Triangular cricket tournament ‘TRIDENT PCA CUP’ between Best of Punjab&Rest of Punjab begins

Triangular cricket tournament ‘TRIDENT PCA CUP’ between Best of Punjab & Rest of Punjab begins

Triangular cricket tournament ‘TRIDENT PCA CUP’ between best of Punjab and Rest of Punjab got underway from today 15^th March 2021. The tournament  sponsored by Trident Group of Companies  carries a cash prize of Rs  2 lacs for the Winner team and Rs 1 lacs /- for the Runners up team. The finals of the  tournament are  be played at PCA stadium, Mohali from 24^th March to 26^th March, 2021.  The  tournament aims   to make the best players, chosen by PCA from Punjab on the basis of their performance, to play against each other, perform and improve in the company of better players and to make this tourney a regular feature in the Cricket calendar of PCA.

The opening Match of the tournament was  played between  Punjab XI and  Rest of Punjab-RED at Gandhi ground Amritsar .

Punjab XI  made  a glorious start by defeating Rest of Punjab- by 6 wickets. The mainstay of the batting was the opener  Abhijeet who  scored   112 runs in only 96 balls hitting 14 fours and 4  sixes. He was also  adjudged the man of the match. Abhijeet was ably supported by Prabhjot Singh   who scored 58 runs in 73 balls with 8 fours.The pick of the bowler for Rest of Punjab was Kashish Panseja for his 2 wicket haul in 5.1 overs for 21 Runs.

Rest of Punjab, batting first scored 225 Runs losing 9 wickets in stipulated 50 Overs. The highlight of Rest of Punjab innings was a blistering knock  of 82 runs in 76 balls studded with 5 Sixes and 5 Fours by WK batsman Salil Arora ,he was supported by Sumeet Sharma who playing cautiously made 52 runs in 62 balls including 6 fours.

On bowling front , bowler Abhinav Sharma registered impressive  figures by taking   3  wickets in his spell of 10 overs giving away 36 runs only.Vinay Chaudhary chipped in with an economical spell  of 1 wicket for 12  runs in 10  overs followed by 2 wickets by Ramandeep Singh in his short spell of 3 overs giving away 20 runs .

Final Score of the Match

Rest of Punjab 225 for 9 in 50 Overs

Punjab XI 227 for 4 in 37.1 Overs

Man of the Match : Abhijeet ( Punjab IX ) 112 runs in 96 balls

Live and post Match Scores are available on

https://cricheroes.in/scorecard/1683986/Trident-Pca-Cup-Triangular-Series/Pca-Rest-Of-Punjab-Red-vs-Pca-Punjab-11#scorecard

This is the 4^th tournament in a row sponsored by the Trident Group in its endeavor to promote the game of Cricket in Punjab and they have promised to organise many more such tournaments in future.

Teams are set to play  twice against each team in a league format and the top two teams will play in the finals for the Winner’s purse of Rs. 2 lacs and the Runners up purse of Rs. 1 lac. Individual prizes of worth Rs 11,000 will be awarded to Best Batsman, Best all-rounder, Best Wicket keeper and Best Fielder of the tournament will be given to top performing players besides Man of the Match for each game.

Tournament Fixtures:-              

Note:- Winner to be decided from Best of three final matches. Third match will only be played if required.

Players/ Teams in the Tournament

Best of Punjab: Vinay Chaudhary (Captain), Rohan Marwaha, Abhijeet Garg, Prabhjot Singh, Arush Sabharwal, Ramandeep Singh, Akul Pratap Pandav, Anmol Malhotra (wicket keeper), Yashanpreet Singh, Baltej Singh, Abhinav Sharma, Gurvinder Bhullar, Gurnoor Brar, Parth Aggarwal, Tejpreet Singh, Gaurav Chaudhary, Coach: Devinder Arora

 Rest of Punjab (Red): Gitansh Khera (Captain), Mandeepinder Singh Bawa, Nihhal Wadera, Vishwapratap Singh, Kashish Pasneja, Kunwar Pathak, Salil Arora (Wicket keeper), Pukhraj Mann, Sumit Sharma, Ekjot Singh Thind, Preet Dutta, Abhishek Bajaj, Jasinder Singh, Sahil Chandra, Dipin Chitkara, Hartejaswi Kapoor,Coach: Ravneet Singh Rikki

Triangular cricket tournament ‘TRIDENT PCA CUP’ between Best of Punjab & Rest of Punjab begins

Rest of Punjab (Green): Aashish Ghai (Captain), Naman Gheer, Vinay Garg, Karan Chawla, Aman Ghuman, Kamaljeet Singh (wicket keeper), Aashish Malhotra, Talwinder Singh, Arjun, Prashant, Harjot Singh, Taranpreet Singh, Manjinder Singh, Aditya Narayan Mehta, Damandeep Singh, 

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