Shashank excels with bat & ball in “Blue” win over “Orange”


 Opener Shashank Kumar hit a fine century and captured two wickets to star in MCC (Blue) 13-run win over MCC (Orange) in the MCC Pro-40 League 2022-23 played at Oval Maidan here.

   Put into bat, “Blue” hit up 205 for 8 off 40 overs with Shashank Kumar 102 top- scoring in his side’s total. In reply, he shared the bowling honours with Rajat Glupta 3/29 and Hardik Kumar 2/30 as “Orange” were bowled out for 192. Earlier, in other matches “Yellow” thrashed “Green” by 105 runs while defending champions “Black” beat JSF  by 73 runs.

Brief scores:

   MCC (Blue) 205/8 off 40 overs (Shashank Kumar n.o 102; Ronak Parekh 3/34) bt MCC (Orange) 192 all out ( Ronak Parekh 51; Rohit Dolas 48; Rajat Gupta 3/29) by 13 runs. Man-of-the-match: Shashank Kumar.

   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 4/47 ). 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, aurav Pagare 30; Chandan Jaiswal 4/11, Nishant Trivedi2/29, Paru Arora 2/16) by 105 runs. Man-of-the-match: Pratik Chavan.