Seaview win against Nobody

After picking eight wickets (21-4-58-8) to restrict National to 217, Waingankar went on to score an unbeaten 38 in his side’s total of 222-8. He was involved in an unbroken 50-run partnership for the ninth wicket with Harmeet Singh (19) that went on through 18 overs and for 64 minutes. Before the stand came, MCA were tottering at 172 for 8.

An unbroken tenth-wicket stand of 81 runs between Ahmad Nizam (50) and sandeep Bhandari (31) enabled ORRA pip PJHindu Gymkhana by a wicket. Hindu Gymkhana made 243, where Dhien Salvi made 90 with the help of a six and ten fours. ORRA reached the target with an over to spare.

Brief scores

Group ‘A’: New Hind 210 (Rohit Rudra 54, Dinar Gaonkar 38; Dinesh Salunke 4-52, Rajesh More 3-44) bt Karnataka S A 159 (Parag Madgaikar 33, Manish Bangera 26; Pratik Kar 4-67, R Pawar 4-17).

Group ‘B’: National 217 (Sameer Apte 57, Siddesh Lad 46, Atul Ranade 37 n.o.; Kshemal Waingankar 8-58) lost to MCA Colts 222 for 8 (Viral Shah 47, Vinayak Mane 46, Amol Muzumdar 31, Kshemal Waingankar 38 n.o.; Nilesh Kulkarni 5-71).

Group ‘C’: Bombay Gymkhana 232 for 9 (Yogesh Pawar 31, Kumar Subramanian 29, A.Singh 53 n.o.; Arun Sharma 4-67, H.Parmar 3-49) lost to Islam Gymkhana 237 for 4 (Kamran Chowdhary 40, Amit Kumar 61, A.Malik 44, Shashikant Kadam 48 n.o.; R.Suffiyan 3-59).

Group ‘D’: P.J.Hindu Gymkhana 243 (Tushar Jhaveri 52, Dhiren Salvi 90. B.Sawant 33; Usman Malvi 6-58, Musavir Khote 3-49 lost to ORRA 246 for 9 (Praful Waghela 39, Manoj Joglekar 45, A.Nizam 50 n.o., Sandeep Bhandari 31 n.o.; Sandeep Pawar 4-28, Nitin Surve 3-92).