Panda anchors NZ

PUNE, Jan 22: A K Panda's fine all round performance, 86 runs and five wickets, steered North Zone to a fine victory over Mumbai by 30 ru...

PUNE, Jan 22: A K Panda’s fine all round performance, 86 runs and five wickets, steered North Zone to a fine victory over Mumbai by 30 runs to annex the cricket title on the concluding day of the sports and cultural meet Nabotsav 98′ hosted by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development’s Pune regional office.

UB Engg win
UB Engineering Ltd won their league encounter against Philips India Ltd by four wickets in the ongoing MCA Poona Cricket League.

Philips India put up 222 runs losing 6 wickets mainly by Vinit Wagle’s sturdy knock of 87. For UB Mohan Jadhav took four wickets. Later U B Engg. reached the target aided by a solid innings of 101 by Amit Thakur and Avinash Deshpande chipping in with 45 runs.

Philips India Ltd: 222 for 6 (Vinit Wagle 87, Prasad Roy 41, Amit Joshi 22, Mohan Jadhav 4/37) lost to U B Engg: 223 for 6 (Amit Thakur 101, Avinash Ghatpande 45, Kale 3/40, Mukul 2/21). Rama Automobiles: 211 for 4 (Virendra More 62, Rahul Rewalkar 55) b ST, Dapodi: 86 (Saket Puranik 22, Kiran Shroff 4/19, Yogesh Sawant 3/3). New India Assurance: 214 (Sunil Kamble 57, Vijay Apte 51, Sanjay Potdar 2/29) b Doctors XI: 207 (Anil Joglekar 36, Charu Sathe 30, Prashant Lele 45, Zahir Shaikh 3/41, Hanif Shaikh 2/28, Sunil Kamble 2/36). Sunday XI: 108 for 8 (Suhas Deo 28, P Kale 4/20, Ajay Sehre 2/17) b Phoenix: 106 (Dhanjay Joshi 35, A Atre 3/18, Y Dharmadhikari 2/28).