Yash Ramchandani’s aggressive 137 off 117 balls was the feature in defending champions MCC (Black)’s 73-run win over hosts JSF (Jwala Sports Foundation) on the opening day of the MCC Pro-40 League played at Oval Maidan here.
Put into bat, MCC (Black), hit up 263 for six off the3 allotted 40 overs with Yash hammering 137 with 18 fours. Rohan Karande played a good supporting role with 55 with 8 fours and a six. However, in reply, JSF were restricted to 190 for nine as medium pacer Subrato Das bagged four wickets.
In the other tie played on adjacent plot, MCC (Yellow) thrashed MCC (Green) by 105 runs. Pratik Chavan (104) was the star in (Yellow)’s win.
Brief scores: MCC (Black) 263/6 off 40 overs (Yash Ramchandani 137 -18×4), Rohan Karande 55; Vishes Singh 3/35) beat JSF 190/9 (Diyan Kubadia 55, Harsh Tripathi 33, Yatharth Gupta 32; Subrato Das 4/ . Man-of-the-match: Yash Ramchandani.
MCC (Yellow) 240/8 (Pratik Chavan 104, Nikhil Dachpalli 45;Gaurav Pagare 2/30, Bhanu Pratap Singh2/38, Bhumik Halde 2/47) bt MCC (Green) 135 all out (Shubham Sonkusare 33, Gaurav Pagare 30; Chandan Jaiswal 4/11, Nishant Trivedi2/29, Paru Arora 2/16) by 105 runs. Man-of-the-match: Pratik Chavan.