Salwan Boys High School Retain Delhi Daredevils Cup

Salwan Boys High School retained the 3rd edition of USA Pears Daredevils School Cup crown with a 22-run victory over Delhi Public School, Mathura Road here on Monday.

Asked to bat first at the Jamia ground, Salwan boys had a disastrous start when they lost opener Aryan Juyal without a single run on the board. But a 72-run partnership for the third wicket between Prashant Vashisht (50 not out) and Nitin Tanwar (50) took them to a comfortable 139 of three.

In response, none of the Delhi Public School batsmen could convert their starts into a big innings and the team always played catch up with the scoring rate and ended up way short of the target.

Vashisht came up with an all-round performance claiming two wickets for nine runs in his three overs and was adjudicated the Daredevil of the Match.

The finalists also got an opportunity to interact with Indian Premier League stars Saurabh Tiwary and Shahbaz Nadeem, who gave the players tips on how to work towards a career in the sport.

Nadeem said, " I started playing cricket from the age of 6 but never had competitions like these during my days. So I believe, youngsters should make full advantage of tournaments like these to showcase their talent."

Also present at the glittering presentation ceremony were title sponsor USA Pears's Keith Sunderlal , SP Bansal (President-DDCA & VP-BCCI) and Delhi Daredevils Director, T.A. Sekhar along with Delhi Daredevils Management team.

Brief Score:-

Salwan Boys High School 139 for 3 (Prashant Vashisht 50 not out, Nitin Tanwar 50) bt Delhi Public School, Mathura Road 117 for 7 (Rahul Chaudhary 30, Vaibhav Khanpal 23; Prashant Vashisht 2/9, Mukulit Bhatt 2/28)

Other Awards:-

Mukulit Bhatt (Salwan Boys Sr. Sec School) - Batsman of the Tournament

Sumit Mathur (Ganga International School) - Bowler of the tournament

Shiva Chauhan (DPS Mathura Road)- Allrounder of the tournament