Thanks to Harshal Waghmare’s fine spell (8-1-21-4), Jwala Sports Foundation broke debutant B4S Club’s unbeaten run with a four wickets win in the 6-team MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here yesterday. However, even after today’s defeat, B4S Club stay second in the league table, behind table topper MCC (Black).
After opting to bat first, B4S Club, despite consistant Ankush Paswan’s gritty 78 (after his heroic knock of 90 in the previous tie against former champions MCC (Red), were restricted to 156 before they were all out. In reply, SF batters put up a fighting display and chased the target with four wickets in hand. For JSF Harshal Waghmare’s four wicket haul highlighted their triumph.
Brief scores:
MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 League: B4S Club 156 all out ( Ankush Pawan 78 -10×4, 2×6, Shubham Pal 34; Harshal Waghmare 4/27, Faizan Rabbani 3/21) lost to Jwala Sports Foundation 157/6 in 31.4 overs (Aman Parekh 39, Diyan Kubadia 39; Amanat Hussain 4/39) by 4kts. Man-of-the-match : Harshal Waghmare.
B4S Club 290/6 off 40 0vers (Ankush Pawan 90, Harsh Patil 75; Rambhajan Rajbhar 2/46, Pawan Sanghani 2/60) bt MCC (Red) 144 all out (Amit Chauhan 57; Aayush Iyer 4/11, Yashin Shaikh 3/23) by 146 runs. Man-of-the-match : Ankush Paswan.