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ITANAGAR, 22 Oct:<\/strong> Itanagar Cricket Club (ICC) being the table topper were declared the winner of the Arunachal Test Championship.<\/p>\n ICC played two matches and won both, and earned a total of 13 points, including one bonus point. The tournament was played in the round robin league format.<\/p>\n In the third and last league match, Caden Cricket Club (CCC) beat Cricket Academy of Pathans (CAP) by an innings and 21 runs on Monday.<\/p>\n CCC got 7 points from one win and one loss.\u00a0 CAP lost both the matches they played.<\/p>\n The CAP, resuming on their overnight score of 22\/4, added 93 runs before being bowled out for 115 runs in their second innings.<\/p>\n CAP’s all-rounder Akhilesh Sahani scored 52 runs, while Krish Mishra contributed 25 runs to the team’s total.<\/p>\n \u00a0Kamsha Yangfo took 5 wickets.<\/p>\n Yangfo, who took a total of 10 wickets in both the innings, was declared man of the match. Later, Yangfo was declared ‘man of the tournament’ for his all-round performance. He scored 42 runs and claimed 12 wickets. He also became the highest wicket-taker of the tournament.<\/p>\n Akhilesh Sahani, who scored 132 runs at an average of 33 in three matches, became the highest run-getter.<\/p>\n For ICC, Ankit Gupta became the highest scorer and Yowa Topu the highest wicket-taker. Topu was also declared ’emerging player of the tournament’.<\/p>\n Chimpu Richi Cricket (CRY) Club president Teli Abho presented the championship trophy to the winning team.<\/p>\n He said that the test championship provided youngsters a platform to play and learn from experienced players.<\/p>\n He shared his experiences of cricket from 2010-2011 when he had represented Arunachal state team in the U-19 & U-23 team in BCCI associate cricket tournaments.<\/p>\n He encouraged the players to never give up and keep working hard.<\/p>\n Abho lauded ICC president Suraj Tayam for his extraordinary works in promoting cricket in Itanagar Capital Region.<\/p>\n Tayam thanked all the players and match umpires Gollo Taw and Sachin Kumar for their relentless efforts to complete the tournament successfully.<\/p>\n “I am committed to promote the cricket within my capacity,” he said.<\/p>\n Tayam said he feels disappointed when the Arunachal performs badly in the national level tournament conducted by BCCI.<\/p>\n “Whenever, I see Arunachal cricket team gets defeated it doesn’t mean that only players losing but the entire state loses. I feel bad when my state’s get bad name at national level” he said.<\/p>\n Later, renowned umpire of the state Gollo Taw shared few encouraging words to the players, and thanked ICC president for giving him an opportunity to be a part of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 22 Oct: Itanagar Cricket Club (ICC) being the table topper were declared the winner of the Arunachal Test Championship. ICC played two matches and won both, and earned a total of 13 points, including one bonus point. The tournament was played in the round robin league format. In the third and last league match, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}