Sidak Singh

Springfield was undoubtedly the hot favourites to emerge winners. And, living up to their top billing, the defending champions authored a stupendous win by an innings and 65 runs.

Anjuman-e-Islam Allana defeated St Mary's ICSE, Mazagaon by an innings and 164 runs on the second day of their three Harris Shield group match at Azad Maidan in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The Rizvi skipper found himself in the thick of action again as he single-handedly took the team to the Giles Shield final, with his all-round performance.

Sure, the under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy tie between hosts Saurashtra and Mumbai ended in a draw, but there were some notable performances in the three-day match played at Rajkot.

Hardik Tamore (67, 204b, 7x4), Vaidik Murkar 55 (160b, 6x4) made fifties as Mumbai crawled to 183 for five against Punjab in their Under-23 Col CK Nayudu Trophy semi-final match at Patiala.

MIG Cricket Club and Cadence Cricket Academy shared the spoils in a tie in the Cadence U-13 Cricket Trophy (30 overs) at the Cadence cricket ground.

There is a touch of Mumbai cricket in these Rizvi boys. Wait, this is not in a derogatory sense and we are not referring to Mumbai's beleaguered senior Ranji team.

Cooch Behar Trophy: Pacer Arjun Tendulkar (five for 44) and left-arm spinner Sidak Singh (3-17) took eight wickets between themselves to bowl Mumbai to an innings and 103-run win over Railways on Day Three of their Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy match on Tuesday. Resuming at 124 for seven, Railways folded up for just 136.

On a day the Mumbai team made a backdoor entry into the Ranji Trophy quarters, Mumbai's U-19 team held on grimly to win the Cooch Behar Trophy on the basis of the first innings lead against Punjab.

The twelve-year-old spun the defending Harris Shield champs to an impressive outright victory against Anjuman-I-Allana with a match-haul of eleven wickets at the Shivaji Park.

Rizvi Springfield dished out disciplined bowling and tight fielding as they restricted Anjuman-I-Islam to 138/5 on Day 1 of the four-day Giles Shield final.

Rizvi Springfield won their sixth Harris Shield on the trot after beating IES VN Sule Guruji on the basis of first-innings lead.

For a 14-year-old, left-arm spinner Sidak Singh has exceptional cricketing acumen. He's not only picked up wickets for his school, Rizvi Springfield, but has also come good with the bat returning a few good knocks in the Harris Shield cricket tournament for boys under-17.

Nirlon are the new champions of the 'C' Division Times Shield Cricket Tournament.

The Pondicherry team scored 397 in their first innings, but Up batsmen enjoyed the batting oriented strip of slims cricket ground and they batted with patience, harsh tyagi and aaditya sharma the two batsmen played with determination and executed a 186 run partnership for the second wicket in 284 balls their union broke when harsh tyagi was stumped by siddharth of Julian Jacob harsh by that time had scored 111 runs in 167 balls hitting 14 hits to the fence thereafter aaditya and captain sameer rizvi added 53 runs for the third wicket captain sameer was caught by siddharth off Sidak Singh after scoring 33 runs in 48 balls hitting 3 boundaries and a six new batsman siddharth yadav proved a good partner to aaditya who completed his century in his union two batsmen once again frustrated the host bowlers for a long time and added 127 runs in their fourth wicket stand their partnership was separated by santosh kumaran s when substitute p surendran caught him aaditya faced 257 balls and scored 151 runs plundering 19 boundaries at close siddharth yadav and swastik were batting on 97 and 11 runs respectively siddhar

Sairaj Patil will lead the Mumbai U-16 team in the first two matches of the Vijay Merchant Trophy, against Saurashtra from December 13-15 at Bhavnagar, and against Baroda from December 19-21, at Mumbai.

Pondicherry played host to Kanpur in the first game of the four day Col CK Nayudu Trophy cricket championship played at Slims Cricket ground Pondicherry on Monday. Pondicherry earlier in their first innings scored 397 runs in 149 overs. Kanpur started their first innings from 5 for 258 and added another 139 runs, losing their opener Rahul Raj Pal cheaply scoring 26 runs before being bowled by S. Jasvanth Rahul hit one boundary and 2 sixes in 43 balls he faced harsh and Aditya Sharma thereafter passed the day safely. They were batting on 41 and 38 runs respectively. Harsha had sent the ball to the fence 6 times while Aditya Sharma hit 8 boundaries so Far Siddharth and D. Naveen resumed their innings from overnight scores Siddharth who had batted very well and had blocked one end could not repeat his performance and added just 6 runs in his overnight score of 59. Kritagya KK Singh holed his defence and bowled him he faced 281 balls and hit 6 boundaries. Naveen too returned after scoring 13 runs in 99 balls he fell prey to Bobby Yadav when Sameer Rizvi caught him. Sidak Singh and Julian Jacob played fine knocks of 60 and

The 16-year-old Sidak now has 18 wickets from just two games and Rizvi Springfield's crushing victory has underlined their status as one of the favourites to go all the way in the competition.

Bandra's Rizvi Springfield registered a thumping win by innings and 759 runs against St Francis D'Assissi on the last day of their three-day Elite Division Harris Shield encounter at Azad Maidan's Baronet wicket on Thursday.

All-rounder Sairaj Patil will lead the Mumbai Under-16 squad to face Gujarat and Maharashtra in the Under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy.