21/03/2014 … With a fine bowling performance Dempo Cricket Club on Thursday defeated Salgaocar Sports Club by six wickets in the third Super League match of 5th Goa Professional League T20 cricket tournament organized by Goa Cricket Association at GCA ground, Porvorim.

 Batting first, Salgaocar could only manage a meager 74 runs. They relied heavily on opener Sagun Kamat to fire but their skipper unfortunately lost his wicket on 22 runs as he was run out by Dempo captain Swapnil Asnodkar.

 However, only Sagun top scored for Salgaocar while Jammu and Kashmir’s Parvez Rasool contributed 13 runs.

 In reply, Dempo chased the target in just 10.4 overs with wicket- keeper Keenan Vaz scoring 32 runs.

 Meanwhile Geno Sports Club defeated Chowgule Warriors by 26 runs to remain in fray for the final spot of 5th Goa Professional League T20 cricket tournament.

 Batting first, Geno sports club made their way to put on a 135 run target for chowgule warriors,

In reply, Chowgule never got off to a perfect start as they lost both of their openers in the second over of the match.

 Reagan Pinto and Nikhil Naik did put up a fight with a 46 run partnership but it didn’t help as Chowgule managed only 108 runs.

20/03/2014 … Dempo Cricket Club defeated Geno Sports Club by 21 runs in the first Super League of fifth Goa Professional League T20 Cricket tournament organized by Goa Cricket Association at GCA ground on Wednesday.

Geno won the toss and elected to field as Dempo set a target of 137 runs. Dempo skipper swapnil asnodkar scored 74 runs with 56 balls and was well supported by his opening partner Ravi Teja, who scored 27 runs.

Debutants Geno were confident after winning all their three league matches but got off a disastrous start as they were five wickets down for 38 runs and finally were bundled out for 112 runs for nine wickets

Meanwhile Ramdayal Punia of Salgaocar Sports Club picked up five wickets to give Salgaocar Sports Club a 26- run victory against chowgule warriors in the second Super League match of 5th Goa Professional League T20 Cricket tournament on Wednesday.

Batting first, Salgaocar skipper and opener Sagun Kamat played an inspirational knock with his 60 runs off 56 balls while he was well supported by his partner Suraj Dongre in the 86- run partnership as their side put up a decent 149 target for their rivals.

The pacer devastated the Chowgule batting line up as he sent Sumiran Amonkar, Asad Pathan, Saurabh Bandekar and Reagan Pinto back to the dressing room at regular intervals as Chowgule struggled and were bundled out for 121 with seven balls to spare.

18/03/2014 … Chairman of dempo group of companies srinivas dempo on Tuesday said that the ongoing goa premiere league t-20 cricket tournament organized by goa cricket association was agood encouragement for goan cricketers to get a chance to play in tournaments like IPL

It may be noted that out of the eight team the goa premiere league t-20 cricket tournament also features dempo cricket club team led by former ipl player swapnil asnodkar and have already won its two of the league matches an could be also considered as the title contenders of the gpl t-20 tournament …

Speaking to goanreporter chairman of dempo group of companies srinivas dempo appreciated his team’s performance at the ongoing gpl t-20 cricket tournament and said that his team’s aim would be to win another cricket tournament for the club

Mr dempo said though football was his first love cricket was started by dempo group so as to see that goan boys could get enough of opportunities in the game of cricket where in through gpl-t-20 goan boys could get a chance to take part in bcci tournaments like ipl

17/03/2014 … Skipper Sagun Kamat scored his second consecutive half century as Salgaocar Cricket Club cruised past Goa Cricket Association Colts with an eight wicket victory in the seventh match of Goa Premier League organized by Goa Cricket Association at GCA ground, Porvorim on Sunday.

Sagun’s scored 78 runs while his opening partner Suraj Dongre, got a half century as the pair’s put on 129 run partnership which saw Salgaocar easily chase the target of 137 in 13.2 overs.

Earlier while batting first GCA made a vital 41 runs in the final three overs to set a target of 137.

Opener Hitendra Dalal, Pawan Negi and Prathamesh Salunke’s contribution and hard hitting in the final overs saw the youngsters cross hundred plus runs

Rithuraj Singh, Ryan D’Souza and Malikshab Shirur secured two wickets each for Salgaocar.

Meanwhile Debutants Geno Sports Club secured their second consecutive victory with a six wicket win over USA XI

Opener Monak Patel’s 40 runs of 35 balls was the only contribution as USA XI managed a meager 113.

In reply, Geno SC comfortably chased the target with Aditya Kaushik’s 33 and an unbeatable 27 by man- of- the- match Harshad Gadekar.

16/03/2014 … Dempo Cricket Club continued their winning run with a comfortable 10 wicket victory over Cricket Russia in the fifth match of Goa Premier Cricket League organized Goa Cricket Association at GCA ground, Porvorim on Saturday.

Dempo skipper Swapnil Asnodkar won the toss and put in the russsian team to bat first where in the Russian team made a cautious start to the proceedings after losing an early wicket of Nic Britz on a duck.

Later Badal Soni who made a contribution of 18 runs, Aditya Angle of 20 runs and Dhiraj Narvekar with 24 runs gave the Russian team a bit of a margin to sustain in to the match with some vital contributions but the middle order fell like a pack of cards and were bowled out for a mere 109.

In reply, the defending champions chased the total in just 10.1 overs with openers Ravi Teja’s half century and Asnodkar’s 41. Teja was adjudged man-of-the-match.

meanwhile in the second match of the day Chowgule Warriors booked their berth in the Super League with a six wicket win over Sarvoday Royals in the sixth match of Goa Premier League cricket tournament

Batting first, Sarvodaya set up a respectable 148 runs. Captain Robin D’Souza inspired his team with an unbeaten 52 runs after Shrikant Munde had done much of the damage, picking up three important wickets.

The Chowgule Warriors remained cool and composed with the rock-solid opening partnership of Sumiran Amonkar and Asad Pathan along with Reagan Pinto’s unbeaten 37 saw the Warriros chase the total with two over’s and six wickets in hand.

15/03/2014 … A blistering knock of 95 by Skipper Swapnil Asnodkar helped Dempo Cricket Club to gain a comprehensive 42-run win over Goa Colts at GCA Academy ground, Porvorim in the goa premier league match on Friday evening.

Swapnil, who shot to fame after his successful stint with Rajasthan Royals in the first edition of the IPL in 2008 in which  they emerged triumphant, enthralled the sizeable crowd with his attacking instincts and a wide range of shots.

The diminutive batsman hit 11 fours and 4 massive sixes in his 57-ball knock that helped Dempo post 191 for 5 in 20 overs. Another batsman Saurav Dubey then took the onus on himself and hit a strokeful 46 to help his team reach a competitive total of 191/ 5 in its 20  overs

Chasing a target of 192, Goa Colts started well and reached 23 in just 3 overs before they lost their first wicket in the form of Hitendra Dalal who had made 18.

Goa Colts  then lost four more wickets in quick succession making it 44 for 5.

Ganeshraj narvekar along with Prathamesh Salunke then tried their best to take their team home but after Ganeshraj was dismissed as Goa Colts made only 149 losing 8 wickets and lost the match by 42 runs.

Earlier, in the first match of Day 2, Chowgule Warriors defeated USA by 8 wickets. Batting first, USA made 126 for 9 in 20 overs with Vinod Peragaram being the top-scorer. Bipul Sharma and Saurabh Bandekar were among the wickets for Chowgule taking 3 and 2 wickets respectively.

In reply, riding on Asad Pathan’s strokeful 70 and a valuable 39 from Sumiran Amonkar, Chowgule reached the target in just 11.5 overs losing only two wickets.

14/03/2014 … Debutants Geno Sports Club registered a comfortable 63 runs victory to stun Sarvodaya Royals of Sanguem in the opening match of 5th Yes Bank Goa Premier League cricket tournament organized by Goa Cricket Association at the GCA ground, at Porvorim on Thursday.

 In the first match where team Sarvodaya won the toss and elected to field first, Geno sports club got off to a perfect start with the right- left batting combination of openers Rohit Asnodkar and Mohit Sharma respectively making 177 for 4 in its allotted twenty over’s

 In reply, Sarvodaya were bundled out for 114 runs as Geno pacer Harshad Gadekar had a fiery start, clinching the wicket of Akshat Pandey on the first ball and then targeting Amogh Desai on the last ball of the very first over though Hemant  Shetgaonkar and Rahul Keni did provide some stability but Sarvodaya couldn’t hold up to the attack of rival bowlers of geno sports club and were bundled out for 114 runs

 Meanwhile in the second T20 match played under the new floodlights, Salgaocar Cricket Club crushed Cricket Russia by seven wickets.

 Russia won the toss and elected to bat first but only managed to score a mere 92 runs with Aditya Angle top scoring with 29 runs.

 Rithuraj Singh, Ramdayal Punia and Ryan D’Souza picked up two wickets each for Salgaocar CC.

 In reply, Salgaocar CC chased the target down in just 7.3 overs with man- ofthe- match Sagun Kamat scoring a blistering 54 runs of just 17 balls including six sixes and four boundaries.

13/03/2014 … At a glittering function which took place at the goa cricket association stadium at porvorim Well-known Indian cricket legends of yesteryear like off- spinner Shivlal Yadav and batsman Brijesh Patel on Wednesday inaugurated the Goa Premier League T20-2014 …

The two legends unveiled the Goa Premier League T20 Trophy in the presence of gca president Vinod Phadke, secretary Chetan Desai, co-opted member and sanguem MLA Subhas Phaldesai, chairman of GPL organizing committee Dr Shekar Salkar, treasurer Vilas Desai, eight GPL team representatives and other dignitaries who were among those present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion the two legends shivlal yadav and brigesh patel felt that Goa was an ideal destination to be considered as one of the best cricket venues in the country if an International standard cricket stadium was built by the GCA with the help of the Goa government.

Brijesh patel said that there was a need from goan youth specially the goan cricket players tio take full advantage of the infrastructure and coaching programs that were put up by the goa cricket association.

Meanwhile gca treasurer vilas sardessai and coopted member and sanguem mla subash phaldesai also spoke on the occasion