Home & Away Week 5 : Mahmood’s 169* helps MIT to top of the Standings !
MIT Engineers Cricket team
MIT Engineers vs BOSTON U Terriers
Friday April 25 at Jack Barry Field, MIT
MIT batted first and made 176 all out in 19.3 overs. Openers S Padhy 41 and Fahad Mahmood 33 laid the foundation, and with I Chugh 33 were MIT’s top scorers. For BU S. Ramchandar took 3 for 30 and Hayat Khan 3 for 33.
Getting Hayat Khan bowled for a duck got BU off to a bad start, and whilst Arush Sabharwal made 31, and Deepak 23 the Terriers didn’t threaten MIT’s total and MIT took the win ! Amjad took 3 for 21, Munasinghe 2 for 18 and Koustuban Ravi 2 for 20 !
MVP was Amjad – https://www.crichq.com/#matches/132566
PRINCETON Tigers vs RUTGERS
Sat April 26 at Princeton
November 6 1869 Rutgers and Princeton played the first college football game – and this past weekend they met. Princeton batted first, and without their top batsman Ryan Edwards, struggled to 72 for in 20 overs. Devansh Gupta topscored with 23 whilst Navqi, Udit PAtel & George each took 2 wickets for Rutgers.
Rutgers had no trouble making 73 for 3 in 12.3 overs to win the game. Udit Patel & Ashmeid Allie both made 25.
Rutgers’ Udit PAtel was MVP https://www.crichq.com/#matches/132207
HARVARD Crimson vs BOSTON U Terriers
Sat April 26 at Harvard
We’ve had many thrilling games in American College Cricket and this one is right up there with the most exciting ! After losing their inform batsman Arush Sabharwal for a duck Boston recovered behind Danial Salman’s 77, supported by Hayat Khan 29 and Shaunak Ramchander’s 26 and finished with 191 for 6.
A formidable total but the Harvard batting was in superb form, and 2 batsmen had already scored centuries this season ! When Jayaram & Kuchroo came toger at 60 for 2 after 6.3 overs, Boston could easily have given up but Kuchroo was soon gone for 18 and Jayaram bowled for 37 ! at 106 for 5 in 11.2 overs, behind the required run rate, and with the batting mainly gone, it looked dim for Harvard !
But Danny Yetman took over smashing 4 fours & 2 sixes and suddenly Harvard, with nearly 5 overs and 47 runs to get, looked like they would get the win ! But then Yetman was run out for 30 ! 2 quick wickets and at 145 for 7 Boston was in control again, but Humayun Irshad’s 2 fours & 2 sixes got Harvard to 190 for 9, losing by 1 run !
BU’s Danial Salman was MVP https://www.crichq.com/#matches/132207
MIT Engineers vs BABSON COLLEGE Beavers
Sunday April 27 at MIT
Mit batted first, and it was practically all Fahad Mahmood., who made a record breaking 169*, in 74 balls 10 fours and 17 sixes ! He got great support from Koustuban Ravi, who ensured wickets were not falling at the other end, making 35 out of the partnership of 185 ! This gave the Beavers a mammoth total of 285 to win !
Babson gave it their best with Harnaresh Singh making 53 and Nabeel Khan 44* but fell well short with 188 for 7.
Fahad Mahmood was MVP. .https://www.crichq.com/#matches/132494
