Qurum thunders crowned champions
Muscat, Oman: Consistency marked the journey of Qurum Thunders to the summit as they were crowned champions of the second edition of the Oman D10 Championship at the Oman Cricket Academy ground in Al Amerat.
In a power-packed display in the final, Qurum Thunders outclassed Amerat Royals by seven wickets to bring the curtains down on the 12-day tournament, organised by Oman Cricket (OC).
A lot was expected in the summit clash between the two teams with Amerat Royals display-ing impressive form in the group stages and then overpow
ering Ruwi Rangers in the semifinals.
While Amerat and Qurum had won eight of their 12 matches, Ruwi was one better with nine victories in their league stage.
However, Amerat stopped the streak of Ruwi to set a clash with Qurum.
Spinner Samay Shrivastav was the architect of Qurum’s title triumph as he bagged four wickets, including three in one over, for just four runs, to deflate the Amerat batting line-up. Amerat were restricted to 63/8 with Pratik Athawale the top-scorer with 22.
Qurum’s start rocked as Bilal Khan dismissed opener Kashyap
Prajapati early but experienced batters skipper Jatinder Singh and Shoaib Khan took the team closer to the target before getting out to Mohit Patel. Ayaan Khan
and Hashir Dafedar led the team to win with four balls to spare.
The title was the first trophy for Qurum Thunders of the 2022-23 season and they will
now hope to carry the momentum in the Premier League ODI and T20 formats.
The second edition of Oman D10 witnessed 46 matches being
played and a total of 443 maximums and 560 boundaries being smashed while 444 wickets fell.
Shrivastav was adjudged Player of the Final while Syed Aamir Kaleem was adjudged the Player of the Tournament.
At the post-match presentation ceremony, Pankaj Khimji, OC chairman, handed the champions trophy to Qurum Thunders skipper Jatinder Singh.
Varun Khimji, the OC advisor, handed the runners-up trophy to Amerat Royals captain Karan Sonavale.
Nayeem Khan, Senior Manager, ITW Universe, Qasim Al Rahbi and Duleep Mendis, OC
chief development officer, presented the other individual awards and mementoes.