Nanavati Hospital wins the Quarter-finals on the back of Rahul Sawant’s 5/35 in the Times Shield Tournament ‘18

Played at the Western Railways, Cross Maidan, it was the all important Quarter Finals between Nanavati S.S Hospital and B.Arunkumar Sports Club where in B.ArunKumar SC won the toss and elected to bat first.

Batting first, ArunKumar Boys were bundled out for just 184runs in49.1 overs where in Anish Chaudhary at no.3 played a solid knock of 60 off mere 85balls(6fours) which helped his team from an embarrassment of a low total. From the bowling side, the bowler who impressed one and all with his superlative perfomance was spinner Rahul sawant as he came up with match-winning bowling figures of 5/35 in 16.1overs(2maidens). Rahul not bowled in the right areas with good accuracy but he also kept taking wickets at regular intervals.

Chasing 186, Nanavati boys did lose quick wickets at the top but their middle order consisting of Rahul Sawant (45 off 40), Bhushan Shinde (29 off 42) and Atharva Ankolekar (32* off 46balls) resurrected the innings back to script a quarter finals win by 4wkts. It was a match where both the teams fought well but it was all-rounder Rahul Sawant who  stood out with excellent all-round show bagging 5wkts while also top scoring with the bat.

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