MUMBAI, Dec 16: Aslam Shaikh’S second successive century helped debutants Varun Shipping declare at 303 for eight against Indian Navy in Division B of the Times Shield cricket tournament at the Dadar Parsee Colony , Matunga, today.
Brief Scores: Group A: Bank of India 191 (Srikant Pednekar 65, Raju Shirke 72 n.o.; Naresh Shanbag 4-51, J Sawant 3-35) vs Bank of Maharashtra 63-3; B Arunkumar 306-9 (Rajesh More 96) vs Dena Bank.
Group B: Chowgule 208 (Vinod Kini 3-59, Rashid Ali 3-53) vs Oriental Insurance 127-7 ( Nilesh Kambli 3-32); Union Bank 133-8 (Prashant Shetty 74; Dinesh Sabnis 4-57) vs Bombay Customs.
Group C: Varun Shipping 303-8 decl. (Aslam Shaikh 114; C D Thomas 3-83) vs Indian Navy; Reserve Bank 287-6 ( Sandeep Mahadkar batting 85, Dilip Kalyankar 90; Kishore Dakshine 3-88) vs BSES.
Group D: New India Assurance 205 (V Joshi 43, Rajendra Pandit 4-56) vs Mumbai Port Trust 47-2; State Bank of India 323-6 (Sudhir Patil 118, Manish More 69, Albert Fernandes 3-89) vs Central Bank.