Parkar’s century guides CCI to win

MUMBAI: Akash Parkar’s 118 off 119 balls, comprising 16 fours and one maximum, guided Cricket Club of India to a fourwicket victory against PJ Hindu Gymkhana in the first round of Purushottam Shield.

Chasing PJ Hindu Gymkhana’s 327 for eight that saw Amogh Bhatkal notching up 131, CCI rode on Parkar’s knock to get home.

In another match, Parsee Gymkhana beat Sainath Sports Club by 30 runs despite a fine 100 by Vinayak Bhoir and a 70 from Makrand Patil. Nipun Panchal picked up three wickets for Parsee Gymkhana.

Brief scores: Parsee Gymkhana 340 in 70 ov

(Aditya Tare 105, Sachin Yadav 74; Vinayak Bhoir 4/95) beat

Sainath Sports Club 310 in

67.3 ov (Vinayak Bhoir 100, Makrand Patil 70; Nipun

Panchal 3/58) by 30 runs,

Goregaon Sports Club 95 in 28.5 ov (Sagar Mishra 5/26, Deepak Shetty 3/25) lost to

Payyade Sports Club 96/3 in 22.2 ov by 7 wickets, Karnatak SA 296 in 63 ov (Ashwarya Surve 67*; Ajay Janusing 3/73,

Parikshit Valsangkar 4/92) beat

New Hind Sports Club 191 in 48.2 ov (Kushal Dawane 60, Parikshit Valsangkar 59; Ankit Chavan 4/52, Vignesh Solanki 4/64) by 105 runs, National

309 in 52.1 ov (Sumit Dekhale 143; Yogesh Sawant 7/99) beat Dadar

142 in 36.4 ov (Aditya Srivastava 47; Shashikant Kadam 3/25) by 167 runs, 108 in 43.3 ov (Karsh Kothari 6/23) lost to Dr DY Patil SA 112/6 in 23.2 ov (Vishweshwar Singh 4/45) by 4 wickets,

187 in 43.2 ov (Kaustubh Pawar 97; Atharva Dakway 7/27) lost to Bhatnagar SCF 191/5 in 37.1 ov (Sachin Rao 61; Salil

Agharkar 3/57) by 5 wickets,

202 in 56.2 ov (Aryan Sen 75; Kartik Mishra 6/75) lost to

Club 206/8 in 45.1 ov (Viraj Jadhav 48; Tejas Mankar 3/74) by 2 wickets, PJ Hindu Gymkhana 327/8 in 70 ov (Amogh Bhatkal 131) lost to CCI 329/6 in 63.5 ov (Akash Parkar 118) by 4 wickets,

Club 237 in 56.3 ov (Aditya Dhumal 83; Shubham Giri 3/17) beat 232 in 69.1 ov (Rupen Chowrasiya 62; Aditya Dhumal 5/77) by 5 runs.