Five-star Tanush leads Waingankar XI to win

MUMBAI: A five-wicket haul by Tanush Kotian helped Hemant Waingankar XI register a whopping 188-run win over Dilip Vengsarkar XI in a second round match of the U-23 Shalini Bhalekar Trophy cricket tournament at the Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana here on Thursday.

On the third day of the match, Kotian broke the back of Vengsarkar XI with his searing spell to fashion his side’s win. In another second round match of the tournament, Chandrasekhar Sant XI defeated Jahangir Pithawala XI on the basis of their first innings lead. Chandrasekhar Sant XI had aggregated a 375-run total in the first innings before restricting Pithawala XI to a paltry 130 to take a 245-run lead that proved decisive in the end.

BRIEF SCORES

Hemant Waingankar XI 375 & 143/6dec (Abhishek Srivastava 44, Dhrumil Matkar 35*; Anjdeep Lad 2/24) bt Dilip Vengsarkar XI 130 & 200 (Tanush Kotian 5/62) by 188 runs.

Chandrasekhar Sant XI 338 & 216/6dec (Kunal Chalke 83, Siddharth Akre 37; Atif Shaikh 4/88) bt Jahangir Pithawala XI 156 & 131/2 (Bhupen Lalwani 52*, Pranav Kela 40) on first innings lead.

KAMAL CHAWLA WINS BOMBAY GYM CROWN

Kamal Chawla of Railways maintained his winning momentum to emerge champion in the Bombay Gymkhana Handicap Billiards Tournament. He defeated Mandpeshwar Civic Foundation’s Rohan Jambusaria with a 200-113 victory.

SOLANKI NETS TWO IN EX-SERVICEMEN’S WIN

Akshay Solanki’s double helped Indian Ex-servicemen SC post a 4-0 win over Friends United in the Mumbai District Football Association’s Second Division league at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel, on Thursday.

RESULTS

Second Division: Jolly Boys 2 (Glen Moraes 2) bt Youth Soccer Academy 1 (Tejas Pethe); Indian Ex-servicemen 4 (Akshay Solanki 2, Harshal Vapilkar, Jordan Patel 1) bt Friends United 0.