KCC concludes KBC Trophy finals in grand style

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 4: On the weekend of 25th January 2020, Kuwait Cricket Club held the grand finals upon the completion of all the league matches of the KBC T20 Trophy 2019-20.The KBC Trophy, sponsored by the Kuwait Banks Club is the first tournament of the 2019-20 season for the Bank’s league.

The plate finals were played between KFH and Boubyan, whereas CBK and AUB were competing for the Cup finals.

The grand finals, along with the presentation ceremony were held at the Sulaibiya cricket ground in a grand style with supporters from all the participating teams making the environment very entertaining.

Dignitaries from KBC and all the banks witnessed exciting and entertaining matches in a fun filled environment. Talal Al Nassar, the Head of KBC’s sports committee and Abu Ali from KBC graced the occasion with their presence and Masoud AlHassan – CFO, Paul Dawood, GM- Operations and Manjit Singh were among the guests from CBK. Alok Mishra, the

Senior GM from AUB was also part of the guests panel.

Kuwait Cricket Club dignitaries led by Sajid Ashraf (Director General), Rishi D Jayan (Director of Seniors Cricket&operations), Naveen Dhananjayan (Director for match officials), Munaf Tisekar (Director Corporate), Robert (Director of Facilities and Logistics) and Qais

Group photo from the tournament.

Parkar (Manager of Logistics)were all presentfor the occasion.

The dignitaries from KBC, Banks and KC council members handed over the trophies for the winners, runners-up and top individual performers of the tournament. Gifts were presented to all team members of the Cup winners CBK, Cup runners-up AUB and Plate winners

In the plate finals of the day, KFH defeated Boubyan by 3 wickets in a nail biting finish to the match. Boubyan who batted first scored 133 for the loss of 5 wickets. Skipper Faraaz scoring 40 not out was well supported by Shahzam with 34 runs. In reply, KFH chased the target in 19.1 overs.

Saad Khalid the man of the plate finals scored a quick 38 runs off 21 balls to guide KFH to victory.