Saurabh Singh hammers 154 in defending champions Swami Vivekanand’s huge score of 427 against Abhinav school (Borivali) to storm into the quarterfinals of the B.Kichadia-Khar Gymkhana Suburban schools cricket tournament, played at Shivaji Park, here yesterday. In reply, Abhinav were bowled out for 155 to lose the tie by 272 runs..
Faris Shaikh ‘s century (114) helped Yashodham (Goregaon) beat Dr Radhakrishnan by 209 runs to join Swami Vivekanand into last eight. Others to make the grade were last year’s finalist Rizvi Springfield, who defeated Parle Tilak (English) by six wickets. An unbeaten 94 by Raine Parikh featured in Podar International’s win over Lakshadham (Goregaon) by 32 runs.
Brief scores: (Pre-quarterfinals):
Swami Vivekanand Int. (Borivali) 427 (Saurabh Singh 154, Aryan Bhade 75, Mihir Ghade n.o. 39, Nachar Mane 38;, Bhavesh Patel 3/162) bt Abhinav (Borivali) 155 (Aayush Karwal 45) by 272 runs.
Podar Int. (Khar) 142 (Raine Parikh n.o. 94; Shreyas Parikh 4/44) bt Lakshdham (Goregaon) 110 (Pratik Pusalkar 32; Ness Malesara 7/38 by 32 runs.
Parle Tilak (English) 100 (Aman Manihar 5/20, Shreyas Mandlik 5/20) lost to Rizvi Springfield (Bandra) 104/4. – by 6 wkts.
Yashodham (Goregaon) 315 (Faris Shaikh 114, Aryan Joshi 69, Manav Mistry 6/89) bt Dr. Radhakrishnan 106 (Vedant Patil 46; Vishal Bhanushali 4/8) by 209 runs.
Gokuldham (Goregaon) 221 (Arsh Krishnala 51, Ninad Karmarkar n.o.
71, Harshvardhan Yadav n.o. 36) bt Vibgyor (Goregaon) 103 (Aryan Shetty 4/47, Vineet Vanikar 3/18) by 118 runs.
Shailendra (Dahisar) 38 lost to IES New English (Bandra) 41/0 by 10 wkts. St. Annes (Bandra) 60 (Vaishvik Chiplunkar 4/10) lost to
Oxford Public (Kandivali) 61/1 (Amit Sharma n.o. 34) by 9 wkts.