NSportz Tournaments

NSportz conducted its inaugural over arm tennis cricket tournament at the Aarey Bhaskar Grounds Malad on the 12th & 19th Nov 2016. After 4 successful editions of its highly popular box cricket, it was a fantastic experience to venture in the larger world of overarm cricket widely played by corporates.

13 corporate team fought it out in the initial league stages in four groups. Matches were of 6 overs per innings. In Group A of the four teams , Credit Suisse and Ernst & Young came out on tops with victories over Visible Alpha and Aegon Life. While Credit Suisse won both their league matches and topped the group the second place was decided on the Net Run Rate criteria between Ernst & Young and Visible Alpha who had one win & one loss each in the group stage. Aegon life having lost both their matches were out of contention.

Group B, C & D has 3 teams each and after some intense and some one sided matches teams JLT & Hicare Lions qualified from Group B, Asian Paints & KPMG qualified from group C, and Deloitte & iProspect qualified from Group D. The teams that lost out across the groups were Kotak Securities, Hicare Tigers & Mastercard respectively. There was a hatrick by Kotak Securities which made the proceedings very exciting

The quarter finals were contested between the top 8 teams and there were some nail biting moments especially in the match between JLT and Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young held their nerve in the last over and proceeded to the semi finals. The other qualifiers were Credit Suisse who prevailed over the Hicare Lions, Asian Paints who dominated iProspect and Deloitte who won comfortably over KPMG.

The semi finals were a tough affair with Deloitte winning over Ernst & Young and Asian Paints getting the better of Credit Suisse in another close finish. Credit Suisse clearly ruing dropping the Asian Paints captain in the first ball of the match

The finals between Asian Paints & Deloitte was also a kind of personal contest between the two captains both of whom had a superb run till the finals and had led their sides brilliantly. Asian Paints batted first and put a challenging score on the board which was going to be difficult to cross considering it was the final match. Deloitte put up a brave fight but lost their captain early which effectively put at rest their hopes of overhauling the total losing eventually by 24 runs

Match Type	Team 1	v/s	Team 2	Winners

League Group A	Visible Alpha	v/s	Aegon Life	Visible Alpha won by 5 wickets	Credit Suisse - A1 Ernst & Young - A2
	Credit Suisse	v/s	Ernst & Young	Credit Suisse won by 5 wickets
	Visible Alpha	v/s	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse won by 6 wickets
	Aegon Life	v/s	Ernst & Young	Ernst & Young won by 7 wickets

League Group B	Hicare Lions	v/s	Kotak Securities	Hicare Lions won by 26 Runs	JLT - B1 Hicare Lions - B2
	Kotak Securities	v/s	JLT	JLT won by 54 Runs
	Hicare Lions	v/s	JLT	JLT won by 9 Wickets

League Group C	Hicare Tigers	v/s	Asian Paints	Asian Paints won by 65 Runs	Asian Paints - C1 KPMG - C2
	Asian Paints	v/s	KPMG	Asian Paints won by 17 Runs
	Hicare Tigers	v/s	KPMG	KPMG won by 10 Wickets

League Group D	Deloitte	v/s	Mastercard	Deloitte won by 20 Runs	Deloitte - D1 iProspect - D2
	Mastercard	v/s	iProspect	iProspect won by 4 Wickets
	Deloitte	v/s	iProspect	Deloitte won by 52 Runs

Quarter Finals	Credit Suisse	v/s	Hicare Lions	Credit Suisse won by 29 Runs	Credit Suisse - S1 Deloitte - S2 Ernst & Young - S3 Asian Paints - S4
	KPMG	v/s	Deloitte	Deloitte won by 9 Wickets
	Ernst & Young	v/s	JLT	Ernst & Young won by 8 Wickets
	Asian Paints	v/s	iProspect	Asian Paints won by 33 Runs

Semi Finals	Ernst & Young	v/s	Deloitte	Deloitte won by 19 Runs	Deloitte - F1 Asian Paints - F2
Semi Finals	Credit Suisse	v/s	Asian Paints	Asian Paints won by 8 Runs	Deloitte - F1 Asian Paints - F2

Finals	Deloitte	v/s	Asian Paints	Asian Paints won by 24 Runs	Asian Paints NSportz Over Arm Tennis Cricket Champions