Dammam : Amaco - Jubail Wins YWA Super Cup Cricket
by Mohd Siraj
Daijiworld Media Network
Dammam, Apr 15: Amaco –Jubail defeated Blue star Cricketers by 10 wickets and grabbed the eight over knockout YWA Super cup- 2009 organized by the Yermal Welfare Association (YWA) Dammam Unit and played here for the past two weeks.
In the rain-marred final, Blue star caption Hyder Ali decided to bat first which turned out to be disastrous as they lost their top three batsman for only 5 run. Middle order batsman Ashraf resisted further collapse by scoring quick 15 runs. Without match support from other batsman, they crumbled to 30 runs on board. Finally Muthalif with his 15 runs powered few drives over the fence to score 45 runs. Zubair of Amaco bowled splendidly capturing 5 wickets.
Amaco-Jubail openers Captain Asif and Imran batted well for Amaco who achieved their goal comfortably. Imran of Amaco judged the Man of the match for his excellent batting and bowling performances.
Prior to the finals, two semis were played. In the first, Blue star trounced Crescent by 5 wickets. Crescent bated first scored 62 runs in their allotted eight over. Khalil scored 21 runs. On the chase, Blue star cricketers easily marched towards the final, beating Crescent by 5 wickets. Irfan scored 22 runs in just 9 balls.
In the 2nd semis, Amaco- Jubail defeated Corniche Blues by 53 runs.
Amaco – Jubail batted first and scored 128 runs with a super batting display from Imran with his 68 runs. On chase cornich blues managed to reach 77/2runs in their allotted over.
In this YWA Super Cup Cricket Tournament. 16 teams participated from Dammam, Alkhobar and Jubail.
After the finals, Prize distribution function was organized, in which Tournament Chairman Jamal Mohammed welcomed the Guests and invitees and also presented detailed activity report of Yermal Welfare Association (YWA) and also about their 1st YWA Super Cup 2009.
The special awardees of the tournaments : Imran of Amaco – Man of the tournament, Irfan of Bluestars – Best Bowler, Niyaz of Cornich Blues – Best Batsman, Niyaz of Amaco – Best wicket keeper, Nazir of Amaco – Best out fielder.
The Chief Guest – K.M. Hameed ( Real Tech General Contracting Est.) Basheer – (Powerpak Batteries) and Ilyas Mohiddin- Conveyor of YWA Association, awarded the trophies to the winners, Runners-up and other merited players.
Bawa Shabu Beary – President of YWA presented momentous to the honorable Guests and appreciated the efforts and supports from all the sponsors, Members of other associations, and all YWA Management /Committee/members throughout the tournament for the cause of community.
In the last – Abdul Aziz – General Secretary of YWA, proposed vote of thanks to all the invitees, sponsors, and supporters who rendered their help and support during the tournament, for the benefit of the Yermal Jamat and needy poor people of the costal area of Yermal in Mangalore – Karnataka.