Titus beats Amarchand, Kochhar drubs Luthra in Delhi T20 semis

Turf T20 Cup for Law firms
Turf T20 Cup for Law firms
Titus & Co and Kochhar & Co have defeated semi-finalists Amarchand Mangaldas and Luthra & Luthra respectively to face off against each other in the finals for the Turf Twenty20 Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) Cup.

The much anticipated clash of the cricket titans is slated to take place this Saturday (15 January 2011) after completion of nearly two months of exciting weekend matches, which started between 16 law firms competing for the coveted champions’ title.

Last year’s tournament defending champions Titus & Co came down heavily on opponents Amarchand in the second innings with the display of their bowling strength and restricted Amarchand’s run rate as they failed to notch up the required winning score of 143 runs.

Team Amarchand fielded first with good performances from its bowlers restricting Titus’ total to 143 with even Titus star-batsman Saurabh Anand not crossing the half-century mark.

However, team Titus got its act together as players Prashant Chauhan and Sunil struck three wickets each giving away only 38 runs in total. An overall good batting and bowling order saved the day for Titus and team Amarchand went all out after chasing 127 runs in 19.1 overs.

Saurabh Anand from Titus lifted the man of the match title for scoring the highest runs. Other high scorers were Praveen Nagar (33 runs) and Ishan Verma (38 runs) from Titus and Jai Mohan (34 runs) and Varun Bajaj (16 runs) from Amarchand.

The other explosive semi-final match played between Luthra & Luthra and Kochhar & Co ended-up in Luthra’s crashing defeat. Kochhar’s ace-bowler Sultan Ansari knocked down five of Luthra’s wickets, which managed to bat just 15 overs before being all out for a meagre 73 runs.

A low-score costly first innings that had already compounded problems for Luthra gave a massive competitive advantage to rival Kochhars and helped the team breeze easily away to the finals with 74 runs in 15.3 overs.

Kochhar player Sultan Ansari who took down five wickets in four overs bowled giving away only three runs befittingly earned match of the man award. He also had two maiden wickets to his credit.

Legally India is proud media partner of the 2010 TURF Twenty20 Cup for the SILF Cup, which is organised by TURF Sports Management, and is sponsored by the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and co-sponsored by Hyatt.

Comments

Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 17:57
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Luthra has been sent back to the cradle with utmost humiliation. All talk no play reflects how dumb the team was when they were commenting on other teams. [...] and [...] the pie chucker was left weeping.

Luthra have been taught the lesson of their life. Hope they would learn something out of this miserable experience.
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 18:48
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I was witness of the match between Luthra and Kochhar....no doubt Kochhar's disciplined and penetrating bowling left Luthra's strong batting line-up shattered, but the way Luthra guys fought back with their bowling and sporting attitude was just amazing.....the way they choked the runs and were taking wickets regularly was mindblowing...till the 12th or 13th over with Kochhar having lost their 8 wickets, the match could have gone in anybody's favour....hats off to Luthra team....
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 18:52
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Amarchand and Luthra are the best lawfirms and best cricket teams.....unfortunately they could not make it to finals and lost to other teams, who are admittedly playing with outside and professional players.....the tournament is losing its reputation and flavour...
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 18:54
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#1: You seem to be very obsessed with Luthra....go and have a life.....and prepare well for the finals..all the best....:-)
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 19:01
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is it titus or kocchar??i feel its titus as they are a very strong side overall..they have saome heavy guns at top of the order with their star batsman anand also clicking at the right time..their bowling dept looks really good as well..kocchar on the other hand are dependent on only 2 players ansari and 1 more..but they are players who can take the match away from them if they get going..its going to be a nail biter..but i feel titus is going to take it again.only time will tell
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 19:25
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"breeze easily away to the finals".........are you serious Neha?? Ask Kochhars......for most of the time of their batting....they were not breathing easily....were able to chase 73 runs in 16th over (run-rate close to 4 runs per over) and losing 8 wkts......
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 22:08
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Anyway, Luthra and Amarchand have lost and they should look to next SILF tournament to regain their lost honour....
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 22:48
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Chopper v. Rakhi.....its gonna be a good game betweem two [...], but bitter rivals.....all the best to the bigger [...]....ha ha ha
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 22:51
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Which one is more interesting...on-field or off-field matches...????
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 22:52
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What happened to Luthra's star performers...Hitesh and Manish...??
Anonymous guest 14 Jan 2011, 22:54
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Reaching semi-finals and losing to another good team....fighting till the end..is not a joke....well done all semi-finalists for playing good competitive cricket and all the best to the finalists.... I understand both the semi-finals were close matches and all four teams are equally good...
Anonymous guest 15 Jan 2011, 00:11
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Though "L"lost - they fought well and showed how vulnerable "K"can be to a disciplined attack. The batting order of "T" has been off color in this tournament. We can all talk about the outsiders in both the team, but the point is Sultan bowled very well against "L"- picking up 5 wickets and scoring imp. runs and Saurabh batted exceedingly well again "AM Titan" to score a 50 when the ball was swinging.

The bowling attack of "T" is fantastic with really good pace and swing bowlers and thinking spinners. Its hard to think that even with the outsiders "K" can last 15-16 overs, seeing to their performance against Luthra. "T" is vulnerable with its batting line up and unlucky with injuries -its how well and how many Sultan gets. If he bowls the way he bowled against "L", "T" has to watch out.

But ask me to put my money on - the answer is "Titus". May the best team win.
Anonymous guest 15 Jan 2011, 15:31
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#10: Tara was a complete flop show against a good side....Manish though scored some runs and bowled extremely well and took 3-4 to send jitters in Kochhars camp....what a bowler he is.....!!
Anonymous guest 15 Jan 2011, 22:57
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Titus....Titus........champion..........
Anonymous guest 15 Jan 2011, 22:58
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cheater..........cheater........
Anonymous guest 16 Jan 2011, 07:20
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guess tara needs to horne his skills for luthra to have any chance to win next time...
Anonymous guest 17 Jan 2011, 17:42
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On behalf of all participating teams, I congratulate Titus Team for winning the trophy. It was a well deserved win indeed! They are excellent as a team.........
Anonymous guest 17 Jan 2011, 20:45
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Best batsman - Shamik from Titus
Best bowler - Manish from Luthra
Best fielder - Saurabh from Titus - Jindal JV
Man of the Tournament - Bharat Veer from Kochhar - DDCA