15 January,2009 08:15 AM IST | | A Correspondent
BOMBAY Gymkhana hosted the Corporate Masters Cup 2008-09 over four days from January 8 to 11 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India's first ever cricket Test in India which was played at the historic venue in December 1933.
Hosts Bombay Gymkhana clinched the honours while HSBC were runners-up in the 24-team tourney. Sponsored by Marvel Realtors, the associate sponsors were Alpha Commodities and Tata Sky while Carlsberg and Royal Challenge were the beverage sponsors. Van Heusen gift vouchers were presented to all players.
Teams were divided into groups of three with each team in a group playing each other over a 5-over match in the league stage.u00a0 Based on results, the top teams qualified for the Championship Cup, the middle teams made the Salver and the bottom team qualified for theu00a0 Bowl.u00a0 Thereafter, the eight teams in each league Championship, Salver and Bowl played six-over knock out matches.
A total of 58 matches were played. Deutsche Bank won the Salver section while Percept Group took the Bowl category.
Industrialist Gautam Singhania was guest of honour at a prize distribution ceremony hosted by Mandira Bedi.
The performers:
Best batsman: Vishwajit of HSBC (119 runs in 5 matches)
Best bowler: Subbu of Vodafone A (7 wickets for 74 runs in 4 matches).
Man of the tournament: Siddharth of Percept (118 runs and 5 wickets for 71) in 4 matches.
