Friday, December 25, 2009

Guwahati Town Club (GTC) lift Shiba Bora Cricket title

From our Staff Correspondent
DIBRUGARH, Dec 25: Guwahati Town Club (GTC) lifted the 6th Shiba Bora Memorial Invitational Prize Money Cricket Championship Trophy defeating Tinsukia Railway Divisional Sports Club (TRDSC) by 26 runs in the final held at Chowkidinghi playground, here today.

GTC won the toss and decided to bat first but were bowled out for 140 runs in 32.3 overs. Chandan Raout top scored with 37 runs followed by Ram Gupta (30) and Deep Bora (25). Chirantan Das was the most successful for TRDSC with 3 wickets for 10 runs while Sunny Ahmed and Suraj Dutta captured 2 wickets each.

In reply, TRDSC collapsed for 114 runs in 32.3 overs with Bimal Goswami scoring 22. The other contributors of the TRDSC were Salim Ahmed (21) and Dipen Mahanta (21). Gakul Sarmah was the most successful bowler for GTC with 3 for 25 runs. The Additional Superintendent of Police, Devasish Sarma gave away the Man of the Match Award to Gakul Sarmah of the GTC. Sourav Bhagawati of the Dibrugarh Cricket Coaching Centre declared as the Man of the Series and won Rs 10,000.

The sitting MP Paban Singh Ghatowar gave away the trophy and prize money of Rs 30,000 to the winner while Commandant Subrajyoti Hazarika handed over the runners-up trophy and the prize money of Rs 20,000 to TRDSC. THE SENTINEL

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