Vasvani helps Shardashram triumph

Vasvani, who was looking good for a three-figure score, was out leg before to off-spinner Harshad Rawle. His knock was studded with nine fours and came off 106 balls.

After the exit of Vasvani, batsman-in-form southpaw Abhishek Nayar joined Chavan and both of them saw their side through without losing any more wickets. Chavan’s unbeaten innings of 57 had four hits to the ropes and came off 110 balls, while Nayar’s22 off 18 balls had four hits to the fence.

Earlier in the morning, Balmohan opted to bat after winning the toss and had a poor start. However, the second-wicket partnership of 131 runs helped them to reach the two-hundred mark. Opener Rohan Mayekar first, put on 49 runs with captain Nilesh Vichare before retiring hurt. Then, with Harshad Rawle he carried the total to 132. Mayekar hit four boundaries in his 105-ball innings of 57, while Rawle’s 54 was studded with seven fours off 48 balls.

Thereafter Pavankumar Bhosle scored a quickfire unbeaten 38 off 36 balls with just two fours.

Off-spinner Pranab Chavan was the most successful bowler with two for 54 in 14 overs.

The other semi-final between IES V N Sule Guruji and Springfield will be played tomorrow at the same venue.

Brief scores

Balmohan Vidyamandir 210-6 in 45 overs (Rohan Mayekar 57, Nilesh Vichare 32, Harshad Rawle 54, Pawankumar Bhosle 38 n.o.; Pranab Chavan 2-54) lost to Shardashram 211-2 in 39.4 overs (Girish Vasvani 83, PranabChavan 57 n.o.). MoM: Girish Vasvani.

Atiq Sayyed shines

A fine knock of 90 by Atiq Sayyed enabled Ramakant Desai XI to score 286 against Vasant Amladi XI in the Dadasaheb Rege, Manikrao Lotlikar and Baburao Parulekar Memorial cricket tournament, organised by the Dadar Parsee Zorastrian CC, today.

Brief scores

Ramakant Desai XI 286 all out (Paresh Thamhne 31, Rajesh Suvarna 35, Atiq Sayyed 90, Kaustubh Bhave 33; Vinayak Gavas 3-28, Santosh Shetty 5-80) vs Vasant Amladi XI 70 for no loss.

Appa Babrekar XI 188 all out (Prafulla Dhule 35, Vijay Thakur 37, Sameer Bhatankar 33; Mangesh Dahibaokar 3-39, Milind Salgaoncar 3-16) vs Datta Hindlekar XI 108-7 (Abhijit Patil 33; Ankur Thakur 4-29).

Merck enter final

E Merck beat Rallis by 95 runs to enter the final of the E Merck Pharmaceutical Shield cricket tournament at the Dadar Parsee Colony ground.

Brief scores

E Merck 269-9 (S V Bhosle 84, Shashi Nayak 49, Prasanna Pandit 41) bt Rallis 174 all out (Milind Sawant 66; SV Bhosle 2-17, S V Nayak 2-38, Mayuresh Kandke 2-29).

First Boston win

CS First Boston beat Countrywide in the Champions Cup tie of the Mahindra Realty Cricket 7s at the Western Railway Stadium, Mahalaxmi today.

Brief scores

Champions Cup: CS First Boston 64-6 (P Gokhale 11; B Mitra 2-28 bt Countrywide 60-4 (K Gupta 22; G Mohan 2-2).

Salver: Dresdner Kleinwort Benson 76-3 (K Somusundaram 32, Krishna Kumar 26; R Kumar 2-18) bt Tatas (A Mathew 18, R Kumar 16, T K Ramaswamy 2-9). KPMG 59-6 (Rajesh K 30, A Vijaykar 13; N Shah 2-18, H Abhichandani 3-18) bt Prime Securities 57-2 (S Deodhar 24, N Shah 24). Indocean Chase Capital 70 for no loss (K Kewalramani 32 n.o., G Patel 22 n.o.) bt Chase Manhattan Bank 66-4 (H Prabhu 32, S Shenoy 25; A Agarwal 3-17). TISCO 81-2 (J S Shastry 33 n.o., K Suri 21) bt Pennzoil 59-4 (R Gururaj 20; P Sood 1-11). AFS 49-6 (B Kotwal 20 V Shah 2-12) bt Standard Chartered 47-3 (N Parmeshwaran 15; R Naidu 2-11). Citibank-GF 68-4 (J Varan 30 n.o.; CDesai 1-8) bt Pricewaterhouse Coopers 58-4 (S Shrikant 23, Deepak R 2-8).

Bowl: Ing Barings 64-1 (S Barretto 31) bt HongKong Bank 63-2 (R Joshi 33).

Sharavan Tawde deadly

Left-arm medium-pacer Sharavan Tawde’s 4-20 enabled hosts Sporting Clubs’ Committee (Thane) to beat Green Lawns (Vikhroli) in the quarter-finals of the 43rd Shamrao Thosar Suburban cricket tournament at the Central maidan (Thane), yesterday.

Brief scores

Green Lawns 89 all out in 30.5 overs (Sharavan Tawde 4-20) lost to Sporting Clubs’ Committee 90-4 in 20.5 overs, by six wickets. MoM: Sharavan Tawde.