Customs score emphatic victory

MUMBAI, December 23: Promising youngster Dinesh Sabnis shone as Mumbai Customs scored an innings and 162-run win over Oriental Insurance with a day to spare in the B Division of the Times Shield cricket league.

Sabnis, who had claimed five wickets on the opening day, bagged another 4 today in addition to scoring 34.

Brief scores

Group A: B Arunkumar Sports 322 Praful Dhule 48, Sudhir Sawant 39, Santosh Jadhav 74, Prashant Gawde 77; Jayant Sawant 3-88 vs Bank of Maharashtra 202 for 5 Usman Gani batting 74; Dena Bank 457 Nilesh Masurkar 128, Kersi Pavri 112; Anthony Dias 64; Raju Shirke 3-88 Gautam Pagare 4-121 vs Bank of India 103 Vinod Raghavan 4-39, Anthony Dias 4-20 and 83 for 4 Jayesh Dadarkar batting 37.
Group B: Oriental Insurance 140 R Kaushal 54, H Puthran 35; Dinesh Sabnis 3-65, U Gotkhindikar 3-34 and 55 Dinesh Sabnis 4-32 lost to Mumbai Customs 363 Sunil More 45, Shekhar Samant 80, Chetan Nimokar 37, Bharat Karnik 63, Dinesh Sabnis 34, Premanand Kinlekar 34 n.o.; Vinod Kini 3-87, Jasbir Mankoo 4-52 by an innings and 168 runs; Chowgule 148 Abrar Khan 66; Manish Sakhalkar 3-30, Arun Shetty 3-18 and 186 for 7 Sandeep Signapurkar 33 n.o. Sayed Khalid 31 n.o.; Manish Sakhalkar 3-45 vs Union Bank 269 Harish Shetty 68, Arun Shetty 84, Avadhoot Amonkar 3-31, Prashant Kakode 3-84, Nilesh Mulgaokar 3-24.
Group C: Reserve Bank 153 Shanban Diwanji 79 n.o.; Kapil Dev Pandey 3-27 and 95 for 6 S V Ghag 4-57 vs Indian Navy 247 K D Pandey 63, Sanjeev Mehrotra 45, N K Gupta 32; Yeshwant Bhosle 3 for 78; Dilip Kalaynakar 4-75; BSES 178 Prashant Keer 34, Vinaj Dandekar 32; Janak Mistry 6-73 and 184 for 8 Vivek Patil 51, Jayendra Barde 49; Janak Mistry 3-42, D Singh 4-58 vs Varun Shipping 131 Kishore Dakhshine 7-51.
Group D: Mumbai Port Trust 321 A Rangnekar 84, A Mahadeshwar 35, S Manjrekar 73, A Correia 37; Ratan Sharma 5-114 vs Central Bank 294 for 8 J Narse 82, A Ishwalkar 69, Arvind 31 n.o.; R Pandit 4-81; New India Assurance 278 Sameer Samant 81, Vikas Joshi 71; Rajesh Raikar 48; Satyen Lande 5-81, Sunil Gudge 3-80 vs State Bank 170 Sachin Dange 61, Kedar Hudlikar 7-52; Arvind Dhuri 3-68.