Nitin Vishwakarma’s star show , both with bat and ball, brought MCC (Yellow) back into reckoning for the top honours as the “Yellow” shocked title contender B4S Club by 71 runs in the 6-team MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 league, played at Oval Maidan here yesterday.
Nitin scored a run-a-ball 94 in his team’s score of 241 and followed it up by capturing five wickets as B4S were bowled out for 170. With today’s win, “Yellow” jumped to top spot to share the table with MCC (Black) with five wins. For B4S , it was their second loss in a row, having earlier lost to JSF. However, B4S’s Ankush Paswan, who has been in superb touch so far, having notched up 90, 78 and today’s 71, however, could not get enough support to see his side through.
Brief scores: MCC Double-Leg Pro-40 League:
MCC (Yellow) 241 all out (Nitin Vishwakarma 94, Vaibhav Pandey 33; Sagar Sethi 5/25, Yaseen Shaikh 3/31) bt B4S Club 170 all out (Ankush Paswan 71, Yaseen Shaikh 27; Nitin Viswakarma 5/29, Zaid Khan 2/26) by 71 runs. Man-of-the-match: Nitin Viswakarma.
B4S Club 156 all out (Ankush Pawan 78, 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.