MUMBAI, Oct 18: The Mumbai Cricket Association Shatkar Trophy under-16 Selection Cricket Tournament will be held at various city grounds from October 26.
Six teams — Deodhar XI, Borde XI, Gavaskar XI, Viswanath XI, Vengsarkar XI and Solkar XI — would vie for top honours in the round-robin event.
The tournament would form the basis for selecting the Mumbai u-16 team.
The MCA released the list of four teams on Friday after a two-day selection trial held at the Wankhede Stadium.
The sixth team — Deodhar XI — comprising boys of Thane district would be selected on October 20 at Central Maidan, Thane
The teams: Vengsarkar XI: Rubesh Kumar (captain), Mahesh Palekar, Sandesh Amrute, Sohan Dalvi, Vishal Tivrekar, Swapnil Tambe, Sushant Marathe (wicket-keeper), Samir Shaikh, Kumar Subramaniam, Chirag Lambad, Varun Mundkur, Pushkaraj Karde, Nikhil Kulkarni, Mudassar Sayyed and Atul Sharma.
Gavaskar XI: Omkar Khanvilkar (C), Sammy Salaria, Shirish Mendrekar, Rohit Bhalla, Hiken Shah, SachinShetty, Neil Daftary, Swapnil Shinde (both WK), Parag Madkaikar, Nikhil Dhanavade, Aditya Kulkarni, Aniket Naik Satam, Anand Dalvi, Leroy Rebello and Prasad Chavan.
Viswanath XI: Vinit Indulkar (C), Manish Rawre, Sanket Nayak, Rohan Saldanha, Suresh Jadhav, Sagar Dharankar, Alok Manohar (both WK), Pranab Chavan, Siddarth Bhatkar, Rohan Amladi, Manoj Giri, Yogesh Shinde, Amit Siddeshwar, Farzan Siddique and Roshan Salvi.
Solkar XI: Paul Valthaty (C), Aniket Redkar, Rohit Salunke, Harshad Rawle, Rahul Yadav, Chinmay Madiye, Karim Zindani, Rohan Mayekar (both WK), Sanchit Pande, Mayank Dalal, Pushkar Kalyankar, Vijay Jaiswal, Altaf Shaikh, Swapnil Karpe and Hrishikesh Puranik.
Opening round schedule (Oct 26-27): Gavaskar XI vs Borde XI at PJ Hindu Gymkhana; Vengsarkar XI vs Deodhar XI at Karnatak CC; Solkar XI vs Viswanath XI at Islam Gymkhana.
Aarey upset Kamath
Aarey Cricket Club provided a rousing start to the Bharat Petroleum U-14 cricket tournament by knocking outdefending champions Kamath Memorial at Worli Sports Club here today.
Electing to bat, Kamath Memorial never got going, and were bundled out for 89 in the penultimate over.
Anchored by Rohan Saldanha’s unbeaten 37 Aarey reached the target in the 23rd over with four wickets to spare.
Left-arm seamer Rahul Kulkarni, who bowled a tight line, conceding just six runs in his five overs, struck 12 runs with the bat to claim the Man of the Match award.
In the second match, hosts Worli Sports Club scored an impressive 9-wicket victory over Rajasthan CC.
Brief Scores: Kamath Memorial 89 in 23.4 overs (Girish Vaswani 33, Akshay Girap 2-24, Abhijeet Deshpande 2-16) lost to Aarey CC 90-6 in 23 overs (Rohan Saldanha 37 n.o.) Man of the match: Rahul Kulkarni
Rajasthan CC 82-8 in 25 overs (Satyajeet Sawant 3-18, Rishi Vijin 2-8) lost to Worli Sports Club 83-1 in 23 overs (Rahul Sawant 25, Shravan Chhabria 30 n.o.) Man of the match: Shravan Chhabria.