Sun-Grace score eight-wicket win

MUMBAI, OCT 24: Sun-Grace Mafatlal were in trouble on Saturday. Facing Central Railway 295, they were 125 for eight in the Times Shield A...

MUMBAI, OCT 24: Sun-Grace Mafatlal were in trouble on Saturday. Facing Central Railway 295, they were 125 for eight in the Times Shield A Division Group B match. Sunday they were celebrating after turning the tables on Railways.

And they had their heroes in Rajesh Pawar and Mandar Sane who raised 188 for the ninth wicket. Pawar hit 88 and Sane an unbeaten 100.

Sun-Grace gained lead and then bowled out Central Railway for 193 with Pawar claiming two wickets. They then knocked off the remaining runs for the loss of just two wickets to complete a dramatic twist to their fortunes.

From Group B, Sun-Grace have virtually ensured themselves of a berth after their victory with 16 points. So have Indian Oil who crushed RCF by an innings and 16 runs.

Group A is still undecided with both the matches being drawn.Defending champions, ELF, who took the first innings points against Tatas, are a point behind their rivals with 10. Tatas lead with 11 points.

Air-India, who conceded a slender lead to Western Railwayin the first innings, have six points to Western Railway8217;s 5.

Brief Scores

Group A8217;: Tatas 271 and 30-0 drew with Elf Lubricants 515 Amol Rane 66, Jatin Paranjpe 84, Amol Muzumdar 87, Sairaj Bahutule 96, Paras Mhambrey 94, Mazhar Ghadiali 26; Sriram Kannan 3-67, Anand Yalvigi 2-96, Nishit Shetty 2-48. Aggregate Points: Tata 83 11; Elf 55 10.

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Air-India 250 and 186-4 Kamal Chopra 33, Tariq-ur-Rahman 48, Piyush Soneji 51 not out; Ashok Sharma 2-33 drew with Western Railway 268 Nitin Surve 69, Anil Parmar 28, Dheeraj Sharma 33, Shreyas Khanolkar 42; Jacob Faroz 3-47, Faisal Shaikh 6-94. Air-India 33 6; WR 05 5.

Group B8217;: Central Railway 295 and 193 Manish Bangera 27, Rajendra S Jalal 71, Ramesh Pawar 42; Iqbal Khan 4-40, Rajesh Pawar 2-52 lost to Sun-Grace Mafatlal 356-9 decl and 136-2 Praful Dhule 53 not out, Robin Morris 25, Atul Bedade 50; Jay Dhuri 2-46. Sun-Grace 88 16; CR 50 5.

Indian Oil 311 bt RCF 141-9 and 154 Sachin Sawant 69, Kaushik Aphale 54; IqbalSiddique 2-26, Amit Dani 4-16, Bhavin Radia 3-16. Indian Oil 38 11; RCF 000.