamran gave the impression of being in control, doing what he wanted to do with the bowling despite the strong winds helping the swing bowlers. Khamran and Bhatti propelled Montgomery to 175 for 3 in their allotted 20 overs. In reply the USF Team began with a good run rate but kept losing wickets. And losing star batsman Harsh Boddepalli to Khamran really hurt their chances and they were all out for 120, never really threatening the Montgmery total.
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