MUMBAI, Jan 29: Shardashram Marathi scored a comfortable six-wicket victory over Shardashram English to enter the final of the Giles Shield Inter-School Cricket tournament at Azad Maidan here today. In the final scheduled for February 2, Marathi will meet IES VN Sule Guruji who scored a nine-wicket victory over Rajhans yesterday.Marathi's convincing victory was set up by their bowlers Vikram Chichulkar and Dinar Gaonkar who bagged four and five wickets respectively. Later two-drop batsman Sunil Lingayat scored an unbeaten 71 as they completed victory in 62.2 overs.English were given a good start by Ritesh Chavan (25) and Chintan Shah (22) who raised 55 for the opening wicket. After the fall of three quick wickets, Girish Vaswani (36) and Vikrant Yeligeti (20) added 40 runs for the fourth wicket. Chichulkar got the break-through, castling Vikrant. Then the English batsmen could not sew any substantial partnership and were reeling at nine for 148. The last pair, Sadashiv Kashyap and Analesh Desai, tookthe score to 171.When Shardashram Marathi chased the target their fourth-wicket pair of Sunil Lingayat and Dinar Gaonkar added 63 runs, taking them from 90 o 153.Brief scores: Shardashram English 171 in 65.5 overs (Ritesh Chavan 25, Chintan Shah 22, Girish Vaswani 36, Vikrant Yeligeti 20; Vikram Chichulkar 4-43, Dinar Gaonkar 5-33) lost to Shardashram Marathi 172-4 (Amay Kangne 35, Kamlesh Asawale 27, Sunil Lingayat 71 n.o.).UBI strike backRashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF) were set to score 86 runs for a win but were struggling at four for two against Union Bank of India (UBI) at the end of third day of the four-day final of the Times Shield B Division Cricket tournament at Parsee Gymkhana today.RCF, resuming at 270 for six, were bowled out for 383 and took a lead of 121 runs. Overnight batsmen Sulakshan Kulkarni and Nitin Sawant added 122 for the seventh wicket. Sawant scored 56 with eight hits to the boundary while Kulkarni was bowled for 124. Later, Vivek Narwane (41:3x6, 3x4) and Sameer Inamdar (40: 1x6, 5x4) contributed to RCF's massive score.In the second innings, UBI were out for a meagre 206. Opener Sunil Chaturvedi (41), Harish Shetty (37) and Mandeep Khurana (38) were the main scorers.Sameer Inamdar took five for 47 in 14.2 overs for RCF.Brief scores: UBI 262 & 206 (Sunil Chaturvedi 41, Harish Shetty 37, Mandeep Khurana 38, Sameer Inamdar 5-47) vs RCF 383 (Sulakshan Kulkarni 124, Nitin Sawant 56, Vivek Narvane 41, Sameer Inamdar 40, Mandeep Khurana 3-99) & 4-2.Space Travels champsSpace Travels are the new Times Shield E Division champions. They defeated BEST by three wickets in the 45-overs match today at PJ Hindu Gymkhana.After being put to bat first, BEST lost three wickets for 74 runs. Vinod Korgaonkar made a strokeful 60 while Prashant Khanvilkar scored 53, as BEST were bowled out for 209. Divakar Shetty took four for 44.In reply, Space achieved the required runs with 2.3 overs to spare.Brief scores: BEST 209(Vinod Korgaonkar 60, Prashant Khanvilkar 53; Divakar Shetty 4-44) lost to Space Travels 213-7 in 42.3 (Kuldeep Wadkar 65; Mangesh Thorat 3-39)Chinai winChinai drubbed MVLU 5-0 in the inter-college football tourney organised by Goan Sports Association at their ground.For Chinai, Benoy Kuruvilla scored a brace while Nigel Mathias, Collin Miranda, William Soares scored a goal each.St Andrew's played a goalless draw with Siddharth College.Swastik claim titleMohanish Roy of Swastik Leage Gymnasium won gold medal in Maharshtra State Karate Mayar Championship at Dr Sarvapali Radhakrishan Prasla Bopoli Pune conducted on Janaury 23. The Swastik Gymnasium also won the championships.Goal medal winners:Sachin Kurte, Vinod Phase and Tejashree Bawdekar; Silver medal: Pratik Rasal, Amruta Shetty; Bronze medal: Chandrasekhare Gawli, Rahul Kurte, Nitin Kalekar, Rajendra Kshirsagar.
