DAV College continue to dominate
Action from the DAV College of India versus Australia’s University of New South Wales opening match at the Red Bull Campus Crick
DAV College, Chandigarh, beat Karachi University by eight wickets on Wednesday, the second day of the Red Bull Campus Cricket world finals cricket tournament at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
Jaskaran Singh powered the Indian team’s chase with a blistering knock of 75, including five sixes. The knock earned him the man of the match award.
DAV captain Kunal Mahajan won the toss but his decision to field first did not pay off as the team from Pakistan kept the scoreboard ticking at a healthy rate despite losing wickets at regular intervals.
Opener Faraz Ali was out for a duck early on in the innings but his partner Ammar Hasan put behind his disappointing start to the tournament stroking his way to 85 with nine boundaries and four sixes. Hasan’s knock saw the Pakistan side post 1387/9 from their 10 overs.
Openers Jaskaran and Deepak Sharma provided a steady 61-run start for the Chandigarh college. After Sharma’s departure, Jaskaran hit some lusty blows and kept his team ahead in the match throughout. He was run out trying a cheeky single but Mahajan dispatched two deliveries for sixes wrapping up the contest in style.
On Tuesday, the Chandigarh college made a winning start to the competiton beating University of New South Wales from Australia by five wickets. The NSW team made 124/8 in 10 overs which the DAV boys chased down with two overs to spare. Jaskaran top scored for the winners with a handy 33.
Electing to field, DAV College couldn’t have asked for a better opening spell from Vishwas Khatak, who dismissed Charles Wakim for a duck, in what was a wicket maiden.
Thomas Rogers took the New South Wales University total past 50 in the seventh over but he fell, caught lbw to a delivery by Rattan Singh.
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