Kartikeyan Pal excelled both with bat and ball as MCC (Green) recorded their second win on the trot by beating MCC (Yellow) by 97 runs in the B4S MCC PRO – 40 double-leg 5-Team league here at Oval Maidan here today. Apart from his brisk 39, he bagged a brace as ‘Yellows’ were bowled out for 94, chasing 192 for victory.
Earlier, ‘Greens’ had beaten ‘Yellows’ by 3 wickets in their opening tie. For ‘Yellows’, it was a big setback, after they had beaten defending champions JSF (Jwala Sports Foundation) in their opening tie with Viren Talreja putting up s fine all round show, scoring an unbeaten 38 in his side total of 203 for eight and then capturing three wickets.
Brief scores: MCC (Green) 191 (Amir Shaikh 48, Kartikeyan Pal 39, Ayaz Khan 35; Dasrath Chavan 4/29, Irfan Ansari 3/38) bt MCC (Yellow) 94 all out (Yash Ramchandani 24; Anuj Giri 3/12, Wasim Shikh 3/33, Kartikeyan Pal 2/10) by 97 runs. MOM – Katikeyan Pal.
MCC (Blue) 238 all out (Arsalan Oberoi 59, Vedant Patil 43, Shreeyansh Bogar 28; Pranat Jadhav 2/42, Ayaz Khan 2/54) lost to MCC (Green) 239/7 (Anuj Giri 74, Hiral Panchal 70; Prajwal Rai 2/33, Shreeyansh Bogar 2/56, Chirag Sharma 2/72) by 3 wkts. MOM- Anuj Giri.
MCC (Yellow) 203/8 off 40 overs (Dasrath Chavan 59, Mohd Shariq 41, Viren Talreja n.o. 38; Aman Maniyar 3/24, Harsh Aadsul 3/46) bt JSF 138 all out (Aditya Giri 39, Ashwin Rai 23; Viren Talreja 3/42, Irfan Ansari 2/8, Sohail Khan 2/15) by 65 runs.
MOM– Vien Talreja.