National School League: Cricket

National School League: Cricket

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Dates 17 October 2014 (2014-10-17) – 14 February 2015 (2015-02-14)
Administrator(s) Sport 360
Cricket format Twenty20
Tournament format(s) Round robin and Knockout
Host(s)  United Arab Emirates
Champions GEMS Modern Academy (U13) - Abu Dhabi Indian School (U15)
Participants 42 teams
Matches played 122
Player of the series
Most runs India Fazal (284)
Most wickets India Abhishek Prakash (12)
Official website NSL
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Cricket

Overview

The league was endorsed by the Emirates Cricket Board, entry for schools opened and the league was populated within the first few months of organisation. A dedicated website was created to provide a variety of media coverage through an online platform. The first match began on the 17th of October 2014[1] with the grand final taking place on the 14th of February 2015.

Preceding the start of the league was a press conference[2] held at the ICC Global Academy, with invitations sent out to all of the schools participating.[3] It was led by title sponsors Unilever and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, David East the chief of the Emirates Cricket Board, Michael Chalhoub CEO of Sport 360 and several high-ranking members of the ICC Academy.

General numeric data for 2014/2015

Locations for 2014/2015

Format

The format is similar to the Indian Premier League system in which the teams play a round-robin phase followed by a round of 16 straight knockout phase.

Regions consisted of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Dubai group 1, and Dubai group 2.

The round robin tournament was region specific. Group leaders at the end of the stage would have a bye through the first round of playoffs with second and third place from the round robin tournament playing again to decide progression.

After the first stage of playoffs, the group leaders would play the progressing team in the quarterfinal. Dubai was an exception, with the quarterfinal crossing over the teams due to having two groups.

Semifinals were cross regional and used a random ballot draw[4] to decide which teams would play against each other for a spot in the Grand final.

The ICC Global Academy hosted the quarterfinals, semifinals and final matches with Throwmotion providing entertainment in the form of a tabletop cricket game.


Notable players of 2014/2015 season

Batsman

Name School Matches Innings NO 100’s 50’s 4’s 6’s HS Runs Average BF S/R
India Fazal (U13) Emirates Future International School 7 6 1 0 4 32 0 75 284 56.80 187 151.87
India Aryan Lakra (U13) Delhi Private School 6 6 2 0 4 31 0 69 264 66.00 199 132.66
India Jonathan Figy John (U15) Abu Dhabi Indian School 8 8 2 0 1 29 1 75 258 43.00 243 106.17
India Muhammad Shahdad (U15) Wellington International School 5 5 1 0 2 17 1 64 223 55.75 215 103.72

Bowlers

Name School Matches BB M R W 5WI 10WM BBI Average S/R Econ
India Varun Ravi (U13) GEMS Modern Academy 6 106 2 67 12 0 0 4/1 5.58 8.83 3.79
India Aryan Lakra (U13) Delhi Private School 6 96 2 72 11 0 0 4/17 6.55 8.73 4.50
India Abhishek Prakash (U15) Abu Dhabi Indian School 9 144 0 141 12 0 0 4/17 11.75 12.00 5.88
India Menon Devnath (U15) Delhi Private School Sharjah 7 138 1 75 12 0 0 3/12 6.25 11.50 3.26

Finals

Under 13 Final

Team 1 Team 2 MVP
PAK Hawks (100-7) GEMS Modern Academy (103-7) India Shivam Ghosh

Under 15 Final

Team 1 Team 2 MVP
Abu Dhabi Indian School (47-10) DPS Sharjah (113-8) {{}} Mohammed Owais Sajid


References

  1. ↑ "First day article". Sport360. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "NSL Cricket press conference article". Sport360. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Video showing presence of children at press conference". Sport360. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Video of random ballot draw". Sport360. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

See also

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