PUNE, Sept 22: Amol Ashteker’s (54) for Garware College of Commerce (GCC) went in vain as his team ended up losers against Ness Wadia, while Aniket Sant (6/17) proved a match winner for BMCC as they recorded a huge 9-wicket win over D.Y Patil College, Pimpri in the MCA Inter-Collegiate cricket league for the D’Mello Trophy here today.
GCC taking strike first could manage only 138 with Amol doing the bulk of the scoring which was supported by Tushar Gangal (33) at the other end. The cause of GCC’s downfall was owing to the accurate bowling of Ramsingh Rajput who claimed 5/22.
In reply Ness went past the required total losing eight wickets. Siddharth Guha and Sandip Deshmukh top-scored with 26 runs apiece.
In another encounter, D.Y Patil College of Arts and Commerce were shot out for the lowest total of the day 41, against BMCC which was mainly due to the one-man destructive force in Aniket Sant.
BMCC aided by an unbeaten 22 by Satyajit Satbhai overcame the target with none wickets to spare.
Garware College of Commerce: 138 (Amol Ashtekar 54, Tushar Gangal 33, Ramsingh Rajput 5/22, Sandeep Deshmukh 3/21) lost to Ness Wadia: 141 for 8 (Siddharth Guha 26, Sandeep Deshmukh 26. Prashant Nair 3/34, Ravindra Rajpathak 2/24). Result: Garware lost by two-wickets.
D.Y Patil College: 139 (Saurabh Deulkar 4/17, Girish Kamthe 2/26) lost to College of Engineering and Technology (CoET): 140 for 5 (Girish Kamthe 82 n.o, Sagar Sawant 3/37). Result: CoET won by five-wickets.
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering (BVCOE): 142 (Anirudha Joglekar 35, Tushar Phadke 31 n.o, Chandrakant Kamble 5/20, Atul Gaikwad 2/29) lost to Nowrosjee Wadia: 146 for 8 (Prashant Chaudhari 50, Abhijit Awale 2/32, Tushar Kalvalkar 2/12). Result: BVCOE lost by two-wickets.
S.P College: 166 for 6 (Kaushik Aphale 45, P.Kharade 32. Atul Zore 2/34, Rahul Kendale 2/43) b Garware College Arts and Science: 43 (Prashant Jadhav 4/8, Sandeep Lele 3/22). Result: S.P College won by 123-runs.
D.Y Patil Arts and Science: 41 (Aniket Sant 6/17, Rohit Bandivadekar 4/23) lost to BMCC: 44 for 1 (Satyajit Satbhai 22 n.o). Result: BMCC won by 9-wickets.