PRAGNESH’S TWIN TONS PUT MUMBAI IN SIGHT OF WIN

MUMBAI: After Pragnesh Kanpillewar’s twin hundreds, Praful Devkate and Arjun Tendulkar’s early strikes put Mumbai on the cusp of registering an outright victory against Himachal Pradesh in their Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy match, at the PCPA Stadium, Santoshgarh on Wednesday.

Chasing a daunting target of 396, hosts Himachal Pradesh were 105 for three when stumps were drawn on the third day of the four-day match. Skipper Vaibhav Sharma did the bulk of scoring for the home team remaining unbeaten on 67 off 97 balls. Devkate and Tendulkar shared the three wickets with the former claiming a two-for.

Earlier, resuming on overnight 11 for no loss, the visitors managed to post 266 in their second innings, thanks to another brilliant hundred by Kanpillewar (106, 131b, 7x4). Kanpillewar was the last batsmen to be dismissed in Mumbai’s second innings.

BRIEF SCORES

Mumbai 374 (P Kanpillewar 147, V Lavande 104; P Kashyap 7/97) & 266 (P Kanpillewar 106, V Lavande 39; S Garg 4/90, S Sharma 3/58) lead Himachal Pradesh 245 (S Garg 84, S Saran 37; A Ankolekar 5/46, A Tendulkar 3/45) & 105/3 (V Sharma 67*; P Devkate 2/14) by 290 runs.

NIRMALA COLLEGE SCORE 63-RUN VICTORY

Nirmala Memorial Foundation College, Kandivali scored a convincing 63-run victory against Siddharth College of Arts & Science in a first round match of the 9th Saqib Rizvi Memorial InterCollegiate Tournament.

BRIEF SCORES

Nirmala College 162/5 (Sai Naidu 79, Pranav Sanil 60*) beat Siddharth College 98 all out (Sachin Kanojia 62).

JSF BEAT MCC TO BAG PRO-40 TROPHY

Jwala Sports Foundation defeated two-times champions MCC (Red) by 51 runs for their maiden triumph in the B4S MCC PRO-40 double-leg 5-Team league.

All-rounder Dashrath Chavan, who was the highest scorer with 404 runs in the league and captured 14 wickets was adjudged the Man-of-the-series. BRIEF SCORES

Jwala Sports Foundation 230 (Arsalan Oberoi 68, Aryan Chitroda 45, Ayaz Khan 40, Rahul Chaudhari 38) bt MCC (Red) 179 (Dasrath Chavan 71, Pranav Jadhav 44; Rahit Wagh 3/17, Vedant Patil 3/41).