Skipper Shreekant Limbole led from the front with a cracking half century (52) with five sixes and three fours to steer Mumbai Police Cityriders to a four-wicket win over Shivaji Park Warriors in their concluding tie in the Mitsui Shoji T-20 League-Season-8 , played at Mumbai Police Gymkhana ground at Marine Lines here today. The Cityriders thus top the table with four wins in the five-team league. While Bandra Heroes by virtue of their win over Thane Marathas today, finished second. Thane Marathas together with Shivaji Park Warriors were the other teams to qualify for the Super League, to be played next week while the last year’s winner Ghatkopar Jets were eliminated.
Mumbai Police skipper Shreekant Limbole, who hit a cracking half century with five sixes, receiving the Man-of-the-match award from Mr Jwala Singh, Director of Jwala Sports Foundation after concluding tie in the Mitsui Shoji T-20 League-Season-8.
After putting them to bat, the Police Cityriders, restricted Warriors to 160 for seven. Chasing 162 for six , the Police outfit though lost their openers early, skipper Shreekant with Prasad Pawar steered them to a comfortable win with 3 overs to spare.
The highlight of Bandra Heroes win over Thane Marathas was the batting of Aakanshit Gomel (65) and Onkar Jadhav (58) as they took the Heroes past Thane Marathas score of 159 for nine with four wickets to spare
MOM-Aakanshit Gomel
Match–1: Shivaji Park Warriors 160/7 off 18 overs ( Eknath Kerkare 60, Sachin Yadav 33; Aditya Dhumal 4/27) lost to Mumbai Police Cityriders 162/6 (Shreekant Limbole 52 (3×4, 5×6), Prasad Pawar 27; Parikshit Valsangkar 3/27, Vaibhav Singh 2/46) by 4 wkts. MOM – Shreekant Limbole.
Match–2: Thane Marathas 159/9 off 20 overs (Arsalan Oberoi 31, Vinayak Bhoir 31; Khizar Dafedar 3/27, Manan Khakhar 3/34) lost to Bandra Heroes 161/5 (Aakanshit Gomel 65 (6×4, 3×6), Onkar Jadhav 58; Ayaz Khan 2/20) by 4 wkts. MOIM – Aakanshit Gomel.