St John’s Sports Coaching Foundation shine in Sri Lanka

At a time when most cricket academies and clubs from the twin cities rest content with having their trainees participate in tournaments held in Bangalore and Mumbai during the summer holidays, the Marredpally-headquartered St John’s Sports Coaching Foundation (SJSCF) sends teams to neighbouring nations in order to help the players to get international exposure.

A team from the Foundation returned recently from a successful seven-game tour of Sri Lanka where it trumped in five of them. Needless to say, players from St John’s walked away with the three coveted honours that were at stake.

The all-round exploits of Mayank Gupta (226 runs and nine wickets) expectedly fetched him the player of the tournament award. With 290 runs in his kitty, Aman Rao was the best batsman while Vasist was the best bowler for his overall haul of 15 wickets. On their return, the team members and their coach Bunty were felicitated by the Foundation.

Brief Scores: Match 1: SJSCF 190/4 (Aman Rao 96) bt Benchmark CA, Bengaluru 91/7 in 23 overs (MSS Vasisht 2/7, Mayank Gupta 2/18); Match 2: SJSCF 201/5 (Mayank Gupta 74) bt CCC Wings 149 in 25.1 overs (MSS Vasisht 4/30, Mayank Gupta 2/2, Narain Malladi 2/7);Match 3: SJSCF 163/3 (Bharghava Reddi 65) bt Kolitha Cricket Academy 88 in 23.1 overs (Ashrith Reddy 3/26, MSS Vasisht 2/25); Match 4: SJSCF 193/4 (Aman Rao 90) bt Nugegoda CA 77 in 19 overs (Shashi Kumar 3/32, MSS Vasisht 2/4, Aryan Cariappa 2/11); Match 5:Fingara CA 185 (Narain Malladi 4/23, MSS Vasisht 2/23) bt SJSCF 141 in 30 overs; Match 6: SJSCF 128/9 lost to NCC Red 130/3 in 20 overs; Match 7: SJSCF 248/6 (Mayank Gupta 122) bt Gampaha Youth CA 106 in 20 overs (Rusheel Mummalaneni 4/9, MSS Vasisht 2/15).