With Harshal Waghmare putting up impressive allround show, JSF (Jwala Sports Foundation) defeated MCC (Green) by two wickets in the 6-team MCC Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here. With today’s win JSF improved their standing from fifth to third spot in the table. The win also proved to be sweet revenge for JSF as earlier, “Green” had beaten them.
JSF put MCC (Orange) to bat, who after losing opener early, were well served by Ronak Parekh and Suhail Anshari, who put on 74 runs for the second wicket. But thereafter “Orange” kept on losing wickets at regular interval before they ended with competitive score of 207 for nine off the allotted 40 overs.
However, JSF top order batted doggedly to take the score to 100-mark for the loss of five wickets. It was Harshal Waghmare’d fighting 36 well-supported by tailenders that saw them through with two wickets in hand.
Brief scores: MCC Pro-40 League: MCC (Orange) 207/9 off 40 overs (Ronak Parekh 42, Suhail Ansari 50, Huzaifa Ghare 39; Diyan Kubadia 4/30, Harshal Waghmare 2/29) lost to Jwala Sports Foundation 209/8 (Ayan Pathan 45, Harshal Waghmare 36, Jeevan Karlekar 30; Shoaib Khan 2/38, Sachin Patel 2/19) by 2 wkts.. Man-of-the-match: Harshal Waghmare.