Unbeaten 95 by Manan Bhatt and his 103 runs partnerships with No.10 Nihar Magre (40) steered IES (Bandra ) to a nerve-wrecking 2-wicket win over Dilip Vengsarkar Cricket Academy for their first win in the 8-team 40-0vers MCC U-16 Cricket League 2019, played at the latter’s ground at Oval Maidan here today.
Unbeaten 95 by Manan Bhatt and his 103 runs partnerships with No.10 Nihar Magre (40) steered IES (Bandra ) to a nerve-wrecking 2-wicket win over Dilip Vengsarkar Cricket Academy for their first win in the 8-team 40-0vers MCC U-16 Cricket League 2019
Batting first, DVSA,rallied after losing four wickets for 34 run to score 167, but in reply IES boys too were all at sea and at one stage had lost seven wickets for just 63 runs before Manan Bhatt (95 – 13×4) and tailender Nihar Magre (40) fought back to add 103 to see their side through with an over to spare In the other tie, played at Dadar Parsi Zorastrian ground (Matunga),
Leftarm spinner Shubham Kharat’s deadly spell of 8-2-17-7 highlighted Sanjeevani Cricket Academy’s massive 167 win over MCC’A’ for their second win. Replying to Sanjeevani CA’s big score of 238 for 8, MCC ‘A’ were bundled out for 71.
Brief scores:
DILIP VENGSARKAR CA 167 all out (Gokul Kochey 50, Om Jadhav 37; Nikhil Giri 3/37, Nihar Magre 2/31, Arinjay Kolhande 2/16) lost to IES (Bandra) 171/8 (Manan Bhatt n.o. 95 , Nihar Magre 40; Aditya Jadhav 3/18, Gokul Kochey 2/27) by 2 wkts.
Sanjeevani CA 238/8 off 40 overs (Santosh Yadav 79, KaranSuraiya 71; Anuj Giri 3/32, Rohan Ghag 2/29, Faizan Akhtar 2/48) bt MCC ‘A’ 71 all out (Prajwal Rai 23; Shubham Kharat 7/17, Harja Kohli 2/13) by 167 runs.
MOM – Shubham Kharat .