Shaikh claims a hat-trick

MUMBAI, Oct 27: Shaikh, who finished with figures of 5-22, was largely instrumental in Amrut Education's emphatic eight-wicket victory ov...

MUMBAI, Oct 27: Shaikh, who finished with figures of 5-22, was largely instrumental in Amrut Education’s emphatic eight-wicket victory over Holy Angels, Mulund.

On a day when bowlers dominated the proceedings in the 40-overs-a-side encounter, BKM, Chowpatty’s Rajesh Darji too impressed claiming eight wickets conceding 27 runs. But his efforts went in vain as BKM lost to St Joseph, Vikhroli by 56 runs.

Dhananjay Sawant of Modern English, however, faced no such humiliation in his team’s six-wicket win over Children Welfare, Versova. The young medium-pacer scalped six wickets for a measly eight runs.

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Akshay Girap’s fine all-round show (4-20 and 26 not out) powered Madhavrao Bhagwat to a convincing eight-wicket victory over Manav Mandir.

Neil Shah (81), came up with the only fifty plus score of the day, as GD Somani handed out a 160-run drubbing to Holy Cross, Kurla.

Brief Scores: Children Welfare, Versova 82 (KR Ramesh 31; Dhananjay Sawant 6-8) lost to Modern English, Dadar 83-4 by sixwickets.

Holy Angels, Mulund 48 (Abu Shal Shaikh 5-22, Nadir Moinuddin 4-8) lost to Amrut Education 50-2 by eight wickets.

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Parle Tilak 123 bt St Francis, Bhayander 57 (Sagar Nadgauda 5-3, Abhijit Deshpande 3-10) by 66 runs

St Joseph, Vikhroli 109 (Aniket Shinde 33, Rajesh Darji 8-27) bt BKM, Chowpatty 53 (Kushadhar Suvarna 3-17, Rakesh Rao 5-17) by 56 runs.

Manav Mandir 94 (Akshay Girap 4-20) lost to M Bhagwat 92-2 (Akshay Girap 26 n.o.) by eight wickets.

GD Somani 233-6 (Neil Shah 81, C Kunal 35 n.o., Ravish Desai 30) bt Holy Cross, Kurla 73 (Mayank Dalal 4-18, P Sakaria 3-0) by 160 runs.

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Dnyan Pushpa, Navi Mumbai 69 lost to St Xavier’s, Parle 70-5 by five wickets.