Ambatkar guides Shardashram to last four stage

MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 8: Saurabh Ambatkar's all-round display powered Shardashram, Marathi to a 73-run victory over Raja Shivaji and paved thei...

MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 8: Saurabh Ambatkar’s all-round display powered Shardashram, Marathi to a 73-run victory over Raja Shivaji and paved their entry into the semi-final of the Kelloggs Super Cup Inter-School cricket tournament.

Ambatkar compiled 30 in his side’s total of 173 and put on 91 runs for the eighth wicket with Atish Golatkar (57). He then went on to capture three wickets for 41 runs to restrict Raja Shivaji for 100 at the Cross Maidan on Tuesday. He was ably supported by leg-spinner Sanchet Pande who took five for 23.

Half-centuries by S Shaikh (56) and Shahbez Khan (57) wasn’t enough for Tarapur Vidyamandir who went down to IES VN Sule Guruji by 65 runs.

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Ankit Chopra’s unbeaten 64 helped St Mary’s ISC to a six-wicket win over Antonio D’Silva.

Brief scores: Antonio D’Silva 150 (Sagar Khatri 56, Ravi Jain 37; Ankit Zaveri 3-27, Drumeet Thakkar 4-30) lost to St Mary’s, ISC 152-4 (Ankit Chopra 64 not out). Man of the Match: Sagar Khatri.

IES New English 169-8 (AmitSawant 37) lost to Balmohan Vidyamandir 170-4 (Prathamesh Kanawje 36, Sadashiv Dhond 33 n.o.) MoM: Sadashiv Dhond.

Shardashram, Marathi 173 (Atish Golatkar 57, Saurabh Ambetkar 30; Roshan Salvi 3-42, Y Shinde 3-44) bt Raja Shivaji 100 (Saurabh Ambatkar 3-41, Sanchet Pande 5-23). MoM: Saurabh Ambetkar.

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IES VN Sule Guruji 266-7 (Vikram Venkatesh 31, Rohan Amladi 74, Shounak Gupte 75 n.o.) bt Tarapur Vidyamandir 201 (S Shaikh 56, Shahbez Khan 57; Kinjal Patel 4-65). MoM: Shounak Gupte.

Shetye, Gadhwalla shine

Rahul Shetye (114: 13×4) and Zaheer Gadhwalla (122: 16×4, 2×6) shared the batting honours in the first round of the Mahim Dadar Challenge Shield played on Sunday.

While Shetye’s ton spurred Bharat CC to a 129-run victory over Cricket Club of Shivaji Park, Zaheer’s century enabled Dadar Parsee Colony to down Milton CC by six wickets. Zaheer was also involved in a 170-run association for the third wicket with Sunil Patil (71:13×4).

Vijay More (6-21) took the bowling honours as he played the lead role in Union CC’s nine-wicket win over Sporting Union.

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Brief Scores: Bharat CC 328-7 (including 16 penalty runs) (Rahul Shetye 114, Manish Tamore 39) bt Cricket Club of Shivaji Park 199 (Rushi Jawkar 65, Pawan Kulkarni 30; Satej More 3-42, Sandeep Patil 3-34). Milton CC 244-6 (Vinayak Mulay 73, Amit Siddeshwar 44) lost to Dadar Parsee Colony 247-4 (Zaheer Gadhwalla 122, Sunil Patil 71). Sporting Union 131 (Sanjay Naik 31; Vijay More 6-21) lost to Youth’s Own Union CC 132-1 (Rahil Khan 73 not out). Bombay Wanderers 168 (Kalpesh Tandel 30) bt Park XI 162 (Nagesh Falke 46 not out; Ravindra Baria 5-40, Abhijeet Sarmalkar 3-28). Mahim Juvenile 176 (Mandar Pandit 35; Mangesh Chaughule 3-39, Yogesh Bhoir 3-30, Vikas Pandit 3-27) lost to Swamy Sporting Stars 177-8 (Vinayak Naik 32; Veeru Puranik 3-21). Dashing CC 234 (Manjeet Singh 50, Suresh Jadhav 39; Vispi Satarwala 3-35, Babloo Singh 3-33, Vikas Utekar 3-38) bt United Parsee CC108 (Bharat Singh 32; Anil Kadam 4-33, Mahendra Kambli 3-19). Young Maharashtra B 100 (Himayya Chikari 3-22, Saurabh Ambatkar 3-8, Rashid Khan 3-12) lost to Bengal Club 104-2 (Nilesh Patwardhan 46 not out, Amir Kazi 38 not out).

Space Travel on course

Defending champions Space Travel defeated Colaba Meteorological Deptt by 10 wickets in the first round of the Indian Airlines tournament that got under way on Tuesday.

Brief scores: Colaba Meteorological 74 in 23.5 overs lost to Space Travels 75-0 in 10 overs; Cantaur Hotel 314-4 in 45 overs bt Castrol India 160 in 26 overs; LIC 177 bt JK Raymonds 175; IDBI 294-6 bt Godrej 137 in 36.2 overs; Oberoi Hotels 191 lost to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust 192 in 33 overs; Dahanu Thermal Power Project 191-8 in 45 overs lost to Mahindra Tractors 192-6; Zandu 202 in 43.4 overs bt Air-India B 198 in 40 overs; Navy 82 in 29 overs lost to BEST 84-0.

Five qualify

Five teams — AFS, Global Telesystems, Prudential-ICICI, Proctor & Gamble and PiramalEnterprises — qualified for the Champions Cup knock-out category in the Mahindra Realty Corporate 7s Tournament.

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In the league matches played at the Western Railway ground on Sunday, all the five teams posted impressive victories to forge ahead.

Brief Scores (League): AFS 94-5 (B Kotwal 27) bt Global Trust Bank 77-2 (K Kapadia 30 retd); AFS 80-1 (B Kotwal 35) bt Tisco 76-3 (P Sood 30 retd). Global Telesystems 63-0 (A Chavan 30 retd, V Paranjpe 28 n.o.) bt ABN Securities 61-3 (D Khanna 30 retd). Global Telesystems 74-4 (A Walanju 30 retd) bt Deutsche Bank 73-6 (A George 33). Prudential-ICICI 96-0 (A Zokarkar 35) bt Crisil 71-4. Piramal Enterprise 45-0 bt Prime Securities 41-5. Proctor & Gamble 55-1 (G Trivedi 35 retd) bt Citibank-GCB 52-4. Proctor & Gamble 133-2 (G Trivedi 33 retd) bt GE Countrywide 51.

Knock-out (Champions Cup): BNP 79-5 (D Ramchandran 30 retd) bt HTA 76-2 (K Karnik 32).

Salver: Castrol 64-0 (G Koregoankar 34 retd) bt Pennzoil 63-5 (S Mathew 30 retired). CSIL69-1 (P Venkat 30 not out) bt ING Barings 43.

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