National retain A Division title

MUMBAI, OCT 3: National Cricket Club have retained the `A' Division title in the 52nd Dr HD Kanga Cricket League. In the final league mat...

MUMBAI, OCT 3: National Cricket Club have retained the `A’ Division title in the 52nd Dr HD Kanga Cricket League. In the final league match today, they defeated sister Club MB Union on the first innings to take their tally to 38. Cricket Club of India, who defeated Khar Gymkhana to collect five points, finished second with 36 points.

This was National’s seventh title of the championships. They first won in 1966 (joint winners with Parsee Cyclists and Shivaji Park Gymkhana), then in 1970, and followed it with a hat-trick between 1993-95.

New Hind, second overnight, drew their match with Victory to finish third with 35 points.

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The day’s bowling honours went to National’s medium pacer Manish Patel who had remarkable analysis 10-2-18-6,as MB Union were bundled out for 51, in reply to National’s total of 169 for 8 declared.

Parsee Gymkhana beat Shantibhai Sheth Memorials on first innings to win the `B’ Division title. Worli Sports and Islam Gymkhana finished joint second with 40 points each.

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`A’ Division

Khar Gaymkhana 121 (Musavir Khute 45, Hakim Khan 5-45) lost to CCI 123-2 (Sachin Sawant 42, Jatin Paranjpe 56 n.o.).

National 177-8 decl (Wasim Jaffer 56, Sunil More 30, Rajesh More 42, Dinesh Sabnis 3-62) & 51-1 beat MB Union 51 (Amit Dani 4-24, Manish Patel 6-18) on first innings.

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Shivaji Park Gymkhana 202-5 decl (Amit Pagnis 60 n.o., Pravin Amre 31, Manoj Joglekar 62 n.o.) drew PJ Hindu Gymkhana 62-1.

Karnatak SA 120 (Rahul Thakur 3-33, Omkar Salvi 3-46, Y Dichvalkar 3-6) drew Young Maharashtra 80-7 (Nishit Shetty 3-2).

MIG 114-9 decl (Atul Ranade 56, Sandeep Dahad 3-33) & 94-3 lost to Shivaji Park Youngsters 119-6 decl (Atul Ranade 3-30) on first innings.

Young Friends 198-9 decl (Amol Ghag 40, Naushad Khan 34, Prakash Palande 30 n.o., C Deshpande 3-49, Parag Paingankar 3-35) drew Dadar Union 108-4.

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Victory 211-8 decl (Ramesh Powar 110 n.o., Umesh Patwal 4-78) drew New Hind 132-5 (Ananat Tiwari 47).

`B’ Division

Rajasthan 87 (Sudhakar Harmalkar5-20, Vishal Mahadik 4-35) lost to Worli 114-4 (Nitin Khadye 40 n.o., Ashok Jadhav 3-19).

Shantibhai Memorials 28 (Sanjeev Srivastav 7-16, Ajit Rodrigues 3-12) & 97-4 (Sanjeev Srivastav 3-47) lost to Parsee Gymkhana 151-1 decl (Reshad Dotiwala 79 n.o., Manish More 42 n.o.) on first innings.

Young Comrade 80 (Sunil Malik 3-23, Iqbal Thakur 4-30, Ajay Joshi 3-6) & 90-4 (Raju Govekar 40) lost to Islam Gymkhana 156-8 decl (Wasim Sayad 47 n.o., Raju Govekar 4-44) on first innings.

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Jolly Cricketers 94 (Mahindra Pandye 6-22, Sandesh Bandivadekar 3-34) & 70-4 decl beat United Cricketers 72 (Shravan Tawade 4-23, Ramesh Rajde 6-42) & 75-8 (Hemin Desai 30, Chandu Bhatkar 3-14) on first innings.

Sunder 189-7 decl (Amir Nanji 33, Premjit Tawade 51 n.o., Manoj Patil 3-59, Rajkumar Sawant 3-21) drew Gamdevi 124-6 (Vinay Spote 43, Jayesh Kansara 4-20).

Dadar Parsee 121 (Vaibhav Sondkar 4-21, R Walanj 3-22) beat Dahisar 95 (Ranjit Bagwe 32, Atul Bedade 3-26, Amol Bhalekar 3-17).

Fort Vijay 165-5 decl (AmitMungekar 76, Sandeep Sakhare 3-21) drew with Khandala 98-6 (Surendra Yadav 3-22).

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