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Dena need 371 to win

Varun Shipping lost the advantage that their bowlers had given them on the second day of the three-day Times Shield cricket Division B semifinal at Dadar Parsee ground, Matunga.

After being bowled out for .302, Varun medium pacers Umesh Patwal 3-34 and Janak Mistry 3-26 skittled Dena Bank out for 118.

However, Varun batsmen found themselves at the receiving end when they were bundled out for 186, inclusive of 36 penalty runs, in the second essayDena Bank now need 371 runs for victory in 90 overs.

Brief scores: Union Bank 461-9 decl Prashant Shetty 65, Harish Shetty 38, Nilesh Bhosle 136 n.o, Mandeep Khurana 79, Arun Shetty 53, Rupam Malaviya 30; Sanjeev Shrivatsav 3-69, Rajendra Pandit 3-87 vs MPT 114-6 Sameer Apte 34 n.o.; Varun Shipping 302 Vincent Albuquerque 108, Altaf Shaikh 38; Abhjit Tatkar 4-59, Prashant Sawant 3-53 amp; 186 Aslam Shaikh 33, Anthony Dias 3-32, Prashant Sawant 4-27 vs Dena Bank 118 Mukund Parmar 35, Janak Mistry 3-26, Umesh Patwal 3-34