Riyadh, October 5: The Seven Star Mulki emerged champions of the Raisco Trophy, a 10-over hard tennis ball knock-out cricket tournament organized by Friends Padubidri, Riyadh, and sponsored by Raisco Group of Companies, Riyadh.
The tournament was held at Badiyah grounds, Riyadh, from September 14 to 28. As many as eight teams from the coastal Karnataka took part in the tournament, with the matches being held every Friday morning.
The teams that qualified for the finals were Seven Star and Bhankal Sports.
Bhankal Sports won the toss and elected to field first in the final match which held on September 28. Seven Star scored 74 runs in allotted 10 overs. Shamsu – 23 runs was the main scorer from Seven Star. Ansaf took 3 wickets (hat-trick) from Bhankal to restrict Seven Star to post a total score of 74 runs on the board. The chase was again lead by Ansaf of Bhankal, who scored 26 runs, but finally they were short of 11 runs to reach their target. Seven Star clinched the Raisco Trophy beating Bhankal Sports by 11 runs on the final day of the tournament.
The fantastic performance given by the players of both teams indeed proved to be an eyeful and thoroughly enthralled the cricket loving fans and viewers in the ground.
Soon after the final match, there was prize distribution Ceremony. In addition to the Friends Padubidri Members, the other eminent personalities who came as guests to witness the final match were; chief guest- Abobakker Padubidri, the owner of RAISCO Group, Younus, the captain, Mangalore Kings Team, Nazeer Ahmed, Manager, Jolly Boys Team, Farooq, Manager, Padubidri Friends Cricket Riyadh.
The following players and teams received glittering trophies from the organisers for their outstanding performances:
Man of the Match – Shameer - Seven Star
Best Batsman – Shamshu – Seven Star
Best Bowler – Ashfaq – Seven Star
Man of the Series – Mutalib Shirva - Bhankal Sports
Runners up Trophy – Bhankal Sports
Winners Trophy – Seven Star
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