MBU tops Division I

MUMBAI, Oct 5.; M B Union recorded their second consecutive win to head the Division I table with 11 points at the end of the eighth round ...

MUMBAI, Oct 5.; M B Union recorded their second consecutive win to head the Division I table with 11 points at the end of the eighth round of the Dr H D Kanga League Cricket Tournament. They drubbed Karnataka by nine wickets at the Cross Maidan to register their victory and earn three points.

A century by opener Ojaz Mehta went in vain as his side Young Comrade lost to Young Friends by four wickets at the P J Hindu Gymkhana. Mehta8217;s knock of 115 14215;4, 2215;6 and his 161-run partnership for the first wicket with Sunil Limaye 62 helped Young Comrade to declare at 221 for four. An unbeaten knock of 87 by Aslam Shaikh with four sixes and eight fours and his 80 runs partnership for the sixth wicket with Srikant Pednekar 32 put them on the victory path.

Brief scores:

DIVISION I: Young Comrade 221-4 decl Sunil Limaye 62, Ojaz Mehta 115 lost to Young Friends 222-6 Aslam Shaikh 87 n.o.

Karnatak 73 Nilesh Masurkar 3-8, Sanjay Jamsandekar 4-24 lost to M B Union 74-1.

Victory 189 Vinod Keni 65; Manish Sakhalkar 3-28 drew with MIG, Bandra 104-1 Sandesh Paralkar 58.

CCI 226-8 decl Iqbal Khan 79, Vishwas Walawalkar 3-45, Shreyas Khanolkar 4-25 drew with Shivaji Park Gymkhana 74-2 Manoj Joglekar 37 n.o..

Shivaji Park Youngsters 190 Amit Dani 3-38 drew with National 112-4 Ashish Mahadeshwar 3-25.

DIVISION II

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Sunder 135 S Nayak 6-44 lost to Dadar Union 140-5 Prashant Sawant 52 n.o..

Islam Gymkhana 111 M Bax 67; Dinesh Sabnis 7-47, Amod Desai 3-34 lost to Dadar Parsee Zorastrian 112-4 Sunil Kulkarni 54 n.o; S Malik 3-32.

P J Hindu Gymkhana 162 Santosh Saxena 4-38, V Dandekar 3-38 drew with New Hind 89-6 V Tawde 4-41.

Shantibhai Memorials 133 R Malviya 3-39, M Khurana 3-42 lost to Khar Gymkhana 134-2 Ajit Kolte 55 n.o..

Holiday Inn edge past Muslims

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Holiday Inn, aided by a solitary goal by PK Shaji, edged past Bombay Muslims 1-0 in their Gulf Oil WIFA Senior Division football match at the Cooperage today.

Results: Senior Div: Central Bank 0 drew Mahindra Tractors; Div I: Father Agnel 1 bt United Boys Sahar 0; Rizvi 1 bt Dena Bank 0; Dadar XI B 6 bt Sea View 2.