Club of Maharashtra, Poona Club and Trinity Register Wins in PYC-Goldfieldd U-19 Cricket Tournament

Pune, 25th May 2026: Club of Maharashtra, Poona Club, Trinity, Aryans, Ambitious PBCA at the fifth edition of the “PYC-Goldfieldd Late Raju Bhalekar Trophy” Invitation Under-19 Cricket Tournament, organised by PYC Hindu Gymkhana.and played at PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Varroc Vengsarkar Cricket Academy, Desire Ground, Aryans, Barne and Poona Club Ground.

Club of Maharashtra produced a commanding all-round display to defeat PYC by 59 runs at the PYC Ground. Sumit Kokare’s explosive 48 off 31 balls and Sayyog Bhosale’s composed 58 powered them to 276. PYC fought through Ruhulla Nadaf’s aggressive 46, but regular wickets halted the chase at 217/8. Aadhar Sawant starred with both bat and ball to claim the Player of the Match honours.

At the Aryans Cricket Ground, Aryans Cricket Academy secured a convincing 63-run victory over Parsi Gymkhana. Adarsh Rawal blasted a quickfire 55 off just 30 balls, while Shubham Gaikwad added a fluent 50 as Aryans piled up 256. In response, Mohammad Wasim and Shrawan Galphade struck fighting half-centuries, but Aryans bowlers kept control to bowl out Parsi Gymkhana for 193. Adarsh Rawal’s brilliant all-round effort fetched him the Player of the Match award.

Ambitious Cricket Club delivered a one-sided performance at the Barne Cricket Ground, crushing Stars Cricket Club by 10 wickets. Arjun Salunke’s devastating spell of 5 for 16 bundled out Stars for a mere 79. Openers Aditya Kapare and Vedaant Hanche then completed the chase comfortably in just 8.4 overs without losing a wicket. Salunke was adjudged Player of the Match.

Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Kumar Tamhane, President of PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Mr. Deepak Gadgil, Hon. Secretary, and Mr. Sarang Lagu, Joint Secretary of PYC and Mr. Anil Chajjed, MD of Royal Goldfieldd Club Resorts Ltd., Dapoli. Mr. Rohan Chajjed, Director of Royal Goldfieldd Club Resorts Ltd., Dapoli, Mr.Amit Doshi, Director of Doshi Engineers, Mr. Avinash Ranade, Cricket Secretary of PYC, Mrs. Rujuta Bhalekar, Mr. Mahendra Gokhale, Mr. Niranjan Godbole were present on the occassion.

Results: League Round:

Poona Club Ground:
Poona Club: 204 for all out in 45Overs(Siddhant Bafna 49(85,4×4), Harshdeep Singh 36, Kshitij Yede 32, Samarth Bhore 28, Aniket Shinde 19, Sufiyan Sayyed 3-50, Mohammad Mujawar 2-15) bt Cadence: 174 for all out in 43.2Overs(Mohammad Mujawar 54(58,3×4,2×6), Sanskar Sonawane 34, Dhiraj Dhere 19, Arjun Mahuli 16, Chetan Yadav 3-37, Rugved Choudhari 3-41, Aryan Hingane 2-26);MOM-Chetan Yadav; Poona Club won by 30runs;

Desire Sports Ground:
United Sports Club: 238 all out in 44.5Overs(Bhavesh Makhija 67(83,10×4), Arpan Dhar 58(58,9×4), Saket Shyam 33, Kshitij Bhalerao 26, Adwait Dere 2-22, Aniket Kuduk 2-43, Rudra Patil 2-28) lost to Trinity: 239/8 in 31.4Overs(Vedant Suntale not out 47(32,2×4,4×6), Aman Singh 46(25,8×4,2×6), Aniket Kuduk 32, Sangram Kamble 34, Advik Tiwary 28, Ansh Tilloo 2-51);MOM-Aniket Kuduk; Trinity won by 2 wickets;

PYC Ground:
Club of Maharashtra: 276 all out in 44.2Overs(Sumit Kokare 48(31,7×4,2×6), Sayyog Bhosale 58(60,4×4,3×6), Aadhar Sawant 40(40,4×4,1×6), Harshvardhan Narwate 32, Aaradhya Singh 27, Shrinivas Gade 23, Yash Adhikari 3-54, Yatharth Padalkar 2-45, Daksh Pahade 2-47, Ruhulla Nadaf 2-52) bt PYC: 217/8 in 45Overs(Ruhulla Nadaf 46(45,7×4), Shivam Divekar not out 35, Aryan Londhe 30, Yash Adhikari 19, Yash Hale 2-30, Shrinivas Gade 2-31, Aadhar Sawant 2-24);MOM-Aadhar Sawant; Club of Maharashtra won by 59runs;

Aryans Cricket Ground:
Aryans Cricket Academy: 256 all out in 42.1Overs(Adarsh Rawal 55(30,5×4,4×6), Shubham Gaikwad 50(33,6×4,2×6), Sai Borhade 46(52,6×4), Viransh Verma 31, Ganesh Baad 44(43,2×4,4×6), Shaurya Jadhav 4-30, Sarvesh Waghmare 2-44) bt Parsi Gymkhana: 193 all out in 39.4Overs(Mohammad Wasim 60(81,8×4,1×6), Shrawan Galphade 60(67,3×4,4×6), Chaitanya Kondbhar 16, Shivene Bhardwaj 3-17, Viraj Morbale 2-33, Aditya Dade 2-31, Adarsh Rawal 1-40);MOM-Adarsh Rawal; Aryans won by 63 runs;

Barne Cricket Ground:
Stars Cricket Club: 79 all out in 25.2Overs(Aneesh Bhoslay 23, Shlok Yane 10, Arjun Salunke 5-16, Anurag Singh 3-7, Aditya Kapare 2-4) lost to Ambitious: 80/0 in 8.4Overs(Aditya Kapare not out 43(28,5×4,1×6), Vedaant Hanche not out 27);MOM-Arjun Salunke; Ambitious won by 10 wickets;

VVCA Ground:
PBCA: 260 all out in 42.3Overs(Aneesh Joshi 67(72,6×4,2×6), Rugved Naik 42(38,5×4,1×6), Om Bhamre 39, Indrajeet Shinde 17, Varad Chattar 4-31, Sudarshan Toradmal 3-62, Santosh Rathod 2-67) bt Varroc: 168 all out in 36Overs(Atharv Kale 72(71,10×4.2×6), Varad Chattar 34, Abhishek Topno 22, Dhananjay Zore 3-26, Aneesh Joshi 3-36, Samarth Dornal 2-18);MOM-Aneesh Joshi; PBCA won by 92runs.