Former Essequibo youth player Fazil Gani struck an entertaining 84 for Spartans, who beat Smashers by 29 runs on Sunday as the 2021 Ontario Round-Arm Softball Cricket Association (ORSCA) 20-over competition got cracking.
Dillon Heyliger
The right-handed Gani hit ten sixes and a four as his team tallied up a challenging 236-7 at the expiration of the 20 overs; while Smashers, in reply, reached 207-6 when their overs ran out.
Fazil Gani
Gani received useful support from hard-hitting middle-order batsman Rawl Scott, who cleared the boundary on seven occasions in his flamboyant 57. Morrison Edwards also chipped in with a tidy 31.
Kassim Dhanraj grabbed 3-45 off his four overs, and Jake Sukhu took 2-42 from four overs as well.
When Smashers batted, Hassan Amzad made 27 as Gani returned with the ball to take 2-28 in his four-over spell, and Raymond Sitaram supported by claiming 2-36 off two overs.
Meanwhile, in another match, ex-Guyana youth player Dillon Heyliger scored a blistering 76 in representing Masters in the same competition. More details were not available at the time.
The competition is set to continue this Sunday with another set of matches across the Greater Toronto area.
