JBCN International School since the time they have started playing competitive cricket in various tournaments have only witnessed an upward curve showing great grit and performances across different leagues.
In the recently conducted ISSO U14 Boys Tournament, JBCN Parel performed exceptionally well winning 5 out of 5 games and reaching the semi finals of such a prestigious tournament. JBCN began their journey winning the opening match vs Pathways High School by 10 runs where Haridan was Man of the Match scoring 26 runs and taking 3 wkts. JBCN won the 2nd match by 5 wkts vs MIT Gurukul, Pune where Shivaay Dalal scored 33 runs and took 3 wkts. JBCN continued their dominance winning the 3rd match vs Nahar International School by a big margin of 90 runs. The 4th encounter was vs Neerja Modi School where Veer Karwat emerged Man of the Match guiding his team to a 7wkt win followed by a massive 75 run win over Indus International School where Siddharth Parekh (58 runs) and Captain Dhir Kadhi (75 runs) smashed match winning half centuries.
Reaching the semi-finals of the tournament after a splendid dominance throughout the tournament, JBCN gave it their all but it was Genesis Global School which had the upper hand that day as they won the semi-finals match by 41 runs.
JBCN Players have also showed great spark with their players topping the leaderboard charts in the ISSO Tournament. While Veer Karvat with 15 wkts has been the top-wicket taker of the tournament, Siddarth batted with an impressive batting average of 55.21 smashing 221 runs becoming the 2nd highest run scorer in the tournament.
Chetan Dhingra (Director Peak Performance Cricket) and Kunal Dalal (JBCN Director) has vision and mission to change the common thought of IB/IG schools having limited access to sports specially in cricket, Chetan Dhingra alongwith Ravishankar Singh and whole Coaching Staff including Raviraj Shetty, Soli karanjia, Naynit Aagre, Suraj Yadav & Vishal pal have brought a massive positive development in last 2 years when it comes to cricket at JBCN.
Head Coach Ravishankar Singh shared with Zoomcricket: I am very proud that our JBCN school has performed so well winning 5 out of 5 games and then reaching the semi finals of such a big tournament. I would also like to thank our Peak Performance Director of Cricket Chetan Dhingra sir for giving me the opportunity to work with such talented bunch of kids. Also, JBCN Parel participating only for the second time is the only school which has come in Top 4 amongst all the IB/IG Schools in Mumbai. JBCN is a school which believes in diversity of education regardless of academics or sports and as a Coach I can vouch that it’s an amazing environment to be in!
