Salunke stars in Shardashram success

MUMBAI, December 12: A superb all-around performance by Rohit Salunke helped Shardashram English beat Cardinal Garcias by 193 runs to enter...

MUMBAI, December 12: A superb all-around performance by Rohit Salunke helped Shardashram English beat Cardinal Garcias by 193 runs to enter the quarter-finals of the Giles Shield Inter-Schools Cricket Tournament, sponsored by ThumsUp at Azad Maidan here today.

Salunke scored 129 in his side’s total of 301. He was involved in a 114-run partnership for the second wicket with Rahul Raipally (58). He then went on to capture four wickets for 31 runs to restrict their rivals to 108. The other batsman to reach the three-figure mark was Swapnil Tambe of Raja Shivaji against St Xavier’s Parle. He put on 124 runs for the fourth wicket with Aditya Kale and helped his side score 390 for six in their stipulated overs (70). Tambe’s knock of 146 was studded with 16 fours while Kale hit five boundaries in his 61.

In a low scoring match, St Mary’s (ISC) bt G D Somani by 48 runs, thanks to fine medium pace bowling by Ankit Zaveri, who took seven wickets for 24 runs in his 14 overs, out of which seven were maidens.

Brief scores:

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IES Modern 179 (Pushkar Sawant 48, Sanil Sanzgiri 35; Swapnai Thakur 3-50, Abhisekh Pawaskar 5-24) lost to IES English 181-2 (Bravesh Shetty 48, Sagar Dharankar 55).

Anjuman-i-Islam (Urdu) 169 (Zameer Mulla 66, Wasim Mirkar 41; Sanil Salvi 4-48) lost to St Francis D’Assisi 171-6 (Amaya Achrekar 42; Prashant Kottian 33).

Raja Shivaji 390-6 (Aditya Koli 53, Chinmay Malvankar 33, Swapnil Thambe 146, Aditya Kale (61) bt St Xavier’s (Parle) 139 (Rohan Saldhana 44, Sameer Waradkar 5-25).

Shardashram (English) 301 (Rahul Raipally 58, Rohit Salunke 129; Sanjeev Singh 3-64) bt Cardinal Gracies 108 (Amit Narvekar 48; Ravish Malik 4-22, Rohit Salunke 4-31).

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Marwari Vidyalaya 128 (Altaf Shaikh 62, Chintan Walla 3-36, Vishal Prasad 5-41) lost to Don Bosco (Matunga) 129-8 (Sachin Shetty 37, Altaf Shaikh 4-29).

Vidyamandir (Dahisar) 52 (Harshad Rawale 6-24) lost to Balmohan Vidyamandir 53-1.

St Mary’s (ISC) 129 (Sajjid Meherally 41, Tushar Raut 30, Anuj Kejriwal 5-25, Mayank Dalal 5-22) bt G D Somani 81 (Ankit Zaveri 7-24, Akhil Kshirsagar 3-2).