Kristal Cup 14th All Kerala Celestial Trophy Cricket Tournament 2009

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Feb 04/09

Cordiant SF the third champion in Celestial trophy Cordiant Sports Foundation is only the third champion in the history of Celestial Trophy Cricket tournament.SBT have been dominating the tournament winning twelve out of the thirteen previous occasions.In 2005 Swantons became the champions beating Cycle Brand Kids CC when SBT lost to Kids in the Semi Final

Feb 01/09

Cordiant Sports Foundation new Celestial trophy Champion Cordiant Sports Foundation has lifted the 14th All Kerala Celestial Trophy Cricket tournament.In the final held at Medical college ground Trivandrum they crushed city Cricketers by 144 runs.Arun poulose scored a fantastic century to make a platform for the team to set a target of 278.Rizwan(48) and Tejas (36) made use of the situation while VS shiju picked up 3 wkts for the City team. City Cricketers never looked eying for the target as they got bowled for a paultry 134 runs in 35.1 overs.only Shiju 42 made some reistance

Feb 01/09

Cordiant To meet City in the Final Cordiant Sports Foundation beat Pattara Swantons CC in the semi final by a convincing 8 wkts .For Cordiant Madan mohan who made a brilliant 78 alog with Rajilal who made 52 made things look very simple as the winning run came in the 24th over.earlier Manukrishnan(2/35) and shahid(3/32) played a big part in restricting Swantons CC to just 154 inspite of a dream start of 70 /0 in the 6 overs Once the amn in form Abhishek Hegde got out for 62 in 37 balls the wickets started falling like nine pins.wicket keeper Raji Lal created a record in wicket Keeping by claiming 8 victims (6 catches and 2 stumpings) In the first Semi Final,City Cricketers survived some anxious moments to beat Masters Cricket club by 4 wickets.Masters CC made 159/9 in 30 overs.P M Anfal made another fifty while Manikantan made 30 in 21 balls.City lost some early wickets but Akhil viswanath (42) along with Sachin Mohan (25)steadied the innings before P prasanth (35 no)cosolidated the innings along with young sanju samson(27)

Feb 01/09

Cordiant sports foundation in Semi Cordiant sports foundation Ernakulam defeated host Murugan CC by 54 runs.CSF made195/8 in 30 thanks to a fourth wicket stand of 102 runs between Tejas (79) and Rizwan(51).mcc started well and looked good at one stage at 94/1 in 16 overs.But then wickets fell at regular intervals and the innings collaped .Only Mahesh(62) made some impact with the bat.

Feb 01/09

Pattara Swantns CC Send Muthoot ECC packing swantons beat Muthoot ECC by 29 runs to enter the semi finals of the tournament.Swantons with the help of Abhishek Hegde (66) and Pious K Joseph (46) made a good total of 172 .the lackadasical attitude of the ECC batsmen cost the match dearer.for ECC wickets fell in regular intervals and that triggered the down fall. score Swantons CC 172 (Hegde 66,Pious K Joseph 46 Abdul samad 3/32,jiju janardanan 3/26) bt Muthoot ECC 143 all out in 24 overs

Feb 01/09

Masters CC upsets SBT Masters CC set up the biggest upset in the History of Celestial trophy by beating SBT by 3 wickets, scoring the winning runs ith just two balls to spare.Allround display by P M Anfal 3/36 and50 runs and his 90 run partnership with AliAsgar formed the plat form for Masters victory.But it was a cameo innings from Manikantan the Masters\\\' captain(24 in 8 balls )that brought the match to Masters Kitty. score S B T 179/10 in 27 Jagadeesh 48,Ramakrishnan 38,chandrasekhara 30 Mhd Naseef 36/3, P M Anfal 3/36 Masters CC 180/7in 26.4

Jan 31/09

KRL loses to City cricketers City Cricketers defeated BPCL KRL by 6wkts in the first quarter final match held at agriculture College ground. Batting first after a much delayed start due to thick fog KRL made a moderate total of 129 runs. it was Sandeep R Nair(3/31)and Shiju VS(4/27) who curtailed the KRL innings. city reached the target in the 24th over with some useful contributions from P.Prasanth 934),sanju samson 26and AM Bijuc 23.

Jan 31/09

Masters wins a thriller In a prequarter final match Masters CC won a thriller against Maruthi Homes TCC in the last ball of the match.in a match reduced to 25 overs,Maruthy Homes TCC made 198 with good batting show by Aneesh PJ (77) and Sindo M M(48) Abhishek Mohan took 3 for 35 Masters chased the target in a consistant manner with valuable contributions from Tomy Alexander (44) abhishekl Mohan (42) ali Asgar(43) and Jijin(28) and reached the target of the last ball

Jan 31/09

Murugan CC beats Cycle Brand Kids CC to enter quar Aided by a brilliant 65 by M.G.Rajesh and an elegant 49 from Ganesh Murugan CC scored their fifth victory in the tournament to enter the quarter finals> earlier S.Sachin(77) And Unnikrishnan (37)lead the Cb kids CC to a challenging total of 199.

Jan 31/09

Zeros CC loses despite a magnificient 98 by Siyad Inspite making 190 runs in 30overs zeros Cc lost the match to Loyola CA by 6 wkts.siyads 98 and the partnership of 89 runs with James Leen gave zeros CC a brilliant start.but the bowlers let them down as SS shine and co reached the target with ease.

Jan 31/09

Masters CC in pre quarter Masters CC defeated Pioneer CC by 145 runs Amit sidharth scored 95runs and PM Anfal scored 40 runs for Masters CC and Naseef took 3 wickets. score Masters CC 219/5 in 30 Pioneer CC 74/10 in 20.2overs

Jan 31/09

MDCA advances on better runrate Malappuram DCA XI got past Parle Agro TCA by a narrow margin as the match ended abruptly due to rainwhen TCA chasing 165 were 105/2 in 19.5 overs.MDCA were declared winner on the basis of better overall runrate

Jan 31/09

Murugan CC enter prequarter Host murugan cc beat Pathanamthitta DCA XI by 5 wkts to enter the Prequarter stage,This is the 4th consecutive win for the hosts.After bowling out PDCA for 86 MCC lost some early wickets but was able to over come the situation.Venkatesh, bowling( 3 wkts for 5 runs a)nd all round performance by Mahesh (3/13 and 38)helped MCC in their victory

Jan 30/09

Murugan CC beats Genuine CC Murugan CC won its third consecutive matc in th tournament beating Genuine CC Kollam by 150 runs.For MCC Ganesh (59) and Rajesh(52) put up a third wicket parnership of 113 to see the team toatal pile up to 250.Genuine CC were too week to take on the situation and crumbled at 100.Mahesh and Praveen took 3 wkts each

Jan 30/09

Parle Agro Travancore CA beats a fighting Xminds f Parle Agro Travancore CA defeated a fighting Xminds Fighters CC by one wicket.After putting up a modest target of 160 Fighters seemed to have given up when TCA reached 109/0 in 13 overs,Young left arm spinner Rameez had other ideas as he broke into the TCA innings with a haul of 6/22.After some nervous moments TCA reached the target

Jan 30/09

Loyola Beats QDCA in Super over Loyola Cricket Accademy beat QDCA XI in the super over(11/1 - 6/0).the match ended in a tie whent both the teams scored 160/10. in the super overLoyola scored 11 runs despite losing a wicket in the first ball.QDCA could not do much as they finished at 6/0.

Jan 30/09

Amit stars in masters victory Amit sidharth scored 54 to take Masters to its first match victory over Pankaja kasturi CC.Jijins allround (3/25 and26) performance was another high light of the 3rd round match

Jan 26/09

Venkatesh ,Sreenivas shines in Murugans victory MuruganCC inflicted a 81 run victory over New kids Chenganoor.It was H.Venkatesh (83)and M G Rajesh (57)who put up a 3rd wkt partner ship of 131 runs laid the foundation for MCC innings which ended at 263 for 4.Later on it was well followed up by veteran bowler sreenivasan with a 4/23 including a hatric

Jan 25/09

Xminds Fighters wins another thriller Xminds FightersCC brought out another thrilling victory in the tournament beating Benix CC by 13 runs in low scoring encounter.Anish rajs five wkt haul for Benix went in vain as Benix fell shot of meager target of 100 by 14 runs.For FightersParamesh picked up 3 wkts while Sajeer and Rameez took 2 each .Earlier it was Sajeer(24) who along with jayakanth brought some respect to the Fighters total.

Jan 25/09

Monish jayan helps Loyola win their 2nd match Loyola Cricket accademy today won their second match in the Tournament beating IPO Kollam by 17 runs in an evenly poised contest.Loyola made 204 in their 28 overs with fluent knock of 75 by Monish Jayan.in reply IPO could make only 187 in 28 overs

Jan 25/09

MuruganCC starts with a win MuruganCC today started with a three wicket win over Oxford CC Kollam.oxford Cc elected to bat but was not able to take advantage of the luck with the toss and was bundled out for126 in 26.3Only the captain of OxfordCC , Unnikannan (25)and sreekanth (26)made some impact.Spinner Mahesh was impressive with a haul of 4wkts for 19.

Jan 22/09

X Minds Fighters upsets Kesavashire A splendid 56 in 39 balls by Anoop helped Xminds Fighters CC score a victory over Kesavashire CC. Winning the toss Xminds elected to bat and made 162 in their 28 overs.Kesava shire lost wickets at regular intervals as their new ball bowlers Jayakanth(3) and Ram(2)shared 5 wkts in their first 5 overs.KCC was never able to organize a come back as Rameez(2/13)and Sajeer (2/16)tightened the match from both the ends.Kcc was all out for 120

Jan 21/09

New Kids Chengannor Starts with a win New kids CC ,Chenganoor scored a convincing victory over the local C division Champions Rising Star in another first round match.New kids made 196 before being bowled out in the 30th over with 4 balls to spare.Inspite of amiddle order collapse NKCC managed a challenging total thanks to Jagadeesh who made 41 coming in at no 9. For Rising star Aneesh made 80 in 51 balls but all others fell cheaply and the team could make only 139 before being bowled out in 20.4 overs

Jan 21/09

Benix CC moves up Benix CC on its come back trail to the main stream club cricket augmented lts cause by defeating chasers CC by 4 wkts to enter the second round.It was the bowlers Habib Rehman 5/14 and R.Padmanabhan3/14) who laid the foundation for the Benix victory.rajneesh who made 39 made all attempts to prevent the collapse in the chasers innings but wickets fell in regular intervals and the innings was over in just 15.4 overs

Jan 19/09

Sinil takes IPO to the Second round IPO Kollam Beat Packer CC Tvm by 8 wickets in a first round match.Sinil scored an unbeaten 83 for IPO in 52 balls with the aid of 13 fours and 3 sixes

Jan 19/09

Deepu scores century Deeepu V nairs 78 ball century guided Rovers CC to its first round victory over an ever fighting Attingal CC.Although Rovers CC scored 226 in their 29 overs,attingal CC fought back to reach 210 before they comleted their overs

Jan 19/09

Pankajakatury advances Pankajakastury survived some tense moments before coming out victorious in their first game against Travancore Cricketing union for Pankajakastury,Karthik CS scored 63 while Jithin took 3wkts .Captain Rahul AR chipped in with 2 wkts

Jan 19/09

Shine excels in Loyola Victory Loyola Cricket Accademy with the help of Shine SS who scored a blistering ubeaten knock of 81 in just45 balls crushed Sensan Renji CC by 10wkts in the inaugral match. Earlier in the day V.Sivan Kutty MLA inaugurated the tournament

Jan 16/09

Celestial Trophy Fourteenth All Kerala Celestial Trophy Cricket Tournament embarks on 15th January 2009 at Medical College Ground, Trivandrum. Almost all state players are expected to participate in the tournament representing 32 major clubs from all over the state. The tournament expected to be a big draw in terms of spectator interest and team participation, as in the previous years.