Navy well-insured against New India

Centuries by Prashant Shetty (162: 12×4) and Nilesh Bhosle (batting 120: 9×4) helped Union Bank rake up 500 for six, in reply to Bank of Maharashtra’s 177. Brief scores: Group A: Bank of Maharashtra 177 vs Union Bank 500-6 (Sandeep Kotre 33, Arun Shetty 42, Prashant Shetty 162, Shammy Salaria 61, Nilesh Bhosle batting 120; Naresh Shanbag 3-83). Indian Navy 436 (CKV Ragahvan 164, CD Thomson 75, S Mehrotra 63 not out; Kedar Hudlikar 3-96) vs New India Assurance 194 (Sameer Samant 35; SV Ghag 5-47, S.Javed 4-64) & 36-3.

Group B: Central Bank 275 & 155-4 (Abhay Satoskar batting 64, Jaideep Narse 30; Ashish Mahadeshwar 3-61)vs Mumbai Port Trust 210 (Arun Patil 48,Anil Sakpal 62, Pramod Masurkar 34; Albert Fernandes 5-44, Ratan Sharma 4-52). Chowgule 257 & 16-0 vs Bank of India 494-7 decl (Sameer Apte 142, Raju Shirke 32, Srikant Pednekar 66, Shekhar Bhor 126 not out, Jayesh Dadarkar 56 not out; Avdhoot Amonkar 3-35).

Group C: Varun Shipping 489 (Nikhil Dixit 72, Amit Dhulap 61, Rohit Rane 124, Anand Tiwari 55, Dushant Kadam 63 not out; Bharat Karnik 3-80) vs Mumbai Customs 174-4 (Sunil More batting 74, Ramesh Vajge batting 38; Umesh Patwal 4-45). B Arunkumar 326 (Ujwal Tari 35, Arun Taralkar 37, Raju Govekar 66, Sudhir Sawant 53, Sunil Malik 64; Prashant Sawant 6-78) vs Dena Bank 302-7 (Amit Buch 67, Jalal Shaikh 63, Nilesh Masurkar 48, Vinod Raghavan batting 49; Santosh Jadhav 3-81, Sudhir Sawant 3-67).

Group D: RBI 228 & 42-1 vs BSES 362 (Sachin Vichare 47, Shantanu Gaichur 30, Vivek Patil 40, Jaydeep Gharat 38, J Barde 31, Sanjay Patil 37, Ajit Golatkar 30, Vinay Dandekar 47 not out; Yshwant Bhosle 4-102,Anirudha Rangnekar 5-119). State Bank 341 (Rupak Mulye 53, Sudhir Patil 51, Sachin Dange 42, Ashish Bhatt 61 not out; Hakim Khan 4-89, C Deshpande 3-47) vs Bharat Petroleum 225-8 (Sridhar Mandle 112, Rajendra Singh 38; Vikas Gawte 5-53).

Vasant Vihar champs
Vasant Vihar High School beat People’s Education High School by two wickets in the final of the fourth Ghantali Cup under-14 Inter-School cricket tournament at Central Maidan, Thane.

Brief scores: People’s Education 178-9 in 45 overs (Kartik Iyer 48; Dhruv Chaturvedi 3-48) lost to Vasant Vihar 179-8 in 33 overs (Srikant Ramkrishnan 36, Shoeb Shaikh 75 n.o.; Kartik Iyer 4-72) by two wickets.

Payyade CC supreme
Payyade, Kandivli, beat Bhatnagar, Andheri by five wickets in the final of the 44th Balkrishna Bapat Shield Suburban cricket, conducted by Kurla Sports Club.

Brief scores: Final: Bhatnagar 198 in 40.4 overs (Amol Rane 80, Amogh Bhatawdekar 42; Jayesh Dadarkar 6-52) lost to Payyade 200-5 in 35.2 overs (PrashantManjrekar 58, Ajay Kadam 46 n.o., Jayesh Dadarkar 34 n.o.; Manish Sakhalkar 3-40) by five wickets.

Yashodhan Gogte top
Yashodan Gogte of Bombay Scottish, with 9.5 points out of 11 rounds, won the boys under-12 title in the Parle-G chess festival, organised by the Bandra Chess Club, at the St Stanislaus High School premises, today.

Sachin Kamat of Fr Agnel (Vashi), with nine points, and Ninad Puranik, with 8.5 points, finished second and third, respectively.