Mulani, Chalke star for Rahane XI

MUMBAI: Agni Chopra’s hundred went in vain as Sunil Gavaskar XI lost to Sachin Tendulkar XI by four wickets, here on Thursday, as the latter chased down the 243run target in 82 overs to set up a summit clash with Ajinkya Rahane XI.

Sachin Tendulkar XI were helped by half centuries from Nishant Patil (71*), Jabjeetsingh Randhwa (59) and Bhupen Lalwani (58).

In the other semifinal, Ajinkya Rahane XI scraped out a narrow two-wicket win as Kartik Mishra’s six-wicket haul had almost won the game for Rohit Sharma XI. For the victors, Shams Mulani scored an unbeaten 98 while Kunal Chalke added another 90 after they were set a target of 293, which they chased down in 78.5 overs. 293/8 (S Mulani 98*, K Chalke 90, S Sangle 49; K Mishra 6/94) by 2 wickets.

U-19 MANOHAR SAWANT TROPHY brief scores: Chimaji Appa Vasai 182 (A Shaikh 79, I Amin 36; R Kulkarni 3/34) bt Ghatkopar Jolly 99 (P Pillai 4/17) by 83 runs; Bengal Club 209 (M Kawale 50, A Satpute 44, T Chavan 44; J Gonsalves 4/27, R Rathod 4/61) bt Sainath SC 90 (V Joijode 5/14, R Chopdekar 3/30) by 119 runs; PDTSA 180 (T Vaze 54, P Rai 33; K Shah 3/37) bt Payyade SC 184/3 (A Poojari 62*; N Patil 3/21, D Raut 3/36) by 1 wicket; Dr DY Patil 247/7 (V Jaiswal 83*, J Ansari 40, S Gharat 39) bt Sonale 80 by 167 runs; Goregaon SC 104 (R Desai 4/16, A Sharma 3/29) lost to Karnataka 105/5 (Z Khan 3/23) by 5 wickets; MIG 199 (S Khan 68; S Singh 4/14) bt Dombivili Gymkhana 176 (S Wyawhare 34, V Khare 33) by 23 runs; Dilip Vengsarkar Academy 192 (P Sharma 69, H Chauhan 31; S Gurav 4/37) bt Ordinance Factory 167 (N Mane 51, R Sardar 3/21) by 25 runs; Matunga Gymkhana 181 (S Rao 65*; S Qureshi 3/35) bt Dilip Vengsarkar Academy Mahul 166 (P Mhatre 60, S Jadhav 35; R Pawar 3/31) by 15 runs.