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Dammam, Apr 27: TAMIMI bags Mayur Amin Memorial Trophy – 2011 after beating Al Anwaar Cricketers in the finals which was played on 22nd April in Dammam and the tournament was sponsored by M M AMIN Est, Dammam.

Al Anwaar Caption Haneef Won the toss and opted bat first. Opener Majeed and Shanawaz batted steadily and put on 30 runs for the 1st wicket. They were 40/2 in the 7th over. At this stage Shakeel and Alam played sensible and built up a valuable partnership for 47 runs for the 3rd wicket. After the departure of Alam and Shakeel not a single batsman had settled on the crease to straighten the batting and Al Anwaar was able to reach a target of 109/9 in allotted 16 over.

Accurate bowling and fielding of Tamimi resulted 4 run out in Al anwaar's innings, which caused heavy
loss to Anwaar to score the runs freely.

For Al Anwaar

Shakeel: 36, Alam – 27 and Shanawaz: 17

For Tamimi: Veeragale and Nuwan took 2 wickets each.

Chasing a target, Tamimi lost their opener sarath in the 2nd over. Then all-rounder Hakeem joined Anura
and both batted superbly by maintaining the required average and crushed 51 in 6th over. After the fall
of Anura and Hakeem, TAMIMI too lost 3 more vital of wicket caption Prabhath, Nuwan, and Veeragale.
At this crucial stage Firdous joined Jay and played sensible and responsible crickets and helped the
team for easy victory without loosing further wickets.

Tamimi defeated Al Anwaar by 4 wickets.

For Tamimi

Hakeem : 39, Anura : 24, Jay: 18 and Firdous : 14.

For Al Anwaar Sajed bowled good line & length and took 4/20.

Hakeem of TAMIMI adjourned "Man of the match" for his excellent batting performances.

Prior to this final: a first semi final was played Blue Stars Vs Tamimi. Batted first Tamimi were 120/8 and in reply Blue Star was all-out for 61.

Nuwan not out 48 and Hakeem took 5/20.

In the second Semi Final was played Amaco Jubail Vs Al Anwaar Cricketers. Batted First Al Anwaar was 94/9 in allotted 16 over. Majeed 20 and Thanzeel of Amaco took 4/9. In reply Amaco Jubail was able to reach 90/9 in allotted 16 over. Shabbier 29 and Alam took 4/8.

After the finals – Chief Guest of the day avi Karkera – President MASA lauded the efforts of DCA committee, while organizing such a wonderful tournaments which was played for 5 months with 32
teams participated from Dammam, Al Khobar , Jubail and Seihat.

DCA President: Ashok thanks the sponsor of this tournament: Madhav Amin and all the teams'
members for their support while conducting this tournament grand success.

DCA Vice President Eithesahm, Santhosh Shetty, Babu Kotabettu, Mohammed Haneef Patel, Salauddin
Salman, RajGopal, Bava Shabu Beary, Sharief Karkala, Gopal shetty , Mohammed Asif, Mohammed Iqbal Zamil, were also witness the finals.

DCA General Secretary Mohammed Siraj thanked the Main sponsors of this tournament: Madhav Amin &
family for sponsoring this tournament in memorial of their son: Mayur M. Amin. Also, thanks to all the co-
sponsors, participating teams, cricket fans, for their presence and excellent support on the Grand Finals of DCA 16 over League Tournament.

Also, in the morning a Match was played between:

DCA President XI Vs DCA Committee XI DCA Committee XI Caption Taj Ayyaril won the toss and elected to bat and able to reach a target of 134/9 in allotted 12 over.

Ali: 64, Umar: 16 and Rezali: 15.

In reply DCA President XI chasing a target in the 11th over by loosing 3 wickets.

Salman 51, Haneef Patel: 39 and Ivan Pinto Not out 30.

"Ivan Pinto" judged Man of the match for his brilliant batting and bowling performance.

DCA president XI: Ashok Patel, Eithesham, Ravi Karkera, Ivan Pinto, Vincent Saldana, Mohammed
Haneef, S. Salman, Sharief Zamil, Mohammed Yunus, Raj Gopal, Sharief K. Mohammed Siraj.

DCA Committee XI: Iqbal Zamil, Gopal Shetty, Taju, Umar, Rezali, Abdul Rehaman, Noor, Asif, Sikandar,
Ali, Gafoor, Murli.

DCA annual prize distribution ceremony for the year 2010/11 to be held in May 2011.

Also, it is scheduled to play DCA Champions trophy – 2011, this Friday April 29 with 6 top teams
: Cornich Blue Cricketers, Tamimi, Al Anwaar, Amaco Jubail, Blue Stars and ICC. This tournament
is sponsored by: SAAB (Saleh Ayed Balharith Est- Al Khobar).