Centurion Shivam Gharat makes it Automotive’s day in Milan 40 overs against Lintas | Mumbai

Tournament : Milan 40 overs 2015-16 (click on link for tournament home)

Match : Automotive CC vs Lintas (click on link for match scorecard)

Result : Automotive won by 206 runs

Lintas’s decision to field first against Automotive was well rewarded by their opening bolwer Aniket Vaidya who got rid of both the openers for less than 20 runs on the board.

One down batsman Shivam Gharat had different plans in store. He came at a difficult time but batted patiently initially to put decent partnership with 2 down Kishan Ghosh. He was later joined by Chetan Dhingra who played some amazing strokes to propel Automotive’s inning. Towards the end of the innings Shivam too displayed his array of strokes completing his century in the process. Chetan was unlucky to miss out his century by just 10 runs. But his 64 balls 90 runs (6 X 4, 3 X 6) and Shivam’s 110 off 121 balls (11 X 4, 2 X 6) helped Automotive post 276 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in their allotted 40 overs.

For Lintas, Aniket took 2 wickets but went for plenty of runs. In reply, Lintas folded out for a mere 70 runs with Arun Kelaskar top scoring with 22 runs. All bowlers were among wickets for Automotive. Gokul Patel took 3 wickets while Dharmendra Yadav, Sachin Sanghvi and Laxman took 2 wickets each.

Gharat was declared Man of the Match for his centurion efforts with the bat.