2017 Friendship Indoor Cup
Today, Sunday 17th December 2017, Cricket Mongolia (MACA) held its first EVER indoor tournament, and great cricketing history was made.
Seven teams turned out and we had a First Round, two Semi Finals, a Play Off for Bronze and a Grand Final – seven matches in all – with 8 players per team (min 3 ladies), 2 overs per batting pair, every player bowls, and scoring as per the rules of international indoor cricket. A top quality day of cricket involving about 100 people in total.
FIRST ROUND CNCF (17) beat Unur Bul (-2) School 87 (79) beat School 85 (31) School 34 (91) beat School 120 Team 1 (76) School 120 Team 2 drew a bye in the first round
SEMI FINALS School 87 (98) beat CNCF (35) School 120 Team 2 (54) beat School 34 (48) scoring 27 in the last over.
PLAY OFF FOR BRONZE School 34 (74) beat CNCF (54)
GRAND FINAL School 120 Team 2 (106) beat School 87 (45) to claim the Winter Friendship Indoor Cup 2017.
Many congratulations to: School 120 Team 2 for taking 2017 INDOOR GOLD School 87 for SILVER and School 34 for BRONZE.
Ladies Best All Round Performance went to Altankhishig from School 87. Gents Best All Round Performance went to Amgalanbaatar from CNCF.
TOP BATTING PARTNERSHIPS 41 Ariuntsetseg and Tamirtsetseg (sch 120) 37 Anar and Narangerel (sch 120) 33 Enkush and Dulguun (sch 120) 32 Dulguun and Enkhbayasgalan (sch 120) 31 Munkhgerel and Batamgalan (sch 120)
Congratulations to School 120, all top 5 partnerships from there, and in particular two the two ladies at the top of the leaderboard!
TOP 10 INDIVIDUAL BATTING SCORES 33 Munkhgerel (sch 120) 26 Anar (sch 120) 24 Ariuntsetseg (sch 120) 23 Nomoo and Sukhbat (sch 87) 21 Otgonjargal (sch 34) 20 Tuvshindash (sch 87) Turbol (sch 34) 19 Dulguun (sch 120) 18 Bat Erdene (CNCF) Enkush (sch 120)
MACA thanks all that participated – the standard of cricketing passion & great friendship was truly awesome – Davaa is extremely proud of you all and encourages all to practice hard for the next tournament (indoor) to be held in March!
