December 18: A century, a hat-trick and good all-round performances were the highlights of the pre-quarter-finals of the Harris Shield Inter-School cricket tournament, sponsored by Thums-up on Wednesday.
Onkar Khanvilkar of Shardashram (Marathi) scored an unbeaten 133 in his side’s total of 305 for eight against St Xavier’s, Nerul. He then went on take six wickets for 38 runs with his off-spin and that helped Shardashram to bowl out their rivals for 95.
Mumbai under-16 captain Arjun Mestry (67 and 3-17) also gave a good all-round performance in Shardashram’s victory.
Balmohan Vidyamandir’s off-spinner Sanket Chitre recorded a hat-trick while capturing seven wickets of St Sebastian. He returned remarkable figures of 6-3-3-7.
Aziz Shaikh’s all-round display (five for 64 and 62 n.o.) was instrumental in Anjuman-I-Islam’s victory over Don Bosco.
Brief scores:
St Sebastian, Dabul 38 (Sanket Chitre 7-3 including a hat-trick) lost to Balmohan Vidyamandir 39 for 2.
Gokuldham 184 (NIlesh Nerurkar 30, Pranit Sonawane 37, Kaushik Iyer 30 n.o.; Dharval Gandhi 3-44, Megha Dholakia 4-25, Salim Shaikh 3-28) lost to Jasudben M L 185 for 5 (Parthiv Kaji 30, Salim Shaikh 57, Rohan Malhotra 50; Dinesh Jhunjhunwala 3-27).
Shardashram, Marathi 305 for 8 (Onkar Khanvilkar 133 n.o., Arjun Mestry 67; Pulkit Goel 3 for 43) bt St Xavier’s, Nerul 95 (Sunil Thorat 43, Onkar Khanvilkar 6-38, Arjun Mestry 3-14); Don Bosco 207 (Sachin Shetty 31, Sumit Shetty 31, Vinayak Purohit 37, Sushil 43; Aziz Shaikh 5-64, S Ansari 3-45) lost to Anjuman-I-Islam, Urdu 208 for 2 (M Zhubair 69 n.o., Aziz Shaikh 62 n.o.); St Francis D’Assisi, Borivali 130 (Harshad Karnik 35, Prashant Kotian 33; Kishore Jog 4-10) lost to Sri Ma Bal Niketan, Thane 132 for 2 (Sangram Bagul 83 n.o.). Shardashram, English 215 (Rohit Salunke 72, Siddharth Bhatkar 88; Altaf Shaikh 3-45, Anil Jiaswal 4-49) bt Marwari Vidyalaya 53 (Vinayak Mane 3-16, Siddharth Bhatkar 4-18); Raja Shivaji 92 (Prathamesh Athavle 3-14, Rahul Yadav 3-21) lost to IES English 96 for 2 (Rahul Yadav 54).