Debutant B4S (Brain 4 Sports) Cricket Club stopped the winning spree of defending champions MCC (Black), beating them by 50 runs in the 6-team MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here Yesterday.
Opting to bat first after winning the toss, with opener Prajaval Tandulkar, mixing caution with aggression, top-scored with half century (53 with 2×6, 4×3) as B4S CC hit up 187 off the allotted 40 overs. However, chasing 188 for win, “Black” collapsed for 137 with Anuj Iyer (4/30), Yaseen Shaikh (2/28) and Aayush Iyer (2/25) sharing the spoils.
In the other ties, Atharva captured five wickets for 29 runs off seven overs as “Red” were bowled out for 163 in reply to JSF’s score of 210 all out and “Black” overcame “Orange” score of 220/7 with three wickets in hand.
Brief scores:
MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 League: B4S SC187 all out (Prajaval Tandulkar 53,Shubham Pal 38, Anuj Iyer 32; Subrata Das 5/29,Tejas Chalke 2/27,Chetan Wagh 2/35) bt MCC (Black) 137 all out (Anuj Iyer 4/30, Yaseen Shaikh 2/28 and Aayush Iyer 2/25) sharing the spoils.by 50 runs. Man-of-the-match: Anuj Iyer.
MCC (Orange) 220/7 off 40 overs (Ronak Parekh 61, Ritwik Mohanty 55, Suhail Ansari35;Chetan Wagh 3/21, Avshay T 2-41) lost to MCC (Black) 221/7 (Pranav Raj 59, Rahul Yadav 59, Tejas Chalke 35; Ronak Parekh 3/47) by 3 wkts. Man-of-the-match: Rahul Yadav.
JSF 210 all out (Vishesh Singh 54, Aman Parekh 44, Diyan Kubadia 43; Pavan Sangani 3/22, ; Raja Kumar 3/44) bt MCC (Red) 163 all out (Aditya VS n.o. 61; , Atharva Nandgave 5/29) by 38 runs. Man-of-the-match: Atharva Nandgave.