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The Mumbai Indians Head Coach congratulated the winners during the closing ceremony at MIG Cricket Club in Bandra and encouraged the young boys & girls to keep playing the sport

Mumbai: The finals of the Mumbai Indians Junior Season 6 ended on a high as Anjuman-I-Islam Allana English School (Boys U-16), Modern English School (Girls U-15) and VK Krishna Menon Academy (U-14) all lifted the winners' trophies at the MIG Cricket Club in Bandra on Tuesday.

Mahela Jayawardene, Mumbai Indians Head Coach , who was present for the closing ceremony in Bandra, said, "This is our sixth year of organizing MI Junior and it's getting more exciting every year. Sports is about participating and at this age, it is about enjoying the competition more than anything. We are at an iconic venue today, from where a lot of Indian cricketers started their journey. I saw some iconic pictures in the dressing rooms and I know that Hardik (Pandya) has also practised here in his early days. This is a great starting point for you to push yourselves and one day, hopefully, don the colours of Mumbai."

After being put into bat, Anjuman-I-Islam Allana English School displayed the strength and depth of their batting order as majority of their batters crossed the 20-run mark. However, none of the batters were able to capitalise on their starts with Kabir Jagtap (41), Laxmanprasad Vishwakarma (39) and Ramprasad Vishwakarma (38) being the prime examples. Eventually, it was skipper Yuvan Sharma’s fiery knock of 52 runs off just 20 balls at the business end that powered Anjuman-I-Islam Allana English School to a towering total of 253 runs in their stipulated 30 overs.

Sitaram Prakash High School’s chase for the championship revolved heavily around a lone-warrior effort of opener Aayush Shete who went to on to score a valiant century.